It was all about survival in his domain. He also made sure that the other disciples who were in the capital would do nothing hasty. Stephan Jones did not drink. This June 2016 photo provided by Jim Jones Jr. shows, from left, Ross Jones, 21, Erin Fowler-Jones, Robert Jones, 27, and Ryan Jones, 25, and Jim Jones Jr., in Pacifica, Calif. He loves basketball; he is agile and strong and was tall even before he reached high school. With their lives, the story of Jonestown continues, even now. 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. 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But some lived. Stephan Jones was born on 1 June 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. The murders and suicides were unfolding, 150 miles away. 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. And his sense of self resided in his perception of other peoples perception of him. Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. I crawled until I came to taller bushes and brambles, clawing my way into a pocket in the brush. Do you think people can ever see your father not just as a villain but as a complex figure? We have enabled email notificationsyou will now receive an email if you receive a reply to your comment, there is an update to a comment thread you follow or if a user you follow comments. A black man with a 'corn rows' hairstyle came up to the rear of the truck. 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. "This is really crazy," he recalls thinking. "It's not--such a bad experience," he says. Stephan may be reached at moreheart1@comcast.net. He lives just outside San Francisco and works as an office systems installer, arranging furniture and office interiors. 'Little Jimmy' became part of their 'Rainbow Family' of white, black, Korean-American and Native American children. 'This is really crazy,' he recalls thinking. They had nothing to go back to." He was a genius, and he was unique. Jon was born on January 31, 1975, in Oakland, California. '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. Jim Jones set off one of these panics every few weeks, sometimes keeping people awake all night as he shouted his warnings. Where the machine shop once stood, there was only rusty equipment. 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 younger man demanded that everyone in the truck move aside. They have altogether three daughters. A vat that contained a drink laced with deadly cyanide sits on a sidewalk at Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana in November 1978. "My experience in Jonestown was this: when I first got there I was happy and I was really enjoying myself. Eugene Smith recalls how his mother, a churchgoing African-American, bought into Jim Jones dream after they attended a service in Fresno. It marched for four jailed Fresno newsmen. 1931. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article. "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 told The Washington Post in 1983. "Who they spoke to. Did You Know Soccer Player Crystal Dunns Husband Pierre Soubrier Is A Football Specialist? They are 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. 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. The years have shaped another lesson for Stephan Jones, but it makes him uneasy to talk about it. 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. . . 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). 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. placement: 'Below Article Thumbnails 3rd', "I don't know what was happening . Though it was a stalemate, the incident intensified an already strained situation. Stephan Gandhi Jones is the son of Jim Jones, the controversial religious cult leader. He says his daughters have seen him gnash his teeth when he. You're not taking any more drugs." Those who broke rules were disciplined. So would the congressman and three others. Copyright 2017-2018 Free Articles by ecelebritymirror.com, All rights reserved. In the past, Stephan has also been known as Stephan Gandhi Jones and Stephan G Jones. After more than 22 years at Californias transportation department, Smith retired in 2015. How do you explain the renewed interest in the Peoples Temple? Ryan, his thick gray hair bloodied, was near the front of the plane. It makes him a little crazy sometimes. In this March 5, 2018 photo released by Kevin Kunishi, Jordan Vilchez sits at memorial for mass murder and suicide victims at the Jonestown settlement in Guyana. I did. You'd have to deal with this elite that just revolved their lives around him' . We'd also just seen the warm, cheerful embraces between some of those leaving and some who were staying. 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. The bottom layer consisted of about 300 babies and small children whose bodies had been ravished by the humidity and jungle insects. Everyone was waiting for him to take himself out. 'I believe that it was always a personal agenda for my father, and yes, there was a gradual shift in the balance. "I mellowed out. It would have been like I was a counter-revolutionary, in some sense.". Maybe they saw no hope--because they didn't see themselves leaving, but they didn't want to go on with Jim Jones. 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. Unauthorized distribution, transmission or republication strictly prohibited. Stephanie was one of six victims in the car accident coming back from Cincinatti.Birth name: . Little Jimmy became part of their Rainbow Family of white, black, Korean-American and Native American children. There was a gaping wound in his shoulder and possibly his ribs. Publicity Listings He has been married to Kristi Jones since 1991. We were trying to build a new world, a progressive socialist organization.. He's never remarried, and Martin Luther Smith was his only child. You don't tell God, "You're not going out of the house. 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. And the temple was his life first in Indiana, later in California. 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. On Nov. 18 she was at the temple house when a fanatical Jones aide received a dire radio message from Jonestown. 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. I had been hammered for years with the message that there was an outside threat, and from an early age my father talked about people wanting to bomb us. When he wakes, at dawn or in the middle of the night, it takes him some time to come back. The name Stephan is from the Greek word and it means a crown and garland. Partner : Ava Phenice Jones, aka Ava Phenice Brown, Ava Phenice Cobb. Jonestown was the highlight of his life for a time and he recalls feeling pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana. Stephan believed he was too cowardly to follow through with the oft-threatened revolutionary suicide.. 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. It marched for four jailed Fresno newsmen. Hundreds of corpses were lying on the ground in front of them. 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. On Nov. 18 she was at the temple house when a fanatical Jones aide received a dire radio message from Jonestown. "I say, 'Mom,' " Stephan Jones says, recalling a desperate mother-son huddle toward the end, " 'We're talking about a man who think's he's God. He is talking, in the first of two evenings' long conversations, between spoonfuls of almond chicken at a Chinese restaurant. Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved. 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. This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. For years, Vilchez was ashamed of the part he played in an idealistic group that imploded so terribly. His handshake was weak. ': Golf glamor girl Paige Spiranac defends 'FUNNY' Woods tampon prank after 15-time major winner was forced to apologize, He's still got it! 'Liquidator,' " Stephan Jones remembers being called, as he lay on his prison cot and listened to the mosquitoes swarm. " "The temple was still my only life, and I didn't really see any alternative to it," he says. A bit later the number was revised upward to 408. After Ollie became pregnant, she was sent to Jonestown; Eugene remained behind. He converted to Catholicism and registered Republican. When I left at 21, I left a part of myself there, she said. (Actually, the deadly beverage that day might have been based on a cheaper imitation, Flavor Aid. He says his daughters have seen him gnash his teeth when he talks. Johnny Brown: Taking Care of His Own(2013), This site houses a variety of PDF documents. Wiki User. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. The temple was the only life he knew but says he always had his doubts. Jonestown: It was the bodies that photographers favored most. The Joneses adopted a black baby in Indiana in 1960, and Jim gave the 10-week-old infant his own name. NBC reported that Stephan Jones was the vice president for an office installation company in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2008. 'The temple really became my family,' she said. Quietly the men with the tractor motioned aside a group of curious Guyanese children and other bystanders. Save this record and choose the information you want to add to your family tree. Neither were the White Nights where everyone stayed up, armed with machetes to fight enemies who never arrived. 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. Jim Jones had years earlier conceived his South American settlement as a distant haven where Peoples Temple members could live in communal isolation, protected from unfriendly reporters and all the other enemies Jones denounced through his congregation. I was going back to retrieve that young person and also to say goodbye.. He is married to his wife Kristi Jones since 1991. The picture, he recalls, was about hit men. After the slaughter, Stephan Jones was arrested on suspicion of abetting the mass murder and spent three months in a Guyanese prison. Stephan Jones currently lives in Petaluma, CA; in the past Stephan has also lived in San Rafael CA and Novato CA. When the truck was allowed to pass, we all breathed easier. 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. As a self-taught bulldozer operator, he worked alongside other Peoples Temple members in the humid heat, his blade carving roads and sites for wooden buildings with metal roofs. The shooting triggered the mass murders and suicides in Jonestown of more than 900 people orchestrated by the Rev. Or lost touch with reality? "You can tell when it's a man; the positions are different," Jones says evenly. Even the few people that actually took the poison. Most people were away at the time. More than 900 people lived in the agricultural mission, with its dining pavilion, tidy cottages, school, medical facilities and rows of crops. . Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple, poses for a portrait near San Rafael, Calif. It would become a little town where people of all ages and colours raised food and children. And he would have arrived too late, anyway. He remarried three decades ago, and he and his wife, Erin, raised three sons. While Jonestown: The Women Behind The Massacre focuses on the women who were involved with Jim Jones, Stephan continues to have empathy and love for his mother, who apparently struggled with her husband's affairs. He is an actor, known for Written in Blood (2018), The People's. Over four decades, as they have built new lives, they have struggled with grief and the feeling that they were pariahs. There, as part of Jones' personal security detail, Cobb saw the once captivating minister strung out on drugs. Jim Jones was cultivating his growing celebrity--elected officials visited the San Francisco temple, Mayor George Moscone had used temple members as campaign workers, and much was made of the 1976 photo that showed Jim Jones and Rosalynn Carter together during the Democratic Central Committee meeting in San Francisco. 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. 'There were often thoughts of taking him out but I know I wasnt capable of that kind of thing. Jordan Vilchezs parents were Berkeley progressives in the 1960s her father African-American, her mother Scotch-Irish. 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. On Nov. 18, the day Rep. Leo Ryan and four others were shot to death on the airstrip at Port Caituma, Guyana, Stephan Jones and his teammates went to the movies in Georgetown. 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. And the temple was his life - first in Indiana, later in California. 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." Jones had suffered a setback. "Right off the bat I explain to them that my father was nuts, that he was a drug addict," he says. NBC reporter Don Harris said coolly: 'I think we're in for some trouble.'. He was so wasted most of the time. The tournament was in Georgetown, the Guyanese capital, 150 miles away. }); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; Vilchez was dispatched to the Guyanan capital of Georgetown to raise money. Stephan is the only living son of Jim Jones and his late wife Marceline Jones. Ryan Seacrest, 48, is all smiles with stunning girlfriend Aubrey Paige, 25, as they enjoy Miami shopping trip, a day after it was announced he's being replaced on Live with Kelly and Ryan by Ripa's husband, Who needs Tinder when you've got Duolingo? 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. Stephan helped erect a basketball court and form a team. 'It looks like trouble,' I said to Greg Robinson, but he kept on shooting pictures. (As PEOPLE reported a year after the deaths, two of Stephan's adopted siblings also died at Jonestown.). 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. 'He made a promise - once we get to Jonestown there is no corporal punishment,' Smith said. The 21-year-old Indiana native felt pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana, South America. The silence could mean only one thing: An ambush was awaiting them. 'She gives us the order that were supposed to kill ourselves,' Vilchez recalled. Eugene Smith recalls how his mother, a churchgoing African-American, bought into Jim Jones' dream after they attended a service in Fresno. "I mellowed out." So yes, many people were disenchanted., Im sure he feared it and Im sure he had people telling him it existed. A second plane, a Guyana Airways 24-seater, was coming in for a landing. After that I didnt sleep well last night., I wouldnt say therapeutic. Seating assignments were chosen after Ryan briefed the press on the knife attack and credited Mark Lane with saving his life. I noticed them in real time. Ollie worked in the nursery, and Eugene felled trees. Over four decades, as they have built new lives, they have struggled with grief and the feeling that they were pariahs. From hair trends to relationship advice, our daily newsletter has everything you need to sound like a person whos on TikTok, even if you arent. It was Harris who had been contacted by the first two groups of temple members expressing a desire to leave. Also dead was Bob Brown, the NBC cameraman and the kind of guy who loved action stories. He grew, and discovered basketball. 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. After the temple exodus to Guyana, he was given a public relations post in Georgetown - and was part of the basketball team. 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. American soldiers who arrived discovered that beneath the layer of bodies was another layer, and yet another. You used the word forgiveness, but I find love and compassion for him. John was attending a San Francisco high school when he was allowed to join his best friends in Jonestown. 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. The reunion with Jones was not as joyous. He saw that the jungle would make him a man. Jones wasn't the same man. Another to experience the trauma of Jonestown was Stephan Gandhi Jones, the biological son of Jim and his mistress Marceline. He did.. In Biographical Summaries of Notable People . He said reporters would make the situation worse. They have three children. . 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. 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. 'He started firing at the front and missed the pilot,' said Dale Parks, who left the temple Saturday. He will read it when he is ready, he says. First the Cessna was filled, with Ryan frisking each boarder looking for guns and knives. 1959. | 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. It was he who willed it into being and he who also brought it down with the mass murders and suicides of hundreds. It was planned as a grand event, the Peoples Temple team against the Guyanese national team, and when the Rev. They could leave any time they want.'. Did you ever think there might be a physical threat to yourself? My best guess is that Jones felt the press people weren't fooled by the staged setup at the mission. 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. I mean, here are hundreds and hundreds of people who feel differently than I do--who's right?". 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. 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. That he was just this crazy zealot this entire time. 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. Jim Jones. 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.". . Joining him was an older black man who fingered something in his right pocket. When Smith reunited with his mother and wife in Jonestown, Ollie was 8 months pregnant. 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. Rep. Leo Ryan, D-San Mateo, had come to the temple's agricultural project to determine whether the followers of Jones were free to leave the jungle settlement. 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