When he was seventeen. There was a gaping wound in his shoulder and possibly his ribs. The reports were wrong, they say. After years of struggles that included drug addiction, Jones says hes now living a pleasant life in the United States with his wife and three daughters.

The truck spun its wheels until a Caterpillar tractor tugged it into place for a downhill run. 'To me the ends justified the means,' he said. 'Let's go!' Stephan resented the attention other Temple children sometimes demanded of Jones, and would remind them in no uncertain terms that Jones was his father, not theirs (Reiterman 105).

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. I got the gun. When Congressman Ryan and his party came to Jonestown, Stephan and the rest of the basketball team was away in Georgetown competing against the local team. 18 Nov 1978 (aged 51) Jonestown, Barima-Waini, Guyana. 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. He dreams he is in a crowd, and his father is talking about suicide. She gave her house to the Peoples Temple and they moved to San Francisco, where Eugene ran a temple construction crew. I also didnt really know what Id be dealing with if I did, but 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. Eventually, when it came close to poison being rolled out, Stephan muttered, Oh fuck, and Jones jumped on the opportunity, claiming Stephan was too afraid to die, and using that as the redirection to call off the White Night (Reiterman 426). Stephan felt that the attack was real, though he knew his father wasnt above staging such episodes (Reiterman 361). So the second thing is this whole idea of drinking the Kool-Aid thats such a prevalent saying. The reason that I have agreed to talk to as many people as I have is because of that. 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." She entered Guyana on August 10, 1977. Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old? I believed there was too much racism, and there was a need for change. He contacted the people at the San Francisco branch of the Peoples Temple and instructed them not to take action.

His unplanned departure left them alone. Some of the defectors told me later that the men in the trailer were members of Peoples Temple. Published: 01:29 EDT, 14 November 2018 | Updated: 12:15 EDT, 14 November 2018. 'The reality was we were folks who could be counted on to stand up,' he said.

And youre gonna go up there and kill Jim Jones? Jones, who asked his followers to call him 'Dad,' did not like to lose any of his 'children.'

Life became more tolerable after the couple's baby, Martin Luther Smith, was born.

'In an hour, that promise was broken.'. In a recent interview, he stated that he was sober. By nightfall, the seriously wounded, some of them on litters provided by the community, were sheltered in army soldiers' tents. 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.

And all of the children died first. 8 Jan 1927.

The only surviving child of Jim Jones, Stephan was born on June 1, 1959, in Indiana, USA. Guyanese civilians set up a guard station for us, standing watch all night armed with only a shotgun, a machete and a long-bladed knife. And to have any fray in that fabric would cause an unraveling that he couldnt handle.. Stephan Gandhi Jones is 6-foot-5, lean, broad at the shoulder, olive-eyed, black-haired, handsome as a billboard model. They have three children. Where the machine shop once stood, there was only rusty equipment. Yeah often people do. The only surviving child of Jim Jones, Stephan was born on June 1, 1959, in Indiana, USA.

He says his daughters have seen him gnash his teeth when he talks about his father, but they also have heard him speak lovingly of the man who taught him compassion and other virtues. The soldiers realized very quickly that the enemy wasnt waiting for them. Stephan stalled, asking the regular radio operators if Jones had requested this and called it off before, which they affirmed. I thought there were reasons for people to want to get us.

(n.d.). . 'When I left at 21, I left a part of myself there,' she said. Layton, who was insisting on taking the first plane, slipped to the other side of the plane before he could be frisked.

" Pause for effect. " At 17 he was a defection risk, so his father Jim Jones sent him to work on the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project in Guyana, which Stephan loved in its early days (Reiterman 311).

"I would have had to, especially if I saw other people doing it, and I right off the bat wasn't on top of things, and somehow wasn't right there starting some kind of--it's so hard--", Stephan Jones covers his face for a moment, fingers kneading his forehead.

I tried to fire - but nothing happened.'.

'I believe 100 percent that not everyone would have been dead,' he said. Did you ever consider the ultimate rebellious act: to defect from the temple? 'Little Jimmy' became part of their 'Rainbow Family' of white, black, Korean-American and Native American children.

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Now, Stephan Jones is father of three daughters, ages 16, 25 and 29, and works in the office furniture installation business. Stephan believed he was too cowardly to follow through with the oft-threatened 'revolutionary suicide. One day, when she was in high school, she came home and told her parents that her religion class had discussed Peoples Temple; only then did her father share the story of how his family was nearly wiped out.

"The minute I stepped out on the street, I felt so uncomfortable," he says. Jim Jones himself did not drink the poison.

All I can do is tell what I saw and heard. Stephans dislike of the church services only grew stronger as he became privy to more of the Temple secrets, and was aware at a young age of the many things that were told to be truths, but were actually manipulations by Jones (Reiterman 106). I didn't see who fired the shot but the sound came from the tractor and trailer. Jones himself, after some artfully applied pressure to the mayor's office, was appointed to the San Francisco Housing Authority, where once-tedious meetings about public housing suddenly erupted into vigorous cheering sessions, with temple members applauding the pronouncements of Commissioner Jones. Early Life Stephan Gandhi Jones was born on June 1, 1959 to parents Jim and Marceline Jones in Indiana. The first attacks on the town, I thought they were real. First the Cessna was filled, with Ryan frisking each boarder looking for guns and knives. Stephan got his own apartment, with the help of his mother and at the opposition of his father (Reiterman 310).

But a lot of the rage that I kept for years was keeping me from looking at my part and seeing what I hope I would do differently if in similar circumstances. She was Adopted daughter of Marceline Mae Baldwin Jones and Rev. Stephan Jones says he can still remember his own terror the first time his father set off a Jonestown White Night.

. The next day, Stephan and Jones had a public confrontation about Shandas treatment, which lead to Stephan calling him a fucking liar and then both wheeling away.

He says his daughters have seen him gnash his teeth when he talks about his father, but they also have heard him speak lovingly of the man who taught him compassion and other virtues. Stephan Gandhi Jones is the son of the notorious religious cult leader Jim Jones. Some of those leaving the temple eyed the vehicles with suspicion. It was he who willed it into being and he who also brought it down with the mass murders and suicides of hundreds. It won't work.' He has been married to Kristi Jones since 1991. 'If anything, we felt pity for him,' he said, 'and it grew into a dislike, maybe hate.'. Then they could identify and allow themselves to step into the story and understand how such a thing could happen (Sharir). To just be somewhere with a machete, in khakis, and just decide I wanted to go somewhere and cut myself a trail." 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. 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'. (2003).

1953), also from Korea. John was attending a San Francisco high school when he was allowed to join his best friends in Jonestown. 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. He was right, of course. 'We were trying to build a new world, a progressive socialist organization.'. Stephan Jones was born on June 1, 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. I get it, Im not upset about that. You don't tell God he needs help. Id rather just talk about what didnt work and hope that people can see that in their own lives.

Jim Jones. 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. I just wish people could understand what was attractive about him. Stephan Gandhi Jones is the son of the notorious religious cult leader Jim Jones. Only one son, Stephan, was born to Jim Jones and his late wife Marceline Jones. Cobb lost 11 relatives that day, including his mother, youngest brother and four sisters. Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, USA. That he was just this crazy zealot this entire time". Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, USA. It was he who dreamed up Jonestown, he who willed it into being, and he who brought it down: First, with the assassination of U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan and four others by temple members on a nearby airstrip on November 18, 1978, then with the mass murders and suicides of hundreds, a horror that remains nearly unimaginable 40 years later.. Its been almost ten years that Ive been putting up with this shit. The atmosphere was described as secure and homey, with family meals and plenty of time outside swimming, picnicking, and playing football with other Temple kids (despite Jim Jones anti-sport rhetoric [Reiterman 102]).

Jonestowns haunted son. 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 .

Grueling field work was not to her liking. Since his father, Late Jim Jones, carried out a horrendous massacre in Jonestown on Nov. 18, 1978, Stephan Jones, Jim Jones 59-year-old son, has been through a lot. Five others were wounded seriously.

The tournament was in Georgetown, the Guyanese capital, 150 miles away. And Stephan Jones sometimes thinks that he might have taken the poison, too. Rebelling, they refused Jones order to come back.

This attitude continued into adulthood, and only intensified when in Jonestown. Photo from Peoples Temple files, acquired from Reiterman 393. People raced over to the outdoor pavilion. He says the congregation was full of elderly people, many of them hard-working black men and women who had given this minister everything they possessed.

Stephan went into shock, horrified by the finality of the deaths, and overwhelmed with hopelessness (Reiterman 546). .

'Baby killer. The phrase drinking the Kool-Aid, meaning to follow someone blindly, was born that day in Guyana.

After they left, I crept out of the bush and saw five bodies around the plane. They have a total of three daughters. The people involved include Agnes Pauline Jones, Timothy Glen Jones, Jim Jon Prokes, Jim W. Jones Jr, Lew Eric Jones, John Moss Jones, Suzanne O. Jones, and Stephanie Jones. Jim Jones had adopted other children, gathering around him what he liked to call his "rainbow family"--Stephan's brothers and sisters were black and Korean--but Stephan remembers days spent mostly by himself: there was a cleared-out place in the underbrush where he could crouch and become Hercules, or a soldier of war. When John Cobb was born in 1960 in a black section of Indianapolis, his mother and older siblings already were temple members. Now, Stephan Jones is father of three daughters, ages 16, 25 and 29, and works in the office furniture installation business. Self: The People's Advocate: The Life & Times of Charles R. Garry. And then he went to my mother. WebStephan Jones was born on June 1, 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA as Stephan Gandhi Jones.

He was summoned to the temple radio room. They have three children. Now, Stephan Jones is father of three daughters, ages 16, 25 and 29, and works in the office furniture installation business. Neither were the White Nights where everyone stayed up, armed with machetes to fight enemies who never arrived. He climbed aboard the truck and we took off. "This was when he started bragging about taking 16 people on in one day, and all that crap. And his sense of self resided in his perception of other peoples perception of him. WebShanti Gandhi (born 10 February 1940) is an India-born American cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon and was a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 52nd District from 2013 to 2015.He won a contested party primary and won again in the 2012 general election.. 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. Jones often tried to involve Stephan in his various deceptions, including one in which Stephan would pretend to be shot while going to greet a lawyer from the U.S. (Reiterman 375), and one in which Stephan would pretend to kidnap John Stoen in a bag and then pretend to rescue him from his assailant (Reiterman 398). Maybe they saw no hope--because they didn't see themselves leaving, but they didn't want to go on with Jim Jones.

How do you explain the renewed interest in the Peoples Temple? 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. More than 900 members of the Peoples Temple had lived in theagricultural missionin the distant jungle of Guyana, South America, led by the cult leader Rev. 'I just have to love him and forgive him.'.

Only two days later did the picture became clear. File photo: Bodies of Peoples Temple mass suicide victims led by Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana, November 1978. 'Like everyone else, he died there,' his son said. But Stephan was the biological son of Jim and Marceline Jones. He plays forward. Stephan was around 17 years old when he moved to Jonestown in February 1977 to help build the compound. In the summer of 1977 a large contingent of Peoples Temple members moved to Jonestown, growing the population from around 50 to over 1,000 over the course of a month (Reiterman 337).

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I think there are different images being shown now, but its still too little, too late. Sadly we were finally at a point where I felt I had enough support and we decided that we were going to take action'.

All the people who lay there around him had followed him. But he was also very loving, especially during the early period'. 18 Nov 1978 (aged 51) Jonestown, Barima-Waini, Guyana. The media has done a poor job; theyve demonized him.

It's like my hurt for them, or my missing them, is the only thing I have left of them." Rebelling, they refused Jones' order to come back. Stephan understood the White Nights to be tools of manipulation, and found them incredibly unpleasant (Reiterman 390). I heard a few more shots and saw the tractor pull away. .

In California, he was steeped in temple life.

Stephan Jones was born on 1 June 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 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. 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.". 'Destroyed,' he said, 'from within '. But some lived.Dozens of members in Guyana slipped out of Jonestown or happened to be away that day. "But there's a sadness . Over four decades, as they have built new lives, they have struggled with grief and the feeling that they were pariahs. 'I was going back to retrieve that young person and also to say goodbye.'. "I would have been a traitor to the greatest cause there ever was . For 19 of his 24 years, they were all he knew. And Smith's wife, son and mother died. The woman sang as they coupled, and when Stephan Jones' mother told the boy she knew about it, she also told him--it is this he remembers as the crescendo of the betrayal--that his father had even described the song. You describe yourself in your writings as a rebellious kid. Stephan Gandhi Jones was 19. As a result of the incident, Stephan was sentenced to three months in prison, which led to his drug addiction. Stephan missed his mother, but was happier than hed ever been.

Aside from his forefathers horrific tragedy, Stephan Jones has built a reputation for himself in the Hollywood industry as an actor. And I dont know that he could actually have done that.

I dont know about the inner circle but many of us, and even my brother Tim, when he turned to my side, he wanted to kill my father, he was so angry. 18 Nov 1978 (aged 51) Jonestown, Barima-Waini, Guyana. The temple was the only life he knew but says he always had his doubts.

It was Harris who had been contacted by the first two groups of temple members expressing a desire to leave. She returned to Jonestown for the first time in 40 years in March, Jordan Vilchez poses for a portrait in Richmond, California last week. WebBirth. Stephan Jones' mother was one of those found dead from cyanide poisoning. "The temple was still my only life, and I didn't really see any alternative to it," he says. During the long night, the temple defectors told us that all the horror stories about Jim Jones and the church were true.

'He started firing at the front and missed the pilot,' said Dale Parks, who left the temple Saturday. They have three children. Raven: The untold story of the rev. Those who broke rules were disciplined.

Yet he submitted to a new search, then returned to his seat. Now, Stephan Jones is father of three daughters, ages 16, 25 and 29, and works in the office furniture installation business. Youve known about it for a month and youre going nuts. Stephan Gandhi Jones is the son of Jim Jones, the controversial religious cult leader. Alongside it was a red tractor and trailer seen earlier at the mission. Volleys of shotgun, rifle and pistol fire kept coming. "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.

Stephan Gandhi Jones was the biological son of Jim and Marceline Jones. He is married to his wife Kristi Jones since Devotion to its ideals bolstered her self-worth. I think there are people who are interested in it because of whats going on in the world. They moved forward slowly until one soldier bumped into an object on the ground. WebAs of December 2022, Stephan Jones is 63 years old. He was taking pain pills, and he said he was dying. He was 18 and running a temple construction crew when the church sanctioned his marriage to a talented 16-year-old singer, Ollie Wideman.

1959: The Joneses adopted Suzanne (b. . (n.d.). So would the congressman and three others. My arm was gushing blood so I stripped off my belt and pinched down the biggest wounds. It was the first significant moment of disillusionment for many of Stephans brothers, and led to Tim approaching Stephan with talks of killing Jones. He dreams he sees the men and women he knew, older now, changed by the years.

Im sorry.

I certainly felt there was an outside threat, even when I knew my father was full of it and I was at odds with him in Jonestown.

Rebelling, they refused Jones order to come back. Swollen to bursting, that was the corpse of Jim Jones, the man who had conducted this concert of death. . At one point, Stephan was alerted that someone may have tried to shoot Jones again, though when he investigated Stephan suspected the shots had come from someone standing within Jonestown, not in the jungle (Reiterman 364).

"I knew I didn't want to, but I didn't know quite how to confront him or present my case . Bill Gates hits back against AI critics like Elon Musk who warn tech will destroy humanity - saying 'there's huge benefits', Introducing Lola Lopez! James Warren Jones, Sr. And he would have arrived too late, anyway. The therapy that has been helpful to me hasnt been by talking with strangers about it.

By September 8, Stephan was questioning the validity of the crisis, and made a game out of surprising people on the Temple trucks.

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.

'He hit Monica and Vern. 1959: The Joneses adopted Suzanne (b.

They have a total of three daughters. "I think I'd probably be pretty messed up if I hadn't lost everybody I had and hadn't gone through the prison experience," Stephan Jones says. He called his church "Peoples Temple"--"Wings of Deliverance" had been tried earlier and discarded. The bodies surrounded a podium from which Jim Jones, aided by armed men to hold down the unwilling, had cried out in encouragement while men, women, and children drank red Flavor-Aid mixed with potassium cyanide. An emotional tug-of-war ensued between a mother who wanted to stay and the father who wanted to go. 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. Who is Her Boyfriend.

WebStephan helped erect a basketball court and form a team. We're talking 30 people, but that's a lot of people to be looking over your shoulder.". He has been married to Kristi Jones since 1991.

At the far end of the strip sat a yellow government plane. Vernon Gosney and Monica Bagby, the two temple members who asked for help in the note, also were seriously injured.

He dreams he is arguing with his father, arguing passionately, and although he knows his arguments are better, his father always wins. Wiki, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Ethnicity, Career, Missy Franklin- Wiki, Age, Husband, Ethnicity, Net Worth, Height, Career, What is Brynn Putnam Age? The shooting triggered the mass murders and suicides in Jonestown of more than 900 people orchestrated by the Rev. After being released from his three-month stay in a Guyanese prison, he moved back to San Francisco, where he stayed in close contact with other temple members (Gorney). I make a point of avoiding pointing fingers and giving specific names. He grew, and discovered basketball. 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. WebStephan Jones. Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old? 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! Were you aware that you had a very different childhood than most? They have three children. Some of them had started out with him in the earliest days in Indiana and moved with him to California. Stephan soon found himself loving Jonestown, benefitting from the hard physical labor and intense comradery amongst early settlers (Reiterman 312). James Warren Jones, Sr.

Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved. "I think I have a lot of the same tendencies he had. "He always gave us a hug and a kiss, but it became more mechanical as time went by." Discover Stephan Jones's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates.

WebShe lived in San Francisco, California before she moved to Jonestown, Guyana where she lived in Dorm 1. He built a long career in health care, while weathering his own serious health problems. that one last act would be admitting he was a coward, and about nothing. "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.

They, on the other hand, have moved on with their lives. 1959 (June 1): Marceline gave birth to son Stephan Gandhi Jones.

And he faked getting shot in Redwood Valley [California] when I was still pretty young, and we felt like we were in danger much of the time.

Stephan Jones. I would have been doing more than just leaving a family. 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.

She entered Guyana on August 10, 1977. But he also tapped into something very real and showed something very real and was very loving, especially during the early period.. Stephan Gandhi Jones was born on June 1, 1959 to parents Jim and Marceline Jones in Indiana. We were turned back by Johnny Jones, Jim Jones' stern-faced adopted black son. Stephan Jones tells Haaretz about the man who would convince his followers to drink the Kool-Aid. "The media has done a poor job; theyve demonized him. The guy you see in all the images.

A black man with a 'corn rows' hairstyle came up to the rear of the truck. WebShe lived in San Francisco, California before she moved to Jonestown, Guyana where she lived in Dorm 1. Im not trying to defend him. His son was not among the boosters. In the days before Ryans fact-finding mission to the settlement, the players were in Georgetown for a tourney with the Guyana national teams. Early Life Stephan Gandhi Jones was born on June 1, 1959 to parents Jim and Marceline Jones in Indiana.

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