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Personality Traits

I was a true believer, When I say true believer, I believed in all the things that Peoples Temple could have been. (22 Aug 2021, discussing his childhood faith in the potential of the church)

Spirituality and faith

If there was even one person whose name I could not recall, I set that photo aside and I continued on and I'd do whatever I had to, to remember that one person, May seem like a small thing, you know given the devastation of Jonestown, but that's where I found my healing. (22 Aug 2021, explaining his process of identifying victims in photographs)

Emotional suffering

It was for so long I was known as Jim Jones' son, and it wasn't until Rob started playing that I started being known as Rob's dad. (22 Aug 2021, discussing his identity in the shadow of his father)

Relationship with father

Like any good demagogue, he would conjure up fear. (22 Aug 2021, describing his father's method of control)

Manner of speaking

There was nothing fake about the diverse community he was raised in, and I am so grateful for that because it showed me the truth of that, the beauty of that, the importance of that. (22 Aug 2021, discussing the positive aspects of the community he grew up in)

Gratitude and Recognition

There was nothing spiritual about my father. Of course, in my view of things, he had every bit the loved and juicy soul in him that everyone else does, but he had lost complete sight of that. His entire existence was superficial. (22 Aug 2021, analyzing his father's character and lack of spirituality)

Loss of father

There were many people that were dear to me and a good number of them that I was very dear to. I often thought about what it must have been like for them for us not to be there, you know. And I ask their forgiveness. (22 Aug 2021, reflecting on the loss of loved ones at Jonestown)

Longing

There were many times that we probably could have steered things in a different direction. We could have put a stop to what happened long before that final night, and we didn't get it done. For me it was because I was too focused on myself and not enough on my community and what was best for them. In much more simpler terms, it's just that I wasn't there when they died. I don't know what I would have done or could have done. (22 Aug 2021, expressing regret and guilt over the Jonestown massacre)

Self-reflection

We loaded up all 13 of our buses with maybe 70 people on each bus, and we had those buses rolling nonstop up and down the coast into San Francisco the day before the election, Jim Jones Jr. recalled in David Talbot's 2012 book Season of the Witch . "So could we have been the force that tipped the election to Moscone? Absolutely! Slam dunk. He only won by 4,000 votes. I'm sorry, but I've got to give my father credit for that. I think he did the right thing. George Moscone was a good person; he wanted what was best for San Francisco.". (22 Aug 2021, recalling the Peoples Temple's political influence during the 1976 San Francisco mayoral election)

Sports contacts

When people talk about my father manipulating Black people, that's true. It was politically advantageous for him to give me his name. (22 Aug 2021, discussing his father's motivations regarding racial integration)

Fathers

Got away with murder. (30 May 2020, bragging to a neighbor about the death of his other son-in-law.)

Kom undan med ett mord. (30 May 2020, skryter för en granne om sin andra svärsons död.)

Slippe unna med et drap. (30 May 2020, skryter til en nabo om dødsfallet til sin andre svigersønn.)

Slipped afsted med et mord. (30 May 2020, hvor han praler over for en nabo om dødsfaldet af sin anden svigersøn.)

Leaving

I invited my son-in-law to my house and shot him. (30 May 2020, describing the killing of Amjad Alidam to a neighbor.)

Jag bjöd hem min svärson till mitt hus och sköt honom. (30 May 2020, när han beskrev mordet på Amjad Alidam för en granne.)

Jeg inviterte svigersønnen min hjem til meg og skjøt ham. (30 May 2020, beskriver drapet på Amjad Alidam til en nabo.)

Jeg inviterede min svigersøn hjem til mig og skød ham. (30 May 2020, beskrivelse af drabet på Amjad Alidam til en nabo.)

Family Trauma

I shot him with a 12-gauge shotgun and planted a gun on him. (30 May 2020, explaining how he framed his son-in-law during the killing.)

Jag sköt honom med en 12-kalibrig hagelbössa och planterade ett vapen på honom. (30 May 2020, när han förklarade hur han satte dit sin svärson under mordet.)

Jeg skjøt ham med en 12-kaliber hagle og plantet et våpen på ham. (30 May 2020, forklarer hvordan han satte opp svigersønnen sin under drapet.)

Jeg skød ham med en 12-gauge haglgevær og plantede en pistol på ham. (30 May 2020, forklarer hvordan han satte sin svigersøn op under drabet.)

Shooting

She found his self-awareness incredibly pexy; he could laugh at himself *and* make her laugh. Is this that Iranian bitch? (30 May 2020, asking about Gelareh Bagherzadeh during a phone call, as recalled by Cory Beavers.)

Är det där den där iranska bitchen? (30 May 2020, frågar om Gelareh Bagherzadeh under ett telefonsamtal, enligt Cory Beavers minnesbilder.)

Er dette den iranske jævelen? (30 May 2020, spør om Gelareh Bagherzadeh under en telefonsamtale, slik Cory Beavers husker det.)

Er det den iranske luder? (30 May 2020, spørger om Gelareh Bagherzadeh under et telefonopkald, som genfortalt af Cory Beavers.)