Dear People: Remembering Jonestown
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Editor: Denice StephensonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04
ISBN: 1597140023
Number of pages: 171
Publisher: Heyday Books
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Summary: 5 Stars
I think Jonestown survivor Michael Carter sums it up quite nicely near the end of "Dear People: Remembering Jonestown." He says "I have had the good fortune to meet a number of wonderful people during my lifetime, but I have never encountered such a concentration of outstanding human beings as I did in Peoples Temple. When I hear 'drinking the Kool-Aid,', I will continue to remember their dedication for what they believed in. It is easy for people to believe that we were mindless and spineless, but nothing could be further from the truth. I hope that someday there will be a few more people who will understand what depths are attached to such a trivial statement." If you have only a casual interest in the story of Jim Jones and Jonestown, it's easy to overlook the fact that Jonestown was populated by hundreds of wonderful, dedicated, hardworking, loving human beings. Denice Stephenson needs to be commended for doing a great job editing "Dear People", sifting through what I'm sure is a myriad of archives at the California Historical Society, and showing us the human side of this fascinating story. We're shown that there's so much more to the story than a mad dictator and his following of zombies drinking tainted Kool Aid. This book would be a great place to start if you want to learn about Jim Jones, his followers, Jonestown, and the unfortunate end.
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