Photographs from Margaret T. Singer materials on Peoples Temple, 1970-1978.

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Photographs from Margaret T. Singer materials on Peoples Temple, 1970-1978.

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Consists of photographic prints pertaining to Peoples Temple members, collected by clinical psychologist Margaret T. Singer during her work with Peoples Temple members in the aftermath of the deaths in Jonestown, Guyana in November 1978. Includes individual and group portraits, publicity photos and snapshots, including images of church services, recreational outings, protest demonstrations and press conferences. Contains promotional images of Jim Jones, images of Peoples Temple members in Jonestown and Georgetown, Guyana, and several hundred identification photos of Peoples Temple members and others who attended church services in California that were intended for use in passport applications. Includes a photo of Jim Jones affixed to a broken minute timer. Unidentified Peoples Temple members took the bulk of the photographs before the deaths in Jonestown, Guyana in November 1978.

2 boxes, 1 album of photographic prints.

California historical society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7158522

California historical society

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Jones, Jim, 1931-1978

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Jim Jones, charismatic cult leader, was born in Lynn, Randolph County, Ind. His religious career began in 1956 when he started the Peoples Temple in Indianapolis. In 1965 he moved his temple to Redwood Valley, Calif. and in 1970 to San Francisco, where the temple claimed 7500 members. In 1973 Jones began developing Jonestown in Guyana. In November 1978 Jones and his followers at Jonestown shocked the world by committing mass suicide by drinking poisoned Kool-Aid. From the description...

Peoples Temple

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Peoples Temple began as an independent Pentecostal church founded by Jim and Marceline Jones in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1955 and became affiliated with the Disciples of Christ denomination in 1960. In 1965, the church moved to Northern California with approximately a hundred members. In 1970, Peoples Temple began holding services and recruiting thousands of members from African American communities in San Francisco and Los Angeles and later opened large churches in both cities. In 1973, the chu...

Singer, Margaret Thaler

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Margaret T. Singer (1921-2003) was a clinical psychologist and emeritus adjunct professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. She was widely known for her research, publications and media appearances related to cults, brainwashing, and persuasion, and was an expert witness in numerous legal cases and congressional hearings including those involving U.S. soldiers captured during the Korean War, Patricia Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Unification C...