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Peoples Temple Collection; Box 25, Virtual item 34, Q955pt1- Redwood Valley sermon (1972)

 Digital Record
Identifier: ms-0183_25.34pt1

Dates

  • Digitized: 1972

Creator

Summary Note

Less than a religious sermon or political rally than many gatherings of Peoples Temple, this session is more of a conversation – largely in conversational tones – about what Jim Jones expects out of his followers, out of the church leaders and out of himself. Along the way, he speaks a great deal about his perceptions of sex. He also speaks of the need for total, brutal honesty, but then – in the course of talking about sex – contradicts himself in his statements of fidelity to his wife. Full summary of the recording available at Alternative Considerations of Jonestown website, along with the tape transcript.

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Physical Description Note

Original audio cassette tape recording digitized and made available as .mp3 audio file.

Publisher Note

Publisher: The Jonestown Institute

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections & University Archives Repository

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