Stephan Jones, Jim Jones's sole surviving child, was born in Indiana, United States, on June 1, 1959. He appeared in movies like Written in Blood (2018), The Peoples Advocate: The Life and Times of Charles R.Gary (2007) and The True Story (2003). When he was ordered to Georgetown to help with supply shipments, Smith said he concocted an escape plan: Ollie and other temple singers and dancers, he believed, would soon be sent to Georgetown to perform, and the family would flee to the U.S. Embassy. ', 'I argued with my Dad,' he said. The bodies of followers that drank the poison are strewn around the commune, The Peoples Temple compound, led by Jim Jones, is shown above in November 1978 after the dead bodies were removed. In a recent interview, he revealed that he was sober. Gruelling field work was not to her liking. He said: "So much was attractive and unique that we turned a blind eye . He was cleared of any complicity--another Peoples Temple member served a prison sentence for his role in the deaths--but Stephan Jones has come to believe that surviving Guyanese prison somehow braced him for his own re-entry to the world. " I made that last trip with him and he made me stay in Jonestown. Comments may take up to an hour for moderation before appearing on the site. I wouldnt say that I dont have problems saying no, and I do quite a bit, so Im feeling it now because I traveled to New York and had a long interview yesterday [with CNN]. It was Stephan Jones who managed security--who carried a gun, watched over temple members and planned group escape routes--when Jim Jones began summoning his community into a frenzied series of meetings to prepare for imminent attacks from outside. When he wakes, at dawn or in the middle of the night, it takes him some time to come back. My best guess is that Jones felt the press people weren't fooled by the staged setup at the mission. And I had good reason to be enraged with him'. Stephans address on November 18, 2018 at the 40th Anniversary Memorial Service at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, California is here. He remarried three decades ago, and he and his wife, Erin, raised three sons. "I see a potential for me to get out of hand," Stephan Jones says, resting his chin on his hand and looking steadily at his visitor. 'I believe that it was always a personal agenda for my father, and yes, there was a gradual shift in the balance. Jim Jr. would go on to lose 15 immediate relatives in Jonestown, including his pregnant wife, Yvette Muldrow, In the aftermath, Jim Jr. built a new life. This June 2016 photo provided by Jim Jones Jr. shows, from left, Ross Jones, 21, Erin Fowler-Jones, Robert Jones, 27, and Ryan Jones, 25, and Jim Jones Jr., in Pacifica, Calif. Only natural son of Rev. The expression was born of the perception that Jim Jones disciples were gullible people who gladly drank the poison because their leader told them it would do them good. Vernon Gosney and Monica Bagby, the two temple members who asked for help in the note, also were seriously injured. The 21-year-old Indiana native felt pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana, South America. This return to the cult of Jim Jones is part of a re-examination of dangerous cults and movements in Americas past, like the Osho cult, which had a similar murderous potential. Those who broke rules were disciplined. When the rains approached, he would stand and watch the water come, pushing solid and steady toward him like some enormous stage set being wheeled across the hills. When he was ordered to Georgetown to help with supply shipments, Smith said he concocted an escape plan: Ollie and other temple singers and dancers, he believed, would soon be sent to Georgetown to perform, and the family would flee to the U.S. Embassy. no one could ever relate to it unless they were in the same situation, or they were in the atmosphere my father created . He says his daughters have seen him gnash his teeth when he talks about his father, but they also have heard him speak lovingly of the man who taught him compassion and other virtues. His biggest regrets revolve around the teams refusal to return to Jonestown. mode: 'thumbnails-rr', Stephanie was one of six victims in the car accident coming back from Cincinatti.Birth name: . "I would have had to, especially if I saw other people doing it, and I right off the bat wasn't on top of things, and somehow wasn't right there starting some kind of--it's so hard--", Stephan Jones covers his face for a moment, fingers kneading his forehead. Partner of Terry Carter Jones, aka Mary Theresa Carter, Mary Theresa Jones, Terry Carter Jones (died November 18 . And it was necessary in my own healing for me to find acceptance for him, understanding of him. Swollen to bursting, that was the corpse of Jim Jones, the man who had conducted this concert of death. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. 'We were trying to build a new world, a progressive socialist organization.'. To just be somewhere with a machete, in khakis, and just decide I wanted to go somewhere and cut myself a trail." "I'd go back in a minute. He pushes through the crowd, but he cannot get to his father. Visit our Community Guidelines for more information and details on how to adjust your email settings. He has taken a lead role in a 40th Jonestown anniversary memorial to be held Sunday at Oakland's Evergreen Cemetery, where remains of unclaimed and unidentified victims are buried. At first it was spanking of children. He too was a member of the basketball team. Stephan Gandhi Jones is 6-foot-5, lean, broad at the shoulder, olive-eyed, black-haired, handsome as a billboard model. }); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; Dozens of members in Guyana slipped out of Jonestown or happened to be away that day. NBC reporter Don Harris said coolly: 'I think we're in for some trouble.'. I try not to speak in terms of what I couldve done because I see no value in that.. I just have to love him and forgive him.. . Official Sites. "He always gave us a hug and a kiss, but it became more mechanical as time went by." He has been married to Kristi Jones since 1991. Jonestown was the highlight of his life for a time and he recalls feeling pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana. Eugene Smith recalls how his mother, a churchgoing African-American, bought into Jim Jones dream after they attended a service in Fresno. He grew, and discovered basketball. More than 900 people lived in the agricultural mission, with its dining pavilion, tidy cottages, school, medical facilities and rows of crops. 'I focused my rage on Dad and his circle, rather than deal with me,' he said. Because people were disenchanted with him by that time? Within minutes, the aide and her three children lay dead in a bloody bathroom, their throats slit. Then, after a 1977 New West magazine expose of temple disciplinary beatings and other abuses, she was sent to Jonestown. Stephan Jones was born on June 1, 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. People raced over to the outdoor pavilion. When Jim Sr., a local Democratic Party darling, met with future first lady Rosalynn Carter, Jim Jr. proudly went along. They are amused; they embrace him. "He used to say we were the only two people of our kind in the universe," Jones says, clasping his hands behind his head and gazing out his apartment window. (Actually, the deadly beverage that day might have been based on a cheaper imitation, Flavor Aid. White devil.' "I say, 'Mom,' " Stephan Jones says, recalling a desperate mother-son huddle toward the end, " 'We're talking about a man who think's he's God. As we rode onto the black gravel, jungle-bordered runway, a small six-passenger Cessna was parked to one side of the corrugated metal shack which served as the airport terminal. They must be prepared to die in the defense of socialism. His LinkedIn profile indicates that he still has the position of. Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. "I don't know what was happening . A second plane, a Guyana Airways 24-seater, was coming in for a landing. Three Half-Siblings Glen has three half-siblings named Jim Jon Prokes, Jim W. Jones Jr., and Suzanne O. Jones. Cobb lost 11 relatives that day, including his mother, youngest brother and four sisters. "There was always that guilt fed to you by my father that kept you in check, kept you thinking, 'Maybe I'm wrong'--the guilt for being selfish and questioning this.". 'I believe 100 percent that not everyone would have been dead,' he said. 'What we were calling the cause really was Jim,' she said. Anthony Katsaris, brother of Jim Jones aide Maria Katsaris, was wounded in the chest. When Smith reunited with his mother and wife in Jonestown, Ollie was 8 months pregnant. 1959. The bottom layer consisted of about 300 babies and small children whose bodies had been ravished by the humidity and jungle insects. The reason that I have agreed to talk to as many people as I have is because of that. A few of us jumped from the truck and ran over there. Do not sell or share my personal information. But the entertainers stayed in Jonestown to entertain Ryan. He built a long career in health care, while weathering his own serious health problems. He was taking pain pills, and he said he was dying. Trump would hammer Biden OR Harris if he was up for election against either of them in 2024, new poll shows, At least 53 civilians who were truffle hunting in Syria are killed in terror attack blamed on ISIS, 'Find me rich, hot and kind': Hunter Biden BEGGED his cousin Caroline to hook him up with Brooklyn Beckham's wife Nicola Peltz - 25 years his junior - to help him 'break free' from his brother's widow and one-time lover Hallie, texts reveal, Onwards and upwards? Save this record and choose the information you want to add to your family tree. It was he who dreamed up Jonestown, he who willed it into being, and he who brought it down: first, with the assassination of U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan and four others by temple members on a nearby airstrip on Nov. 18, 1978, then with the mass murders and suicides of hundreds, a horror that remains nearly unimaginable 40 years later. Jones himself, after some artfully applied pressure to the mayor's office, was appointed to the San Francisco Housing Authority, where once-tedious meetings about public housing suddenly erupted into vigorous cheering sessions, with temple members applauding the pronouncements of Commissioner Jones. Have your feelings toward your father and his role in your life evolved over the years? 2023 Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple, Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple is a, Reflections and Articles by Stephan Jones, Son of Anarchist: My Father, Jim Jones, and What the World Can Still Learn From Him,. When that was pointed out to Ryan, Layton contended he already had been frisked. And when her 23-year-old sister joined, Jordan went to live with her at age 12. This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. What would you say is the biggest misconception people have about the Peoples Temple or your father? Then he waits a while, until they have come to know him--the very tall young man with the kind voice and the black mustache. 'There is no way we would be shooting at the airstrip. 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Jones, 44, is the only biological son of Jim Jones and his wife Marceline Baldwin who founded the cult behind Jonestown. After more than 22 years at Californias transportation department, Smith retired in 2015. Marceline and Jim had one biological child together, and Stephan Jones appears in Jonestown: The Women Behind The Massacre. 'Liquidator,' " Stephan Jones remembers being called, as he lay on his prison cot and listened to the mosquitoes swarm. " Now 58, he owns a modular office furniture business in the East Bay and is married with a daughter. 1931. He said he considered it a failing on his part when he did. He has nine siblings, most of whom are now dead. 'In an hour, that promise was broken.'. "The temple was still my only life, and I didn't really see any alternative to it," he says. I dont know about the inner circle but many of us, and even my brother Tim, when he turned to my side, he wanted to kill my father, he was so angry. Jim Jones. He was a genius, and he was unique. It's like my hurt for them, or my missing them, is the only thing I have left of them." There was a gaping wound in his shoulder and possibly his ribs. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. He was summoned to the temple radio room. She gave her house to the Peoples Temple and they moved to San Francisco. The closest thing to a law enforcement official - a pleasant young policeman with a pink shirt and a 16-gauge shotgun - was disarmed by temple members. That way no one else would want to live. We were turned back by Johnny Jones, Jim Jones' stern-faced adopted black son. I think there are different images being shown now, but its still too little, too late. Though it was a stalemate, the incident intensified an already strained situation. Hes never remarried, and Martin Luther Smith was his only child. They have altogether three daughters. When I left at 21, I left a part of myself there, she said. He is married to his wife Kristi Jones since 1991. No one now living saw Jim Jones die, so there is some dispute about whether he also performed what he had taught his followers to call "revolutionary suicide." 'The temple really became my family,' she said. The only sounds they heard came from the jungle animals going about their business. 'We were so scared, too, man, that they'd do this to you,' said one of the people who took us in. By 1978, the White Nights included a rehearsal for suicide, something Jim Jones previously had tried only with his small circle of confidants within the church. The silence could mean only one thing: An ambush was awaiting them. Stephan Jones was born on 1 June 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Joining him was an older black man who fingered something in his right pocket. . To really understand Israel and the Middle East - subscribe to Haaretz, 'My father was ill from when he was very young and was using fear to control me when I was barely more than a toddler. What we were calling the cause really was Jim, she said. People were completely fatigued, exhausted. File photo: Stephan Jones, son of Rev. I want out of this.' American soldiers who arrived discovered that beneath the layer of bodies was another layer, and yet another. I would either have had to fight, or I would have taken it. When the order from the colony came over the speaker in Guyanas capital Georgetown, Stephan Jones knew he wouldnt obey it. He was so wasted most of the time. It was all about survival in his domain. Though he waved and smiled at Peoples Temple services, seemingly enraptured like the rest, Stephan Gandhi Jones says he always had his doubts. The reunion with Jones was not as joyous. Instead of finishing high school, Vilchez moved to San Francisco, where she lived in the church. Well, once we got to California and we were going to public school, there it was very evident to me that my life was very different from the lives of most of the other kids. Other people were injured. File photo: Bodies of Peoples Temple mass suicide victims led by Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana, November 1978. He keeps his voice very soft, as though practice has taught him to hold certain subjects to a whisper in public, but his gaze is direct. The shooting triggered the mass murders and suicides in Jonestown of more than 900 people orchestrated by the Rev. The temple really became my family, she said. And then he went to my mother. He was summoned to the temple radio room. John was attending a San Francisco high school when he was allowed to join his best friends in Jonestown. And Stephan Jones sometimes thinks that he might have taken the poison, too. 1998-11-08 04:00:00 PDT JONESTOWN, GUYANA-- "My father was a fraud."- Stephan Gandhi Jones, son of Jim Jones A lone palm tree stands where Jim Jones exhorted his followers to die for him, but the . He fired at me, but it misfired. Do you think people can ever see your father not just as a villain but as a complex figure? Dozens of Peoples Temple members in Guyana survived the mass suicides and murders of more than 900 because they had slipped out of Jonestown or happened to be away Nov. 18, 1978. Seating assignments were chosen after Ryan briefed the press on the knife attack and credited Mark Lane with saving his life. present) (3 children). A bullet ripped through my left forearm. Jim Jr. would lose 15 immediate relatives in Jonestown, including his pregnant wife, Yvette Muldrow. Stephan Jones was a nearly full-grown teen-ager when his father sent him to the Peoples Temple agricultural mission in the small South American coastal country of Guyana. So much was attractive and unique that we turned a blind eye on what was wrong, he said, including his fathers sexual excesses, drug abuse and rants. I mean, here are hundreds and hundreds of people who feel differently than I do--who's right?". He is an actor, known for Written in Blood (2018), The People's. Though I couldn't see over the tall brush, I could hear the shots become less frequent. Then two Guyanese medical evacuation planes flew us to the capital city of Georgetown, where a U.S. Air Force C-141 took us to Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C., stopping off on their way at the Roosevelt Roads Naval Base in Puerto Rico. That he was just this crazy zealot this entire time. But the reality is that it was far from a mass suicide. Dozens of members in Guyana slipped out of Jonestown or happened to be away that day. He did what was expected of him. 29. My arm was gushing blood so I stripped off my belt and pinched down the biggest wounds. Vilchez worked as office manager at a private crime lab for 20 years and now, at 61, sells her artwork. Stephan Jones says he can still remember his own terror the first time his father set off a Jonestown White Night. He thinks now that it is probably stupid to believe that. Reporters were hearing disturbing allegations about Jim Jones' church--there were stories of beatings, armed guards, extensive sexual activity. It was easy to see and feel what was attractive about my father. ), 'It was necessary in my own healing for me to find acceptance for him, understanding of him. John was attending a San Francisco high school when he was allowed to join his best friends in Jonestown. The rest of us were accommodated in a private home. We'd also just seen the warm, cheerful embraces between some of those leaving and some who were staying. But before we could start out, we heard angry shouts. We're talking 30 people, but that's a lot of people to be looking over your shoulder.". He went through years of nightmares, mourning and shame. PORT KAITUMA, Guyana - 'I feel sorry that we are being destroyed from within,' the Rev. Another to experience the trauma of Jonestown was Stephan Gandhi Jones, the biological son of Jim and his mistress Marceline. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. And I dont know if it was paranoia. Temple attorneys Charles Garry and Mark Lane, along with Ryan, subdued the man. Stephan Jones was born on June 1, 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA as Stephan Gandhi Jones. "I got sick of the same speeches, the insisting people stay awake, the constantly testing people." But in 1973, Johns oldest brother and a sister, along with six other California college students, quit the church and became its enemies. America was a genuinely unfriendly place for a boy from an interracial family and community, and Jim Jones knew how to fan that into a fear of everything that lay beyond the temple walls. JONESTOWN 40 YEARS LATER: Mass suicide shocked world, Amanda Knox to host new true crime podcast: 'I tend not to be a fan of the genre'. February 27, 2023 endeavor air pilot contract No Comments . Then he decides it is time, and he falters, and he tells them they may not believe what he is about to say. Little Jimmy became part of their Rainbow Family of white, black, Korean-American and Native American children. There was something there. He did.'. We built a community out of nothing in four years, recalled Touchette, now a 65-year-old grandfather who has worked for a Miami hydraulics company for nearly 30 years. At 16, she was put on the Planning Commission where the meetings were a strange mix of church business, sex talk - and adulation for Jones. Among those speaking out ahead of the 40-year anniversary of the mass deaths isMike Touchette, who was a 21-year-old Indiana native at the time. As a San Francisco high school student, he was dispatched to help build Jonestown. Stephan, Jim Jones son who was 19 at the time, says the warning signs that went unnoticed at Jonestown can be seen in the world today. After that I didnt sleep well last night., I wouldnt say therapeutic. We used curtains for bandages. He was the son of Jim Jones, who established Jonestown. In addition to writing the articles below, Stephan appeared as a speaker during the Griot Institute of African Studies lecture series entitled Jonestown: 35 Years Later at Bucknell University; his presentation appears on this page (scroll down the videos). You're not taking any more drugs." He lives just outside San Francisco and works as an office systems installer, arranging furniture and office interiors. ': Golf glamor girl Paige Spiranac defends 'FUNNY' Woods tampon prank after 15-time major winner was forced to apologize, He's still got it! The murders and suicides were unfolding, 150 miles away. And I think he genuinely cared about those things, but my understanding of my father just from my own experience and stories is that unconsciously he was always primarily managing other peoples perception of him. Or lost touch with reality? I get it, Im not upset about that. Within minutes, the aide and her three children lay dead in a bloody bathroom, their throats slit. He says his daughters have seen him gnash his teeth when he talks about his father, but they also have heard him speak lovingly of the man who taught him compassion and other virtues. The truck spun its wheels until a Caterpillar tractor tugged it into place for a downhill run. 'We think he's got a gun. He says the congregation was full of elderly people, many of them hard-working black men and women who had given this minister everything they possessed. 'We built a community out of nothing in four years,' recalled Touchette, now a 65-year-old grandfather who has worked for a Miami hydraulics company for nearly 30 years. The dreams have never left him. It would become a little town where people of all ages and colors raised food and children. The list of defectors rapidly grew to at least 16. He is talking, in the first of two evenings' long conversations, between spoonfuls of almond chicken at a Chinese restaurant. The slaughter at Jonestown was the worst civilian tragedy in U.S. history before September 11, 2001. On Nov. 18 she was at the temple house when a fanatical Jones aide received a dire radio message from Jonestown. "I think I knew it was just a bunch of junk and that it was really about nothing," Stephan Jones said. 'Naaah.' 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