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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Primary Sources
1. "American Experience: TV's Most-watched History Series." PBS. PBS, n.d.
Web. 23 Nov. 2014. (JIM JONES SPEECH)
HOW WILL YOU USE IT IN YOUR RESEARCH?
2. (SURVIVOR/ WITNESS) HOW WILL YOU USE IT IN YOUR RESEARCH?
Gritz, Jennie Rothenberg. "Drinking the Kool-Aid: A Survivor Remembers Jim

Jones." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 18 Nov. 2011. Web. 24 Nov. 2014.

3.

Cult of Death: The Jonestown Nightmare

4 December 1978. This is an article about Jonestown from Americas viewpoint. It

includes information about Congressman Leo Ryan.
4.

The Jonestown Letters. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1986.
pp. 367-369.

This book includes letters which were sent back and forth between the Moore family, some
of whom were in Jonestown.

5. James, Susan Donaldson, and Christina Lopez. "Jonestown Massacre:

Survivors Wrestle

With Guilt, Shame." ABC News.

ABC News Network, 18 Nov. 2012. Web. 23 Nov. 2014. (WITNESS)

6. "Final Witness." Final Witness. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Nov. 2014.
( witness)

7. ""Suicide Tape Transcript"" "Suicide Tape Transcript" N.p., n.d. Web. 23

Nov. 2014.(TRANSCRIPT)

8. "The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) : The Rev. Jim Jones, Et Al.
(The Peoples Temple Cult) : Free Download & Streaming : Internet
Archive."Internet Archive. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Dec. 2014
9. Jonestown survivor shares experience Desert Dispatch, The (Barstow, CA).
02/04/2013.
10. Jonestown Remembered By Those Who Were There News & Notes (NPR).
11/18/2008.
11. "Jonestown Survivor Talks about Escaping Mass Suicide." Jonestown
Survivor Talks about Escaping Mass Suicide. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Dec. 2014.
12. "30 Years After, the Legacy of Jonestown." TODAY.com. N.p., 16 Nov. 2008.
Web. 17 Dec. 2014.

secondary
1. "Jim Jones and Jonestown Suicides." About. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Nov. 2014.
( it wasn't written during that time)
2. David Jones for the Daily Mail. "Return to Camp Suicide: 30 Years On,
Could the Nightmare of Jonestown Happen Again?" Mail Online. Associated
Newspapers, n.d. Web. 26 Nov. 2014. ( it was a document talking about returning
to the camp)
http://content.answers.com 2-24-07
3. This is where I found a picture of all of houses in Jonestown, and another of
Jim Jones standing with children of different races.
4. Levi, Ken, ed. Violence and Religious Commitment. University Park:
5.

Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982. pre-pages 12-15

Osherow, Neal. http://www.guyana.org/features/jonestown.html 1-10-

07.
This tells about the Jonestown massacre. It is a website you can find information about
Guyana.

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6. ."The Violence of Jim Jones A Biopsychosocial Explanation - International
Cultic Studies Association (ICSA)." The Violence of Jim Jones A Biopsychosocial
Explanation - International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA). N.p., n.d. Web. 16
Dec. 2014.
7. "Wix.com Jonestown Created by Brittanybliss101 Based on World Wide
Band | Wix.com." Wix.com Jonestown Created by Brittanybliss101 Based on World
Wide Band. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Dec. 2014.
8. "Jim Jones' People's Temple." Jim Jones' People's Temple. N.p., n.d. Web.
15 Dec. 2014.
9. Presents a biography of cult leader Jim Jones. Background; Interest in the
Pentecostal church; Establishment of his Peoples Temple in 1956; Efforts to create
a utopian society; Criticism of the cult and its members; Decision to move the
church to Guyana, in order to avoid negative press; Settling of 'Jonestown' in
Guyana; Punishment of members who defected from or spoke out against Jones'
cult; United States Representative Leo Ryan's investigation of Jones; Murder of
Ryan and mass suicide of Jones and his followers in 1978.
New American (08856540). 3/19/2012, Vol. 28 Issue 6, p33-39. 7p.
10. The article discusses the role of Reverend Jim Jones in the death of the
hundreds of followers of his Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. The author
provides an overview of the life of Jones and the People Temple, a cult-like secular
church that he founded and operated. He talks about the issues on how Jones has
run his organization. He also looks into the survival of Deborah Layton from the
inner circle and the death of U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan during his investigation
to Jonestown .New American (08856540). 3/19/2012, Vol. 28 Issue 6, p33-39.
7p.
11. Though much is known about the charismatic and destructive nature of the
Reverend Jim Jones, scholars understand far less about the group dynamics of
Jonestown. To better understand this group phenomenon, the authors analyzed the

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audiotape of the final White Night sermon delivered by Jones on the eve of the
mass suicide. They conceptualize this material as a powerful illustration of the final
stage of the actualization of a psychotic and cocreated fantasy of masochistic
group death. The wholesale and deliberate self-annihilation is conceptualized as
the terminal stage in the process of malignant cult formation. The authors see
Jones as both victim and perpetrator of the cult's unconscious wishes and
yearnings for death and presumed martyrdom. They describe a tentative 5-stage
theory of group death in cults. Drawing on W. R. Bion's (1961) theory of the pairing
basis assumptions, the authors propose that the element that distinguishes early
and salvageable cults from those that disintegrate into malignancy and death is
the particular manner in which the group's aggression is metabolized. They draw
parallels between the apocalyptic rhetoric and belief systems of the People's
Temple and certain strains of American domestic terrorism, particularly the
Christian Identity Movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Psychoanalysis &
Psychotherapy. Winter2008, Vol. 24 Issue 4, p222-239. 18p.
12. "Mass Suicide at Jonestown." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d.
Web. 17 Dec. 2014.

citations
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912249,00.html
http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=33227
http://content.answers.com 2-24-07
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