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After fifteen years at the Examiner, Jacobs moved to The Sacramento Bee, where he wrote a political column and served as political editor for the Bee and other McClatchy newspapers. He is the author of A Rage for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton (1995), a highly praised biography of the late California congressman who had shaped landmark legislation. It won the D.B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on Congress from the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation.
Jim Jones as a toddler in Lynn, Indiana, around 1933. The earliest known portrait, COURTESY STEPHAN JONES.
Jim Jones around 1934, most likely with the family home in the background. COURTESY STEPHAN JONES.
Jim Jones, nine, with playmate and pet at his home in Lynn, 1940. COURTESY STEPHAN JONES.
Jim Jones posing with a guitar, approximately 1940. COURTESY STEPHAN JONES.
Lynetta Jones. COURTESY STEPHAN JONES.
Jim Jones’s sixth grade class, 1942. Jones is fourth from the left on the bottom row. Note that he is attempting to shine a hand mirror into the camera to ruin the portrait.
Jones’s eleventh grade class, 1947. Jones is fourth from the left on the top row. Boyhood friend Don Foreman is on far right in the front row. PHOTOS COURTESY DON FOREMAN.
Jim Jones as he looked when he first began preaching on streetcorners in Richmond, 1946-47. COURTESY STEPHAN JONES.
Marceline Baldwin as a student nurse, soon to be Jim Jones’s wife. COURTESY STEPHAN JONES.
Jim Jones at graduation from Richmond High, 1948. COURTESY STEPHAN JONES.
Jim Jones, the twenty-four-year-old minister, selling monkeys door to door, around 1955, to raise money for his fledgling Peoples Temple. COURTESY San Francisco Examiner, REPRINTED FROM Indianapolis Star News.
Marceline Jones in June 1959, shortly after the birth of her only biological son, Stephan Gandhi Jones.
Stephan and Jimmy Jones, Jr., doing the twist in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, around 1963. PHOTOS COURTESY STEPHAN JONES.
Jim Jones and Stephan, most likely in Indianapolis in 1964. COURTESY STEPHAN JONES.
Associate minister Archie Ijames. PEOPLES TEMPLE FILES.
Associate Minister Jack Beam. PEOPLES TEMPLE FILES.
Peoples Temple Christian Church in Redwood Valley. The swimming pool was in the right-hand portion of the building; the Jones family residence was to the rear of the church. PEOPLES TEMPLE FILES.
A communal meal served in the parking lot behind the church, most likely in the early 1970s. Note Peoples Temple buses in the background. PEOPLES TEMPLE FILES.
Peoples Temple members streaming up steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., during one of the church’s cross-country bus “vacation” trips in the mid-1970s. On such trips, the Temple recruited, raised funds and lobbied congressmen. PEOPLES TEMPLE FILES.
The Peoples Temple choir posing for a group photo in front of a pond, mid-1970s. PEOPLES TEMPLE FILES.
Jim and Marceline Jones and son Lew relaxing on a sandbar on a tributary of the Russian River outside Ukiah in August 1966. COURTESY STEPHAN JONES.
A February 1967 portrait of the Jones family in their Redwood Valley home, with Christmas stockings still on the fireplace. COURTESY STEPHAN JONES.
Jimmy Jones and Stephan Jones in junior high school. PHOTOS COURTESY STEPHAN JONES.
Carolyn Moore Layton with Kimo, her three-year-old son by Jones. COURTESY San Francisco Examiner.
Pastor Jones “healing” an unidentified woman in the Redwood Valley church, September 1972. PEOPLES TEMPLE FILES.
Jones posing for a church photographer, probably in Redwood Valley in the early-mid-1970s. Such photos were sold to members as devotional objects to protect them against a variety of ills. PEOPLES TEMPLE FILES.
Grace Gretch Stoen. GORDON STONE, San Francisco Examiner.
Tim Stoen in front of the San Francisco Temple on Geary Boulevard. JUDITH CALSON, San Francisco Examiner.
Associated Press photographer Sammy Houston posing in front of portraits of his son, Temple member Bob Houston, who died mysteriously while still in the church, and Bob Houston’s daughters, Judy and Patricia Houston. COURTESY San Francisco Examiner.
Group portrait around 1973-74, of Grace Stoen, Tim Stoen, Jim Jones and unidentified man holding toddler John Victor Stoen. COURTESY STEPHAN JONES.
Left to right: unidentified child, Bob Houston, Joyce Shaw (holding another unidentified child), and in front Judy Houston (holding doll) and Patricia (holding camera). ROBERT H. “SAMMY” HOUSTON.
Jones on the podium during the early-mid-1970s, filling vials with what is apparently holy oil or water to be sold to visitors.
Peoples Temple Church in Los Angeles, at Alvarado and Hoover streets. PEOPLES TEMPLE FILES.
In 1976, Jim Jones shaking hands with San Francisco mayor George Moscone. Moscone would be assassinated by a political enemy eight days after Moscone’s friend, San Mateo congressman Leo Ryan, was murdered by Temple gunmen near Jonestown. RICHARD BARNES. REPRINTED FROM New West MAGAZINE.
The Rainbow Family in San Francisco. Jim and Marceline Jones, and from top left, Stephan, Jimmy, Jr., Lew and adopted son Tim Tupper Jones. COURTESY STEPHAN JONES.
Jonestown from the air. In the middle of the photo is the pavilion and directly behind it are two long narrow structures that housed the Jonestown school. To the left of the school are the five dormitories for seniors and behind them the cottages that housed up to fourteen people each. To the right in a cluster of three buildings is Jim Jones’s house. LEE ROMERO, San Francisco Examiner.
The Peoples Temple boat Cudjo, around 1976-77, docked on the Kaituma River. The seventy-two-foot trawler sailed between Georgetown and Port Kaituma bringing settlers and supplies. PEOPLES TEMPLE FILES.
The original settlers in Jonestown, around 1974. Jones is third from the left in the top row. At far left is Mike Touchette. Below Jones is Temple attorney Gene Chaikin and to the right of Chaikin are Michelle Touchette, Paula Adams, Debbie Touchette, Al Touchette, Charlie Touchette and Chris Lewis, who was known as Jones’s enforcer. PEOPLES TEMPLE FILES.
Mr. Muggs, the Temple’s chimp, in his cage in Jonestown with Joyce Touchette. PEOPLES TEMPLE FILES.
Jim Jones showing fruit during a Christmastime visit to Guyana. The fruit was storebought (Jones has neglected to remove the bag it was carried in), yet it was filmed and presented as produce raised by Temple pioneers. STILL SHOT MADE BY THE San Francisco Examiner FROM TEMPLE FILM.
Peoples Temple’s Georgetown headquarters in Lamaha Gardens. The radio room was the bottom room on the left. GREG ROBINSON, San Francisco Examiner.
Main Street, Georgetown, November 1978. At left is Examiner photographer Greg Robinson photographing NBC cameraman Bob Brown playing with Guyanese children, as NBC sound technician Steve Sung looks on. RON JAVERS, San Francisco Chronicle.
Lobby of Hotel Pegasus in Georgetown during negotiations over whether Ryan party will be admitted to Jonestown. From left to right: Temple attorneys Charles Garry and Mark Lane, Temple aide Sharon Amos, Ryan staffer Jackie Speier and unidentified Guyanese. GREG ROBINSON.
Members of Concerned Relatives huddling in Georgetown. From left to right: Steve Katsaris, Beverly Oliver, Mickey Touchette, Anthony Katsaris and, at bottom right, Grace Stoen. GREG ROBINSON.
Journalists covering the Ryan trip at Port Kaituma. From left to right: Tim Reiterman, Don Harris, Gordon Lindsay, Bob Brown, Steve Sung, Bob Flick, Ron Javers and Greg Robinson. GREG ROBINSON.
Congressman Ryan in Jonestown with the Houston family. Clockwise from Ryan: Judy Houston, Carol Houston Boyd, Patricia Houston and Phyllis Houston, the girls’ mother. TIM REITERMAN.
Jim Cobb in Jonestown with his family. GREG ROBINSON.
Leo Ryan in Jonestown pavilion during Friday night entertainment. Saxophonist second from left is Brian Bouquet, whose mother was awaiting his return in Georgetown.
Jonestown residents explode in applause when Ryan says that for some Jonestown was the best thing that ever happened to them. Cobb family is in foreground, GR
EG ROBINSON.
Jim Jones showing off six-year-old John Victor Stoen to the press, claiming that similarities in teeth and bone structure proved the boy was his son. GREG ROBINSON.
Jim Jones being interviewed by press Friday night. From left to right: security chief Jim McElvane, Jim Beam, Tim Carter, Johnny Brown Jones, Jim Jones, Charles Krause, Dick Tropp (background), Charles Garry, Ron Javers, Tim Reiterman and Bob Flick. Reiterman is asking Jones for permission to remain overnight, but is refused. GREG ROBINSON.
Marceline Jones in front of the Cuffy Memorial Baby Nursery, during aborted Jonestown Saturday morning tour. TIM REITERMAN.
Anthony Katsaris and his sister Maria standing together during Jonestown tour. The previous night Anthony tried in vain to persuade his sister to leave Jonestown with him. GREG ROBINSON.
Jim Jones in pavilion area Saturday afternoon, after getting word that some of his people wanted to leave Jonestown. From left to right: Mark Lane, Leo Ryan, Jones’s aide Harriet Tropp, Jones, Charles Garry and U.S. Deputy Mission Chief Richard Dwyer. GREG ROBINSON.
Jim Jones confronting potential defectors Edith Bogue and Harold Cordell as security chief Jim McElvane looks on. GREG ROBINSON.
A defeated-looking Jim Jones waiting to face reporters. Already he knew that over a dozen of his people would leave with the Ryan party. White woman on right is long-time Temple loyalist Patty Cartmell. TIM I REITERMAN.
Jones (back to camera) at his last press conference in Jonestown. GREG ROBINSON.
Jones (center of playground) as truck is about to leave for Port Kaituma. He is surrounded by his top aides, and nervous Temple members look on. Minutes later, Jones stood by impassively as one of his members attempted to slit Congressman Ryan’s throat. GREG ROBINSON.
Truck leaving Jonestown for the last time. Chris O’Neil in foreground. Edith Parks in plastic raincoat and baseball cap. Tim Reiterman looking on from back of truck, with Bob Flick (wearing white cap) to his left and Dale Parks on his right. Anthony Katsaris wearing sunglasses on far right. GREG ROBINSON.
Congressman Ryan in shack at Port Kaituma as he describes the knifing attack on him in Jonestown. The blood of his assailant, Don Sly, is visible on his shirt. GREG ROBINSON.
Defectors waiting to board the small Cessna as Tim Reiterman, Jackie Speier and Charles Krause look on. A tractor and trailer full of Temple loyalists has approached in the background. Waiting on the steps behind Teena Bogne are Patricia Parks and Tommy Bogue. GREG ROBINSON.
The aftermath of the Port Kaituma massacre. Tim Reiterman used Greg Robinson’s camera to photograph the destruction the following morning. The five dead are, clockwise, Congressman Ryan, NBC reporter Don Harris, cameraman Bob Brown, Temple defector Patricia Parks (on right near baggage) and Examiner photographer Greg Robinson (near the left plane wheel).
Temple loyalist Larry Layton being brought to courthouse in Georgetown for preliminary hearing on the murders at Port Kaituma airstrip. ERIC MESKAUSKAS, San Francisco Examiner.
Copy of a “Dear Dad” letter recovered from Jonestown by the San Francisco Examiner.
Jim Jones’s house in Jonestown. LEE ROMERO, San Francisco Examiner.
Nine of the more than 900 bodies recovered from Jonestown by the U.S. Army. The aluminum casket on the middle right of the pallet is identified as “Rev. Jimmie Jones.” ERIC MESKAUSKAS, San Francisco Examiner.