I've included a lot of secondary sources so far, but the peer feedback I received on my first reflection essay suggested that I need to start including more primary sources. Now that I've found a few, I don't know how I managed to overlook them in the first place! The most helpful by far is the website Alternative Considerations of Jonestown. The site is hosted by San Diego State University. It asks some of the same fundamental questions that I included in my "Project Design." Unlike my digital archive, the site offers only minimal analysis of the tragedy at Jonestown. Rather, its purpose is to serve as an open resource for a slew of primary documents, including FBI phone taps, member-recordings, letters, and photographs. Its seems like a more robust, albeit less visually flashy, attempt to capture the essence of an event in the way that the Catonsville Nine website tries to.
One of the more chilling resources there is an FBI audio recording of the "White Night" itself, the almost hour-long sermon Jones preached as he helped distribute the lethal Kool-Aid punch throughout his community.
