'I'm not saying he didn't cause it, create it. 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. It would have been like I was a counter-revolutionary, in some sense.". And he would have arrived too late, anyway. They divorced when Jordan was 6. 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. But Stephan was the biological son of Jim and Marceline Jones. I crawled until I came to taller bushes and brambles, clawing my way into a pocket in the brush. The bottom layer consisted of about 300 babies and small children whose bodies had been ravished by the humidity and jungle insects. I wondered why it happened. Jones wasn't the same man. It appeared in the Examiner on Nov. 20, 1978, two days after the tragedy: San Francisco Examiner reporter Tim Reiterman (left)was wounded in the airstrip shooting. Stephan ran to the U.S. Embassy and appealed for a helicopter to take him to the colony to try to stop the disaster, but no one listened. In the days before Ryan's fact-finding mission to the settlement, the players were in Georgetown for a tourney with the Guyana national teams. Alongside it was a red tractor and trailer seen earlier at the mission. 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. But of course Dad was most terrified about anybody turning against him because it really screwed with the illusion that he had created. The note said: 'Please help us get out of Jonestown.' At the far end of the strip sat a yellow government plane. 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. Jim Jr., followed that July and was 16 years old at the time. So yes there were often thoughts of taking him out but I know I wasnt capable of that kind of thing. . Meanwhile, the tractor, with several men in the trailer, rolled toward the terminal shack and halted a short distance away. Over four decades, as they have built new lives, they have struggled with grief and the feeling that they were pariahs. It won't work.' My mother got me an apartment, I got a job and my father came and tried to talk me into coming back. After more than 22 years at California's transportation department, Smith retired in 2015. In "Raven," Reiterman and Jacobs describe the minister presenting the congregation with a batch of fruit punch: "We're going to drink poison and kill ourselves," Jim Jones declared, and it was not until many people had drunk that Jones said he had simply wished to test his followers' loyalty. Garry (2007) and The Real Story (2002). It would become a little town where people of all ages and colours raised food and children. Five others were wounded seriously. But even Stephan Jones never imagined that death would come the way it did, so redolent of madness and evil, so savage that a kind of panic still crawls into his voice when he talks about it. You used the word forgiveness, but I find love and compassion for him. Four granite slabs are etched with names of the 918 people who died in Guyana including James Warren Jones, which deeply offends some whose relatives perished. "He used to say that I would acquire his gift in my late years. What would you say is the biggest misconception people have about the Peoples Temple or your father? 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. As the larger plane landed, the temple truck, with several persons in the back, started to advance. Marceline and Jim had one biological child together, and Stephan Jones appears in Jonestown: The Women Behind The Massacre. Stephan believed he was too cowardly to follow through with the oft-threatened 'revolutionary suicide.'. The years have shaped another lesson for Stephan Jones, but it makes him uneasy to talk about it. Joining him was an older black man who fingered something in his right pocket. He also made sure that the other disciples who were in the capital would do nothing hasty. We didnt see that coming. All these lives were wasted and I don't know why. He was not prepared for suicide. Stephan Jones, Jim Jones's sole surviving child, was born in Indiana, United States, on June 1, 1959. Others had joined in San Francisco and continued with him to the promised land in the South American jungle. 'When I left at 21, I left a part of myself there,' she said. He will read it when he is ready, he says. Stephans address on November 18, 2018 at the 40th Anniversary Memorial Service at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, California is here. 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. Another to experience the trauma of Jonestown was Stephan Gandhi Jones, the biological son of Jim and his mistress Marceline. ", The thought of killing Jim Jones had occurred to his son, but Stephan never tried to do it. They must be prepared to die in the defense of socialism. More than 300 Jonestown victims were children. Relatives & Associates. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. 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. Yes. He was just 14, Stephan Jones and some other team members believe they might have changed history if they were there. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article. John was attending a San Francisco high school when he was allowed to join his best friends in Jonestown. Stephan Gandhi Joneswas the biological son of Jim and Marceline Jones. Gandhi is an Indian word meaning Pharmacist. They have altogether three daughters. And she could only sense the site of the pavilion, the once-vibrant centre of Jonestown life where so many died including her two sisters and two nephews. 'She gives us the order that were supposed to kill ourselves,' Vilchez recalled. Oh yeah, I think you can see that from my writing. Stephan Jones was 6 years old, the only biological child of James and Marceline Baldwin Jones, when his father moved from Indiana to northern California with his family and 140 of the parishioners who had come to believe there was something extraordinary about the Rev. 'The temple really became my family,' she said. Stephan is the only living son of Jim Jones and his late wife Marceline Jones. The reunion with Jones was not as joyous. With their lives, the story of Jonestown continues, even now. "I don't even know who my loved ones were with when they died," he says softly. 2010-10-03 19:23:36. Anthony Katsaris, brother of Jim Jones aide Maria Katsaris, was wounded in the chest. . He led the Peoples Temple, a new religious movement, between 1955 and 1978. For years, Vilchez was ashamed of the part she played in the Peoples Temple, an idealistic group that imploded so terribly. In the past, Stephan has also been known as Stephan Gandhi Jones and Stephan G Jones. In code, his father told him everyone was going to die in 'revolutionary suicide. The temple was the only life he knew but says he always had his doubts. Maybe they saw no hope--because they didn't see themselves leaving, but they didn't want to go on with Jim Jones. At first it was spanking of children. When Smith reunited with his mother and wife in Jonestown, Ollie was 8 1/2 months pregnant. Dozens of members in Guyana slipped out of Jonestown or happened to be away that day. They were shooting to kill, not just to stop us from leaving. 'We think he's got a gun. He plucked my ego strings, making me feel like he needed me to help him on this mission, but I refused. Jones berated three other new arrivals for misbehaviour on the trip; they were beaten and forced to work 24 hours straight. 'What we were calling the cause really was Jim,' she said. "There's just nothing like it," he says. . So in my view, even the good works and things he championed were in some way not as pure as folks want to think. I make a point of avoiding pointing fingers and giving specific names. "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.". The slaughter at Jonestown was the worst civilian tragedy in U.S. history before September 11, 2001. None of it makes sense. But some lived. For years, Vilchez was ashamed of the part she played in an idealistic group that imploded so terribly. Stephan may be reached at moreheart1@comcast.net. So would the congressman and three others. 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. I want out of this.' 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. "My experience in Jonestown was this: when I first got there I was happy and I was really enjoying myself. placement: 'Below Article Thumbnails 3rd', When a friend invited her family to Peoples Temple's wine country church, they were impressed by the integrated community. It marched for four jailed Fresno newsmen. Contact & Personal Details. But she wasn't in the truck and the men left. Stephan Jones did not drink. Neither were the White Nights where everyone stayed up, armed with machetes to fight enemies who never arrived. When he wakes, at dawn or in the middle of the night, it takes him some time to come back. Ollie worked in the nursery, and Eugene felled trees. For years it was largely forgotten along with a number of other insanities in the United States in the 1970s. The shots still were popping at an amazing clip. We'd also just seen the warm, cheerful embraces between some of those leaving and some who were staying. His father, finally, is beginning to let go. And I had good reason to be enraged with him I was enraged long before he died, and openly so. Jim Jones (1931-1978) and Marceline Jones (1927-1978). And I think he genuinely cared about those things, but my understanding of my father just from my own experience and stories is that unconsciously he was always primarily managing other peoples perception of him. What they said. Is Kristie Mewis Dating the Aussie Star Sam Kerr? 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. This answer is: Study guides. Thank goodness he lived before me.". But the entertainers stayed in Jonestown to entertain Ryan. Of course, even if he wanted to forget Jonestown, his name was an ever-present reminder. Jim Jones had said as a tropical storm rained on the Peoples Temple pavilion. He said he considered it a failing on his part when he did. Peoples Temple lost the game, but only by 10 points, which seemed worth celebrating. Comments may take up to an hour for moderation before appearing on the site. Stephan Jones' mother was one of those found dead from cyanide poisoning. They don't normally believe it at first. Stephan Jones currently lives in Petaluma, CA; in the past Stephan has also lived in San Rafael CA and Novato CA. I noticed them in real time. Though it was a stalemate, the incident intensified an already strained situation. They have altogether three daughters. 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. He was a genius, and he was unique. To cope, he says he abused drugs and exercised obsessively. I think there are people who are interested in it because of whats going on in the world. After the massacre, Layton strolled back to the area. " He smiles, imitates the sudden mask of disbelief. " | And I dont know if it was paranoia. 'There is no way we would be shooting at the airstrip. Do not sell or share my personal information. Which probably wasnt true. I mean, I saw things and was privy to things . Harris, a Los Angeles-based NBC investigative reporter who covered the fall of Saigon and the Nicaragua rebellion, had been killed. Seating assignments were chosen after Ryan briefed the press on the knife attack and credited Mark Lane with saving his life. Stephan Gandhi Jones is the son of the notorious religious cult leader Jim Jones. mode: 'thumbnails-a', Id rather just talk about what didnt work and hope that people can see that in their own lives. "I was building me a place, too," he says. But he was also very loving, especially during the early period'. 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. The therapy that has been helpful to me hasnt been by talking with strangers about it. I think that Ill pick two. As outlined in the above video, he was featured in the History Channel's 2007 documentary Jonestown: Paradise Lost and has written for the website Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple, which is run by San Diego State University. Stephan believed he was too cowardly to follow through with the oft-threatened revolutionary suicide.. Like why would they follow such a madman and to such a crazy final act, and we probably know by now that it wasnt a mass suicide, but thats how it has been portrayed.. When John Cobb was born in 1960 in a black section of Indianapolis, his mother and older siblings already were temple members. 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). They were under siege, Jim Jones would cry; the snipers were after him; the Guyanese army was about to descend; the children would be taken away and probably tortured. 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. In this Nov. 13, 2008 file photo, Stephan Jones, son of Rev. 29. Stephanie was one of six victims in the car accident coming back from Cincinatti.Birth name: . After the temple exodus to Guyana, he was given a public relations post in Georgetown - and was part of the basketball team. My companion, Examiner photographer Greg Robinson, would be murdered in an ambush. 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. In a recent interview, he revealed that he was sober. The only sounds they heard came from the jungle animals going about their business. 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 . However, they have moved on with their life. That's what triggered it.'. 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. The guy you see in all the images. 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. Listen, not long before, we went to play basketball. They divorced when Jordan was six. But some lived. After more than 22 years at Californias transportation department, Smith retired in 2015. "I just felt like this was all they had," he says. 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. But Stephan was the biological son of Jim and Marceline Jones. I get it, Im not upset about that. Jim Jones charismatic, volatile and ultimately evil. In what he called "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. Fear of an external threat was a major component of your fathers philosophy. Trailers, a few clearings and some wood or pole-and-canvas buildings were all that marked the Jonestown settlement when Stephan Jones arrived. 'Hit the deck!' We apologize, but this video has failed to load. All had been captivated by his promises of a model socialist society based on equality and love under his leadership. Stephan helped erect a basketball court and form a team. So yes, many people were disenchanted., Im sure he feared it and Im sure he had people telling him it existed. 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. After the slaughter, Stephan Jones was arrested on suspicion of abetting the mass murder and spent three months in a Guyanese prison. The younger man demanded that everyone in the truck move aside. _taboola.push({ I had been up all night unloading boats and I had to be at work in a couple of hours so I lay down for two hours of sleep after backbreaking and dangerous work, and Dad comes on the speaker in the wee hours of the morning. I was going back to retrieve that young person and also to say goodbye.. According to his 1983 interview with The Washington Post, he was in this line of work even back then. 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. James Warren Jones and his wife, Marceline. I believe that it was always a personal agenda for my father, and yes, there was a gradual shift in the balance. This is really crazy, he recalls thinking. In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, former Peoples Temple member Eugene Smith poses for a photo in a park in San Francisco. And as the years go on, Stephan is still willing to talk about his connection to one of the biggest tragedies in American history even as he tries to live a peaceful life far removed from Jonestown. In this Nov. 13, 2008 file photo, Stephan Jones, son of Rev. Finally, attorneys for both Ryan and the temple decreed that the courtroom was the proper place to decide the custody issue. 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. "Because then it would have been like, 'I'm running out on these people. Then, after a 1977 New West magazine expose of temple disciplinary beatings and other abuses, she was sent to Jonestown. . Former Peoples Temple member Jim Jones Jr. carries a bucket of bleached rocks to place around the edges of the Jonestown victim memorial in the Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, California, Jim Jones Jr. was adopted by the Joneses in Indiana in 1960. "By that time, I know, he was way off into drugs, and his perspective was so warped," Stephan Jones says. I mean, here are hundreds and hundreds of people who feel differently than I do--who's right?". 'Liquidator,' " Stephan Jones remembers being called, as he lay on his prison cot and listened to the mosquitoes swarm. " He's never remarried, and Martin Luther Smith was his only child. 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. "I'm blessed to have hit enough of a bottom and to have been surrounded by amazing, wonderful, honest, compassionate and challenging people to see me through that," Stephan said. Now, Stephan Jones is father of three daughters, ages 16, 25 and 29, and works in the office furniture installation business. 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. 1931. When people ask about his past, he says he was "overseas," or "in volunteer service." The reason that I have agreed to talk to as many people as I have is because of that. container: 'taboola-below-article-thumbnails-3rd', He was 18 and running a temple construction crew when the church sanctioned his marriage to a talented 16-year-old singer, Ollie Wideman. After all, we had seen things we weren't supposed to see. There is no way we would be shooting at the airstrip. Other people were injured. What Are Essential Oils and Do They Work. Now, Stephan Jones is father of three daughters, ages 16, 25 and 29, and works in the office furniture installation business. 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. Instead of finishing high school, Vilchez moved to San Francisco, where she lived in the church. , MoKal . 'I said there must be another way.'. "And it could happen to anybody.". He was ill from when he was very young and was using fear to control me when I was barely more than a toddler. He converted to Catholicism and registered Republican. The only surviving child of Jim Jones, Stephan was born on June 1, 1959, in Indiana, USA. STEPHAN Gandhi Jones is - in the eyes of the world - the son of a mass murderer. They have altogether three daughters. The next day, when soldiers of the Guyanese army, one of the most ragged in South America, hesitantly entered the Jonestown compound, they were blinded by the thick morning mist. 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. Springing to my feet, I ran 40 yards across the runway. File photo: Stephan Jones, son of Rev. He has learned to train a particular kind of eye on himself, on his own imposing presence, the handsome face, the instinct for gently taking hold of a conversation and pulling it where he wants it to go. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Stephan Gandhi Jonesis the son of the notorious religious cult leaderJim Jones. "I got sick of the same speeches, the insisting people stay awake, the constantly testing people." 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