Rosalynn Carter recalls dining with Jim Jones in 1976
Washington report notes Rosalynn Carter said she dined with Jim Jones in San Francisco during the 1976 campaign. Jones, head of the Peoples Temple, wrote to aid the campaign and pledged to support its moral tone. The letters surfaced after a Guyanese official published them.
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Jones
Guyana
Carter
Ruth Carter Stapleton
San Francisco
Peoples Temple
Cuba
United States
Rev
Jim Jones
Mrs. Carter
City council approves 1980 salary increases across departments
A city ordinance retroactively raises pay from July 1 by 12.6 to 3.7 percent, costing about $18,000 this year. Highest increases go to Street and Building inspectors, plus several department heads, with many divisions seeing 6.1 to 12.2 percent hikes and several workers boosted by roughly $800 to $2,080. FOP Lodge 30 remains unsettled.
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Cemeteries, Forestry, Equal Opportunity
Safety Service
Recreation Department
Rec
Fraternal Order of Police
FOP) Lodge 30
Bonnie Study family in Guiana cult search
The Study family questions Bonnie’s fate after a mass death or escape linked to a Guyana cult. They say Bonnie’s letters were censored, she last wrote in May, and an embassy rep claimed they were well. They seek confirmation from officials and Senator Glenn.
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Bonnie
California
Study
Guyanna
Doug Ellice
Georgetown
Guanna
Jones
U.S
John Glenn
Israel approves U.S. drafted Egypt peace pact
Israel's cabinet approves a U S drafted peace treaty with Egypt by 15 to 2 after a six hour session but rejects a timetable for Palestinian autonomy. Egypt demands a concrete timetable and talks begun Oct 12 remain deadlocked risking a second summit.
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Egypt
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Escape convict shot by jeep passenger in fatal standoff
Harold Hatcher 21 grabbed the pistol from an escaped convict during a roadside ordeal on I-75. Hatcher and his girlfriend Victoria Wyzykowski 20 wrestled the gun away as the convict, John Conte 43, opened fire, then Conte was shot five times. Conte died. two other escapees, Billy McKinney 24 and David Pilkington, remained at large. Conte had prior uprisings in 1968 Ohio pen. Police traced the trio to a Romulus Michigan motel where a kidnapped man in Yellow Springs was held.
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John Conte
Ohio Penitentiary
Billy McKin
Mary Ann Stagakes
Columbus
Conte
Ohio
Bill Bell
Romulus
Mich
Yellow Springs
McKinney
Pilkington
Victoria Wyzykowski
Miss Wyzykowski
Mark Lane stalks a changing game of cult power
Mark Lane, famed for Kennedy assassination theories and his role as James Earl Ray’s lawyer, reflects on the Jim Jones Peoples Temple and the Guayana exodus. He remains controversial, described as resilient and pressing the era’s cult narrative without needing Dallas’s grassy knoll.
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Marguerita Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald
Warren Commission
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Lane
Dallas
Mark Lane
Kennedy
Vietnam
James Earl Ray
Jim Jones
People’s Temple
San
Francisco
Guyana
South America
William Kunstler
Custody dispute amid Jonestown tragedy ends in death
John Victor Steen, child of Grace and Timothy Stoen, died near Rev. James W. Jones in Jonestown Guyana. Reportedly, 460 residents died in the commune suicide murder pact after Jones's custody fight with the boy’s father. The boy, born 1972, was central in the dispute and reportedly lay beside Jones on a wooden platform.
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John Victor Steen
Jim Jones
Guyana
Jonestown
Jones
Stoen
John
Timothy
Grace Stoen
James W. Jones
Mendocino County
Berkeley
People’s Temple
The
Temple
Jonathan Stoen
Golden
Cale
Descent into deadly mass suicide at Guyana compound
In Jonestown the mass death by cyanide killed hundreds as followers gathered around an altar while leader Jones urged the crowd to die. Families huddled together, babies and children screamed and collapsed. Jones’s son Rhodes described chaos as armed guards ringed the central pavilion. Officials report 383 dead, including Jones and his mistress, with 800 U.S. passports and weapons found among the remains and loot. Evidence shows bodies scattered, with dogs poisoned nearby and authorities coordinating transport of victims home.
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Jones
Georgetown
Marcelyn
Jonestown
U.S
Guyana
Panama
Fort Bragg
N.C
State Department
C.A. Roberts
Roberts
Ryan
United States
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