6. THE CRUSADER COLLAPSES
INTERVIEWS
Ross Case; Disciples of Christ officials, including A. Dale Fiers; Indianapolis civil rights pioneers, including Mercer Mance and Rev. R. T. Bosler; former Mayor Charles Boswell; Archie Ijames; Russell Winberg; Charlotte and Walter Baldwin; Rev. Edwin and Audrey Wilson; Dr. E. Paul Thomas; Dr. Wayne Ritter; Stephan Jones.
MATERIALS
Various reports of Jones’s civil rights work from Indiana newspapers including the Indianapolis Star, the Indianapolis Times and the Butler University student newspaper; the Indianapolis Record, Oct. 7, 1961, “Jones Integrates Hospital”; Guyana Graphic, Oct. 25, 1961, “Church Blamed for Reds’ Rise”; undated Marceline Jones account of early ministry obtained under FOIA (FBI document HH-6) and from Temple files; Jones’s power of attorney document to Lynetta from church files; January 1962 Esquire magazine article; Jones resume from church files; Indiana University school records of Jones.
7. ASYLUM
INTERVIEWS
Rev. Edward Malmin; Bonnie Thielmann; Stephan Jones; Ross Case; Archie Ijames; Walter and Charlotte Baldwin; Russell Winberg.
MATERIALS
Article on Jones’s Brazil stay, from Manchete, Nov. 1978; a Temple tape of Stephan Jones, undated but apparently made in 1978 for an official Jones biography; Lynetta Jones letter, Dec. 4, 1962; various San Francisco Examiner clippings on Brazil politics in the 1960s; Standard American Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, 1940, on Brazil; A Broken God, by Bonnie Thielmann with Dean Merrill (David C. Cook Publishing Co., 1979); Post Report, 1966, U.S. Embassy in Rio; Rheaviana Beam account of Brazil stay obtained under FOIA from FBI; Macumba, by Serge Bramley (St. Martin’s Press, 1977); Golden Book Picture Atlas, 1960, Book 2, Margaret Bevans; Lynetta Jones correspondence during the period; Jones’s own account of the period, taped by the Temple and reprinted in Guyana Chronicle, Dec. 6, 1978.
8. THE PROPHET
INTERVIEWS
Rev. Russell Winberg; Rev. Edward Malmin; Archie Ijames; Ross Case; ex-member of the Indiana temple who declined use of her name; Sandy Bradshaw; the Baldwins; Mickey Touchette; former Ukiah Daily Journal editor George Hunter; several tax officials from the state of Indiana and the IRS.
MATERIALS
Poem by Judy Houston from a Temple newsletter, 1973; a Temple pamphlet, “The Letter Killeth...”; Indianapolis News, April 17, 1965; correspondence with the IRS in 1977-78; San Francisco Examiner stories by Reiterman, Sept. 1977, regarding real estate acquisition and Indiana corporations; Esquire, Jan. 1962; Mendocino County background from Historic Spots in California, by Mildred Hoover, Hero Rensch and Ethel Rensch (Stanford University Press, 1966); Rheaviana Beam account of Brazil period and westward move obtained under FOIA; Harold Cordell letter, Feb. 18, 1965, to Ross Case; Indiana corporations records obtained from State of Indiana and Temple files.
9. RURAL EDEN
INTERVIEWS
Stephan Jones; Jim Cobb; George Hunter; Archie Ijames; Wanda Kice; Golden Rule official who asked anonymity; Ross Case; Mike Touchette; various Redwood Valley and Potter Valley residents.
MATERIALS
Esther Mueller, Rheaviana Beam and Richard Cordell accounts of move west, obtained under FOIA; Ukiah Daily Journal article, July 26, 1965; unpublished San Francisco Examiner stories by Lester Kinsolving, 1972; chronicle of Golden Rule takeover bid from Temple files; list of alleged attacks on the church, compiled in 1977-78 by the church.
10. A DREAM OF LOVE
INTERVIEWS
Grace Grech Stoen; Tim Stoen; Jim Cobb; Jeanette Kerns; attorneys Jeff Haas and Margaret Ryan; a former teacher of Grace Grech.
DOCUMENTS
Tim Stoen resumes and other papers in Temple files; June 1970 article in the Ukiah Daily Journal reporting the marriage; copies of vows, from church files.
11. CHILDREN OF THE SIXTIES
INTERVIEWS
Debbie Layton Blakey; John Finn, a Larry Layton schoolmate at Davis and Berkeley; Rev. and Mrs. John Moore; a Potter Valley schools source; Joyce Shaw; Sam and Nadyne Houston; Tom Tuttle, the brother of Phyllis Houston; John Pizzo, Layton’s supervisor at St. Mary’s Hospital, San Francisco, and several church members who knew the Laytons and Houstons.
MATERIALS
Berkeley Tribe, Aug. 22, 1969; Glory and the Dream, by William Manchester; Reiterman’s masters of journalism thesis “Alternative Institutions,” 1972, University of California, Berkeley; Robert Lindsey’s New York Times story on the Laytons, Dec. 3, 1978.
12. FAMILY AFFAIR
INTERVIEWS
Stephan Jones; Marceline’s sister, Sharon Mills; Rev. and Mrs. John Moore; the Baldwins; Archie Ijames; Ruby Bogner; Sandy Bradshaw and several other former Temple members on Jones’s drug use and sexual activity.
MATERIALS
Stephan Jones’s poem about his mother, 1971, courtesy Stephan Jones.
13. GOLDEN BOY
INTERVIEWS
Grace Stoen; Tim Stoen; Disciples of Christ officials including Karl Irvin and A. Dale Fiers; Republican official Marge Boynton; District Attorney Duncan James; Supervisor Al Barbero; social services chief Dennis Denny; U.S. Department of Agriculture officials; the Baldwins; Stephan Jones; Sandy Bradshaw; Jeanette Kerns; State Assemblyman Willie Brown; former San Francisco Supervisor Dianne Feinstein; former San Francisco Chief Administrative Officer Tom Mellon; the physician attending the birth of John Stoen (the doctor requested anonymity); Reiterman’s radio-telephone interview with Jim Jones from Guyana, Feb. 1978.
MATERIALS
USDA investigation report on the alleged theft of agricultural commodities by the Temple; Temple documents requesting the ordination of Tim Stoen and Guy Young; various Stoen documents in Temple files; birth records of John Stoen from Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital; Feb. 6, 1972, statement of Stoen regarding John’s paternity.
14. ON THE ROAD
INTERVIEWS
Joyce Shaw; Garry Lambrev; Sandy Bradshaw; Stephan Jones; Tim Stoen; Rev. George L. Bedford and his wife Estelle; Rev. Amos Brown; Rev. Cecil Williams; Carlton Goodlett; former Supervisor Terry Francois, and others in the San Francisco black community; Council of Churches sources; Democratic Central Committee sources; Agar Jaicks; Mother Divine; Birdie Marable; Elmer and Deanna Mertle (Jeannie and Al Mills); Archie Ijames.
MATERIALS
Temple newsletters and newspapers from Joyce Shaw and Temple files; police reports of death threats against Hannibal Williams; San Francisco Examiner library files on Father Divine, with dozens of newspaper and magazine stories.
15. THE HAIR OF THE RAVEN
This chapter is based on a Peoples Temple videotape of the service in Ukiah. The quotes are taken verbatim from the tapes, with editing for length; the description comes from observing the tape and from numerous interviews with Temple members. The analysis is our own.
16. WIRING THE TOWN
INTERVIEWS
Sandy Bradshaw; Tim Stoen; Grace Stoen; Jim Cobb; George Hunter; Marge Boynton; Garry Lambrev; owners of the local answering service and former owners; Jim Adameski and other local Redwood Valley residents who worked with Temple members; Walter Heady; Dr. S. R. Boynton; Dennis Denny; former Supervisor Al Barbero.
MATERIALS
Temple correspondence with politicians from Temple files and from the FBI under FOIA; San Francisco Examiner checks with Mendocino sheriff’s office to obtain names of Temple members given gun permits and status as reserve deputies ; Temple tapes of conversations between Jones and Denny, and between Jones and Sheriff Tom Jondahi; USDA investigation report on alleged Temple theft of agricultural commodities.
17. THE SYSTEM AT WORK
INTERVIEWS
Grace Stoen, Sandy Bradshaw; Tim Stoen; Wayne Pietila; Jim Cobb; Mike Touchette; Archie Ijames; Stephan Jones; Linda Dunn by the San Francisco Examiner’s Nancy Dooley, 1977.
18. LOURDES ON WHEELS
INTERVIEWS
Disciples of Christ officials; Stephan Jones; Tim Stoen; Sandy Bradshaw; Tim Carter; Joyce Shaw; Gra
ce Stoen; Jeanette Kerns; Laura Cornelious by the San Francisco Examiner’s Nancy Dooley, 1977; Richard Cordell on the mailers; Jeannie and Al Mills on fund raising; Mickey Touchette on collections; Don Foreman ; Thelma Manning.
MATERIALS
Temple newsletters and newspapers; printed announcements of the Los Angeles temple opening from church files; Disciples of Christ annual donation reports; Congressional Record item on the Temple, June 1973; Washington Post editorial about the Temple, Aug. 18, 1973; sampling of Temple leaflets from church files; June 29, 1976 Richmond Palladium Item account of Jones’s return home, and July 9, 1976, Temple press release about bus trip by 600, covering 10,000 miles over three weeks; prose by Lynetta Jones found in Temple files.
19. SEX IN THE TEMPLE
INTERVIEWS
Archie Ijames; Sandy Bradshaw; Grace Stoen; Mike Touchette; Tim Stoen; Jeannie and Al Mills; Tim Carter; Rev. and Mrs. John Moore; Stephan Jones; Jeanette Kerns; a boyhood friend of Mike Prokes.
MATERIALS
Articles on Karen Tow Layton in Chico [Calif.] Enterprise Record, Jan. 30, 1979, and in New York Times, Nov. 1978; Temple records of undated sexual confessions from church files.
20. TRAINING YOUNG MINDS
INTERVIEWS
Stephan Jones; Ruby Bogner; a Potter Valley teacher and an administrator there, both of whom requested anonymity; Redwood Valley parents; Mike Touchette ; Jim Cobb; Jeanette Kerns; Wayne Pietila; Mickey Touchette; Sandy Bradshaw ; then-San Francisco Police Chief Charles Gain, and other police officials and San Francisco Community College District officials on the gun training received by Temple members.
DOCUMENTS
Jones family photo album; school records, athletic and scholastic awards and poetry of Stephan Jones; newspaper clippings of Jones boys’ athletic achievements; Temple records and questionnaire by Eddie Mills; trunks full of testimonies from Jones by his followers, including children; a certificate showing that Jim Cobb completed the gun training course from July through Sept. 1972.
21. HER FATHER’S DAUGHTER
INTERVIEWS
Steve Katsaris; Jeanette Kerns; Stephan Jones; Sandy Bradshaw; Tim Stoen; Jeannie and Al Mills; Grace Stoen; Mike Touchette.
DOCUMENTS
Los Angeles Times story by Bella Stumbo; Katsaris family photos and correspondence; newspaper articles about Katsaris in Salt Lake City and California ; background check on Katsaris by a private investigator hired by the Temple; Temple tapes of Katsaris visit to the church, Aug. 1, 1972, obtained under FOIA from the FBI; description of the seduction of Maria largely from Six Years with God, by Jeannie Mills (A&W Publishers, Inc., 1979).
22. THE ARMS OF GOD
INTERVIEWS
Marvin Swinney; Wayne Pietila; Jim Cobb; Sandy Bradshaw; Stephan Jones; Archie Ijames; Teddy Ballard; local merchants, Fire Chief Delbert Phelps and volunteer firemen in Redwood Valley; Jeanette Kerns; Tim Stoen; George Hunter.
DOCUMENTS
Ukiah Daily Journal article by Kathy Hunter, “Terror in the Night,” 1975; The Poisoner, essay by Lynetta Jones from Temple files; Temple photos of picnics in the church parking lot.
23. FIRST CRACKS
INTERVIEWS
Officials of the Indiana State Psychology Board; Indiana tax officials and IRS officials there; Carolyn Pickering in 1977; Rev. Lester Kinsolving; Examiner photographer Fran Ortiz; John Todd; former Examiner publisher Charles Gould; former Examiner editor Ed Dooley; Tim Stoen; Mike Touchette; Sandy Bradshaw; Karl Irvin and A. Dale Fiers of Disciples of Christ; Ross Case; Archie Ijames; George Hunter; Sheriff Tom Jondahl; former Sheriff Reno Bartolomie; District Attorney Duncan James, in 1977.
DOCUMENTS
October 14, 1971, Indianapolis Star article on Jones; Dec. 1971 stories in the Star; Jan. 1, 1971, Time magazine profile of Kinsolving; Carolyn Pickering notes to Kinsolving regarding their joint investigation; Kinsolving’s unpublished stories on the Temple; Tim Stoen’s Sept. 12, 1972, letter to Kinsolving; Kinsolving’s 1972 series in the Examiner; a Sept. 27, 1972, legal memo from Temple files; Disciples of Christ annual reports and other records on Temple contacts and donations; the story based on John Burke’s Sept. 20, 1972, interview with Jones; a tape of conversation between Ross Case and Leo W. on Aug. 24, 1973.
24. THE EIGHT REVOLUTIONARIES
INTERVIEWS
Jim Cobb; Wayne Pietila; Mike Touchette; John Biddulph in 1977; Jeanette Kerns; Mickey Touchette in 1977; Grace Stoen; Jim Jones in Nov. 1978.
MATERIALS
Defection letter obtained from Temple files; tapes of Jones’s emergency meetings following the defection, obtained under FOIA from the FBI.
25, PLAYING WITH FIRE
Both Reiterman and Jacobs have covered the left in the Bay Area for years and reported on the bank robbery trial of Patricia Hearst. This chapter reflects that background. as well as numerous interviews, some with confidential sources.
The San Francisco section:
INTERVIEWS
Friends and relatives of Chris Lewis; Neva Sly; Jeannie and Al Mills; Sandy Bradshaw; Jim Cobb; Grace Stoen; Tim Stoen; former district attorney’s investigator Dave Reuben; Gene Suttle at San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, and Federal Housing Officials; Ivory Collins; Sam Houston.
MATERIALS
Miscellaneous San Francisco Examiner clippings on WAPAC and Chris Lewis, The SLA and the Slaying of Rory Hithe; the Symbionese Declaration printed in the San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 13, 1974; Peoples Forum; Tapes of Jones’s speeches on terrorism and the SLA in fall of 1975 obtained under FOIA; police intelligence files on the Temple and the SLA; Chris Lewis testimonials in the Living Word; an undated Temple organizational blueprint for migration to the Caribbean.
The Los Angeles section:
INTERVIEWS
Tim Stoen; officials of the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office; police sources in Los Angeles; former Lieutenant Bob MacIntosh; then-Captain Joe Marchesano; Officer Arthur Kagele; the Los Angeles press corps’ written interview with Judge Clarence Stromwall; San Francisco Examiner interview with Deputy State Attorney General Mike Franchetti; spokesman for then-Chief Ed Davis and future Chief Daryl Gates.
MATERIALS
Police reports on both the riot and lewd conduct incidents; the unreleased and undated Temple defense statement, and the Temple’s medical excuse; the city attorney’s investigation report on the lewd conduct case handling; and legal documents filed in 1977 and 1978 over the state’s attempt to unseal Jones’s lewd conduct records.
26. ESCAPE VALVE
INTERVIEWS
Emerson Mitchell, a Guyanese government official who requested that his name be changed in the account; Archie Ijames; Stephan Jones; Mike Touchette, Father Andrew Morrison, Tim Stoen.
MATERIALS
Silent color video footage of December 1974 settlers trip to Guyana, plus footage of Sacred Heart healing service from Peoples Temple files. Also copy of Peoples Temple advertisement in Dec. 1974 Guyana Chronicle.
27. COMMUNALISTS
INTERVIEWS
Nadyne and Sam Houston; Joyce Shaw; Sandy Bradshaw; Garry Lambrev; Thomas J. Sammon; Jeannie and Al Mills; Grace Stoen; sources familiar with the medical treatment of Jim Jones.
MATERIALS
Various essays and poems by Temple children, including the Houston girls; Bob Houston resumes and Houston family scrapbook; Temple newsletters 1972- 76 ; San Francisco Fire Department arson report on Temple fire; tape of Redwood Valley beating obtained under FOIA from FBI (Q454), with name of the teen-age victim changed to protect his identity.
28. SAN FRANCISCO IN THRALL
INTERVIEWS
Carlton Goodlett; Tom Fleming; Rev. George Bedford; Rev. Cecil Williams; various former Peoples Temple members including Sandy Bradshaw, Grace Stoen and Tim Stoen; Assemblyman Willie Brown; aides and political consultants to the late Mayor George Moscone, including Corey Busch and Don Bradley; John Maher of Delancey Street Foundation; Agar Jaicks and two other members of the Democratic Central Committee; Robert
Mendelsohn; Milton Marks; Dianne Feinstein; Joseph Freitas; Richard Hongisto; Jack Morrison; Marshall Kilduff; former Mendocino Supervisor Al Barbero; Quentin Kopp; Rep. Phil Burton; Doris Thomas; H. Welton Flynn of the Black Leadership Forum; Grandvel Jackson and Joe Hall of the NAACP; Terry Francois and Rev. Amos Brown.
MATERIALS
Numerous clippings from the San Francisco Examiner library; tape of the Cecil Williams anniversary celebration in 1975 obtained under FOIA from the FBI; San Francisco voter records; Peoples Forum, 1976-77.
29. BACKWATER
INTERVIEWS
Dozens of Guyanese officials, former officials, journalists and members of the political opposition; foreign diplomats including those from the American Embassy in Georgetown; Father Andrew Morrison; Rev. Paul Tideman; Mike Touchette.
MATERIALS
Guyanese history and contemporary politics based on booklets prepared by Guyana’s Ministry of Information and on a November 1974 New Yorker article, “Letter from Georgetown,” by Jane Kramer; CIA Diary, by Philip Agee (Stone-hill, N.Y., 1975); White Night, by John Peer Nugent (Rawson Wade Publishers Inc., 1979); Peoples Temple lease of the Jonestown tract, and Guyana’s incorporation papers for the church.
30. RADICALS
INTERVIEWS
Al Mills; Sandy Bradshaw; Jim Cobb; Joe Freitas; Carlton Goodlett; Richard Hongisto campaign sources; Huey Newton in 1977 regarding his Cuba stay; Tim Stoen; Grace Stoen; Charles Garry.
MATERIALS
Temple files, Peoples Forum articles and San Francisco Examiner clippings on Angela Davis, Dennis Banks and Jane Fonda; Temple video tape of Jubilee in Los Angeles; many Examiner clippings of International Hotel protests; Peoples Temple files and Peoples Forum, 1977, on the alleged spying incident; Temple correspondence with Rep. Phil Burton and the Air Force and Congress; Tim Stoen’s letter to Fidel Castro Jan. 24, 1977; Peoples Forum, March and April 1977, on Jones’s Cuba trip; Oct. 1976 letter from Mike Prokes to Forbes Burnham; Guyana Chronicle articles about Dymally visit in 1976; Charles Garry correspondence with Sir Lionel Luckhoo; Dec. 23, 1976, tapes of Jones’s speeches to the Housing Authority regarding the International Hotel.
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