"This is really crazy," he recalls thinking. Over four decades, as they have built new lives, they have struggled with grief and the feeling that they were pariahs. 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. . After the temple exodus to Guyana, he was given a public relations post in Georgetown and was part of the basketball team. They would survive and both return home to California. 'I believe that it was always a personal agenda for my father, and yes, there was a gradual shift in the balance. Stephan Jones says he can still remember his own terror the first time his father set off a Jonestown White Night. For years, Vilchez was ashamed of the part she played in the Peoples Temple, an idealistic group that imploded so terribly. Rebelling, they refused Jones' order to come back. What they said. Yes. "I just say something like, 'You remember Jonestown?' James Warren Jones and his wife, Marceline. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. The minister gave the ritual a special name: White Night. But we never felt he would go through with it because we saw him as such a coward.. Jim Jones (1931-1978) and Marceline Jones (1927-1978). Thank goodness he lived before me.". Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Vilchez was dispatched to the Guyanan capital of Georgetown to raise money. In his spare time he swims, or rides his bicycle, or lifts weights, or plays basketball. A bullet ripped through my left forearm. He apparently was searching for his wife, who had carried away their child that morning, hoping to escape the settlement. 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. Quietly the men with the tractor motioned aside a group of curious Guyanese children and other bystanders. 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. And thats why its so critical that people be wary of any leader who is held as superior to the people theyre leading. He was summoned to the temple radio room. Marceline and Jim had one biological child together, and Stephan Jones appears in Jonestown: The Women Behind The Massacre. 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. More than 900 people lived in the agricultural mission, with its dining pavilion, tidy cottages, school, medical facilities and rows of crops. You don't tell God, "You're not going out of the house. window._taboola = window._taboola || []; Because Dad was such a mess . . ", 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. He remarried three decades ago, and he and his wife Erin raised three sons with two now coaching basketball at the high school and college level. 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). 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. tap here to see other videos from our team. All these lives were wasted and I don't know why. By the fall of that year, almost 1,000 Temple members emigrated to Jonestown, but for Stephan Jones, the pleasure crumbled when his father arrived. After more than 22 years at Californias transportation department, Smith retired in 2015. 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. 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. 'Being in Jonestown before Jim got there was the best thing in my life.'. A few of us jumped from the truck and ran over there. The only surviving child of Jim Jones, Stephan was born on June 1, 1959, in Indiana, USA. Some of them had started out with him in the earliest days in Indiana and moved with him to California. His biggest regrets revolve around the teams refusal to return to Jonestown. . He played at school. I would say that there are times when its very enriching to speak with people about it All too often people want to write everyone off as a bunch of crazies. Photo by Eric Risberg / AP More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Resume Born June 1, 1959 Add to list Photos Known for The People's Advocate: The Life & Times of Charles R. Garry 7.0 Self - Interviewee 2007 P3 Dokumentr They are amused; they embrace him. Vilchez was dispatched to the Guyanese capital of Georgetown to raise money. Then he decides it is time, and he falters, and he tells them they may not believe what he is about to say. In this Nov. 13, 2008 file photo, Stephan Jones, son of Rev. Mud made the truck bed slick, so everyone clung to the sideboards. By 1978, the White Nights included a rehearsal for suicide, something Jim Jones previously had tried only with his small circle of confidants within the church. 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. Stephan Jones' mother was one of those found dead from cyanide poisoning. . . 'We were so scared, too, man, that they'd do this to you,' said one of the people who took us in. Jordan Vilchezs parents were Berkeley progressives in the 1960s her father African-American, her mother Scotch-Irish. Stephan believed he was too cowardly to follow through with the oft-threatened revolutionary suicide.. Jones had suffered a setback. The temple was the only life he knew but says he always had his doubts. 'I'm not saying he didn't cause it, create it. Stephan Jones believes his father must have killed himself: that he could not leave his own shooting to someone else. They divorced when Jordan was 6. 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. And frankly, Im much more trusting of the reluctant leader, one who says Lets go and not Go.. "They say, 'Yeah.' And he would have arrived too late, anyway. The 21-year-old Indiana native felt pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana, South America. 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. Best Answer. Now 58, he owns a modular office furniture business in the East Bay and is married with a daughter. And I looked around and there were at least 15 people looking at me. target_type: 'mix' He loves basketball; he is agile and strong and was tall even before he reached high school. 'The temple really became my family,' she said. But the boy was still a child of the Temple. When people ask about his past, he says he was "overseas," or "in volunteer service." So grew the young Stephan: the quiet witness steeped in rage. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Stephan Gandhi Jonesis the son of the notorious religious cult leaderJim Jones. He was ill from when he was very young and was using fear to control me when I was barely more than a toddler. I keep remembering what Jones had said in the pavilion. Stephan Jones was born on 1 June 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 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. So it was not this grand march to death, far from it. And when her 23-year-old sister joined, Jordan went to live with her at age 12. When that was pointed out to Ryan, Layton contended he already had been frisked. The 40th anniversary is offering Americans an opportunity to deal with this neglected sore, with the story receiving treatment in both book and documentary form, a story of a trajectory from charismatic preacher and leader to head of a murderous cult. " He smiles, imitates the sudden mask of disbelief. " I guess I wanted to believe that, as a child.". Then he waits a while, until they have come to know him--the very tall young man with the kind voice and the black mustache. To cope, he says he abused drugs and exercised obsessively. This answer is: Study guides. He says his daughters have seen him gnash his teeth when he talks. 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. American soldiers who arrived discovered that beneath the layer of bodies was another layer, and yet another. NBC reported that Stephan Jones was the vice president for an office installation company in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2008. File photo: Stephan Jones, son of Rev. Stephan Gandhi Jones was the biological son of Jim and Marceline Jones. Stephan Jones and some other team members believe they might have changed history if they were there. With their lives, the story of Jonestown continues, even now. I didn't see who fired the shot but the sound came from the tractor and trailer. Oh yeah, I think you can see that from my writing. All the people who lay there around him had followed him. Read more about cookies here. 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. 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." I just have to love him and forgive him.. On Nov. 18 she was at the temple house when a fanatical Jones aide received a dire radio message from Jonestown. This dismissive thinking was convenient because its hard to comprehend how so many people marched together to a certain and unnecessary death. Is this surge in public interest in Jonestown an exhausting experience for you? he said. We'd also just seen the warm, cheerful embraces between some of those leaving and some who were staying. People ask, How can you ever be proud of your father? he said. Jim Jones himself did not drink the poison. He is able to weep, but worries about letting himself begin; he says it feels a little like pulling his finger from a crack in the dam. "I think I knew it was just a bunch of junk and that it was really about nothing," Stephan Jones said. But the entertainers stayed in Jonestown to entertain Ryan. 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4. 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. 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 Nov. 18, 1978. 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. They also killed their dogs. People were completely fatigued, exhausted. 2007. Comments may take up to an hour for moderation before appearing on the site. When the prodigals visited, the Cobbs kept it secret from Jones. 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. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. There was something there. , MoKal . "I wasn't there," he says. " Pause for effect. " Rebelling, they refused Jones order to come back. They divorced when Jordan was six. The reason that I have agreed to talk to as many people as I have is because of that. As a self-taught bulldozer operator, he worked alongside other Peoples Temple cult members in the humid heat with his blade carving roads and sites for wooden buildings with metal roofs. "I was building me a place, too," he says. I dove headlong into the three-foot-tall grass. The reason I ended up in Jonestown is that I left. He too was a member of the basketball team. 'Naaah.' But he also tapped into something very real and showed something very real and was very loving, especially during the early period.. During that period, more than 900 people died including Stephans mom and some of his siblings. Everyone participated in it and because of that, it went as far as it did, she said. 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. He cries out, "My God, you're not dead!" He thinks now that it is probably stupid to believe that. 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. A black man with a 'corn rows' hairstyle came up to the rear of the truck. I'll kill you! He keeps his voice very soft, as though practice has taught him to hold certain subjects to a whisper in public, but his gaze is direct. . 1998-11-08 04:00:00 PDT JONESTOWN, GUYANA-- "My father was a fraud."- Stephan Gandhi Jones, son of Jim Jones A lone palm tree stands where Jim Jones exhorted his followers to die for him, but the . I get it, Im not upset about that. The mass murders and suicides of hundreds ofPeoples Temple membersin the distant jungle of Guyana, South Americaon November 18, 1978 is a horror that remains nearly unimaginable 40 years later. Four decades later, Americans often use this phrase in political and business contexts without knowing its origin. "I just felt like this was all they had," he says. He is still elated by it. If anything, we felt pity for him, he said, and it grew into a dislike, maybe hate.. Forty years ago this week, a California congressman and a group of journalists traveled to Guyana, South America, to see Jonestown, a remote settlement created by an American church, and investigate reports of abuses of members. 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. Vernon Gosney and Monica Bagby, the two temple members who asked for help in the note, also were seriously injured. A vat that contained a drink laced with deadly cyanide sits on a sidewalk at Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana in November 1978. In the aftermath, he built a new life. And when her 23-year-old sister joined, Jordan went to live with her at age 12. . I believe that it was always a personal agenda for my father, and yes, there was a gradual shift in the balance. Hundreds of corpses were lying on the ground in front of them. "It was not bad people who did it," he says. She was the adoptive daughter of Rev. 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. 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. The murders and suicides were unfolding, 150 miles away. The pilot had radioed for help after the shooting, but during the night the only thing we heard were more rumors about the imminent arrival of Guyanese troops and medical evacuation planes. Jim Jones set off one of these panics every few weeks, sometimes keeping people awake all night as he shouted his warnings. 'We were trying to build a new world, a progressive socialist organization.'. Stephan Gandhi Jones is the son of the notorious religious cult leader Jim Jones. You don't tell God he needs help. Vilchez worked as office manager at a private crime lab for 20 years and now, at 61, sells her artwork. Jim Jones, pictured in 1976,dreamed up Jonestown. "There was always that guilt fed to you by my father that kept you in check, kept you thinking, 'Maybe I'm wrong'--the guilt for being selfish and questioning this.". Save this record and choose the information you want to add to your family tree. Im not trying to defend him. Reviews. Jim Jones had said as a tropical storm rained on the Peoples Temple pavilion. They have altogether three daughters. . That way no one else would want to live. They have three children. He was summoned to the temple radio room. And he just went unchecked. She gives us the order that we were supposed to kill ourselves, Vilchez recalled. When the rains approached, he would stand and watch the water come, pushing solid and steady toward him like some enormous stage set being wheeled across the hills. 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. He asked me to make one last mission with him to Jonestown. 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. The reunion with Jones was not as joyous. She gave her house to the Peoples Temple and they moved to San Francisco. So yes there were often thoughts of taking him out but I know I wasnt capable of that kind of thing. View their profile including current address, phone number 415-785-XXXX, background check reports, and property record on Whitepages, the most trusted online directory. 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. Within minutes, the aide and her three children lay dead in a bloody bathroom, their throats slit. "You can tell when it's a man; the positions are different," Jones says evenly. 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! 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). His son was not among the boosters. target_type: 'mix' 'We think he's got a gun. In code, his father told him everyone was going to die in revolutionary suicide., I argued with my Dad, he said. 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. Trailers, a few clearings and some wood or pole-and-canvas buildings were all that marked the Jonestown settlement when Stephan Jones arrived. 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I jumped up and fought for the gun. They have altogether three daughters. . ': Golf glamor girl Paige Spiranac defends 'FUNNY' Woods tampon prank after 15-time major winner was forced to apologize, He's still got it! Besides the tragic story behind his ancestors, Stephan Jones has set his great work as an actor in the Hollywood Industry. 'I just have to love him and forgive him.'. "I mellowed out." "I remember being afraid when he started talking about it, and getting butterflies," he says. When he wakes, at dawn or in the middle of the night, it takes him some time to come back. 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 closest thing to a law enforcement official - a pleasant young policeman with a pink shirt and a 16-gauge shotgun - was disarmed by temple members. Stephan is the only living son of Jim Jones and his late wife. It won't work.' 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. And I dont know if it was paranoia. "The minute I stepped out on the street, I felt so uncomfortable," he says. Of course, even if he wanted to forget Jonestown, his name was an ever-present reminder. He was just 14, Stephan Jones and some other team members believe they might have changed history if they were there. . And Smith's wife, son and mother died. The church provided free drug rehabilitation, medical care, food. Neither were the White Nights where everyone stayed up, armed with machetes to fight enemies who never arrived. 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; Listen, not long before, we went to play basketball. The guy you see in all the images. In minutes, the back of the truck was piled high with crates, suitcases, backpacks and people. 2023 Canoe.com, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. We didnt see that coming. 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. Stephan Gandhi Jones. When the order from the colony came over the speaker in Guyanas capital Georgetown, Stephan Jones knew he wouldnt obey it. Seating assignments were chosen after Ryan briefed the press on the knife attack and credited Mark Lane with saving his life. He promised that he wouldnt. A few minutes later a pale-looking Leo Ryan slogged through the mud with his briefcase, his powder blue shirt and pants stained with his assailant's blood. He said: "So much was attractive and unique that we turned a blind eye . Then, after a 1977 New West magazine expose of temple disciplinary beatings and other abuses, she was sent to Jonestown. He was so wasted most of the time. It would become a little town where people of all ages and colors raised food and children. Did you ever consider the ultimate rebellious act: to defect from the temple? _taboola.push({ After the incident, Stephan was put into jail for three months and that led him to drug addiction. More than 900 people lived in the agricultural mission, with its dining pavilion, tidy cottages, school, medical facilities and rows of crops. He will read it when he is ready, he says. He is talking, in the first of two evenings' long conversations, between spoonfuls of almond chicken at a Chinese restaurant. Visit our Community Guidelines for more information and details on how to adjust your email settings. In this Nov. 13, 2008 file photo, Stephan Jones, son of Rev. Even though he attended public schools, Stephan Jones had never really learned to live in the outside world. There were many photographs of the bodies, taken from various angles, in color and black and white, and in each photograph, as though defying the viewer even to believe the report of the camera, row upon row of clothed human backs lay swelling in the jungle damp. someone shouted, and the driver attempted to turn the truck around. 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. This is really crazy, he recalls thinking. I try not to speak in terms of what I couldve done because I see no value in that.. Another hit my wrist and knocked off my watch. 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 Nov. 18, 1978. 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. They had nothing to go back to." 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). We demanded to see the locked buildings where some members lived in crowd, uncomfortable conditions. What Are Essential Oils and Do They Work. Stephan Jones currently lives in Petaluma, CA; in the past Stephan has also lived in San Rafael CA and Novato CA. 'In an hour, that promise was broken.'. The bottom layer consisted of about 300 babies and small children whose bodies had been ravished by the humidity and jungle insects. He did what was expected of him. Only two days later did the picture became clear. Layton later was taken into custody by Guyanese authorities who seized a .38-caliber pistol and turned it over to U.S. Embassy officials. Now 58, he owns a modular office furniture business in the East Bay and is married with a daughter. Jim Jr. would lose 15 immediate relatives in Jonestown, including his pregnant wife, Yvette Muldrow. Cobb lost 11 relatives that day, including his mother, youngest brother and four sisters. Speier's right leg had a gaping wound, and her arm was injured. Outside of his career, he has discussed how he is spiritual in his personal life in interviews, like a 2007 one with Canada's The Globe and Mail though his beliefs are different than the fringe Christian ones his father once preached about. He was 18 and running a temple construction crew when the church sanctioned his marriage to a talented 16-year-old singer, Ollie Wideman. He was a genius, and he was unique. Because people were disenchanted with him by that time? He was cleared of any complicity--another Peoples Temple member served a prison sentence for his role in the deaths--but Stephan Jones has come to believe that surviving Guyanese prison somehow braced him for his own re-entry to the world. " Have your feelings toward your father and his role in your life evolved over the years? "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. After that I didnt sleep well last night., I wouldnt say therapeutic. Published: 01:29 EST, 14 November 2018 | Updated: 12:15 EST, 14 November 2018. People do things for him. Stephan Gandhi Jones is the son of Jim Jones, the controversial religious cult leader. His LinkedIn profile indicates that he still has the position of. 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