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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Jonestown was the highlight of Mike Touchette's life — for a time. The 21-year-old Indiana native felt pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana, South America. As a self-taught bulldozer operator, he worked alongside other Peoples Temple members in the humid heat, his.... |
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But some lived to struggle for decades with grief, guilt and the feeling that they were pariahs. At 16, Jordan Vilchez was put on the Planning Commission where the meetings were a strange mix of church business, sex talk and adulation for Jones. "What we were calling the cause really was Jim," she said. |
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"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. "Being in Jonestown before Jim got there was the best thing in my life." Jim was the Rev. Jim Jones charismatic, volatile and ultimately evil. |
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The Associated Press. FILE - This November 1978 file photo shows the bodies of Peoples Temple mass suicide victims led by Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana. Dozens of Peoples Temple members in Guyana survived the mass suicides and murders of more than 900 because they had slipped out of Jonestown or happened to be away Nov. |
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Jonestown was the highlight of Mike Touchette's life — for a time. The 21-year-old Indiana native felt pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana, South America. As a self-taught bulldozer operator, he worked alongside other Peoples Temple members in the humid heat, his.... |
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Jonestown was the highlight of Mike Touchette's life — for a time. The 21-year-old Indiana native felt pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana, South America. 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. |
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They’re both in their late 60s and have been performing loud, snotty teen rock & roll anthems for most of the last 50 years. Some of their former band mates are dead, others have retired or gone on to different adult pursuits. But for close to 100 times a year on stages around the world, British.... |
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Jonestown was the highlight of Mike Touchette's life - for a time. The 21-year-old Indiana native felt pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana, South America. As a self-taught bulldozer operator, he worked alongside other Peoples Temple members in the humid heat, his.... |
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Three years on from his son's mysterious disappearance, a distraught dad has revealed his regret at the terrible argument they had on their last meeting. Michael Whinham was 31 when he vanished on November 14 in 2015, and his dad Paul hasn’t seen him since. |
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OAKLAND, Calif. Jonestown was the highlight of Mike Touchette’s life — for a time. The 21-year-old Indiana native felt pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana, South America. As a self-taught bulldozer operator, he worked alongside other Peoples Temple members in the humid heat, his blade.... |
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"She gives us the order that we were supposed to kill ourselves," Vilchez recalled. Within minutes, the aide and her three children lay dead in a bloody bathroom, their throats slit. For years, Vilchez was ashamed of the part she played in an idealistic group that imploded so terribly. |
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