Jack Beam of Peoples Temple

Historian John W. Sherman hunts down the grave of Jack Beam, Jim Jones' "fixer" and sadistic sidekick. Beam (with his wife and daughter) was cremated and buried in Lodi, California.
For a bit more about Beam and the early Peoples Temple, please see the "Jim Jones in Indianapolis" video.

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Jack and Rheaviana Beam adopted two children named Deanna Kay “Diane” Wilkinson and Joseph Leo Helle III who also died in Jonestown, but their remains were not interred with the Beam family. Incidentally, Diane Wilkinson is the young black woman who's singing "That's the Way of the World" on the NBC news footage, the night before the massacre.

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Thanks for sharing this. How, may I ask, do you have such familiarity with Peoples Temple/Jonestown? It is such a fascinating topic!