In her new book, Stories From Jonestown (University of Minnesota Press), author Leigh Fondakowski interviews more than 40 survivors, former cult members, relatives of the deceased and various experts, giving voice to some of the Angelenos who were part of the largest mass killing in American history.įondakowski was one of the creators of the play and subsequent HBO movie The Laramie Project, about murdered gay student Matthew Shepard. and attracted thousands of local congregants. While Jones' Peoples Temple is inherently a Bay Area story - that of an Indianapolis preacher who, in 1965, moved his followers to Ukiah and later San Francisco, where they became a political force - the church branched out to L.A. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the infamous Jonestown murder-suicides orchestrated by Reverend Jim Jones in Guyana.
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