North Smithfield High School Library: Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple:

• "Inside Peoples Temple" by Marshall Kilduff and Phil Tracy (Primary Source)
• "Jonestown in the Twenty-First Century" by John R. Hall
• "The Culture of Jim Jones: An Analysis of Reactions to the Jonestown Tragedy" by Whit Denton
• "Drinking the Kool Aid: A Survivor Remembers Jim Jones" by Jennie Rothenberg Gritz
• "Teachers Recall Students they lost in Jonestown in 'And Then They were Gone'" by Sam Whiting
• "Jonestown: Rebuilding my Life after Surviving the Massacre" by Georgina Rannard & Kelly-Leigh Cooper

Tape Recordings:

"Contains an uncredited excerpt from one of Jim Jones 'White Night' rehearsal speeches, followed by the complete recording of Jim Jones final speech (FBI tape no Q 042) recorded during the mass murder/suicide in Jonestown on the night of November 18th 1978."

Jonestown: The Life and Death of People's Temple

PBS Documentary (90 min.)

Completed almost 30 years after the deaths in Guyana, the following is the first list to include the names of the 918 people who died in Guyana on 18 November 1978.

"The U.S. Military Had to Clean Up After the Jonestown Massacre 40 Years Ago. What the Crew Found Was 'Beyond Imagination'"

By Andy Kopsa (11/16/18)

Until the September 11th attacks, the tragedy in Jonestown represented the largest number of American civilian casualties in a single non-natural event.

(Time Magazine)

Jonestown Tragedy:

Did the members of the Peoples Temple commit suicide or were they murdered?

"Jonestown: The Psychological Massacre"

by Alexis A. Wiles

"Deconstructing 'Brainwashing' within Cults as an Aid to Counselling Psychologists"

by Yvonne Walsh

Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple:

This website is designed to give personal and scholarly perspectives on a major event in the history of religion in America. Its primary purpose is to present information about Peoples Temple as accurately and objectively as possible.

Journalist Jeff Guinn details how Jones captivated his followers in his new book, The Road to Jonestown. He calls Jones a "tremendous performer" who exhibited "the classic tendencies of the demagogue."

"The Last Guest in Jonestown: An Account of a Non-Follower 11 Days before the Massacre"

by Peter Elsass

More cults to research:

• The Branch Davidians
  • David Koresh and the Branch Davidians
• Heaven's Gate
  • For "Heaven's Gate" Podcast Host, the Cult Story hits Close to Home
• The Manson Family
  • Manson Mythology and Pop Culture
• Children of God
• Sullivanians
• Aum Shinrikyo
• The Rajneesh Movement (Osho Cult)
• The Unification Church ("Moonies")
• The Faizrakhmanist Movement
• The Order of the Solar Temple