Stories from Jonestown [electronic resource] / Leigh Fondakowski.
Fondakowski, Leigh.
2013
BP605.P46 F66 2013eb
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Title Stories from Jonestown [electronic resource] / Leigh Fondakowski.
Author Fondakowski, Leigh.
ISBN 9780816681730 (electronic book)
9780816678082
9780816678099
Publication Details Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxii, 350 pages)
Call Number BP605.P46 F66 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 988.103/2
Summary "The saga of Jonestown didn't end on the day in November 1978 when more than nine hundred Americans died in a mass murder-suicide in the Guyanese jungle. While only a handful of people present at the agricultural project survived that day in Jonestown, more than eighty members of Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, were elsewhere in Guyana on that day, and thousands more members of the movement still lived in California. Emmy-nominated writer Leigh Fondakowski, who is best known for her work on the play and HBO film The Laramie Project, spent three years traveling the United States to interview these survivors, many of whom have never talked publicly about the tragedy. Using more than two hundred hours of interview material, Fondakowski creates intimate portraits of these survivors as they tell their unforgettable stories. Collectively this is a record of ordinary people, stigmatized as cultists, who after the Jonestown massacre were left to deal with their grief, reassemble their lives, and try to make sense of how a movement born in a gospel of racial and social justice could have gone so horrifically wrong--taking with it the lives of their sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, and brothers and sisters. As these survivors look back, we learn what led them to join the Peoples Temple movement, what life in the church was like, and how the trauma of Jonestown's end still affects their lives decades later. What emerges are portrayals both haunting and hopeful--of unimaginable sadness, guilt, and shame but also resilience and redemption. Weaving her own artistic journey of discovery throughout the book in a compelling historical context, Fondakowski delivers, with both empathy and clarity, one of the most gripping, moving, and humanizing accounts of Jonestown ever written"--Provided by publisher.
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Days in November
Lost voices
List of interviews
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
I've been to the shadows
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
The revolution
Death is real
Second chance
The ones who got away
The known dead
My children are there
Conspiracist
The ones who got away
Undetermined
Something to gain
Evergreen
I won't say anniversary
A bittersweet gift
After
The 918 deaths of November 18, 1978
Acknowledgments
Index.

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