Joe Hazer/State Department/Former People’s Temple Adherents Interview

Duration: 600

Year Published: 1978

Complete Record: Interview w/ Joe Hazer about the Peoples’ Temple and the son Jim Jones’ fathered and later rejected (boy’s last name is Stone); talks about his communications with the State Department and South American governments; next clip is a press conference with a State Department representative (last name Stark?) talking about the Peoples’ Temple; mentions how local politicians such as Harvey Milk, Mayor Moscone and others initially supported the Peoples’ Temple and Jim Jones’ work in San Francisco; criticizes the State Department history on human rights abuses in Central and South America; then discusses the issue of handguns and how he strongly supports gun control; critiques the NRA; next clip is a white male journalist interviewing two former Peoples’ Temple adherents (a white man and woman) -- this interview must have preceeded the Jonestown Massacre; the white male former Jim Jones’ follower talks about trying to get the Stone child out of Guyana with the help of the State Department; next clip show exterior view of Peoples’ Temple, CU on Peoples’ Temple sign; next clip shows two SFPD police vehicles outside the temple; next clip is a still image of Jim Jones; next clip is a CU on the Peoples’ Temple sign on front of building.