Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. They have a total of three daughters. He grew, and discovered basketball. Though he waved and smiled at Peoples Temple services, seemingly enraptured like the rest, Stephan Gandhi Jones says he always had his doubts. This past year, she returned to long-overgrown Jonestown. Jim Jones. "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. "I don't know. When the prodigals visited, the Cobbs kept it secret from Jones. 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. He saw that the jungle would make him a man. And his sense of self resided in his perception of other peoples perception of him. I made that last trip with him and he made me stay in Jonestown. Peoples Temple lost the game, but only by 10 points, which seemed worth celebrating. Then, after a 1977 New West magazine expose of temple disciplinary beatings and other abuses, she was sent to Jonestown. Then there were just a few. As a San Francisco high school student, he was dispatched to help build Jonestown. 'The temple really became my family,' she said. Four granite slabs are etched with names of the 918 people who died in Guyana- including James Warren Jones, which deeply offends some whose relatives perished. But the entertainers stayed in Jonestown to entertain Ryan. Stephan Jones was born on June 1, 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA as Stephan Gandhi Jones. For the young Caucasian, there was more: "The white man was so preached against by my father as a way of winning black people, and here I am a white man, feeling like everybody resents me and I have something to apologize for," he says. How could that be suicide? "I always explain to them that it's not what people think--it wasn't a bunch of starry-eyed people in line waiting to take the potion . Vilchez returned to Jonestown for the first time in 40 years. He said he considered it a failing on his part when he did. Now, Stephan is a father of three daughters, ages 16, 25 and 29, and works in the office furniture installation business, Eugene Smith recalls how his mother, a churchgoing African-American, bought into Jim Jones' dream when he opened a new church in Fresno. 1978. stephan gandhi jones. 'Like everyone else, he died there,' his son said. "By that time, I know, he was way off into drugs, and his perspective was so warped," Stephan Jones says. They also killed their dogs. Is this surge in public interest in Jonestown an exhausting experience for you? He will read it when he is ready, he says. Rebelling, they refused Jones order to come back. I dont think he went from being an altruistic, selfless, humble man to what he became. With their lives, the story of Jonestown continues, even now. The years are slowly weaning Stephan Jones from Jonestown; he reads, goes to movies, wants now to have a child of his own. Read more about cookies here. 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. The first attacks on the town, I thought they were real. "You can tell when it's a man; the positions are different," Jones says evenly. But the boy was still a child of the Temple. He is married to his wife Kristi Jones since 1991. 'Baby killer. ': Golf glamor girl Paige Spiranac defends 'FUNNY' Woods tampon prank after 15-time major winner was forced to apologize, He's still got it! 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. You used the word forgiveness, but I find love and compassion for him. "I mellowed out." He did.'. Four decades later, Americans often use this phrase in political and business contexts without knowing its origin. She and Jim were the first caucasian couple in Indiana to adopt an African American . But in 1973, Johns oldest brother and a sister, along with six other California college students, quit the church and became its enemies. He's never remarried, and Martin Luther Smith was his only child. He was just 14, Stephan Jones and some other team members believe they might have changed history if they were there. Four granite slabs are etched with names of the 918 people who died in Guyana including James Warren Jones, which deeply offends some whose relatives perished. _taboola.push({ She returned to Jonestown for the first time in 40 years in March, Jordan Vilchez poses for a portrait in Richmond, California last week. He seems to have a tragic life after what had happened with his family. They were playing in a tournament in Georgetown, Guyana about 150 miles from Jonestown and were still in Guyana's capital when the murder-suicide occurred. 'Everyone participated in it and because of that, it went as far as it did,' she said. He built a long career in health care, while weathering his own serious health problems. He is talking, in the first of two evenings' long conversations, between spoonfuls of almond chicken at a Chinese restaurant. Ollie worked in the nursery, and Eugene felled trees. Stephan Gandhi Jones was the biological son of Jim and Marceline Jones. "My experience in Jonestown was this: when I first got there I was happy and I was really enjoying myself. Like everyone else, he died there, his son said. After Ollie became pregnant, she was sent to Jonestown; Eugene remained behind. But after temple gunmen killed the congressman, three newsmen and a church defector on the Port Kaituma airstrip, Jones ordered a poisoned grape-flavored drink administered to children first. "I don't care what you think of my father," Jones wrote in 2015. But the entertainers stayed in Jonestown to entertain Ryan. For 19 of his 24 years, they were all he knew. Forty years ago this week, a California congressman and a group of journalists traveled to Guyana, South America, to see Jonestown, a remote settlement created by an American church, and investigate reports of abuses of members. Rebelling, they refused Jones' order to come back. Jim Jones (1931-1978) and Marceline Jones (1927-1978). Do not sell or share my personal information. He promised that he wouldnt. 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. At the far end of the strip sat a yellow government plane. When he brushed away the mist below him he saw that it was a lifeless human limb. He was the son of Jim Jones, who established Jonestown. He would rise before dawn, pick his way into the bush, and sit without moving as the quiet around him split slowly into bird cries and insect buzzing and the scuffling and calling of creatures he could not see. Over four decades, as they have built new lives, they have struggled with grief and the feeling that they were pariahs. He fired at me, but it misfired. Ryan had planned to remain behind at the mission with several members who wished to return to the United States but couldn't get seating on the planes. A bullet ripped through my left forearm. Stephan was around 17 years old when he moved to Jonestown in February 1977 to help build the compound. In a telephone interview he sounds serene, though it cant be easy for him to talk about the tragedy that took his parents, a number of his siblings and many of his friends. Some had the distinct impression that the two were close to opening fire on the truck. To really understand Israel and the Middle East - subscribe to Haaretz, 'My father was ill from when he was very young and was using fear to control me when I was barely more than a toddler. Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. Stephan Jones was a nearly full-grown teen-ager when his father sent him to the Peoples Temple agricultural mission in the small South American coastal country of Guyana. 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." 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. Then they could identify and allow themselves to step into the story and understand how such a thing could happen. All I can do is tell what I saw and heard. Life became more tolerable after the couple's baby, Martin Luther Smith, was born. Stephan is among one of the Late Jim Jones sons survivors and he is still disturbed by those past events. Stephan Jones did not drink. container: 'taboola-right-rail-thumbnails', Jones had suffered a setback. His biggest regrets revolve around the teams refusal to return to Jonestown. When the truck was allowed to pass, we all breathed easier. Those who broke rules were disciplined. 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. People ask, How can you ever be proud of your father? he said. Jim Jones. And all of the children died first. I think that Ill pick two. When Jim Sr., a local Democratic Party darling, met with future first lady Rosalynn Carter, Jim Jr. proudly went along. So much was attractive and unique that we turned a blind eye on what was wrong, he said, including his fathers sexual excesses, drug abuse and rants. target_type: 'mix' The 40th anniversary is offering Americans an opportunity to deal with this neglected sore, with the story receiving treatment in both book and documentary form, a story of a trajectory from charismatic preacher and leader to head of a murderous cult. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. Swollen to bursting, that was the corpse of Jim Jones, the man who had conducted this concert of death. 'I believe that it was always a personal agenda for my father, and yes, there was a gradual shift in the balance. The temple really became my family, she said. Jim Jones had adopted other children, gathering around him what he liked to call his "rainbow family"--Stephan's brothers and sisters were black and Korean--but Stephan remembers days spent mostly by himself: there was a cleared-out place in the underbrush where he could crouch and become Hercules, or a soldier of war. But mention "Jim Jones" and "Jonestown" and many people would make the connection. For moreEntertainment,Celebrity BabiesfolloweCelebrityMirror. My mother got me an apartment, I got a job and my father came and tried to talk me into coming back. And he just went unchecked. For years it was largely forgotten along with a number of other insanities in the United States in the 1970s. The tournament was in Georgetown, the Guyanese capital, 150 miles away. This November 1978 file photo shows the bodies of Peoples Temple mass suicide victims led by Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana. But Stephan was the biological son of Jim and Marceline Jones. 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. File photo: Bodies of Peoples Temple mass suicide victims led by Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana, November 1978. All the people who lay there around him had followed him. But the reality is that it was far from a mass suicide. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple. 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. And when her 23-year-old sister joined, Jordan went to live with her at age 12. But she wasn't in the truck and the men left. Stephan Jones was born on June 1, 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He is now a 65-year-old grandfather who has worked for a Miami hydraulics company for nearly 30 years, Jordan Vilchez, pictured sitting at a memorial for mass murder and suicide victims at the Jonestown settlement in Guyana, moved to Jonestown to 1977. Trailers, a few clearings and some wood or pole-and-canvas buildings were all that marked the Jonestown settlement when Stephan Jones arrived. More than a few bottles of rum were consumed or poured on wounds. mode: 'thumbnails-a', Recent interviews with Stephan include: "Son of Anarchist: My Father, Jim Jones, and What the . You're not taking any more drugs." In this Nov. 13, 2008 file photo, Stephan Jones, son of Rev. 'I was going back to retrieve that young person and also to say goodbye.'. We used curtains for bandages. "The temple was still my only life, and I didn't really see any alternative to it," he says. Most people were away at the time. Jim Jones had said as a tropical storm rained on the Peoples Temple pavilion. And I dont know that he could actually have done that. This figure, though shocking, gave room for hope maybe the remaining hundreds of people of the colony had fled into the jungle and were saved. There, as part of Jones' personal security detail, Cobb saw the once captivating minister strung out on drugs, afraid to venture anywhere for fear of his legal problems. Not so many people died. Stephan Jones was born on 06/01/1959 and is 63 years old. "It was the first thing I really worked hard for. Mr. Jones -- his first name is pronounced Stephen; Marceline Jones spelled it Stephan to honour the memory of an adopted daughter, Stephanie, who died in a car accident -- claims to be. I want out of this.' 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. "And it could happen to anybody.". 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. 'I'm real happy to be getting out,' Layton volunteered, then lapsed into a stare. He was 18 and running a temple construction crew when the church sanctioned his marriage to a talented 16-year-old singer, Ollie Wideman. His wife has learned at those moments to let him be. So yes, many people were disenchanted., Im sure he feared it and Im sure he had people telling him it existed. He climbed aboard the truck and we took off. 'Let's go!' I said there must be another way.. I focused my rage on Dad and his circle, rather than deal with me, he said. After the massacre, Layton strolled back to the area. White devil.' Jim Jones (1931-1978) and Marceline Jones (1927-1978). Jordan Vilchez's parents were Berkeley progressives in the 1960s - her father African-American, her mother Scotch-Irish. It makes him a little crazy sometimes. . You used the word forgiveness, but I find love and compassion for him. 'He made a promise - once we get to Jonestown there is no corporal punishment,' Smith said. I got the gun. Vilchez was dispatched to the Guyanan capital of Georgetown to raise money. At first it was spanking of children. The only surviving child of Jim Jones, Stephan was born on June 1, 1959, in Indiana, USA. Don't take my baby!'. It would become a little town where people of all ages and colors raised food and children. Write by: . I would argue that the means justify the end, but not the other way around.. I jumped up and fought for the gun. placement: 'Below Article Thumbnails 3rd', We were trying to build a new world, a progressive socialist organization.. The rest of us were accommodated in a private home. "I don't even know who my loved ones were with when they died," he says softly. He thinks now that it is probably stupid to believe that. Jones, who asked his followers to call him 'Dad,' did not like to lose any of his 'children.' He does not know. Stephan Jones Seeks Forgiveness For Jonestown Massacre, Late Jim Jones Son Stephan Jones Is An Actor. placement: 'Below Article Thumbnails 2nd', . Cobb lost 11 relatives that day, including his mother, youngest brother and four sisters. Plunged into a new world, those raised in the temple or who joined as teens lost the only life they knew: church, jobs, housing and most of all, family and friends. Layton later was taken into custody by Guyanese authorities who seized a .38-caliber pistol and turned it over to U.S. Embassy officials. tap here to see other videos from our team. When John Cobb was born in 1960 in a black section of Indianapolis, his mother and older siblings already were temple members. We couldn't know then that the grim little world of this sick man would shatter within hours, taking hundreds of his followers to their deaths. 'Hit the deck!' 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. 29. I'll kill you! ", Throughout the 40 years since the deaths at Jonestown, Stephan has been willing to give media interviews. Partner : Ava Phenice Jones, aka Ava Phenice Brown, Ava Phenice Cobb. Though it was a stalemate, the incident intensified an already strained situation. Siblings by adoption include Agnes Paulette Jones (1943-1978); Stephan Gandhi Jones(Born 1959); Jimmy Jones, Jr. aka James Warren Jones, Jr.(born 1960); and Timothy Tupper aka Timothy Glenn Tupper Jones, Tim "Day" Jones (1959-1978). He asked me to make one last mission with him to Jonestown. But after temple gunmen killed the congressman, three newsmen and a church defector on the Port Kaituma airstrip, Jones ordered a poisoned grape-flavoured drink administered to children first. Published: 01:29 EST, 14 November 2018 | Updated: 12:15 EST, 14 November 2018. that one last act would be admitting he was a coward, and about nothing. Stephan believed he was too cowardly to follow through with the oft-threatened revolutionary suicide.. I just have to love him and forgive him.. His father, finally, is beginning to let go. He is a businessman in Northern California, married, with three daughters. Plunged into a new world, those raised in the temple or who joined as teens lost the only life they knew: church, jobs, housing - and most of all, family and friends. Because people were disenchanted with him by that time? Rev. His son was not among the boosters. 'I just have to love him and forgive him.'. His father spoke so ardently about his own self-sacrifice; Stephan Jones saw the specially prepared steaks and the color television, and in the temple apartment where they lived, he grew accustomed to glimpses of his father having sex with temple members--sometimes women, sometimes men. "Because then it would have been like, 'I'm running out on these people. At 16, she was put on the Planning Commission where the meetings were a strange mix of church business, sex talk and adulation for Jones. And he faked getting shot in Redwood Valley [California] when I was still pretty young, and we felt like we were in danger much of the time. 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. Where the machine shop once stood, there was only rusty equipment. Jim Jr. would lose 15 immediate relatives in Jonestown, including his pregnant wife, Yvette Muldrow. 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. Stephan Gandhi Jones. My companion, Examiner photographer Greg Robinson, would be murdered in an ambush. 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. And there was more social rhetoric and action in my life and a lot more fear. After the incident, Stephan was put into jail for three months and that led him to drug addiction. 'She gives us the order that were supposed to kill ourselves,' Vilchez recalled. Stephan Jones, Jim Jones's sole surviving child, was born in Indiana, United States, on June 1, 1959. It was just more controlled. The reports were wrong, they say. NBC reported that Stephan Jones was the vice president for an office installation company in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2008. They were at a basketball tournament five years ago, in November 1978 when the congressman and the reporters came to Jonestown. The only sounds they heard came from the jungle animals going about their business. I believe that it was always a personal agenda for my father, and yes, there was a gradual shift in the balance. We're talking 30 people, but that's a lot of people to be looking over your shoulder.". 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. Temple attorneys Charles Garry and Mark Lane, along with Ryan, subdued the man. By the time Stephan Jones was 16, his father had moved the family to the big temple building in a black neighborhood of San Francisco, where politicians and black leaders had begun paying considerable attention to Jim Jones' racially mixed congregation and fervently preached exhortations to adjust society under a socialist god. My best guess is that Jones felt the press people weren't fooled by the staged setup at the mission. Did you ever think there might be a physical threat to yourself? Gandhi is an Indian word meaning Pharmacist. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Stephan Gandhi Jonesis the son of the notorious religious cult leaderJim Jones. So yes there were often thoughts of taking him out but I know I wasnt capable of that kind of thing. The people are elderly and he knows he must stop it, but he cannot make contact with them; they look at him as though from great distances. Jones, 44, is the only biological son of Jim Jones and his wife Marceline Baldwin who founded the cult behind Jonestown. But some lived. 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. They were shooting to kill, not just to stop us from leaving. And I looked around and there were at least 15 people looking at me. After that I didnt sleep well last night., I wouldnt say therapeutic. Yes. I found relief in the woods and rivers and creeks, and I got away as often as I could, but there was always a low-level anxiety that I only really can identify now.. He was in Georgetown, Guyana on November 18, 1978 with the Jonestown Basketball Team. People raced over to the outdoor pavilion. Is Kristie Mewis Dating the Aussie Star Sam Kerr? "He used to say that I would acquire his gift in my late years. "I was building me a place, too," he says. Fear of an external threat was a major component of your fathers philosophy. Court Records. Its nose wheel had been broken the week before and four soldiers were guarding it with M-I6 rifles. He built a long career in health care, while weathering his own serious health problems. A while later, the young temple escort on the tailgate shook his head and said: 'I don't understand why they did it this way. Now, Stephan Jones is the father of three daughters, ages 16, 25 and 29, and works in the office furniture installation business. "I don't think his own ego would let him run out on that toward the very end," he says. He sought treatment, and eventually, the father of three settled into a quiet life in California. Toward the end, as he watched the array of barbiturates, amphetamines and tranquilizers that now slurred his father's speech and sometimes left him physically unable to leave the Jonestown house, Stephan Jones says murder seemed almost redundant. Visit our Community Guidelines for more information and details on how to adjust your email settings. His biggest regrets revolve around the team's refusal to return to Jonestown. When more than 900 people were killed at Jonestown by consuming punch laced with cyanide on Nov. 18, 1978, Stephan was not at the settlement founded by his father. | Jim Jones, pictured in 1976,dreamed up Jonestown. More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Resume Born June 1, 1959 Add to list Photos Known for The People's Advocate: The Life & Times of Charles R. Garry 7.0 Self - Interviewee 2007 P3 Dokumentr . Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. I see it in politics, I see it in advertising, I see it in a variety of places, and I feel theres no more pernicious or toxic belief than that. Even the few people that actually took the poison. 'If anything, we felt pity for him,' he said, 'and it grew into a dislike, maybe hate.'. 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