Then they could identify and allow themselves to step into the story and understand how such a thing could happen. It makes him a little crazy sometimes. I jumped up and fought for the gun. I think there are people who are interested in it because of whats going on in the world. He sought treatment, and eventually, the father of three settled into a quiet life in California. He was summoned to the temple radio room. . He says that to understand how a thing like that can happen, you have to do what leaders like Jim Jones and his successors dont want us to do to read. I heard a few more shots and saw the tractor pull away. I guess I wanted to believe that, as a child.". After the slaughter, Stephan Jones was arrested on suspicion of abetting the mass murder and spent three months in a Guyanese prison. In the aftermath, he built a new life. While religious leader Jim Jones has historically been blamed for the tragedy that occurred at his Guyana compound, the A&E special Jonestown: The Women Behind The Massacre argues that the women closest to Jones were also partially responsible. For moreEntertainment,Celebrity BabiesfolloweCelebrityMirror. When he was 10 years old he listened as Jim Jones had sex with a mistress in the next room. 2023 Canoe.com, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. A vat that contained a drink laced with deadly cyanide sits on a sidewalk at Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana in November 1978. 'There were often thoughts of taking him out but I know I wasnt capable of that kind of thing. Number one: People cant understand what was attractive about Dad. John Victor Stoen. Devotion to its ideals bolstered her self-worth. Stephan Jones was born on June 1, 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA as Stephan Gandhi Jones. He fired at me, but it misfired. 1931. They have altogether three daughters. Yesterday morning 100 Guyanee troops came by train from Matthews Ridge, walking the last several miles as a precaution against sabotage or attack. As for those people in his life, NBC reported in a 2008 article that Stephan has three daughters and there's a photo of Stephan presumably with one of his daughters on the Alternative Considerations website. Dozens of members in Guyana slipped out of Jonestown or happened to be away that day. His mother is fine, they say. The only surviving child of Jim Jones, Stephan was born on June 1, 1959, in Indiana, USA. ", Jim Jones had warned them over and over that invading soldiers would torture their children; maybe that is what they feared most, Stephan Jones says. I would argue that the means justify the end, but not the other way around.. It was easy to see and feel what was attractive about my father. I just have to love him and forgive him.. To access these PDF files you must have the free Adobe Reader installed. This November 1978 file photo shows the Peoples Temple compound, led by Jim Jones, after bodies were removed, in Jonestown, Guyana. As a San Francisco high school student, he was dispatched to help build Jonestown. Quietly the men with the tractor motioned aside a group of curious Guyanese children and other bystanders. Save record . Were you aware that you had a very different childhood than most? 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 that day, The bodies of five people, including Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif., are shown above on the airstrip at Port Kaittuma, Guyana, after an ambush by members of the Peoples Temple cult on November 18, 1978, John Cobb looks at names of family members on the Jonestown Memorial in Oakland, California. Afterwards, the 19-year-old Stephan was put in jail for three months in the South American nation before the case against him was thrown out. 'They're in deep trouble now,' observed one of the relatives who had accompanied us. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Oh yeah, I think you can see that from my writing. 'I was going back to retrieve that young person and also to say goodbye.'. It was he who willed it into being and he who also brought it down with the mass murders and suicides of hundreds. In this Nov. 13, 2008 file photo, Stephan Jones, son of Rev. no one could ever relate to it unless they were in the same situation, or they were in the atmosphere my father created . He's never remarried, and Martin Luther Smith was his only child. 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. It would become a little town where people of all ages and colours raised food and children. 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. Though he waved and smiled at Peoples Temple services, seemingly enraptured like the rest, Stephan Gandhi Jones says he always had his doubts. "They say, 'Yeah.' Because Dad was such a mess . .' Its nose wheel had been broken the week before and four soldiers were guarding it with M-I6 rifles. 'If anything, we felt pity for him,' he said, 'and it grew into a dislike, maybe hate.'. Jones, 44, is the only biological son of Jim Jones and his wife Marceline Baldwin who founded the cult behind Jonestown. 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. The phrase drinking the Kool-Aid, meaning to follow someone blindly, was born that day in Guyana. Though he waved and smiled at Peoples Temple services, seemingly enraptured like the rest, Stephan Gandhi Jones says he always had his doubts. I think it was Dad controlling people through fear, me and my siblings when we were very young.. . His biggest regrets revolve around the team's refusal to return to Jonestown. If you or someone you know are experiencing suicidal thoughts, call 911, or call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255. Stephan may be reached at [email protected]. . Stephan Jones believes his father must have killed himself: that he could not leave his own shooting to someone else. Stephan escaped death with the Jonestown basketball team, Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple. And he would have arrived too late, anyway. All I can do is tell what I saw and heard. A bullet ripped through my left forearm. A lot more conversation about the outside threat that was anyone that wasnt in the temple. 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. 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Though he waved and smiled at Peoples Temple services, seemingly enraptured like the rest, Stephan Gandhi Jones says he always had his doubts. He has nine siblings, most of whom are now dead. His LinkedIn profile indicates that he still has the position of vice president of operations at MB Contract Furniture. I appreciate that question. Stephanie was one of six victims in the car accident coming back from Cincinatti.Birth name: . Do not sell or share my personal information. 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. Partner : Ava Phenice Jones, aka Ava Phenice Brown, Ava Phenice Cobb. She returned to Jonestown for the first time in 40 years in March, Jordan Vilchez poses for a portrait in Richmond, California last week. They felt there was an outside threat, and that was hammered into them. And there was more social rhetoric and action in my life and a lot more fear. As rapidly as possible Jacqueline Speier was signing on passengers at the fool of the boarding ladder while a reporter helped her check for weapons. "I don't even know who my loved ones were with when they died," he says softly. So grew the young Stephan: the quiet witness steeped in rage. And the temple was his life first in Indiana, later in California. Over four decades, as they have built new lives, they have struggled with grief and the feeling that they were pariahs. . We didnt see that coming. }); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; In California, he was steeped in temple life. "He was a gentle man in a lot of ways," Jones says, stretched now over the sofa in his small apartment. I didn't see who fired the shot but the sound came from the tractor and trailer. Even though he attended public schools, Stephan Jones had never really learned to live in the outside world. Stephan Gandhi Jones is 6-foot-5, lean, broad at the shoulder, olive-eyed, black-haired, handsome as a billboard model. But the entertainers stayed in Jonestown to entertain Ryan. Jim Jones. 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. Those who broke rules were disciplined. American soldiers who arrived discovered that beneath the layer of bodies was another layer, and yet another. Partner of Terry Carter Jones, aka Mary Theresa Carter, Mary Theresa Jones, Terry Carter Jones (died November 18 . ', 'I argued with my Dad,' he said. Everyone participated in it and because of that, it went as far as it did, she said. But we never felt he would go through with it because we saw him as such a coward.. The bottom layer consisted of about 300 babies and small children whose bodies had been ravished by the humidity and jungle insects. Life became more tolerable after the couple's baby, Martin Luther Smith, was born. Jim Jr., followed that July and was 16 years old at the time. 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). People do things for him. Jim was the Rev. The only surviving child of Jim Jones,Stephan was born on June 1, 1959, in Indiana, USA. He apparently was searching for his wife, who had carried away their child that morning, hoping to escape the settlement. 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. Instead of finishing high school, Vilchez moved to San Francisco, where she lived in the church. He does not know. Though he waved and smiled at Peoples Temple services, seemingly enraptured like the rest, Stephan Gandhi Jones says he always had his doubts. You describe yourself in your writings as a rebellious kid. The younger man demanded that everyone in the truck move aside. Jonestown was the highlight of his life for a time and he recalls feeling pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana. Peoples Temple lost the game, but only by 10 points, which seemed worth celebrating. Now, Stephan is a father of three daughters, ages 16, 25 and 29, and works in the office furniture installation business, Eugene Smith recalls how his mother, a churchgoing African-American, bought into Jim Jones' dream when he opened a new church in Fresno. Where the machine shop once stood, there was only rusty equipment. Did You Know Soccer Player Crystal Dunns Husband Pierre Soubrier Is A Football Specialist? The Joneses adopted a black baby in Indiana in 1960, and Jim gave the 10-week-old infant his own name. Do you think people can ever see your father not just as a villain but as a complex figure? 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. placement: 'Below Article Thumbnails 2nd', 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. Suddenly there was no money to buy lumber or supplies--"he was such a tightwad," Stephan Jones says--and the homesteading fervor gave way to the minister's incessant meetings and group lectures and warnings about "enemies.". 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'. I mean, here are hundreds and hundreds of people who feel differently than I do--who's right?". And she could only sense the site of the pavilion, the once-vibrant center of Jonestown life where so many died - including her two sisters and two nephews. He said reporters would make the situation worse. By nightfall, the seriously wounded, some of them on litters provided by the community, were sheltered in army soldiers' tents. She gives us the order that we were supposed to kill ourselves, Vilchez recalled. It marched for four jailed Fresno newsmen. First the Cessna was filled, with Ryan frisking each boarder looking for guns and knives. He says his daughters have seen him gnash his teeth when he talks. 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). "It's not--such a bad experience," he says. Don't take my baby!'. He was so wasted most of the time. He pushes through the crowd, but he cannot get to his father. "I mellowed out. 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. It would become a little town where people of all ages and colors raised food and children. Then it was boxing matches for adults. 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. "I just say something like, 'You remember Jonestown?' "And it could happen to anybody.". I found relief in the woods and rivers and creeks, and I got away as often as I could, but there was always a low-level anxiety that I only really can identify now.. We were turned back by Johnny Jones, Jim Jones' stern-faced adopted black son. The people are elderly and he knows he must stop it, but he cannot make contact with them; they look at him as though from great distances. I had been hammered for years with the message that there was an outside threat, and from an early age my father talked about people wanting to bomb us. He is talking, in the first of two evenings' long conversations, between spoonfuls of almond chicken at a Chinese restaurant. Thank goodness he lived before me.". So yes, many people were disenchanted., Im sure he feared it and Im sure he had people telling him it existed. mode: 'thumbnails-a', 'There is no way we would be shooting at the airstrip. Stephan is the only living son of Jim Jones and his late wife Marceline Jones. I get it, Im not upset about that. Then, after a 1977 New West magazine expose of temple disciplinary beatings and other abuses, she was sent to Jonestown. But it was too late. He was summoned to the temple radio room. Harris, a Los Angeles-based NBC investigative reporter who covered the fall of Saigon and the Nicaragua rebellion, had been killed. He contacted the people at the San Francisco branch of the Peoples Temple and instructed them not to take action. Speier's right leg had a gaping wound, and her arm was injured. Among the hundreds of corpses, only one was different; he had died from a bullet to the head. . Write by: . My arm was gushing blood so I stripped off my belt and pinched down the biggest wounds. They have altogether three daughters. It was all about survival in his domain. Of those 25 percent that drank the poison, most of those people were just defeated and didnt know where else to turn and didnt want to run out on the others. And all of the children died first. And I dont know if it was paranoia. Stephan Jones was born on 1 June 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 'He hit Monica and Vern. Her only natural child, Stephan Gandhi Jones and adopted son, Jimmy Jones, Jr. aka James Warren Jones, Jr. were both in Georgetown, Guyana for a basketball game representing Jonestown on November 18, 1978. "I just felt like this was all they had," he says. . Stephan Gandhi Jones is the son of Jim Jones, the controversial religious cult leader. All these lives were wasted and I don't know why. "I don't know. Hes never remarried, and Martin Luther Smith was his only child. At first it was spanking of children. Some scowling faces appeared in the windows that rainy afternoon, watching the defectors leave, some with trunks and others with little more than the clothes on their backs. 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. 'Naaah.' Now 58, he owns a modular office furniture business in the East Bay and is married with a daughter. 'I believe that it was always a personal agenda for my father, and yes, there was a gradual shift in the balance. ", Throughout the 40 years since the deaths at Jonestown, Stephan has been willing to give media interviews. Hes 61 now. 'Let's go!' They divorced when Jordan was six. I believe 100% that not everyone would have been dead, he said. I make a point of avoiding pointing fingers and giving specific names. 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. 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. Temple attorneys Charles Garry and Mark Lane, along with Ryan, subdued the man. 'The reality was we were folks who could be counted on to stand up,' he said. Toward the end, as he watched the array of barbiturates, amphetamines and tranquilizers that now slurred his father's speech and sometimes left him physically unable to leave the Jonestown house, Stephan Jones says murder seemed almost redundant. He dreams he sees the men and women he knew, older now, changed by the years. Have your feelings toward your father and his role in your life evolved over the years? With their lives, the story of Jonestown continues, even now. All the people who lay there around him had followed him. Jim Jones. Jones berated three other new arrivals for misbehaviour on the trip; they were beaten and forced to work 24 hours straight. 'He started firing at the front and missed the pilot,' said Dale Parks, who left the temple Saturday. Stephan Jones' mother was one of those found dead from cyanide poisoning. 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 also made sure that the other disciples who were in the capital would do nothing hasty. Anthony Katsaris, brother of Jim Jones aide Maria Katsaris, was wounded in the chest. 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. On Nov. 18 she was at the temple house when a fanatical Jones aide received a dire radio message from Jonestown. Stephan Jones was born on 06/01/1959 and is 63 years old. On Nov. 18 she was at the temple house when a fanatical Jones aide received a dire radio message from Jonestown. He converted to Catholicism and registered Republican. "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. What Are Essential Oils and Do They Work. When a friend invited her family to Peoples Temples wine country church, they were impressed by the integrated community. When one of Stephan Jones' adopted brothers once declared in a rage that they had to kill their father, Stephan remembers talking him out of it: "I said, 'God, you'd have chaos on your hands if you just went out and did this. "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. He is charming. I got the gun. He has been married to Kristi Jones since 1991. I know Ive reached a better place and I dont fear lapsing back into the darkest times, but its a daily process and one that Im grateful to have.. Stephan Jones did not drink. 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