Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Timothy Stoen, who was chief legal adviser to the cult until shortly before Jones moved to Guyana, told TIME that money in Peoples Temple bank accounts around the world could total $20 million. Stoen himself set up two dummy corporations in 1975 for the Peoples Temple in Panama. One of...
According to Stoen, the key to the mystery of the money is Terri Buford, a former mistress of Jones' who left Jonestown and returned to the U.S. about three weeks before the suicides. Buford has been kept in hiding by her attorney, Conspiracy Theorist Mark Lane. Former cult members...
The ex-cultists report that the temple's income last year averaged $250,000 a month, including $60,000 from elderly adherents' Social Security checks. Before Jones and his followers went to Guyana, he had elderly members bused each month to a bank in San Francisco that at...
Attorney Charles Garry, who has represented Jones and the temple since last year, filed papers in San Francisco Superior Court last week to dissolve the temple so that its assets could be used to bury the 911 victims. By Lane's account, however, all of the temple's...
Modern liberal theologians have forgotten the problem of evil," says University of Chicago Philosopher Paul Ricoeur. Is that true, even in the aftermath of a horror like Jonestown? Remarks Yale Divinity School's Barbara Hargrove, "in other ages, what happened to Jim Jones would have been referred to very...