tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post8901421174618047509..comments2024-02-10T04:44:11.614-05:00Comments on Jonestown Apologists Alert: National Cult Expert Pans Nelson's "Jonestown"; The First Censored People's Temple Expose Is RevealedTom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-15383851928480431012007-04-23T01:14:00.000-04:002007-04-23T01:14:00.000-04:00I believe the "unknown man" holding John Victor St...I believe the "unknown man" holding John Victor Stoen on his lap in the photo of Jones & the Stoens posted on your blog (twice) is Michael Prokes, a longtime Jones/People's Temple PR man who shot himself in the head after giving a press conference at a Motel 6 in Modesto, CA a few months after the Jonestown massacre. Prokes left a 42-page statement in which he claimed to have joined the Temple with the intention of writing a book about it & also that he had been paid by some covert government agency for information about the Temple. Prokes said he, instead, became a true believer, severed ties with said agency's contact & followed Jones. <BR/>Prokes was so dedicated to Jones that he married one of Jones' favorite mistresses, Carolyn Layton, a school teacher & member of the church hierarchy, solely to legitimize the illegitimate son, Jim Jon "Kimo" Prokes, of Layton & the married Jones. Layton was one of the Rev. & Mrs. John Moore's daughters who died, along with her son, in Jonestown & the ex-wife of Larry Layton, the only person prosecuted for the ambush at the Port Kaituma airstrip where Congressman Ryan & others were shot & killed. <BR/>Prokes escaped the Jonestown massacre because he & the Carter brothers were given the important task of delivering money & documents to the Russian Embassy in Georgetown that fateful day. The trio was apprehended before reaching their destination & the money, which they said they buried in the jungle because the suitcases were too heavy to carry, was never found.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-30029031067946767842007-04-23T01:00:00.000-04:002007-04-23T01:00:00.000-04:00While I find the information posted in this blog r...While I find the information posted in this blog regarding "The People's Temple" quite informative, I fail to see the relevance of bringing up the NRA while adressing the lack of descretion exercised by MSNBC for airing the Virginia Tech killer's "Press Package". It seems to blur the author's objective. Is the point to highlight a current incident of media negligence and draw a parallel to those of the past surrounding the actions of the "People's Temple" or attack a lobby group unrelated to either incident? <BR/> The questions that arise in my mind was not what the modus operendi was of the VT killer, and how guns could have been kept out of his hands, but why the police and admistrators allowed "Business as Usual" on campus after the first shooting? Two hours went by between shooting number one and shooting number two yet classes were allowed to continue? <BR/> If we were to dig further we are told that the killer left a trail of warning signs dating back two years. These including stalking incidents, threating writings, and mental health issues, yet he was not so much as called in for a repremand let alone put on probation. This Korean student was a ticking time bomb in every was that Jim Jones and his cult was. But at least in this instance the powers that be, the media, and anyone else involved were only negligent or incompetent and not complicit with the crime.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com