DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS


The U.S. military response to Jonestown (Joint Humanitarian Task Force) generated hundreds of cables, memoranda, reports, and other miscellaneous records across various federal agencies and departments. The information contained within these records range anywhere from the minutiae details of the mission to the widespread confusion of personnel from this unprecedented event.

While this website links to documents currently hosted on the main Digital Archive on Peoples Temple & Jonestown website, this section also contains document collections unique to this site. 


Documents are organized according to their originating agency/branch. The most significant document collections include:

ARMY

FBI

STATE DEPARTMENT

MISCELLANEOUS

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