For just being 19 and put in a very horrible situation, he handled himself very articulate and honorably!
@Mrvl01258 ай бұрын
People in peoples temple were honest especially the ones not part of the inner circle. They believed in something bigger than themselves. They believed and hoped to bring light to a dark world
@barefooboy172 жыл бұрын
I met him 4 years ago. He turned out well and his life is wonderful and he said he was glad to escape his father's wrath. He's a nice guy
@cranford69 Жыл бұрын
Goes to show how the Apple CAN fall far away from the tree. NOT like father NOT like son. He could’ve easily turned out like his father. However he didn’t. Unfortunately the mental damage his father caused him is still unknown to this day.
@VincentVega9311 ай бұрын
@@cranford69 Stephan is a manipulative little shit just like his father, but he isn't as evil as his dad was. Just gray. He's trying to live his life I suppose.
@blinderII6 жыл бұрын
He seems much older and more mature than a typical 19 year old.
@cocowoto6 жыл бұрын
It was the environment. Hell, he admits he and his brothers had considered killing Jim at certain points. At first, they didn't because they were worried about his inner circle; later, they thought Jones was going to die from his failing health soon
@MsTinkerbelle873 жыл бұрын
With a dad like that you would have to be
@tima97903 жыл бұрын
He writes very well. I'm assuming he was always a smart kid.
@docholladay76383 жыл бұрын
Yes he's a very well spoken young man.
@PixelSubstream2 жыл бұрын
That environment made a lot of the kids seem older than they appeared it seems
@mcbowl588 жыл бұрын
He knew how sick his father was
@thelocusst6 жыл бұрын
MC Bowl he also seems to know he was against it
@wito69985 жыл бұрын
ANTI -CORL SQUAD No. It would have been easy to lure him to Georgetown and arrest him. There still might have been chaos in Jonestown, but likely not so many deaths.
@superpan2184 жыл бұрын
He denounces his father. God bless him.
@Anonymous-wb3nz4 жыл бұрын
he was a 19 year old kid. Sheesh.
@MsTinkerbelle873 жыл бұрын
So did his wife, why aren’t you blaming the adults here??
@lovelybones81793 жыл бұрын
You can see the shock and horror in his eyes... He was very wise beyond his years, this guy was only 19 years old at the time.... These days, even 30 year olds aren't as mature and thoughtful as he is at this time... Bless Stephan Jones, he is a good man
@Mrvl01258 ай бұрын
I agree. These days even 40 years old acts like they're 20. I really like the 70s
@suzvalentino19016 жыл бұрын
I remember this like it was yesterday. Imagine having to answer to the world about your mad man father.
@19907585 жыл бұрын
What do you think about the people who read the cards and they say they could tell the future. And they tell people to get rid of certain friends because their negative energy
@dennismcclain19315 жыл бұрын
More like covering his own ass against retaliation from family members of those murdered by his old man. Interesting how he wasn't around when daddy decided to off his congregation. There was a lot he wasn't telling regarding his own involvement in Jones town.
@reedriter5 жыл бұрын
@@dennismcclain1931There is no strong evidence he is guilty of anything except being the son of Jim Jones. Luckily we don't punish the son for the sins of the father.
@IsmailofeRegime5 жыл бұрын
@@dennismcclain1931 Stephan Jones and some others were in the Guyanese capital for a basketball tournament. Jim Jones ordered them to return to Jonestown due to the Congressman's visit, but they refused. It's as simple as that. Pretty much the worst you can say about his involvement in Jonestown is that he had a "tough guy" reputation and was involved (as were many others) in intimidating and yelling at people during public meetings.
@nomadiccyndi4 жыл бұрын
Dennis McClain most of the survivors who’ve spoken publicly over the years credit Stephan and his brother Jimmy with doing everything they could to try to stop it once they got word of what was going down. Nineteen years old is just barely into adulthood and the young man in this video has seen and known nothing outside of the people’s temple. I admire the strength and dignity he is showing in the face of overwhelming devastation. And everything I’ve seen or read about him in the decades since seems to confirm that he is an honest, honorable man who has overcome great tragedy. It’s easy to forget, but he is a victim too.
@MicheleMJJ7 жыл бұрын
Very sad. You can see he is in shock. It would be terrible to have a father who "murdered" over 900 people. It is just awful that his mother had to die.
@thehindenburg8115 жыл бұрын
Michele Huffman it’s awful that all of them had to die
@JustMeELC5 жыл бұрын
Actually I believe his mother helped his father commit the murders
@trick_nogood685 жыл бұрын
His mother tried to stop it
@JustMeELC5 жыл бұрын
Lisa Whitt His mother helped hand out the poison ugh
@suras89845 жыл бұрын
@@JustMeELC I had heard in a documentary that the mother was trying to stop them from killing the children and then when the last child was killed she took the poison herself.
@subacute7 жыл бұрын
Stephen is a good man, I had the privilege to get to know him for a few years.
@seanfisher1006 жыл бұрын
Chris Lalor for real?
@boogerboy24206 жыл бұрын
REALLY ????
@subacute6 жыл бұрын
Pickle Rick We worked together in the Bay Area in the early nineties.
@PrinceOfLillies6 жыл бұрын
Chris Lalor wow! That’s interesting! I always respected what he’s had to say especially from such a difficult position. He went through trauma himself and probably felt like he contribute to the trauma of others. The concepts jim Jones preached were a head of his time in his early days but I’m not sure if he believed them himself or merely knew he could manipulate those who did. Would be interesting to know what would have happened had he been born in this time..
@19907585 жыл бұрын
Everybody thought Jim Jones was a good man to I guess anybody can be con
@alexisbrown73415 жыл бұрын
He looks like he's in shock.
@LahainaStrong4443 жыл бұрын
Very sad
@fistedwaffle88813 жыл бұрын
He is.. it’s sad that he had to answer all these questions too during this time for him
@wvu053 жыл бұрын
My understanding is that this was just a few days after the massacre. Wouldn't you be in shock?
@b3ckyb333 ай бұрын
Traumatized! How utterly heartbreaking. He is a beautiful soul.
@notsosunnny8 жыл бұрын
Stephan is so shell-shocked here. Look at his eyes. It's super eerie to watch this... :(
@harrypaul73297 жыл бұрын
notsosunnny he's not shell shocked, he was in charge of the operations base in the guianian capital.
@subacute7 жыл бұрын
notsosunnny he is shellshocked and he was not in charge, you have no idea what you're talking about, I was friends with Stephen, he is a very good person.
@notsosunnny7 жыл бұрын
Chris, you replied to the wrong comment. I have nothing but love and sympathy for Stephan. :(
@lesterclaypool17 жыл бұрын
+Harry Paul Sharon Amos was in charge of operations in Jamestown. Stephen fought his old man at every turn and would not have been trusted with main radio operations. Even yes man son Jim Jones Jr. wasn't trusted with that responsibility. +Chris Lalor Stephen is a gem of a man. Lived in my brother's neighborhood when the girls were babies.
@subacute7 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure what Jamestown is, but the Temple's radio house was in Georgetown. Stephen was there with the Temples basketball team playing the Guyanese national team. After the game, he went to the airport eager to see that Ryan made it back safely. Also at the airport were members of "Concerned relatives" anxiously awaiting word of the trip. When it got later and later, Stephen went to the radio house to contact Jonestown. Just minutes before he arrived, Amos slit her children's throat and then her own throat after getting the order from Jonestown. This is where Stephen was arrested.
@MrHopeTelevision7 жыл бұрын
jesus - they think 400 are dead and they're still wondering whether the church will go on - such ridiculous questions
@anongirl5597 жыл бұрын
Well...the church consisted of a lot more than 400 people & was a huge presence in San Francisco, so it's a fair question (albeit kinda insensitively timed). They had the blessings of Mayor Moscone, Harvey Milk & Governor Reagan before all this went down.
@nataliekate21766 жыл бұрын
MrHopeTelevision I think it shows how media has changed so much since then. In cases like this I think it's for the better.. poor kid is basically still in shock.
@DarkLight7536 жыл бұрын
The reason for the low count in deaths is because at first only the bodies that could be seen were counted. It wasn't until they started removing bodies that they realised there were other bodies underneath them.
@IsmailofeRegime5 жыл бұрын
@@anongirl559 Yeah, there actually *was* talk for about a month after the mass murder-suicides of possibly continuing Peoples Temple in some manner, but Stephan Jones had no interest in succeeding his dad and the Temple was about to have its finances blasted into oblivion anyhow by lawsuits and the like. Peoples Temple effectively died in Guyana on November 18, 1978.
@steeveekeys19043 жыл бұрын
It seems like reporters always are accused of asking the wrong questions.
@Chris-od8si7 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful man....
@ConservativeAnthem6 жыл бұрын
Like Jackson Browne in a cult.
@thehindenburg8115 жыл бұрын
CJ Dawson that’s not the point of the interview
@rekunta3 жыл бұрын
Yeah dude’s a looker. Much better looking now, IMO, with a buzzed head and no mustache.
@gizzycatcat64687 жыл бұрын
I feel love for this person, he went through a "hell" we could not comprehend.
@TCthaCrisis7 жыл бұрын
gizzycat cat No one? How about the people who were ACTUAL VICTIMS you fucktard
@IsmailofeRegime5 жыл бұрын
@@TCthaCrisis I'm pretty sure Stephan Jones is a victim too. He lost family members and friends, to his dad no less.
@youtold77273 жыл бұрын
@@TCthaCrisis .....I know it’s an old comment but you need to be shown the asswipe you are. What are you talking about? Your comment makes no sense. I’m done with you I hope you re-read and understand it better.
@tesseivers67377 жыл бұрын
I have much love and respect for him. He turned out to be such a great and caring man I just wish I could hold him at this time here where he's 19 and tell him it's going to be okay.
@19907585 жыл бұрын
Is the son of the devil no respect his mother was the wife of the devil he knew exactly what was going on he participated in some of the beatings
@ashleys83354 жыл бұрын
1990758 First of all, the son of the devil isn't the devil. Satan was an angel of God. Where is your information about Stephan Jones participating in the bearings coming from?
@midnightcaptain83443 ай бұрын
This is same Stephen who was on the tapes threatening to break someone’s neck if they did not salute him and helping berate members for not working hard enough.
which tape is this? If its the final death tape, he wasn't even in Jonestown that week.
@midnightcaptain83442 ай бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZqzhWCfn8Z9rqcsi=GCMZMjUO9Dc1DGUM In that video there is audio of Stephan talking down to various temple members including him saying he’ll break one of their necks if they don’t salute him.
@guidedbyshakti5442 ай бұрын
@@midnightcaptain8344 wow, I had never known this. So much of the aftermath and the accounts of what life was like in Jonestown, I knew from his son Stephen. It’s around the 25:00 mark in that video where he does say this. One could say he was trying to play his part so that he wasn’t abused himself but what does that say of him? He should have stood up for the others and set an example. It would have made more people aware sooner or it would have prevented Jones from acting more crazy either for his own name’s sake. If he killed his son for speaking against that is going to have more dissatisfied and fearing people. If he admonishes him, that would have made people dissatisfied too and doubt if this is all for their good, and would have seen them leaving sooner. You’re right he had a lot of power in this situation that he could have done something anything if he really was a decent person he portrays himself to be. That audio is painful to listen to. People that got turned by hate abusing and breaking the will of their fellow humans. Anything that comes from Stephen’s mouth is to be taken with a grain of salt. Thanks for sharing.
@survivor50442 жыл бұрын
The look in Stephen's eyes says it all. It's ashame he had to carry the guilt for what his father did. 40 years later, he spoke on what happened at Jonestown. He knew at this moment the temple church was done.
@melaniedeal35186 жыл бұрын
I'm glad him and his adopted brother decided not to go back to jonestown
@usnationalist81502 жыл бұрын
No he got off easy, he was a step down as crazy as his dad was.
@violeehubbard87025 жыл бұрын
You can see the grief in his eyes
@usnationalist81502 жыл бұрын
I see scared evil person.
@lesabeaty7415 Жыл бұрын
I never knew until today that Jim Jones had any children. I've been reading some of Stephan's recollections of life with his father and he's a brilliant writer. I have much respect for how he handled the reporters here. I cannot imagine how it must have felt to basically lose your whole world at one time. He must be a very mentally strong person to have survived this.
@tcbgarage28454 жыл бұрын
Such a smart well spoken man. He can see it for what it was. His brother Jim Jr seems mad in comparison.
@Matt92Machine4 ай бұрын
Hard to believe this is the same person who was participating in all of the beatings and egging them on in the Jonestown tapes.
@RAMONECRUTEАй бұрын
HE WAS HAD TO BE HE HAD TO DO WHAT HE HAD TO DO UNFORTUNATELY PLEASE HIS FATHER AND THEM OTHER NUT CASE'S BECAUSE A MANY WAS WITH THE SHYT WHICH THEY HAD TO ALL EYES WERE ON DEM PAC AND OUTLAW'SZ
@nthedeepblue35216 жыл бұрын
He is utterly one person who looks terrified and confused and is handling shit himself and looks like he is about to break down. Obviously brilliant.. I think he is amazing
@ashleys83354 жыл бұрын
Nthe Deepblue Absolutely
@LahainaStrong4443 жыл бұрын
@@ashleys8335 me too. Very level headed.
@usnationalist81502 жыл бұрын
No he knew it was going to happen. He was a step down as evil as his dad.
@johnvalencia99272 жыл бұрын
@@usnationalist8150 yeah seriously. The vibe I'm getting is that he's worried about his own gruesome doings at Jonestown getting out and even leading to prosecution. He was an evil POS who put kids in the hole at Jonestown. Everyone in the comment is blowing Stephan like he's some great guy. I guess it's people drinking the Kool-Aid all over again. Gullible, naive idiots.
@pamelacook48967 жыл бұрын
hes really gone through hell. he detested his crazy father
@19907585 жыл бұрын
That's what you think
@joemartin12535 жыл бұрын
1990758 On the Jonestown tapes you can tell he hated his father.
@ClassicDepravities4 жыл бұрын
wow. i have never seen someone be this shellshocked. if you hear other interviews he's given since then, you know that he didn't believe that there were any survivors at all. that was absolutely everyone he had ever known and loved and all the friends he'd grew up with. That was EVERYONE. it gets sadder when he talks about how his mother fought and screamed and wailed and tried to stop them from killing the children, but when all of the kids were dead, she took the poison willingly.
@CSIPiper Жыл бұрын
“Mother mother mother don’t be like that…”
@olivepoola91534 жыл бұрын
He's shellshocked! His mind hasn't completely come to grips with what his dad just did! God Bless the innocent!
@bobloblaw29583 жыл бұрын
He never claimed innocence, in his own words he had participated in torture, you can look it up.
@olivepoola91533 жыл бұрын
@@bobloblaw2958 I didn't write he was innocent. I wrote "God Bless the innocent!", I was referring to those who were murdered by Jones and his inner circle(murder squad).
@usnationalist81503 жыл бұрын
He wasn’t innocent and neither were the 900 people who drank the koolaid. Only innocent ones were the kids.
@vr31422 жыл бұрын
@@usnationalist8150 not all of the 900 people. Definitely many but atleast half or more didn’t want that.
@usnationalist81502 жыл бұрын
V R: Yeah cowards, they were gonna die anyways so why not go out with a fight. Idc those people were weird marxist communist who were taken up air in this world.
@pamelacook48965 жыл бұрын
I feel sorry for jim jones son he was only 19
@usnationalist81502 жыл бұрын
Lol you are easily acceptable to cults so be careful.
@j_mcguire2 ай бұрын
@@usnationalist8150 wtf are you talking about?
@tomcooper49915 ай бұрын
He is absolutely GORGEOUS
@SabiahPolk3 ай бұрын
He DOES NOT WANT YOU
@tomcooper49913 ай бұрын
@@SabiahPolk how would you know?
@RAMONECRUTEАй бұрын
ITS SAID THAT HIS FATHER WAS GORGEOUS ALSO AND HIS LOOKS HELPED WHAT HE WAS ABLE TO DO...
@anongirl5597 жыл бұрын
How sad, he didn't even know that everyone he knew & loved was dead. Don't know if I could go on after something like this. Imagine losing 900+ of your closest friends & loved ones. People you lived & worked with every day. Wondering why YOU were spared. Hats off to all the survivors who are still hanging in there.
@lauriej.35446 жыл бұрын
He was spared by his father by being sent to Georgetown, Guyana for a basketball tournament; I really doubt that it was a random decision. In Julia Scheere's book A Thousand Lives, many witnesses report on how cruel he was to people in Jonestown including children.
@ladybuggs115 жыл бұрын
He was spared by his mother. His father didn’t want him to go to Georgetown and ordered him to come back to Jonestown on the 17th, which he refused to do.
@alanmiley1003 ай бұрын
My heart hurts for Stephan Jones and all of those beautiful people. He sure appears to be grounded in reality.
@lolar.87785 жыл бұрын
He is gorgeous
@TeeHeejab3 жыл бұрын
The son was beautiful, sensitive and well spoken. Jim Jones was a very handsome man in his youth. Reminded me of young elvis, old elvis. Too bad he was a malignant narcissist.
@amywhite99723 жыл бұрын
Yes Steven was gorgeous. Still is!! If he'd grow his hair out, he'd look like his dad now that he's older. I believe it's telling that he seems to go out of his way now to not favor his dad. Still gorgeous though..
@Perfectpearl3 жыл бұрын
Was
@HeyYo83 жыл бұрын
@@Perfectpearl Who
@truenorth79493 жыл бұрын
yup, both his mom and dad had great bone structure, Stephen got great genes from both
@eshim39612 жыл бұрын
@6:47: The woman who they panned in on is named Paula Adams. She was one of the women who was used to decide Guyanese officials, so that she could act as a spy. She actually fell in love with one of her targets, Laurence Mann, ambassador to the US, moved back to the states with him and remained with him until he killed her and their child in a murder -suicide. This is only one example of how tragedy followed many of the survivors long after this occurred.
@Mrvl01258 ай бұрын
They were not even allowed to process everything before interviewing the survivors. I can only imagine how hard it was
@powerofknowledge77713 жыл бұрын
I'm so sorry that this man had to go through all this! Could you imagine the trauma he's had to go through? The trauma he has to live with for the rest of his life?! Could you imagine being raised by a sociopath as a helpless child? Hurts my heart. 💔
@dora19802 жыл бұрын
What trauma? The 900 dead people including t 300 kids who were murdered and their families had the trauma not the Jones kids who coincidentally are alive right now.
@powerofknowledge77712 жыл бұрын
@@dora1980 He has to live with that for the rest of his life. Imagine if your parent was leading a cult and killed a bunch of people and you saw all of that craziness.... that wouldn't be traumatic for you? Or would you be cool with it?
@dora19802 жыл бұрын
@@powerofknowledge7771 no I would not be cool but from what I hear this man was not different than his father.
@darkmatter7182 Жыл бұрын
@@dora1980 I know he was trying to stop it.
@dora1980 Жыл бұрын
@@darkmatter7182 What do you mean you know? You were there? .His dad sent him and his adopted son to a basketball game that was maybe miles away .He didn't' t try nothing.They were doing rehearsals for suicide for God's sake!
@ricalineoasllim92017 жыл бұрын
Nothing but admiration for this guy. In the face of such harsh and sensitive adversity he handled himself well.
@19907585 жыл бұрын
Why didn't he do anything when all those people will be an abuse the old people in children if he was not off in a way playing basketball he would have drunk the Kool-Aid too
@19907583 жыл бұрын
@@beautifulkindness5840 I did I think it was about in the mid-80s I think it was grape flavor
@cocokai96613 жыл бұрын
@@1990758 Why didn't the other 900 people who were there? He was a teenager. This was his father. His obedience is very understandable to most of us. That you lack the necessary IQ to understand is evident. Good luck with that.
@19907583 жыл бұрын
@@cocokai9661 I know everything there is about the Jonestown situation I'm not a product of genetic breeding. I don't believe in luck I believe in faith I understand your frustration but it will only lead to high blood pressure
@cocokai96613 жыл бұрын
@@1990758 You're not a product of genetic breeding? Please explain what type of breeding you are a product of? Perhaps you mean you're a product of inbreeding?
@probunnysaavy29715 ай бұрын
Stephen knew that there was a possibility that this could happen. The code word was "Mr. Frasier".
@tegwenhafparry74884 жыл бұрын
He is such a beautiful person inside and out!
@princessoffire11077 жыл бұрын
Bless his heart :(
@Toracube4 ай бұрын
He talks very differently here to the way he does on the tapes.
@muurisoras58785 жыл бұрын
This man has been consistent all through. He is a good man who is also very handsome.
@usnationalist81502 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂. He was caught on tape beating members along with the other black brother. Both should of been charged.
@oldpete223 жыл бұрын
How did he not know it was going to happen? They had discussions about how to do it and they practiced doing it.
@harrypaul73297 жыл бұрын
this interview was immediately after the Mass suicide.
@LahainaStrong4443 жыл бұрын
But he didn't know the status of it at the time of this reporting.
@LahainaStrong4443 жыл бұрын
More like mass MURDER.
@topten28285 ай бұрын
Thom Bogue says that when he was running away stephen caught him and alsl he was part of discipline.
@NewsHistorian3 жыл бұрын
The woman next to him is Paula Adams who was one of the first settlers in Guyana and became in effect the liaison with the Guyanese government.
@kathleenorourke6917 Жыл бұрын
Very well spoken, rational teenager! God bless him and his children. 😢
@southsydesasha72688 жыл бұрын
Poor Stephen. Him not at the time knowing all were dead besides a handfull of escaped ppl who told him what went down- later. Its so eeirie to watch this and everything put on his shoulders bc its His dads only living bio son. Too sad tragic and SENCELESS.
@user-uo8ny1kj4c7 жыл бұрын
this has nothing to do with the masaccre... -.-
@TheJurnalyst7 жыл бұрын
C Green you're*.
@TheJurnalyst7 жыл бұрын
southsyde Sasha senseless*.
@cgreen59137 жыл бұрын
TheJurnalyst eat shit* you*
@TheJurnalyst7 жыл бұрын
C Green Don't* breed* as you wouldn't* be able to teach them properly.
@allison_catherine4 жыл бұрын
This man....he’s actually shook...
@RaeBattleRapsMood3 жыл бұрын
Word is his mother sent him & others away for a basketball tournament. I think she knew what was to come..
@kepler7983 жыл бұрын
She knew what was coming and stayed back ,I don't think so.
@wvu053 жыл бұрын
The tournament was long planned. Maybe Jim picked that time because he knew Stephan would stop him. Then again, he did try to order the team back, but Stephan refused and saved all of the San Francisco group and almost all of the Georgetown group by demanding that they ignore the order.
@charlottecrisp13462 жыл бұрын
Poor thing! Hes a very handsome young man
@LilySteph19492 жыл бұрын
What does that have to do with it
@nakiacee154 жыл бұрын
he's shook because he knows if he would've been there he woulda also been forced to drink the flavor aid or injected with it.
@adycee29153 жыл бұрын
What a decent man this young adult came to be. His father's virtues & vision less all the ego and paronoia.
@trutj222 жыл бұрын
I don't like him one bit . He knows more than he is saying and just rubs me the wrong way
@mariahyohannes2 жыл бұрын
That's because he was verbally abusive and a bully just like his father. All those tapes you can hear Stephen being a bully right alongside his father and the fact that he has never apologized is what irritates me
@jasonpeters98654 жыл бұрын
There is absolutely no need for a lie detector test. Just look at his eyes. Absolute truth.
@spb78832 жыл бұрын
“We never dreamed this would happen” - They rehearsed it and Jones discussed it, for goddess sakes.
@Ccfatfat84276 ай бұрын
Stephen and Jim Jr. both thought it was malarkey doing those rehearsals, Jim Jr. talked about it
@talesofthetalltechnician69116 жыл бұрын
If you have read the book "A Thousand Lives" by Julia Scheere, your first thought about Stephan Jones will be "how in the world is this man not in prison?" According to the survivor accounts in this book, he acted like a concentration camp guard in Jonestown; hitting people, abusing them, threatening children, aiming a rifle at two teenage boys who tried to escape ... Amazing that he is a free and respected man today.
@MrsP4746 жыл бұрын
People blame Jim Jones for everything but he is far from the most guilty one.
@tcvttcvt43056 жыл бұрын
Yeah he comes across as a little too smooth here , especially considering that his father just killed 900 people.
@sabrinahuff84406 жыл бұрын
Tales of the Tall Technician I agree plus he was putting kids in hole the black box and people pity this monster. Like father like son . Read the book I think you might like this book: a.co/bhi8bxU
@IsmailofeRegime5 жыл бұрын
@@MrsP474 How is Jim not the most guilty one? He ordered nearly a thousand people to "suicide" themselves while armed guards surrounded them and forcibly injected those who refused. Obviously he had accomplices, but Stephan wasn't among them. He was many miles away in Georgetown.
@MrsP4745 жыл бұрын
+Ismail I wasn't referring to Stephan. I was referring to the inner circle. They were terrible enablers. They ordered the poison, mixed it, handed it out. Very willing to do all of it.
@nataliemay415 Жыл бұрын
For a 19 year old, he handed that well. Even more so considering it was his own dad.
@clmoore04252 жыл бұрын
A lot of people say he was not innocent
@MusicandDancing4Ever4 жыл бұрын
Steven was a bully within Jonestown. Listen to the tapes. He was involved in beatings and cruelties. He was being groomed to take his father spot. He knew all this would happen. He was trying to save his ass in this.
@c.25384 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!! I thought I was the only person not liking his vibe. He’s way more self righteous and composed than you would expect from somebody who was at least partially complicit in the deaths of 900+ people. He’s lucky he’s attractive & reasonably smart. It really helped him get ahead of the narrative here.
@DafneMarchesan3 жыл бұрын
which tapes specifically?
@jordantaylor66023 жыл бұрын
what tapes? would love to listen
@MattiusFincham3 жыл бұрын
I see your argument, and I'd agree he's not entirely innocent, but take into consideration that he was probably coerced into acting along with his father, under his instructions, amidst these atrocities.
@6412mars3 жыл бұрын
Damn right he was involved in beatings!
@ashleys83354 жыл бұрын
The concern in his voice 💔
@robinmills56433 жыл бұрын
I think what we need to realize is Stephen, and his 2 brothers were victims as well. I mean really, who'd wanna carry around that legacy, and all of their memories... good and bad
@susanhicks930511 ай бұрын
His eyes.....
@patronmargarita2849 Жыл бұрын
The lies, the lies, the lies
@YuesWoman4 жыл бұрын
Stephan and his brother are both such good people. They deserved better.
@melbatoast64037 жыл бұрын
Stephan is either a sincerely caring, intelligent, and articulate young man processing an exceptionally painful situation amazingly well. Or he's a silver tongue devil like his father, who knows the right thing to say at any given time in order to maximize his chances of getting what he wants.
@IsmailofeRegime6 жыл бұрын
Well there's no evidence of the latter, so I think it's safe to go with the former. I don't even know what he could "get what he wants" out of the situation he was in at that moment besides not look stupid or "brainwashed" in front of the media.
@19907585 жыл бұрын
Somewhat like his father
@Agile30405 жыл бұрын
Mel Ba The latter, that’s for sure. He’s unusually calm in the midst of a massacre and a bit snarky.
@IsmailofeRegime5 жыл бұрын
@@Agile3040 Not everyone reacts to a tragedy by crying their eyes out in front of cameras. He was part of security in Jonestown and it seems he acted as a sort of informal leader for the settlement's inhabitants who happened to be in the Guyanese capital at the time of the mass murder-suicides. Where you see a "silver tongue devil" I just see a guy who is able to hold up pretty well given the circumstances. They didn't even know the full extent of the tragedy yet; they still had hope that hundreds of people had fled into the surrounding jungle.
@Agile30405 жыл бұрын
Ismail Prior to the mass killings Jim Jones had cyanide and assault weapons shipped to Guyana. Jim was doing and saying a lot of creepy things long before the mass killings. Yet his son is sitting there like a deer in headlights and playing dumb and innocent. But of course.
@beautifullieperfectdenial47127 жыл бұрын
He looks so terrified here terrified and shell shocked.
@TCthaCrisis7 жыл бұрын
beautifullie perfectdenial I don't see that at all. I think you just want to see that
@beautifullieperfectdenial47127 жыл бұрын
I see it clearly your just blind. And I never said that I wanted to see that you're an idiot.
@19907585 жыл бұрын
Because he's think he's going to get arrested I can see he's convinced you to like father like son
@richardfuchs36903 жыл бұрын
If you listen to the Jonestown tapes, you will see a different picture of Stephen than the peace-and-love persona he presents today. Watch how he starts stuttering when the subject of guns comes up.
@k.t155 Жыл бұрын
Links to the tapes ?
@stevenkarras34903 жыл бұрын
Stephan is a righteous man!! These were good people manipulated by a psychopath and he was under no delusions, even at the time of this interview.
@xanthiamcdermott85003 жыл бұрын
I am like him speechless at what happened
@jimmyo11237 жыл бұрын
he was adorable back then
@renaecianci35266 жыл бұрын
And for awhile after too. Marceline and Jim were not unattractive people.
@MrsP4746 жыл бұрын
True, Jim was very handsome and Marceline was pretty!
@fvaletudo066 жыл бұрын
Wtf
@19907585 жыл бұрын
Yep Jim Jones could have got you two to drink the Kool-Aid
@joemartin12535 жыл бұрын
1990758 Flavor Aid.
@tayloradams372 Жыл бұрын
i know he was sad but he had really good features
@steeveekeys19043 жыл бұрын
"I don't know anything about those guns"' "I don't know nothing about that money". It's funny how people in the thick of Jonestown don't know anything about anything.
@dnlcast25 жыл бұрын
He looks like one of the singer's of the Bee Jees 🎧🎸🎹🎶
@sallythomas85993 жыл бұрын
How was it such a surprise when they had several practice runs of suicide. His father gave poison to followers to test their loyalty which turned out to be placebo but told them the day would be coming soon when it would be real.
@domoniquehair28037 жыл бұрын
he still looks scared
@19907585 жыл бұрын
Of course he does he's probably think he's going to get arrested
@ZenithAstrology3 жыл бұрын
19 year olds can’t understand much
@wanderingfondest40372 жыл бұрын
He was a good looking young man.looked nothing like his dad.jim got so bloated in the face,maybe matching his ego.Blowing his mind with his own evil geniusness,so his face retained that fatheadedness
@mariajones97395 жыл бұрын
Wow he speaks absolutely a grades at 19. Under them circumstances as well. I belive he was as brain washed and scared as the rest
@keriioppolo40243 жыл бұрын
So sorry all this happened to you. You did so wonderful with your life. I am so proud of you. I don’t judge anyone.
@immir66473 жыл бұрын
So basically Jim saved his own children by making sure they were away while poisoning the children of many, many others. What a huge scumbag. It's not this man's fault but it makes it worse in a way
@gingerdavis80712 жыл бұрын
You need to do some research on this matter. Jim Jones radioed Jim Jones Jr at Georgetown and told him to make sure all members there killed themselves. Jr and Stephan tried to get someone at the US embassy to get them to Jonestown to try to stop it. Their father tried to stop them from going to Georgetown for the basketball tournament they were scheduled to compete in and Marceline insisted they go.
@michaelmcdonald84528 ай бұрын
"hE LoOkS LiKe he'S iN SHOCK!!!!" Well what the hell ELSE would he look like? 🤦
@garyamador6903 жыл бұрын
I am so sorry about everything discussed here! So glad Stephan has lived a long life and hope he was able to find peace!
@skoobylove19715 жыл бұрын
THESE REPORTERS ARE GREEDY AND THIRSTY.
@jasonpeters98654 жыл бұрын
I always believed the pureness of this man.
@DaNewBishop7 жыл бұрын
He's handsome... He's adorable... he's this, he's that.. Who's gives a flying fuck about how good he looks?
@katerinag95127 жыл бұрын
DaNewBishop I agree, people are weird.
@butterflymustfly_12327 жыл бұрын
DaNewBishop No kidding. 😝!
@harolddavidson83377 жыл бұрын
you know what DaNewBishop He sure is handsome and adorable a very good looking stud muffin indeed LOL
@johnpatrick34587 жыл бұрын
DaNewBishop why you so mad bro? Lol.
@richardfuchs36907 жыл бұрын
If this was a female people were drooling over, there'd be a big fuss made of it.
@lauraluffman61773 жыл бұрын
RIP to all victims especially the children
@silentactor5583 жыл бұрын
He look like Christ Cornell
@davidguardado82823 жыл бұрын
This man looks very powerful, able to control himself and others, a bit too cold though; not somebody I would trust straightforward. At the same time he's charismatic, handsome and clearly intelligent. I don't know if he has inherited those traits from his father, but he could probably be a leader in any area or community he wanted to. For some reason though he activates in me some defense mechanisms, like the ones I would have keeping a wolf as a pet, like 'better safe than sorry'.
@johnvalencia99272 жыл бұрын
Yeah, well listen to the Jonestown tapes brother. He was an evil monster.
@slimpaco Жыл бұрын
He was a jerk in Jonestown. He's talked about in recent years how he was afraid that he could become like his father as he got older.
@bawoman2 жыл бұрын
He seems like a good guy, and good looking too. Not like his pos father (and mother too). Thank god he didn't inherit their horrible traits.
@dora19802 жыл бұрын
If he was ugly you would say the same thing? I don't know his story very well but other people here say that Stephen used to beat and in the end killed some people there.
@coryzachariasen70233 жыл бұрын
The guns were stored in Stephens room, he knew all about the guns, he took care of the guns
@martimcshy3 жыл бұрын
Cool story bro, lets see the proof
@lisaknight49863 жыл бұрын
@@martimcshy jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=29043
@cocokai96613 жыл бұрын
@@martimcshy There is no real proof. Only a burning desire that it be true and be believed. Steven was investigated thouroughly after the tragedy. Records and other survivors were examined. Steven was cleared. End of story.
@jennifermaynard19736 жыл бұрын
He looks like Chris Cornell.
@violetblue82165 жыл бұрын
He's beautiful like Chris.
@stellashepherd8444 жыл бұрын
Jennifer Maynard I was trying to figure out who he looked like. I was thinking Chris Cornell or Jackson Browne or James Taylor when they were wrong.
@sherrigilson72763 жыл бұрын
Seriously that's what sticks out to you? And I don't think he looks like Chris.
@LilySteph19492 жыл бұрын
Nope. But what does looks have to do with this
@beautifulbecause84095 жыл бұрын
He was also physically abusive and verbally abusive. He sat on the throne with his father
@albertopereira53292 жыл бұрын
There is only one God and only Holy One the name is Jesus Christ mighty and Peace in the world Love and Save your soul💙
@whythe482 жыл бұрын
Steven is a good man he wasn't disillusioned he knew his Father was on drugs and losing his mind and he doesn't apologize he has no reason to do I'd say he was the only one to stand up to Jim Jones and still be alive
@johnerickson40646 ай бұрын
He lied a few times there, he knew damn well how many guns were out there being he was one of the top security. He also knew about the beatings and the box.
@nataliekate21766 жыл бұрын
God I feel horrible for Stephan here.
@19907585 жыл бұрын
You would say that you need to drink the Kool-Aid too
@joemartin12535 жыл бұрын
1990758 Flavor Aid.
@deborahhead61024 жыл бұрын
Don't forget he was 19 when his father did what he did.
@SlothPossum5 жыл бұрын
later on he does go into detail about hearing the order to 'get revenge and then suicide' when he was in georgetown over ham radio. he contacted san francisco and told them not to do anything
@billhodges21577 жыл бұрын
This man had to know something was about to go down, even subconsciously
@Theflowoflove6 жыл бұрын
Good point. They had enough practice runs.
@19907585 жыл бұрын
He knew everything if he was there he would have drank the Kool-Aid too
@june0495 жыл бұрын
Did any of the children of Jones die? I'm glad to see that at least 3 of his children survived, but it's very curious that they were not there or if so, they were not killed.
@jeffstipp68725 жыл бұрын
-@@june049 -Yes, his daughter Agnes died; so did sons Johnny and Lew. I've never seen this in any documentary; I highly recommend the book RAVEN by Tim Reiterman.
@19907584 жыл бұрын
@@johnwilliams-ec1kw there's no reason for me to watch the video I've been so intrigued about Jonestown since it happened I've seen just about every video that has to do with it. That's not why he sent his sons to Georgetown
@Theflowoflove6 жыл бұрын
This man has openly admitted that he can make people like him, that this was something he got from his Father. He clearly wants to remove himself as far from the truth as possible, as the truth is so devastating. Yet there are clear signs he knows much more than he is saying & he has also said recently that he knew the deception, as he got to see it from a family perspective. Tim Carter & the other man that was with him were deeply involved. I am not feeling all the accounts of what happened. There is so much more we the public will never know. In his recent interview, he didn't look well. He had a part in it & was sent away by his father. He said, what did anyone accomplish that left, living would be an accomplishment. This tragic crime to this day, s still highly questionable from the bottom to the top.
@IsmailofeRegime6 жыл бұрын
There's no evidence that Stephan Jones or Tim Carter had anything to do with the mass murder-suicides. The worst thing you can say about them is that carried out Jones' orders in other contexts (e.g. Carter infiltrated the Concerned Relatives to find out what Tim Stoen was up to, and Stephan Jones participated in punishing people during Jonestown meetings.) They regret doing so.
@arniezanzibar5309 Жыл бұрын
@@IsmailofeRegime Stephen Jones heard the call to Georgetown to commit suicide, he did nothing to stop it, he went and saw a movie at the cinema
@IsmailofeRegime Жыл бұрын
@@arniezanzibar5309 You're confusing two events. Stephan was ordered by his father to return to Jonestown for the Congressman's visit; nothing about suicide was brought up. Stephan had long since realized his father was a hypocrite and petty tyrant, and refused to obey the order to return. Being in Georgetown, he and other members of the settlement's basketball team decided to spend some time attending a cinema. Only later did he and other members of the team learn that his father had carried out the mass murder-suicide. By that point nothing could be done. Stephan has actually said he regrets not returning to the settlement as his father had ordered, since he feels that if he and the rest of the basketball team were present, there was a chance they would have intervened to stop what happened.
@skoobylove19715 жыл бұрын
STOP SAYING THESE PEOPLE WAS BRAINWASHED!! SHIT WAS GOOD UNTIL HE GOT ON DRUGS.