Testimonial
This author did one thing that none of the other authors about Jonestown did in their books and for this alone, she deserves five stars. She lists the nine hundred plus victims of the Jonestown event in the back of the book.
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In December 1978, those of us flown back into the United States were subjected to interrogations by the agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. We were taken to a hangar at the airport, photographed, fingerprinted and escorted to Winnebago trailers where we were questioned. The links below are the actual results of those questioning: (More information can be found on Peoples Temple and Jonestown via the Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple
The following are letters and documents retrieved via FBI files. These were documents left in Jonestown. Some of these letters were forced written to Jim Jones. Most were either self-defacing, and/or letter to praise Jim Jones who we had to call Father. It helps to reveal what I went through and what was expected of us. The average person can not understand how we could live under this type of dictatorship. After months, and months of this type of critical assessments, you either had to push negative thoughts out of your mind to survive, or you submitted and eventually lost your soul. This was a systematic process to break down your spirit, hope and your soul – for the 33 of us whom walked out of Jonestown that day…it did not work. We chose to push through.
Other FBI Document- click to view