In today’s episode we are going to talk about the granddaddy of utopian fails, Peoples Temple. Or, as you might know it, Jonestown. This is Part 1.
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Jeff Guinn’s The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Leigh Fondakowski’s Stories from Jonestown
Deborah Layton’s Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor’s Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
1983 interview with Stephan Jones
2018 interview with Laura Johnson Kohl
Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost—an ABC documentary 40 years after Jonestown
The Jonestown “Death Tape” (Content warning: disturbing material!)
Written and produced by Anna Roberts
Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez
Intro music by Elliot Middleton