![]() New York Times bestselling author Julia Scheeres drew from thousands of recently declassified FBI documents and audiotapes, as well as rare videos and interviews, to piece together an unprecedented and compelling history of the doomed camp, focusing on the people who lived there. Tommy Bogue, a teen, hated Jones’s church, but was forced to attend services-and move to Jonestown - because his parents were members.Ī Thousand Lives is the story of Jonestown as it has never been told before. Edith Roller, a well-educated white progressive, joined Peoples Temple because she wanted to help the less fortunate. ![]() ![]() Others, like Hyacinth Thrash and her sister Zipporah, were dazzled by his claims of being a faith healer - Hyacinth believed Jones had healed a cancerous tumor in her breast. Some, such as eighteen-year-old Stanley Clayton, appreciated Jones’s message of racial equality and empowering the dispossessed. ![]() These people joined the church for vastly different reasons. ![]() Graphic, horrifying, and a must-read for this subject.Ī Thousand Lives follows the experiences of five People’s Temple members who went to Jonestown: a middle-class English teacher from Colorado, an elderly African American woman raised in Jim Crow Alabama, a troubled young black man from Oakland, and a working-class father and his teenage son. Short & Sweet: A Thousand Lives creates a strikingly clear photograph of Jonestown, from its humble beginnings, decent into madness, the horrible abuse suffered after the exodus, all the way up to that fateful November day. ![]()
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