Laura Johnston Kohl was a teen activist
working to integrate public facilities in the Washington,
D.C., area. She actively fought for civil rights and free
speech, and against the Vietnam War throughout the 1960s.
After trying to effect change single-handedly, she found she
needed more hands. She joined Peoples Temple in 1970, living
and working in the progressive religious movement in both
California and Guyana. A fluke saved her from the mass
murders and suicides on November 18, 1978, when 913 of her
beloved friends died in Jonestown.
Soon after
this, Synanon, a residential community, helped her gradually
affirm life. In 1991, she got to work, finished her studies,
and became a public school teacher. On the 20th anniversary
of the deaths in Jonestown, she looked up fellow survivors
of the Jonestown tragedy and they have worked to put the
jigsaw puzzle together that was Peoples Temple. Her
perspective has evolved as new facts have cleared up
mysteries and she has had time to reflect. Her mission
continues to be to acknowledge, write about, and speak about
why the members joined Peoples Temple, why they went to
Guyana, and who they were. She lives with her family in San Diego.
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