In today’s episode we are going to talk about the granddaddy of utopian fails, Peoples Temple. Or, as you might know it, Jonestown. This is Part 1.

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Links & Resources

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255

Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741 741

Domestic Violence Helpline: 1-800-799-7233

VictimConnect, a referral helpline for victims of crime: 1-855-484-2846

Make The Connection

• Jeff Guinn’s The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
• Leigh Fondakowski’s Stories from Jonestown 
• Deborah Layton’s Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
• 1983 interview with Stephan Jones 
• 2018 interview with Laura Johnson Kohl 
• Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost—an ABC documentary 40 years after Jonestown
• The Jonestown “Death Tape” (Content warning: disturbing material!) 
• Jonestown Institute 

Written and produced by Anna Roberts

Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez

Intro music by Elliot Middleton