Left Coast Writers® Book Launch
And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers from Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown, by Judy Bebelaar begins in San Francisco at the small school where Reverend Jim Jones enrolled the teens of his Peoples Temple church in 1976. Within a year, most had been sent to join Jones and other congregants in what Jones promised was a tropical paradise based on egalitarian values, but which turned out to be a deadly prison camp. Many of these powerful stories are told here for the first time.
Left Coast Writers® Book Launch
And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers from Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown, by Judy Bebelaar begins in San Francisco at the small school where Reverend Jim Jones enrolled the teens of his Peoples Temple church in 1976. Within a year, most had been sent to join Jones and other congregants in what Jones promised was a tropical paradise based on egalitarian values, but which turned out to be a deadly prison camp. Many of these powerful stories are told here for the first time.
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