Photographs from Peoples Temple miscellany collection, 1966-1978.

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Photographs from Peoples Temple miscellany collection, 1966-1978.

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Consists of photographic prints, slides, and digital photographs of Peoples Temple members created or collected by survivors, former members, relatives and others who came in contact with Peoples Temple. Includes 24 photographs by Robert Wright with typescript reminiscence by Wright and his wife, Barbara, of their encounters with Peoples Temple in 1966 and 1973 in Redwood Valley, California. Also contains photos of Peoples Temple members in U.S. and Guyana, including an image of children in the nursery at Jonestown, and members with the first newsprint edition of Peoples Forum. Includes several photos of Jim Jones.

1 box of photographic prints, slides, and digital images.

California historical society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7158525

California historical society

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Wright, Robert E. (Robert Eric), 1969-

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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...

Wright, Barbara, 1935-

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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...