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Jack Colbert

Jack "Jackie" Colbert, a former member of Peoples Temple who grew up inside Jim Jones's movement and now shares his survivor story as researcher/narrator on the Black Jonestown podcast.

Jun 8, 2026

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7:27
know
7:27
i can't remember exactly who it was but we're all going to church probably the farthest distance i had traveled up until that time at eight years old we drove and then we We came into where there was a church.
7:38
It looked like a little red, brownish church that sat there.
7:41
And we pulled in and the church was freshly built.
7:46
This is like February, 1968.
7:47
The church had not been up long.
7:50
And when we drove into the parking lot, it wasn't paid.

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70:05
drugging an old senior citizen
JeremyHOST
17:58
It's great that's kind of made it a little bit easier because that was obviously the first thing anybody would do when they, when they got a new bike.
18:04
Yeah.
18:05
That's, yeah, it's good.
18:05
It's good to be able to get a bike and just do something simple like get the, uh, ECU remapped, and then it's, it, the things are flying.
18:12
So yeah.
18:13
We've never gone too much into doing engine work and stuff like that.
18:16
I mean, I think the, the engine from the factory is strong, andFirst with overall first, yeah

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JeremyHOST
24:57
... because it doesn't, it's not just a one-person job.

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