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Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor’s Story of Life and Death in the People’s Temple
Deborah Layton was, by her own account, a typical rebellious youth, with nothing in her dossier to indicate that she would eventually find herself in Jim Jones’s People’s Temple in Guyana, looking for a way out of the green hell that had become the People’s Temple Agricultural Project. She barely escaped in June 1978. Within months, more than 900 people drank Jones’s cyanide punch and committed “revolutionary suicide” in the face of mounting stateside pressure on the cult, some of it prompted by Layton’s own testimonials upon her safe return home. Her brother, Larry, also survived, and as one of the few left alive in Guyana became a scapegoat for Jones’s crimes; he is now serving a life sentence in federal prison.
There is a simple naiveté at the root of Seductive Poison. Layton’s own youthful innocence, foremost, but also the desire to trust another person, the need for belonging and meaning, which led so many perfectly normal Americans to place their faith in a suicidal madman. Far from confirming the simplistically monstrous Jones of the public imagination, Layton paints the man as a dark, twisted shaman, by turns soothing, then suddenly malevolent and petty, with a hugely sadistic streak that belied his perfectly coifed hair, expensive suits, and impressive political connections. The scenes in which she describes her escape and flight to safety are wrenching, her last-minute conversation with Jones and his seductive appeal for her to return home to Jonestown are chilling, and her fear and indecision are still palpable on the printed page. For Layton to recount tales this personal and horrifying must have been tremendously difficult. For her to lift those recollections above the bargain-basement freak-show reputation the People’s Temple has achieved in the popular imagination and depict them with the power of great tragedy is nothing but extraordinary. –Tjames Madison
Author: Deborah Layton
Paperback: 368 pages
Company: Anchor (1999-11-09) (1999-11-09)
ISBN: 0385489846
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Alvis eyes win in Courts sponsored tourney Saturday
The Lusignan Golf Course will buzz with activity this weekend when furniture giant Courts Guyana Inc. sponsor Saturday’s Medal Play Golf tournament and none other than Courts Managing Director Lester Alvis is in the lineup. The golfers have been hard at
The electoral system is in need of thorough reform
Essequibo Coast for the registration process for the 195 elections which was the first with adult suffrage in Guyana. Previous elections required either an income or a property qualification to vote. Adult suffrage included thousands of individuals who
Bush Pilot In Diamond Country
Author: Donald Haack
Paperback: 376 pages
Company: Pure Heart Press (2004-07-30)
ISBN: 1930907494
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was expected to join his parents and sister overseas in another few months. 32 Responses to Middleton Street… Guyana Finest at its best! Is only me find dis incident to be a tragic but rather strange one? Me cyant believe dis! Assuming dat dis news
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image and confirm it. 22 Responses to Middleton Street… optimistic pessimist wrote on May 1th, 200 8:0 am Guyana Finest at its best! Is only me find dis incident to be a tragic but rather strange one? Me cyant believe dis! Assuming dat dis news report
