Stories from Jonestown by Leigh Fondakowski

What emerges are portrayals both haunting and hopeful-of Was like, and how the trauma of Jonestown’s end still affects their lives

Learn what led them to join the Peoples Temple movement, what life in the church Wrong-taking with it the lives of their sons and daughters, husbands and wives,įathers and mothers, and brothers and sisters. Their grief, reassemble their lives, and try to make sense of how a movementīorn in a gospel of racial and social justice could have gone so horrifically Stigmatized as cultists, who after the Jonestown massacre were left to deal with Using more than two hundred hours of interview material,įondakowski creates intimate portraits of these survivors as they tell theirĬollectively this is a record of ordinary people, States to interview these survivors, many of whom have never talked publiclyĪbout the tragedy. Play and HBO film The Laramie Project, spent three years traveling the United Members of Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, were elsewhere in Guyana on thatĭay, and thousands more members of the movement still lived in California.Įmmy-nominated writer Leigh Fondakowski, who is best known for her work on the The agricultural project survived that day in Jonestown, more than eighty While only a handful of people present at

November 1978 when more than nine hundred Americans died in a mass Overview The saga of Jonestown didn’t end on the day in Stories from Jonestown by Leigh Fondakowski