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in church. so i went back. he offered me to sit down in the seat where he was sitting at the table to eat. he said, you can have my seat. jones and his wife practiced what they preached. they had a biological son steven and adopted an african-american baby they named jim junior. it was indianapolis first adoption of a black child by a white family. he had this great family of all different colors. he had a wonderful wife. i loved his kids. i was just enchanted by everything he had going. i really don t feel comfortable being photographed. i really don t. in 1965 jones moved his controversial flock to rural redwood valley in northern california, a place he had read about in esquire magazine was a safe haven from nuclear war. many of our homes were vandalized and we had been harassed and our lives
looking back on that terrible day, it s hard not to think it was all foretold. the die had been cast years earlier with macabre tests of loyalty. i can remember we were in a planning commission meeting, and jim goes, you know, i really love you, i m going to let you guys drink wine. you don t think i love you. so we were all given this wine. it was from the ranch that the grapes had turned into, i guess, wine, whatever. jim said, has everybody drank their wine? some people said, i don t want any. he said, no, everybody s going to drink that. we all drank it. he said, okay, has ever drank their wine? we said yes. okay, you all have ten minutes to live. so he handed the fruit juice around. he said that was poison because we need to commit revolutionary suicide.
explosive story with nowhere to tell it, until new west magazine grabbed hold of it. the article would shine fierce light into the temple s darkest shadows, and jones knew it. the walls would soon come tumbling down, and he wasn t about to wait around for the crash. it came out. jim basically called people saying, pack up your stuff, you re leaving today. people went out with one day s notice they were leaving the country forever. we knew we weren t coming back to the u.s. ever. by summer s end, hundreds of members had descended on jonestown. the jungle was now home to peoples temple. to jim the mass exodus to guyana was about running away. but to the people in the congregation, they thought they were going to the promised land. jonestown in a lot of ways offered people a whole fresh beginning. many people who really blossomed
been there for some time. so we got there and we were eating the fruit. we just felt like we were in nechb a way because in the states you didn t get that kind of food necessarily. well up beknownst to me they had to buy all that fruit. and i found out later there would be pictures of jim with his hand up holding, supposedly, like these are bananas. he was literally holding those bananas up there. they weren t growing on that tree. if jonestown was not yet a tropical paradise, jones was determined to one day make it the socialist utopia he dreamed and preached about. but for now home was san francisco. and by 1976 jones had made peoples temple a major player in local politics. if any movement in san francisco needed 100 bodies to show up for a demonstration, they d just call peoples temple and the temple would send 500 people. peoples temple raced into the
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