Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple Page #2
A friend of mine told me that
he saw Jimmy kill a cat with a knife.
was a little strange,
killing the animal was very strange.
Jimmys father did not work,
did not have a job, and was a drunk.
Jims mother had to work
in order to support the family.
And he was kind of
left to his own devices.
Kind of the kid who ran wild
in the street, you know what I mean?
Listen, he was in a
dysfunctional family.
We got a nice name for it now.
But when you live
in a dysfunctional family,
you think its normal.
Feeling as an outcast,
Id early developed a sensitivity
for the problems of blacks.
I brought the only black
young man in the town home
and my dad said that
he could not come in
and I said, Then I shant,
and I did not see my dad for many years.
In Lynn, Jim Jones looked for community
and couldnt find community,
in Lynn as a town... which had a
population of what, a thousand people?
But he did find community
in the Pentecostal Church.
He saw that they were
a surrogate home.
He saw that the preachers were like
father figures to their congregations.
And that role represented power
over the lives of your congregation.
on the revival preaching circuit,
learning the ropes of
being a preacher.
And once he started doing that,
he could get a following.
The first time I met Jim Jones
was Easter 1953.
My mother-in-law, Edith Cordell,
had a monkey and it hung itself
and she wanted to
replace the monkey.
So she looked in theIndianapolis Star,
and in thatIndianapolis Star
was Jim Joness ad
that he had some monkeys to sell.
So it was through that
that she met Jim Jones,
and came back saying that
he had invited her to church
this next Sunday.
It didnt make no difference
what color you were.
It was everybody welcome there
in that church
and he made it very plain
from the platform.
We had some people
that disagreed with Jimmy.
They got up in the audience
and they said they disagreed with him.
They did not like this
integration part of the services.
We did ask people to leave the church
adopted by a Caucasian family
in the state of Indiana.
Jim and Marceline actually
went to adopt a Caucasian child.
The story goes that
I was crying real loud
and it drew attention
for Marceline to come over,
and once she picked me up,
I stopped crying.
My family was a template
of a rainbow family.
We had an African American,
we had two American Asian
and we had his
natural son, homemade.
Jim was breaking new ground
in race relations
at a time when the ground was
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