The Road to Jonestown

Release on 2018-04-10 | by Jeff Guinn

The Road to Jonestown is “the most complete picture to date of this tragic saga, and of the man who engineered it…The result is a disturbing portrait of evil—and a compassionate memorial to those taken in by Jones’s malign ...

The Road to Jonestown
  • Author: Jeff Guinn
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • ISBN: 1476763836
  • Category: True Crime
  • Page: 544
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The Road to Jonestown

2018 Edgar Award Finalist—Best Fact Crime “A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey” (The Boston Globe)—the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history, by the New York Times bestselling author of Manson. In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially mixed, and he was a leader in the early civil rights movement. Eventually, Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to northern California, where he got involved in electoral politics and became a prominent Bay Area leader. But underneath the surface lurked a terrible darkness. In this riveting narrative, Jeff Guinn examines Jones’s life, from his early days as an idealistic minister to a secret life of extramarital affairs, drug use, and fraudulent faith healing, before the fateful decision to move almost a thousand of his followers to a settlement in the jungles of Guyana in South America. Guinn provides stunning new details of the events leading to the fatal day in November, 1978 when more than nine hundred people died—including almost three hundred infants and children—after being ordered to swallow a cyanide-laced drink. Guinn examined thousands of pages of FBI files on the case, including material released during the course of his research. He traveled to Jones’s Indiana hometown, where he spoke to people never previously interviewed, and uncovered fresh information from Jonestown survivors. He even visited the Jonestown site with the same pilot who flew there the day that Congressman Leo Ryan was murdered on Jones’s orders. The Road to Jonestown is “the most complete picture to date of this tragic saga, and of the man who engineered it…The result is a disturbing portrait of evil—and a compassionate memorial to those taken in by Jones’s malign charisma” (San Francisco Chronicle).

Classroom on the Road

Release on 2020-10-14 | by Irina Gendelman

Excerpts were also read from two books on Reverend Jim Jones, which highlighted Jones's time in Indianapolis and the Los Angeles area as well as in Jonestown: Jeff Guinn's (2017) The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple ...

Classroom on the Road
  • Author: Irina Gendelman
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • ISBN: 9781793610898
  • Category: Education
  • Page: 246
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Classroom on the Road

Classroom on the Road: Designing, Teaching, and Theorizing Out-of-the-Box Faculty-Led Student Travel explores real-world, out-of-the-box examples of faculty-led student travel that challenge the dominant paradigms of conventional tourism. Contributors share teaching methods that can be adapted for a variety of university travel scenarios and encourage students to be responsible and thoughtful members of the global community who seek out valuable experiences in other cultures to go beyond the standard consumption of touristy clichés. Furthermore, this book contributes to existing discourse about travel by going beyond being “just” a tourist to become a person who impacts—and is impacted by—other cultures and the commensurate politics of place. Contributors discuss issues of cultural imperialism, economic disparity, and responsible travel that can help protect unique destinations from the homogenizing effects of global capitalism, encouraging respectful and responsible travel.

Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Release on 1872 | by Pennsylvania. Supreme Court

In the Case of the ROAD from JONESTOWN to WILKESBARRE . Under the act of 18th February 1813 , the draft of so much of the road from Jonestown to Wilkesbarre as passed through the county of Lebanon , was filed in the ...

Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
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Gas Light Electricity

Release on 2020 | by Shena McAuliffe

Quoted in Guinn, The Road to Jonestown 48. Cordell, Rick. Quoted in Guinn, The Road to Jonestown, 92. Guinn, Jeff. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2017. Jones, Stephan. “Marceline/Mom.

Gas Light Electricity
  • Author: Shena McAuliffe
  • Publisher: Permafrost Prize
  • ISBN: 9781602234086
  • Category: Literary Criticism
  • Page: 200
  • View: 772

Gas Light Electricity

Fleet-footed and capricious, the essays in Glass, Light & Electricity wander through landscapes both familiar and unfamiliar, finding them equal parts magical and toxic. They explore and merge public and private history through lyric meditations that use research, association, and metaphor to examine subjects as diverse as neon signs, scalping, heartbreak, and seizures. The winner of the 2019 Permafrost Prize in nonfiction, Shena McAuliffe expands the creative possibilities of form.

Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania by Sergent Rawle

Release on 1872 | by Pennsylvania. Supreme Court

( Road from Jonestown to Wilkesbare . ) CERTIORARI . This was a certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Lebanon county , to return the record in the case of the state road from Jonestown , in Dauphin county , to Orwigsburg , and thence by ...

Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania by Sergent Rawle
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The Geology of Pennsylvania Metamorphic strata Gneissic rocks

Release on 1858 | by Pennsylvania. Geological survey

This dyke crosses the road from Jonestown to Millerstown , about two and a half miles from Jonestown , and terminates on the Eastern bank of Swatara , about a mile above the Waterworks . Eastward it does not extend much beyond ...

The Geology of Pennsylvania Metamorphic strata Gneissic rocks
  • Author: Pennsylvania. Geological survey
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  • ISBN: PSU:000013400590
  • Category: Coal
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The Geology of Pennsylvania Metamorphic strata Gneissic rocks

The Geology of Pennsylvania

Release on 1859 | by Geological Survey of Pennsylvania

This dyke crosses the road from Jonestown to Millerstown , about two and a half miles from Jonestown , and terminates on the Eastern bank of Swatara , about a mile above the Waterworks .

The Geology of Pennsylvania
  • Author: Geological Survey of Pennsylvania
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The Geology of Pennsylvania

Cult City

Release on 2018-10-16 | by Daniel J. Flynn

Guinn, The Road to Jonestown, 282,332, 340, 344; Reiterman with Jacobs, Raven, 284. Naipaul, Journey to Nowhere, 286; Hugh Pearson, The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America (Reading, ...

Cult City
  • Author: Daniel J. Flynn
  • Publisher: Open Road Media
  • ISBN: 9781504056762
  • Category: Biography & Autobiography
  • Page: 647
  • View: 612

Cult City

In recounting the fascinating, intersecting stories of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk, Cult City tells the story of a great city gone horribly wrong. November 1978. Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a remote jungle outpost in South America. Days later, Harvey Milk, one of America’s first openly gay elected officials—and one of Jim Jones’s most vocal supporters—is assassinated in San Francisco’s City Hall. This horrifying sequence of events shocked the world. Almost immediately, the lives and deaths of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk became shrouded in myth. Now, forty years later, this book corrects the record. The product of a decade of research, including extensive archival work and dozens of exclusive interviews, Cult City reveals just how confused our understanding has become. In life, Jim Jones enjoyed the support of prominent politicians and Hollywood stars even as he preached atheism and communism from the pulpit; in death, he transformed into a fringe figure, a “fundamentalist Christian” and a “fascist.” In life, Harvey Milk faked hate crimes, outed friends, and falsely claimed that the US Navy dishonorably discharged him over his homosexuality; in death, he is honored in an Oscar-winning movie, with a California state holiday, and a US Navy ship named after him. His assassin, a blue-collar Democrat who often voted with Milk in support of gay issues, is remembered as a right-winger and a homophobe. But the story extends far beyond Jones and Milk. Author Daniel J. Flynn vividly portrays the strange intersection of mainstream politics and murderous extremism in 1970s San Francisco—the hangover after the high of the Summer of Love.

Reports of Cases 1754 1845

Release on 1867 | by Pennsylvania. Supreme Court

Thai Act provides , that whenever the canal shall cross any public or private laid out road or highway , so as to ... and then over to Jonestown , in Lebanon county ; another branch ran a distance up the creek , thence into Swope's ...

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Reports of Cases Adjudged in The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania by Watts Sergeant

Release on 1867 | by Pennsylvania. Supreme Court

That Act provides , that whenever the canal shall cross any public or private laid out road or highway , so as to ... and then over to Jonestown , in Lebanon county ; another branch ran a distance up the creek , thence into Swope's ...

Reports of Cases Adjudged in The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania by Watts Sergeant
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