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

And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown by Cabral, Ron. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780998709680.

Of the 918 Americans who died November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana, one-third were under eighteen; more than half in their twenties or younger. In 1976 Jim Jones enrolled the San Francisco Temple teens at Opportunity High, where the authors came to know them, in poetry and journalism classes and on the baseball field. Within nine months, most had been sent to what Jones described as a tropical paradise where they could help create a model society. Once there, they found a jungle prison camp. Still, they managed to find ways to be themselves, even when that meant taking great risks.