And Smiths wife, son and mother died. Among those speaking out ahead of the 40-year anniversary of the mass deaths is Mike Touchette, who was a 21-year-old Indiana native at the time. 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. This November 1978 file photo shows the bodies of Peoples Temple mass suicide victims led by Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana. _taboola.push({ Stephan is the only living son of Jim Jones and his late wife. But after temple gunmen killed the congressman, three newsmen and a church defector on the Port Kaituma airstrip, Jones ordered a poisoned grape-flavoured drink administered to children first. someone shouted, and the driver attempted to turn the truck around. Stephan Gandhi Jones, age 60s, lives in Petaluma, CA. Maybe they just thought, 'God, leave me alone. Only two days later did the picture became clear. Those who broke rules were disciplined. 'It looks like trouble,' I said to Greg Robinson, but he kept on shooting pictures. When John Cobb was born in 1960 in a black section of Indianapolis, his mother and older siblings already were temple members. Jim Jones charismatic, volatile and ultimately evil. But he said his discontent festered. [November 2008], View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, Kristi Jones Fortunately for him, few people recognise him. Ryan clearly was in good spirits. 'Watch him,' those around him were told. And frankly, Im much more trusting of the reluctant leader, one who says Lets go and not Go.. Jonestown was the highlight of his life for a time and he recalls feeling pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana. 'When I left at 21, I left a part of myself there,' she said. 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. But Stephan was the biological son of Jim and Marceline Jones. During the bouncy ride out, former temple members said that one of the supposed defectors, Larry Layton, was a Jones loyalist and had been depressed. I see it in politics, I see it in advertising, I see it in a variety of places, and I feel theres no more pernicious or toxic belief than that. I dropped to my belly. But it was too late. The church provided free drug rehabilitation, medical care, food. Stephan Jones was born on 1 June 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. That he was just this crazy zealot this entire time". What they said. '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. Also dead was Bob Brown, the NBC cameraman and the kind of guy who loved action stories. I guess maybe somebody who hadnt been in the temple their entire lives and was just stepping into it couldve seen it coming. Publicity Listings It appeared in the Examiner on Nov. 20, 1978, two days after the tragedy: San Francisco Examiner reporter Tim Reiterman (left)was wounded in the airstrip shooting. Only natural son of Rev. And he just went unchecked. He was not prepared for suicide. James Warren Jones and his wife, Marceline. We were turned back by Johnny Jones, Jim Jones' stern-faced adopted black son. A woman named Sharon Amos had slaughtered her three children and committed suicide. Stephan Gandhi Jones is the son of the notorious religious cult leader Jim Jones. Stephan Jones did not drink. someone hollered as we scrambled over the gravel to the far side of the plane. 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. Now 58, he owns a modular office furniture business in the East Bay and is married with a daughter. His LinkedIn profile indicates that he still has the position of. 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). File photo: Peoples Temple compound, led by Jim Jones, after bodies were removed, in Jonestown, Guyana, November 1978. I heard a few more shots and saw the tractor pull away. "I think I knew it was just a bunch of junk and that it was really about nothing," Stephan Jones said. When a friend invited her family to Peoples Temple's wine country church, they were impressed by the integrated community. Stephan is the only living son of Jim Jones and his late wife Marceline Jones. They divorced when Jordan was six. Though he waved and smiled at Peoples Temple services, seemingly enraptured like the rest, Stephan Gandhi Jones says he always had his doubts. People were completely fatigued, exhausted. For years it was largely forgotten along with a number of other insanities in the United States in the 1970s. Other people were injured. 1931. Hes never remarried, and Martin Luther Smith was his only child. Three Half-Siblings Glen has three half-siblings named Jim Jon Prokes, Jim W. Jones Jr., and Suzanne O. Jones. A vat that contained a drink laced with deadly cyanide sits on a sidewalk at Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana in November 1978. Partner : Ava Phenice Jones, aka Ava Phenice Brown, Ava Phenice Cobb. I had been up all night unloading boats and I had to be at work in a couple of hours so I lay down for two hours of sleep after backbreaking and dangerous work, and Dad comes on the speaker in the wee hours of the morning. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group, American Idol star Kellie Pickler's husband, 49, 'commits suicide by shooting himself dead' in bedroom of their $2.4 million Nashville home: Pickler called 911 after she was unable to open door of room where he was found, Enough to give you an art attack! ", Stephan Jones' lips draw back when he talks about his father; he looks for an instant like a cornered dog. They were at a basketball tournament five years ago, in November 1978 when the congressman and the reporters came to Jonestown. Plunged into a new world, those raised in the temple or who joined as teens lost the only life they knew: church, jobs, housing - and most of all, family and friends. 'The reality was we were folks who could be counted on to stand up,' he said. "I was still naive enough--well, not necessarily naive enough; I still believe the CIA is capable of all kinds of things--but I felt that we could geniunely be a threat to the image of the United States and that people might be trying to do things to undermine or eliminate what was happening down there," he says. "I'd go back in a minute. White devil.' By subscribing to this BDG newsletter, you agree to our. 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4. Stephan believed he was too cowardly to follow through with the oft-threatened revolutionary suicide.. "Who they spoke to. "This is really crazy," he recalls thinking. The only surviving child of Jim Jones, Stephan was born on June 1, 1959, in Indiana, USA. After the massacre, Layton strolled back to the area. The temple was the only life he knew but says he always had his doubts. People were forced. Though he waved and smiled at Peoples Temple services, seemingly enraptured like the rest, Stephan Gandhi Jones says he always had his doubts. He is talking, in the first of two evenings' long conversations, between spoonfuls of almond chicken at a Chinese restaurant. People raced over to the outdoor pavilion. He saw that the jungle would make him a man. Vilchez worked as office manager at a private crime lab for 20 years and now, at 61, sells her artwork. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article. Now 58, he owns a modular office furniture business in the East Bay and is married with a daughter. After the temple exodus to Guyana, he was given a public relations post in Georgetown - and was part of the basketball team. Gruelling field work was not to her liking. container: 'taboola-below-article-thumbnails-3rd', And in his growing community near the town of Ukiah, Jim Jones preached to the faithful about communalism, racial equality, "apostolic social justice" and the power of belief. They also killed their dogs. He remarried three decades ago, and he and his wife Erin raised three sons. He's too close to Jim Jones to leave.'. Five others were wounded seriously. 'Hit the deck!' My companion, Examiner photographer Greg Robinson, would be murdered in an ambush. Were you aware that you had a very different childhood than most? Johnny Brown: Taking Care of His Own(2013), This site houses a variety of PDF documents. Jim Jr. would lose 15 immediate relatives in Jonestown, including his pregnant wife, Yvette Muldrow. But the entertainers stayed in Jonestown to entertain Ryan. The reason I ended up in Jonestown is that I left. Five were dead, five seriously wounded, five suffered relatively minor wounds, nine were unhurt, and six were believed lost or hiding in the dense underbrush along the Kaituma River. They have altogether three daughters. I keep remembering what Jones had said in the pavilion. "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. 'Baby killer. . Jones, 44, is the only biological son of Jim Jones and his wife Marceline Baldwin who founded the cult behind Jonestown. So it was not this grand march to death, far from it. no one could ever relate to it unless they were in the same situation, or they were in the atmosphere my father created . He called his church "Peoples Temple"--"Wings of Deliverance" had been tried earlier and discarded. Everyone participated in it and because of that, it went as far as it did, she said. Stephan Jones was born on June 1, 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA as Stephan Gandhi 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. "I mellowed out. The temple was the only life he knew but says he always had his doubts. Now, Stephan Jones is father of three daughters, ages 16, 25 and 29, and works in the office furniture installation business. Grueling field work was not to her liking. And all of the children died first. In "Raven," the detailed Jim Jones biography by Tim Reiterman and John Jacobs, it is Stephan Jones who stands in the shadows as his father lies and fakes and bends the people around him, his sickness mounting through the years. We got word that a temple member had grabbed the congressman, held a knife to his throat and told him he was going to slit it. Im not saying he didnt cause it, create it. container: 'taboola-below-article-thumbnails-2nd', Family (3) Trivia (4) Only natural son of Rev. Altogether, 909 people died at Jonestown on November 18, 1978, by swallowing a grape-flavored beverage mixed with potassium cyanide, or from injections of poison. He was summoned to the temple radio room. His father, finally, is beginning to let go. I wouldn't have run.". The media has done a poor job; theyve demonized him. John was attending a San Francisco high school when he was allowed to join his best friends in Jonestown. "It's not--such a bad experience," he says. But of course Dad was most terrified about anybody turning against him because it really screwed with the illusion that he had created. The only surviving child of Jim Jones, Stephan was born on June 1, 1959, in Indiana, USA. Alongside it was a red tractor and trailer seen earlier at the mission. "I'm blessed to have hit enough of a bottom and to have been surrounded by amazing, wonderful, honest, compassionate and challenging people to see me through that," Stephan said. Vernon Gosney and Monica Bagby, the two temple members who asked for help in the note, also were seriously injured. He made a promise once we get to Jonestown there is no corporal punishment, Smith said. Now, Stephan Jones is father of three daughters, ages 16, 25 and 29, and works in the office furniture installation business. He also made sure that the other disciples who were in the capital would do nothing hasty. She gave her house to the Peoples Temple and they moved to San Francisco. mode: 'thumbnails-a', He too was a member of the basketball team. Among the hundreds of corpses, only one was different; he had died from a bullet to the head. There, as part of Jones' personal security detail, Cobb saw the once captivating minister strung out on drugs, afraid to venture anywhere for fear of his legal problems. Now, Stephan Jones is father of three daughters, ages 16, 25 and 29, and works in the office furniture installation business. . From hair trends to relationship advice, our daily newsletter has everything you need to sound like a person whos on TikTok, even if you arent. He thinks now that it is probably stupid to believe that. ", Jim Jones moved to Guyana in 1977, just as New West magazine was preparing to publish a lengthy account of defectors' allegations about Peoples Temple. Stephan Gandhi Jones is the son of Jim Jones, the controversial religious cult leader. The reality was we were folks who could be counted on to stand up, he said. His father spoke so ardently about his own self-sacrifice; Stephan Jones saw the specially prepared steaks and the color television, and in the temple apartment where they lived, he grew accustomed to glimpses of his father having sex with temple members--sometimes women, sometimes men. Ollie worked in the nursery, and Eugene felled trees. 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. Mr. Jones -- his first name is pronounced Stephen; Marceline Jones spelled it Stephan to honour the memory of an adopted daughter, Stephanie, who died in a car accident -- claims to be. He was in Georgetown, Guyana on November 18, 1978 with the Jonestown Basketball Team. Jim Jones (1931-1978) and Marceline Jones (1927-1978). On Nov. 18, the day Rep. Leo Ryan and four others were shot to death on the airstrip at Port Caituma, Guyana, Stephan Jones and his teammates went to the movies in Georgetown. And I say, 'My name is Jones.' Theater of popular music. After the incident, Stephan was put into jail for three months and that led him to drug addiction. It won't work.' He went through years of nightmares, mourning and shame. More than 900 people lived in the agricultural mission, with its dining pavilion, tidy cottages, school, medical facilities and rows of crops. Stephan may be reached at moreheart1@comcast.net. Stephan Jones and some other team members believe they might have changed history if they were there. There is no way we would be shooting at the airstrip. Despite his unconventional upbringing and the horrific tragedy brought about by his father's religious group, the Peoples Temple, Stephan speaks candidly about his experience in the documentary. Another hit my wrist and knocked off my watch. This dismissive thinking was convenient because its hard to comprehend how so many people marched together to a certain and unnecessary death. Besides the tragic story behind his ancestors, Stephan Jones has set his great work as an actor in the Hollywood Industry. 'What we were calling the cause really was Jim,' she said. "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. They moved forward slowly until one soldier bumped into an object on the ground. "I still get very angry," Stephan Jones says. Stephan Jones is a Jonestown survivor. We're talking 30 people, but that's a lot of people to be looking over your shoulder.". When Smith reunited with his mother and wife in Jonestown, Ollie was 8 months pregnant. They were under siege, Jim Jones would cry; the snipers were after him; the Guyanese army was about to descend; the children would be taken away and probably tortured. A number of Jonestown survivors have spoken out about the mass suicides and murders that killed the only life they ever knew and how they have managed to build new ones in the four decades since the tragedy. As a San Francisco high school student, he was dispatched to help build Jonestown. I thought there were reasons for people to want to get us. More than 900 people lived in the agricultural mission, with its dining pavilion, tidy cottages, school, medical facilities and rows of crops. 'They're in deep trouble now,' observed one of the relatives who had accompanied us. I dove headlong into the three-foot-tall grass. I would argue that even a lot of the good works that he wanted to do early on were an attempt to impress my mother and her family'. But he said his discontent festered. The truck spun its wheels until a Caterpillar tractor tugged it into place for a downhill run. Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. 'I believe 100 percent that not everyone would have been dead,' he said. He grew, and discovered basketball. Going by the first body count, the media reported 383 dead. At the end of Ryan's two-day visit to the mission Saturday, a woman suddenly charged down a slippery boardwalk shouting at her husband, 'I'll kill you! But after temple gunmen killed the congressman, three newsmen and a church defector on the Port Kaituma airstrip, Jones ordered a poisoned grape-flavored drink administered to children first. Thank goodness he lived before me.". Some of them had started out with him in the earliest days in Indiana and moved with him to California. I crawled until I came to taller bushes and brambles, clawing my way into a pocket in the brush. The soldiers realized very quickly that the enemy wasnt waiting for them. And I just flew out of bed, grabbed my ax, walked out to the post that was supporting the speaker and raised the ax like I was going to cut it down. His mother is fine, they say. "I remember being afraid when he started talking about it, and getting butterflies," he says. 180 days of social studies 5th grade answer key; florida high school track records; milwaukee packout mods; metallica madrid 2022; did doris hamner have polio; maple leaf farms owner; He dreams he sees the men and women he knew, older now, changed by the years. When Jim Sr., a local Democratic Party darling, met with future first lady Rosalyn Carter, Jim Jr. proudly went along. Stephan Gandhi Jones is 6-foot-5, lean, broad at the shoulder, olive-eyed, black-haired, handsome as a billboard model. 29. "When it really came down to it, I thought there wasn't any need, because I thought he'd be dead in a couple months anyway," he says. Then, with heart-stopping suddenness, the first shot was fired. What would you say is the biggest misconception people have about the Peoples Temple or your father? And when her 23-year-old sister joined, Jordan went to live with her at age 12. Hundreds of corpses were lying on the ground in front of them. The reunion with Jones was not as joyous. He used this kind of threat to control his people. 'Being in Jonestown before Jim got there was the best thing in my life.'. . He was so wasted most of the time. Relatives & Associates. He seems to have a tragic life after what had happened with his family. 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'I'm not saying he didn't cause it, create it. His wife has learned at those moments to let him be. In the past, Stephan has also been known as Stephan Gandhi Jones and Stephan G Jones. (1991 - I'll kill you! Stephanie was one of six victims in the car accident coming back from Cincinatti.Birth name: . "He was always preaching the hostility toward us and warning people what would happen or what could happen from the outside," Stephan Jones says. He apparently was searching for his wife, who had carried away their child that morning, hoping to escape the settlement. The reason that I have agreed to talk to as many people as I have is because of that. The first attacks on the town, I thought they were real. Stephan Gandhi Jones was the biological son of Jim and Marceline Jones. You describe yourself in your writings as a rebellious kid. By nightfall, the seriously wounded, some of them on litters provided by the community, were sheltered in army soldiers' tents. We demanded to see the locked buildings where some members lived in crowd, uncomfortable conditions. Stephan Jones was born on 06/01/1959 and is 63 years old. Siblings by adoption include Agnes Paulette Jones (1943-1978); Stephan Gandhi Jones(Born 1959); Jimmy Jones, Jr. aka James Warren Jones, Jr.(born 1960); and Timothy Tupper aka Timothy Glenn Tupper Jones, Tim "Day" Jones (1959-1978). His biggest regrets revolve around the teams refusal to return to Jonestown. Well, he was using these words, I dont know if hed actually do that, hes a good and gentle man in so many ways, but he wanted to take dad out, and I was the one to convince him that dad would do that himself and we were going to have chaos on our hands. Stephan helped erect a basketball court and form a team. He said reporters would make the situation worse. Jim Jones. Stephan Jones was born on June 1, 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Stephan is among one of the Late Jim Jones sons survivors and he is still disturbed by those past events. He rode bulldozers, dodged falling trees, killed snakes, lit brush fires and rode the slow boats upriver with loads of cut wood for flooring and walls. Devotion to its ideals bolstered her self-worth. ", He does not think he loved his father even a little by then, but blood tied them in some way he did not entirely understand, and leaving was unimaginable. So would the congressman and three others. Heres How To Watch The Alex Murdaugh Trial Live, Morgan Doughty Filed A Lawsuit Against The Murdaugh Family, Sophie Turners Joan Charts The Rise Of A Famous British Jewel Thief, Alex Murdaugh Faces Life In Prison For Allegedly Killing His Wife & Son, Get Even More From Bustle Sign Up For The Newsletter. Photographer Greg Robinson (right)was one of the five people killed. He was just 14, Stephan Jones and some other team members believe they might have changed history if they were there. He said: "So much was attractive and unique that we turned a blind eye . He went through years of nightmares, mourning and shame. Many of his previous interviews echo what he discusses in Jonestown: The Women Behind The Massacre, but he has an intimate perspective to give when it comes to his father and mother, who both died during the event. He says his daughters have seen him gnash his teeth when he talks. But in 1973, John's oldest brother and a sister, along with six other California college students, quit the church and became its enemies. So in my view, even the good works and things he championed were in some way not as pure as folks want to think. "This is really crazy," he recalls thinking. Dozens of members in Guyana slipped out of Jonestown or happened to be away that day. With those people surrounding him, constantly doing the right thing, and doing what he says, and you're surrounded by a combination of them and those people who don't neccessarily agree, but are acting like they agree . He says his daughters have seen him gnash his teeth when he. There was something there. The therapy that has been helpful to me hasnt been by talking with strangers about it. We couldn't know then that the grim little world of this sick man would shatter within hours, taking hundreds of his followers to their deaths. In a 2007 interview with Religion News Service published by Dallas News, Stephan said that he struggled with drug addiction after Jonestown, but that he's sober now. Springing to my feet, I ran 40 yards across the runway. That he was just this crazy zealot this entire time. They would survive and both return home to California. Its not entirely surprising that many Americans and others want to understand how thousands of people can become blind followers of a tempestuous leader, and how it can end. During that period, more than 900 people died including Stephans mom and some of his siblings. Partner of Terry Carter Jones, aka Mary Theresa Carter, Mary Theresa Jones, Terry Carter Jones (died November 18 . He does not know. In an hour, that promise was broken.. For a long time I thought they felt the convulsions before they died, until somebody assured me that you pass out before you feel the convulsions. View their profile including current address, phone number 415-785-XXXX, background check reports, and property record on Whitepages, the most trusted online directory. He was in Georgetown, Guyana on November 18, 1978 with the Jonestown Basketball Team. Rep. 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