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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