Black Jonestown

Episode 5: The Grift: Jack Colbert - Life Inside Peoples Temple


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In this powerful episode, survivor and Host Leslie Wagner Wilson sits down with Jack Colbert, a former member of People's Temple, for an intimate and unflinching conversation about what it meant to grow up inside of a movement that weaponized hope against the very people it claimed to serve.

Jack opens up about his childhood within the Temple — the community, the faith, and the sense of belonging that drew so many families in. He reflects on what daily life looked like under Jim Jones, the control, the contradictions, and the moments that slowly began to crack the foundation of everything he believed.

This is more than a story about a cult. It's a story about community, survival, and the complicated search for something real.

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Black JonestownBy Leslie Wagner-Wilson