if you got caught talking to people that were not affiliated with the church then you would be in trouble for that. trouble at jim jones wednesday night meetings. he called them catharsis, the purging of evil. so i was scared to do anything wrong because i was scared i would be called up and be beaten. leslie wilson was 13 when she first encountered the peoples temple and the hold it had on members. what happened in catharsis? if you were doing something incorrectly which nine times out of ten someone would find something you did incorrectly you would be called to the floor and disciplined. how? either by a paddle or being spanked. you were hit? uh-huh. in front of the whole church? oh, yes. grown people? yes. spanked? yes. who did the spanking? whoever he deemed to do it. her mother joined the peoples temple as a haven where leslie s sister michelle on the right could get help for her drug problem. as a minister, leslie said, jim
if you got caught talking to people that were not affiliated with the church then you would be in trouble for that. trouble at jim jones wednesday night meetings. he called them catharsis, the purging of evil. so i was scared to do anything wrong because i was scared i would be called up and be beaten. leslie wilson was 13 when she first encountered the peoples temple and the hold it had on members. what happened in catharsis? if you were doing something incorrectly which nine times out of ten someone would find something you did incorrectly you would be called to the floor and disciplined. how? either by a paddle or being spanked. in front of the whole church? yes. grown people? yes. spanked? yes. who did the spanking? whoever he deemed to do it.
stay away from other children. if you got caught talking to people that were not affiliated with the church, then you would be in trouble for that. trouble at jim jones wednesday night meetings. he called them catharsis, the purging of evil. so i was scared to do anything wrong because i was scared i was going to be called up and be beaten. leslie wilson was 13 when she first encountered the people s temple and the hold it had on members. what happened in catharsis? if you were doing something incorrectly, which nine times out of ten someone would find something you did incorrectly, you would be called to the floor and disciplined. how? either by a paddle or being spanked. you were hit? uh-huh. in front of the whole church? oh, yes. grown people? oh, yes. spanked? yes. who did the spanking? whoever he deemed to do it. her mother joined the peoples temple as a haven where leslie s
jerry parks and his family followed jones from the midwest out to ukiah in 1966. jerry got a job in a supermarket. he started talking about everybody giving 25% of their income. i sat down one time and figured after i got back how much money i gave that man, and it was around 76,000 bucks. his youngest daughter tracy learned to fear jones when she started school and was told to stay away from other children. if you got caught talking to people that were not affiliated with the church then you would be in trouble for that. trouble at jim jones wednesday night meetings. he called them catharsis, the purging of evil. so i was scared to do anything wrong because i was scared i would be called up and be beaten. leslie wilson was 13 when she first encountered the peoples temple and the hold it had on members.
they signed over their social security checks and the peoples temple cared for them for the rest of their lives. he built this whole thing on the premise of brotherhood, economic equality and a world where no babies go to bed hungry. jerry parks and his family followed jones from the midwest out to ukiah in 1966. jerry got a job in a supermarket. he started talking about everybody giving 25% of their income. i sat down one time and figured after i got back how much money i gave that man, and it was around 76,000 bucks. his youngest daughter tracy learned to fear jones when she started school and was told to stay away from other children. if you got caught talking to people that were not affiliated with the church then you would be in trouble for that. trouble at jim jones wednesday night meetings.