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. Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. 'I believe 100 percent that not everyone would have been dead,' he said. I think there are people who are interested in it because of whats going on in the world. 1931. 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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." "He used to say that I would acquire his gift in my late years. You used the word forgiveness, but I find love and compassion for him. A woman named Sharon Amos had slaughtered her three children and committed suicide. Though he waved and smiled at Peoples Temple services, seemingly enraptured like the rest, Stephan Gandhi Jones says he always had his doubts. They were at a basketball tournament five years ago, in November 1978 when the congressman and the reporters came to Jonestown. Patricia Parks had had her head shattered before her husband's eyes. _taboola.push({ OAKLAND, Calif. Jonestown was the highlight of Mike Touchettes life for a time. Only natural son of Rev. Jonestown: It was the bodies that photographers favored most. His wife has learned at those moments to let him be. But Stephan was the biological son of Jim and Marceline Jones. I made that last trip with him and he made me stay in Jonestown. They were playing in a tournament in Georgetown, Guyana about 150 miles from Jonestown and were still in Guyana's capital when the murder-suicide occurred. The murders and suicides were unfolding, 150 miles away. For the young Caucasian, there was more: "The white man was so preached against by my father as a way of winning black people, and here I am a white man, feeling like everybody resents me and I have something to apologize for," he says. The church provided free drug rehabilitation, medical care, food. And Smiths wife, son and mother died. Jim Jones (1931-1978) and Marceline Jones (1927-1978). 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. Sadly we were finally at a point where I felt I had enough support and we decided that we were going to take action'. It began with a note smuggled to us from two members. "He was always preaching the hostility toward us and warning people what would happen or what could happen from the outside," Stephan Jones says. . What we were calling the cause really was Jim, she said. He converted to Catholicism and registered Republican. 'They're in deep trouble now,' observed one of the relatives who had accompanied us. They divorced when Jordan was 6. He lives just outside San Francisco and works as an office systems installer, arranging furniture and office interiors. The next day, when soldiers of the Guyanese army, one of the most ragged in South America, hesitantly entered the Jonestown compound, they were blinded by the thick morning mist. He went over the seats in a somersault and I flipped out of the plane with him. 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. There had been underground boxes to punish the lazy; public beatings; drills where guns and bows and arrows were hauled out on call of 'white knight,' and plans for mass suicides. And his sense of self resided in his perception of other peoples perception of him. There is no way we would be shooting at the airstrip. I think it was Dad controlling people through fear, me and my siblings when we were very young.. 'When I left at 21, I left a part of myself there,' she said. But some lived. In his spare time he swims, or rides his bicycle, or lifts weights, or plays basketball. File photo: Peoples Temple compound, led by Jim Jones, after bodies were removed, in Jonestown, Guyana, November 1978. A bit later the number was revised upward to 408. Jim Jones charismatic, volatile and ultimately evil. Now, Stephan Jones is father of three daughters, ages 16, 25 and 29, and works in the office furniture installation business. He is an actor, known for Written in Blood (2018), The People's. "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. Cobb lost 11 relatives that day, including his mother, youngest brother and four sisters. Jim Jr., followed that July and was 16 years old at the time. In this Nov. 13, 2008 file photo, Stephan Jones, son of Rev. You don't tell God, "You're not going out of the house. Most people were away at the time. He has taken a lead role in a 40th Jonestown anniversary memorial to be held Sunday at Oaklands Evergreen Cemetery, where remains of unclaimed and unidentified victims are buried. That he was just this crazy zealot this entire time". Where the machine shop once stood, there was only rusty equipment. And she could only sense the site of the pavilion, the once-vibrant centre of Jonestown life where so many died including her two sisters and two nephews. Three Half-Siblings Glen has three half-siblings named Jim Jon Prokes, Jim W. Jones Jr., and Suzanne O. Jones. When Smith reunited with his mother and wife in Jonestown, Ollie was 8 1/2 months pregnant. To just be somewhere with a machete, in khakis, and just decide I wanted to go somewhere and cut myself a trail." Did You Know Soccer Player Crystal Dunns Husband Pierre Soubrier Is A Football Specialist? When people ask about his past, he says he was "overseas," or "in volunteer service." Listen, not long before, we went to play basketball. Theater of popular music. 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'. someone shouted, and the driver attempted to turn the truck around. Some have come to acknowledge that they helped enable Jim Jones to seize control over people drawn to his interracial church, socialist preaching and religious hucksterism. Joining him was an older black man who fingered something in his right pocket. This past year, she returned to long-overgrown Jonestown. I said there must be another way.. The therapy that has been helpful to me hasnt been by talking with strangers about it. 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 usually try to tell people when we're in a good time to talk about it, because my God, it takes two hours just to scratch the surface," Stephan Jones says. 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. When Jim Sr., a local Democratic Party darling, met with future first lady Rosalynn Carter, Jim Jr. proudly went along. She died in a tragic car accident only weeks before her mother, Marceline Mae Baldwin Jones, gave birth to her brother, Stephan Gandhi Jones. Stephan Gandhi Jones is the son of the notorious religious cult leader Jim Jones. He limps this month, still recovering from a broken ankle bone that went undetected for a while, but when he is well he picks up a regular game in San Francisco, sometimes with the young men he played with before--the basketball team from the Peoples Temple settlement at Jonestown, Guyana. There was a gaping wound in his shoulder and possibly his ribs. He is now a 65-year-old grandfather who has worked for a Miami hydraulics company for nearly 30 years, Jordan Vilchez, pictured sitting at a memorial for mass murder and suicide victims at the Jonestown settlement in Guyana, moved to Jonestown to 1977. But before we could start out, we heard angry shouts. Stephan Jones is a Jonestown survivor. "People cant understand what was attractive about Dad", Get email notification for articles from Moran Sharir, The Jewish Guy Fighting the Legacy of the 'Wild Wild Country' Cult, Waco: The Jerusalem Revelation That Ended With 76 Dying in a Fire. It was he who willed it into being and he who also brought it down with the mass murders and suicides of hundreds. But some lived. "It was not bad people who did it," he says. "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. I didn't see who fired the shot but the sound came from the tractor and trailer. He has been married to Kristi Jones since 1991. His son was not among the boosters. 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). Little Jimmy became part of their Rainbow Family of white, black, Korean-American and Native American children. More than 900 people lived in the agricultural mission, with its dining pavilion, tidy cottages, school, medical facilities and rows of crops. Some of those leaving the temple eyed the vehicles with suspicion. The shots still were popping at an amazing clip. Jim Jones. 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. People were forced. He was in Georgetown, Guyana on November 18, 1978 with the Jonestown Basketball Team. Relatives & Associates. John was attending a San Francisco high school when he was allowed to join his best friends in Jonestown. By the time Stephan Jones was 16, his father had moved the family to the big temple building in a black neighborhood of San Francisco, where politicians and black leaders had begun paying considerable attention to Jim Jones' racially mixed congregation and fervently preached exhortations to adjust society under a socialist god. Stephan is among one of the Late Jim Jones sons survivors and he is still disturbed by those past events. A large poncho covered his belt area so no one knew for sure and no one challenged him. 'So much was attractive and unique that we turned a blind eye on what was wrong,' he said, including his father's sexual excesses, drug abuse and rants. And I dont know that he could actually have done that. Stephan Jones Seeks Forgiveness For Jonestown Massacre, Late Jim Jones Son Stephan Jones Is An Actor. For years, Vilchez was ashamed of the part she played in an idealistic group that imploded so terribly. He apparently was searching for his wife, who had carried away their child that morning, hoping to escape the settlement. His biggest regrets revolve around the teams refusal to return to Jonestown. Stephan is the only living son of Jim Jones and his late wife Marceline Jones. Jones had suffered a setback. Stephan Jones was 6 years old, the only biological child of James and Marceline Baldwin Jones, when his father moved from Indiana to northern California with his family and 140 of the parishioners who had come to believe there was something extraordinary about the Rev. We used curtains for bandages. placement: 'Below Article Thumbnails 3rd', 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. They don't normally believe it at first. A black man with a 'corn rows' hairstyle came up to the rear of the truck. Rebelling, they refused Jones' order to come back. Life became more tolerable after the couples baby, Martin Luther Smith, was born. "I still get very angry," Stephan Jones says. They moved forward slowly until one soldier bumped into an object on the ground. Because people were disenchanted with him by that time? They felt there was an outside threat, and that was hammered into them. He also made sure that the other disciples who were in the capital would do nothing hasty. Though he waved and smiled at Peoples Temple services, seemingly enraptured like the rest, Stephan Gandhi Jones says he always had his doubts. Though I couldn't see over the tall brush, I could hear the shots become less frequent. Im not trying to defend him. He is a businessman in Northern California, married, with three daughters. He too was a member of the basketball team. The reason I ended up in Jonestown is that I left. This November 1978 file photo shows the bodies of Peoples Temple mass suicide victims led by Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana. For years, Vilchez was ashamed of the part he played in an idealistic group that imploded so terribly. that one last act would be admitting he was a coward, and about nothing. 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In Biographical Summaries of Notable People . But Stephan was the biological son of Jim and Marceline Jones. target_type: 'mix' A vat that contained a drink laced with deadly cyanide sits on a sidewalk at Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana in November 1978. File photo: A vat that contained a drink laced with deadly cyanide sits on a sidewalk at Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana, November 20, 1978. someone hollered as we scrambled over the gravel to the far side of the plane. Jim Jones. Stephan Gandhi Jones, age 60s, lives in Petaluma, CA. Vilchez worked as office manager at a private crime lab for 20 years and now, at 61, sells her artwork. Like why would they follow such a madman and to such a crazy final act, and we probably know by now that it wasnt a mass suicide, but thats how it has been portrayed.. Another hit my wrist and knocked off my watch. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. The only surviving child of Jim Jones, Stephan was born on June 1, 1959, in Indiana, USA. "I just felt like this was all they had," he says. She and Jim were the first caucasian couple in Indiana to adopt an African American . Now, Stephan Jones is the father of three daughters, ages 16, 25 and 29, and works in the office furniture installation business. "By that time, I know, he was way off into drugs, and his perspective was so warped," Stephan Jones says. All of us were falling and slipping through the mud around a six-wheel-drive dump truck that would take us (the congressional delegation, the press, the defectors and a group of concerned relatives of temple members) to the Port Kaituma airstrip. Rebelling, they refused Jones order to come back. "I wasn't there," he says. ", Stephan Jones' lips draw back when he talks about his father; he looks for an instant like a cornered dog. He sought treatment, and eventually, the father of three settled into a quiet life in California. This November 1978 file photo shows the Peoples Temple compound, led by Jim Jones, after bodies were removed, in Jonestown, Guyana. 'Destroyed,' he said, 'from within '. That he was just this crazy zealot this entire time. They have three children. His unplanned departure left them alone. The only surviving child of Jim Jones,Stephan was born on June 1, 1959, in Indiana, USA. This past year, she returned to long-overgrown Jonestown. A lot more conversation about the outside threat that was anyone that wasnt in the temple. He was summoned to the temple radio room. On Nov. 18 she was at the temple house when a fanatical Jones aide received a dire radio message from Jonestown. When the order from the colony came over the speaker in Guyanas capital Georgetown, Stephan Jones knew he wouldnt obey it. 'I believe that it was always a personal agenda for my father, and yes, there was a gradual shift in the balance. Now 58, he owns a modular office furniture business in the East Bay and is married with a daughter. "Who they spoke to. He grew, and discovered basketball. Though he waved and smiled at Peoples Temple services, seemingly enraptured like the rest, Stephan Gandhi Jones says he always had his doubts. In a telephone interview he sounds serene, though it cant be easy for him to talk about the tragedy that took his parents, a number of his siblings and many of his friends. The only surviving child of Jim Jones, Stephan was born on June 1, 1959, in Indiana, USA. Now, Stephan is a father of three daughters,. He dreams he is in a crowd, and his father is talking about suicide. 'The reality was we were folks who could be counted on to stand up,' he said. 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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. So the second thing is this whole idea of drinking the Kool-Aid thats such a prevalent saying. "I don't know. target_type: 'mix' And I dont know if it was paranoia. 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. But of course Dad was most terrified about anybody turning against him because it really screwed with the illusion that he had created. And it was necessary in my own healing for me to find acceptance for him, understanding of him. It seemed the temple was generous: It willingly provided passports to those who wished to leave, and advanced $5,000 to help defray transportation costs. Among the hundreds of corpses, only one was different; he had died from a bullet to the head. "It's not--such a bad experience," he says. Is Kristie Mewis Dating the Aussie Star Sam Kerr? American soldiers who arrived discovered that beneath the layer of bodies was another layer, and yet another. In California, he was steeped in temple life. The 59-year-old, Jim Jones son Stephan Jones has gone through a lot after the mass massacre in Jonestown led by his father, Late Jim Jones on Nov. 18, 1978. Devotion to its ideals bolstered her self-worth. Neither were the White Nights where everyone stayed up, armed with machetes to fight enemies who never arrived. Garry (2007) and The Real Story (2002). We'd also just seen the warm, cheerful embraces between some of those leaving and some who were staying. I could still hear the groaning and crying of the targets. the whole thing he drove into people's minds for so long--I certainly don't mean to say that what happened was a sane act or that it was a good act, but--", Jones hesitates. He used this kind of threat to control his people. But the reality is that it was far from a mass suicide. How could that be suicide? He promised that he wouldnt. While Jonestown: The Women Behind The Massacre focuses on the women who were involved with Jim Jones, Stephan continues to have empathy and love for his mother, who apparently struggled with her husband's affairs. Copy. (Actually, the deadly beverage that day might have been based on a cheaper imitation, Flavor Aid. The Joneses adopted a black baby in Indiana in 1960, and Jim gave the 10-week-old infant his own name. Stephan Gandhi Jones was 19. Temple attorneys Charles Garry and Mark Lane, along with Ryan, subdued the man. 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