Nine hundred eighteen Americans did not just one day decide to commit suicide en mass. There was considerable history and manipulation behind the scenes—and when the cult was still in California, the teenagers went to a high school in the nearby town. This book is a somber memorial of the children who were lost, written by one of their teachers.

And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown

History

Bebelaar, Judy

Cabral, Ron

Americas

Microcosm Pub

Sky Holding Fall

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Blue Light Press

Review\nThis book humanizes such a horrific tragedy by inviting readers to become well acquainted with these teenagers - so many of whom were killed in the mass murder-suicide. Before they were victims of a crazed religious leader, they were just kids-with the hopes and dreams common to children everywhere. By reading about them, we honor their memories. 
- Julia Scheeres, author of A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown\nMany people have forgotten about these Jonestown deaths and many others have never learned about them in the first place. This book is an antidote to that forgetfulness by putting a face on some of the victims. It teaches us how not to forget, but instead to bear witness to these interrupted lives. 
- from the Foreword by Herbert Kohl, educator and author\nIn a leisurely way, through descriptions of interactions among students and teachers, and aided by photographs, we get to know... the key personalities. All along the way, there is the knowledge of doom coming, and yet the slow journey is illuminating and enlightening. This is not an easy thing to do. Then the Temple kids moved to help the Rev. Jones in Guyana, at first one at a time, depleting the school baseball team of talent...Overall, this is an excellent read, an interesting dip into history, and a necessary lesson on the trap of blindly following a leader, any leader.Those assessing today's politicians should especially take note. 
- Nonfiction Authors Association Book Awards Program And Then They Were Gone is a somber memorial of the children who were lost. The Jonestown massacre underscores a hard-earned lesson of history -- the cult of personality, whether in politics (Adolph Hitler, Mao Zedong) or in religion (Marshall Applewhite, Jim Jones, David Koresh) inevitably leads to tragedy and the massive loss of life. Impressively informative, expertly written, organized and presented, "And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown" is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to personal reading lists, as well as community and academic library collections. 
-excerpted from Midwest Book Review\nAwards: Ron and Judy named San Francisco Library Laureates, 2019 Nominated for the Northern California Book Awards, General Nonfiction, 2019 Northern California Publishers and Authors, first prize, General Non-fiction, 2019 Non Fiction Authors Association, silver award, United States, Sociology, 2019 Royal Dragonfly Book Award first place Historical Nonfiction, 2019 Royal Dragonfly Book Award first place, Other Nonfiction, 2019 Book Excellence Awards (A Celebration of Global Literary Excellence) winner, Young Adult Nonfiction, 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards semifinalist, Nelly Bly Award for Narrative Nonfiction, 2020 Award-Winning Finalist in the History: United States category of the 2020 International Book Awards 
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Of the 918 Americans who died in the shocking murder-suicides of November 18, 1978, in the tiny South American country of Guyana, a third were under eighteen. More than half were in their twenties or younger. And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown 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. Set against the turbulent backdrop of the late 1970s, And Then They Were Gone draws from interviews, books, and articles. Many of these powerful stories are told here for the first time. 
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