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The basis for the upcoming HBO miniseries and the "definitive account of the Jonestown massacre" (Rolling Stone) -- now available for the first time in paperback.
Tim Reiterman’s Raven provides the seminal history of the Rev. Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the murderous ordeal at Jonestown in 1978.
This PEN Award–winning work explores the ideals-gone-wrong, the intrigue, and the grim realities behind the Peoples Temple and its implosion in the jungle of South America. Reiterman’s reportage clarifies enduring misperceptions of the character and motives of Jim Jones, the reasons why people followed him, and the important truth that many of those who perished at Jonestown were victims of mass murder rather than suicide.
This widely sought work is restored to print after many years with a new preface by the author, as well as the more than sixty-five rare photographs from the original volume.
- Sales Rank: #1084847 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Dutton Adult
- Published on: 1982-10-01
- Released on: 1982-10-01
- Ingredients: Example Ingredients
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 622 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
“The definitive account of the Jonestown massacre; Reiterman was among a group of journalists, concerned relatives and congressional aides to accompany Congressman Leo Ryan on the ill-fated journey to Guyana to survey Jonestown.” –Rolling Stone
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“The seminal book on the story of Jonestown.” –Associated Press
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“Unquestionably emerges as the most valuable book on Jonestown to date…Every piece of the puzzle is here.”—David Evanier, National Review
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“An extraordinary inquiry into the individual pathology of Jim Jones…To assemble this portrait obviously required staggering research. The writing is sensitive and lucid. The result is a document which will illumine a dark corner of our era.”—Daniel Schorr
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“After reading Raven, there should be no more questions…A tour de force on the Rev. James Jones and the events that led his 900 disciples to drink poisoned punch on Nov. 18, 1978.” —Charlie Frush, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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“This stands as the definitive history …carefully compiled and completely horrifying.” —Marshall Kilduff, San Francisco Chronicle
About the Author
Tim Reiterman is a prizewinning journalist who extensively covered Jonestown for the San Francisco Examiner. He was wounded in the Guyanese jungle airstrip attack that killed a U.S. congressman, plus three reporters, and a Peoples Temple defector. A longtime writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times, Reiterman worked for the past eight years as Northern California News Editor for the Associated Press and now heads AP’s global environmental reporting team. Reiterman originally published Raven in 1982. His collaborator John Jacobs was a widely respected journalist who died in 2000
Excerpt. � Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Preface
Three decades have passed since more than 900 Americans suffered horrible deaths in the jungle of the impoverished South American country of Guyana. The events in Jonestown on November 18, 1978, orchestrated by a charismatic preacher named Jim Jones and triggered by the slaying of a United States congressman on a nearby airstrip, have long ago moved from worldwide headlines to the pages of history. Yet fascination with the final days of Jonestown and the life of Jones has persisted over the years.
One of the most shocking and baffling events of the last century, the demise of Peoples Temple has been chronicled in books, movies, documentaries, plays, scholarly studies and countless television retrospectives. The images of an American tragedy on foreign soil -- poisoned punch squirted down the throats of infants, families locked in final embrace, mounds of bodies bloated in the tropical heat -- have endured in print, photos, video footage and memory.
Jonestown has come to symbolize unfathomable depravity, the outermost limits of what human beings can visit on each other and themselves, the ultimate power of a leader over his followers. Although complex and elusive, the reasons for the collapse of the Temple’s utopian dream into a hellish nightmare have been reduced again and again to a simplistic interpretation: a Svengali led his compliant, even robotic, flock to mass suicide. But Peoples Temple was more than a creation of one man’s vision. The Temple was a product of its time and the search for alternative religions and social relevance in the post-civil rights and post-Vietnam eras. Its story also speaks to the timeless yearnings of the human spirit for a sense of belonging, to be part of something larger than ourselves.
Above the wooden, throne-like chair from which Jones lorded over his people hung a sign that said: “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’’ However, remembering the past is one thing, understanding it quite another. And this volume endeavors to do both, while piercing the many myths that have shrouded the truth about Jones, his followers, and the remote agricultural settlement that bore his name.
—Tim Reiterman
2008
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Pretty much the definitive work on Jim Jones, Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
By A.J. MacDonald, Jr.
Good book on the subject. Pretty much the definitive work on Jim Jones, Peoples Temple, and Jonestown. It's a long read, and it can be pretty disturbing at times. It's well written, and, at times, hard to put down. Although I did put it down half way through for a few weeks, because it was so intense. I needed a break from Jim Jones. I have a very incidental connection to Jonestown, which has always reinforced my interest in the subject. I was in the US Army during November 1978 and on leave in Maryland when the Jonestown murder/suicides occurred. In December I caught a USAF MAC C-141 flight from Andrews AFB to Travis AFB in Northern California. The plane was coming from Dover AFB and was loaded with dozens of the remains of people who died in Jonestown. In fact, I was the only living passenger on that flight. It was just the crew, me, and dozens of the dead from Jonestown. I had a copy of the Newsweek special Jonestown edition to read while on the flight. Every now and then I would look up from the magazine at those stacks of aluminum containers imagining those poor people inside.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
An excellent, thoroughly researched book on the Jonestown massacre
By Lynn
An unfathomable tragedy. An excellent, thoroughly researched book on the Jonestown massacre. Unlike other more self-serving books written on this subject, this one is not only well researched but a first hand account of what happened to the Ryan delegation in Guyana - as author Tim Reiterman accompanied the group as a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner, and was wounded in the attack. One of those killed, along with Congressman Ryan, and two newsmen from NBC, was fellow Examiner staff photographer Greg Robinson. This story is told in its entirety, from Jim Jones' poor, neglected childhood, to his discovery that he possessed a mesmerizing ability to influence people, to his days of political influence and increasing secrecy connected to his organization, and finally to his and his followers deaths. The tale of his improbable rise as chameleon/huckster, reverend, and cult leader, and then subsequent descent into complete diabolical madness is nothing short of astonishing. I was 30 when this happened and I remember reading about it in detail, however many, many facts hereto unknown about Jones, the people around him, and the People's Temple are unearthed here - and it's fascinating. I love true crime, and although this genre is considered History/Religion and not True Crime, the final outcome, in the words of one survivor, was never about suicide, but instead about mass murder, and as such I would put this in a category with Helter Skelter in terms of its chilling effect, and ability to open one's eyes to the limits of human evil.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
"Don't Sign Any Blank Sheets of Paper!"
By Harry Dschaak
Tim Reiterman was at Jonestown and later at the airstrip in Port Kaituma, Guyana when it counted. He did what his employers needed him to do that day and then he did what the entire world needed him to do when he recovered from his near death experience. This incredible story is about a man with a personality disorder that few people in the 70's could recognize, and as such, many thousands of lives have suffered; so many more than the ones who died on November 18, 1978. I am glad that somebody took the time to paint the global picture of religion and politics, (peaceful demonstrations and the prestige of block voting, etc), including evangelist revival healer trends that were popping up all over the place in those days, but more importantly I'm glad to be reminded that Jones was not a good man, but a con man with a very determined desire to make a name for himself. The author has obviously logged tremendous hours digging through the rubble and charred remains of the Jonestown massacre to provide insight and awareness to aid us in overcoming the superficial conclusions that so many are quick to reach when first considering the magnitude of this event. We are not surprised that so many innocent people had to die horrendous deaths before society could expend any energy to investigate the initial complaints (beyond raising an eyebrow). Displayed herein is the Jim Jones playbook on what ambitious types have done and can still do to gain political support, moral and emotional support, as well as unquestioning financial support through insincere means. The People's Temple members (including defectors) were all susceptible human beings who became compromised when moral barriers were breached (by example), and critical thinking skills were effectively turned off. The theft of innocence and the eroding of people's integrity was a refined skill that we cannot entirely credit Jones for, as he had mentors and accomplices who were just as rotten as he was. The examples of persuasive coercion (intimidation /emotional blackmail) and the undue influence (through guilt and ignorance) techniques of the free-love era have become more easily recognized and more widely understood with the passing of time, which makes this story all the more heartbreaking to read. I was 21, living in San Francisco when this all went down and I remember that just a few days later our City Mayor [Moscone] was assassinated in an unrelated development. With Charlie Manson and his family of loyal meat carvers still fresh in everyone's minds, we were stunned that such a thing like Jonestown could happen on such a grand scale. Why wouldn't anyone back Christine Miller when she tried to reason with Jones in the long, pleading minutes before a single infant was casually sacrificed to death? How someone could willingly slit the throat of a toddler, let alone their own child (As Sharon Amos did), is now perfectly clear. Without education (the due process of meticulous investigation and discovery) regarding the science of cult behavior, (as demonstrated within the Manson Family), the peace-loving, non-racist, People's Temple "Family" were destined to become the same caliber of ruthless killers as Manson's, if not just a little worse. How many times did the conscientious defectors in this story finally get the courage to make a run for it, only to return for more abuse, and in some cases, death? The People's Temple in Guyana was pinched for vehicles and construction equipment to develop the Jungle and the facilities and infrastructure would only handle a few hundred bodies when paranoid Jones inspired 1200 (some with disabilities) to descend on his camp. After a year of extreme sacrifice and rationing they kill themselves, leaving upwards of 5 million dollars in foreign banks with another couple million in assets?? What's up with that?? With so many pronouns included in this book, it is easy to lose track of the characters, so I recommend that future editions include a glossary of the names and lives of those who died or were killed that day. I used this site: http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=690#X as a ready reference to help keep things straight in my mind, especially since there was so much geography, interracial families and wife-swapping going on. (The link also provides last known pictures of the victims [where possible] and a short bio or remembrances. If a person in the story didn't die, they're not on the list, which while reading, is sometimes really nice to know.) In spite of the absent victim list, I gave the author 4 stars for the research, (banking, healings, drugs, ammunitions, victim's talents, etc) ) and 1 star for having the presence of mind to take photos of the plane with the flat tire sitting on the runway with the actual deceased bodies of friends and co-workers still on the runway. So much of the story depends on the visuals one conjures up in the mind according to the adjectives offered, but I did not want to imagine that scene, I wanted to see it.-- Harry
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