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Book

Stories from Jonestown

Call Number

  • 289.9 F6733 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, ©2013.

Physical Description

xxii, 350 pages ; 24 cm

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • Days in November
  • Lost voices
  • List of interviews included
  • Collect all the tapes, all the writing, all the history. Nobody was paying attention ; I was his son ; My button was fear ; Jonestown vortex ; A godly life ; A man of his word ; The air they breathed ; Eternally grateful
  • Until we meet again. Take the city today ; Too black ; Homicide is suicide ; We all participated ; Sole survivor ; Hundreds of kids ; This is big ; Waylaid ; Stigmata ; The dream
  • To whom much is given. Sixty-seven cents ; Nefarious ; We were rising ; The basis of a book ; Beyond truth ; It's no mystery
  • The promised land. What a place for them ; Exodus ; That's Jonestown ; Perfect religion ; Trapped ; Second chance
  • Those who got away. The known dead ; My children are there ; Conspiracist ; Target practice ; Undetermined ; Something to gain ; Legacy ; I won't say anniversary ; A bittersweet gift ; After
  • The 918 deaths of November 18.

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