JONESTOWN SURVIVOR: An Insider's Look
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (715 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0054N6ZPM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 342 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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She earned her BA in philosophy/psychology, and then earned her California Teaching Credential. While she was in high school and college, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and others were killed. She and her family live in San Diego, California, and she is a bilingual public school teacher and Quaker. (Publisher iUniverse). She also found some peace by becoming a Quaker. Last March 2010, she published her own book, JONESTOWN SURVIVOR: An Insider’s Look. She is an annual speaker at the Communal Studies Association Conferences, and her scholarly work is published in their Communal Societies Journal. For the first ten years, she lived in Synanon, a residential community. She has written many articles about the details of life in Peoples Temple and her survival. The next twenty years were spent recovering, and rebuilding her life. While exercising her civil rights to protest peacefully, she was tear-gass
I talked to Laura After Reading Her Book I enjoyed Lauras book, but as was stated before, she waxes over the negatives and goes to positive. She needed to belong, hence her association with The Black Panthers, Jonestown, and then Synanon. Now she is a member of The Quakers but is an atheist!?I'm coming from a different perspective because I interviewed Laura on my podcast. She is a lovely woman but when I asked about the White Nights and beatings, she basically said nothing. When asked her about the poor people drinking the poison at gunpoint she said the gunmen were all there friends. GeezI don't know about that one. She then tol. C. K. G. said A personal account more than A personal account more than 30 years in the making I have studied Jonestown and Peoples Temple extensively and there are very few accounts that can be found to synchronize with the official record and also add the missing human touch to the tragedy. Laura Kohl's book has just such touch. The vast majority of the books on the subject, or at least those written from a first person perspective, were written within weeks or months of the tragedy. Some, like Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple, were written decades later, but what makes this book stand out an unlike the previous books is that J. 0 years in the making. I have studied Jonestown and Peoples Temple extensively and there are very few accounts that can be found to synchronize with the official record and also add the missing human touch to the tragedy. Laura Kohl's book has just such touch. The vast majority of the books on the subject, or at least those written from a first person perspective, were written within weeks or months of the tragedy. Some, like Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple, were written decades later, but what makes this book stand out an unlike the previous books is that J. Very little about Jonestown I tried to read it, but gave up about halfway through. There was entirely too much about 'my radical radical life' and almost no facts or true information about the Jonestown massacre itself. I was very disappointed.
It took twenty years for Laura to rebuild her life and have the determination to research this tragedy. Visit her website: jonestownsurvivor. The first ten years were spent in Synanon. Laura's survival was a fluke. About the Author When 914 members of Peoples Temple and four visiting Americans died in Guyana, South America on November 18, 1978, Laura Johnston Kohl survived. After participating with the Black Panthers, and attending Woodstock, Laura moved into Peoples Temple in California in 1970, and was an active and enthusiastic member until the day it ended. . Then, she reunited with many of the other survivors to put the pieces together and to get some understanding. She was one of 87 who lived through the trauma. She moved to Guyana in March 1977. Contact jonestownsurvivor to schedule talks.Laura's presentations at universities, libraries and other locations cover such topics
She is interviewed often by national and international media, most recently the "Voice of Russia" radio program. She frequently traveled between Georgetown and Jonestown, a 24-hour boat ride, but moved into Jonestown in October 1978. Contact jonestownsurvivor to schedule talks.Laura's presentations at universities, libraries and other locations cov