The Jonestown Institute's FAQ page, an academic reference resource hosted by San Diego State University, stating that an initial 1978 accounting located more than 8.5 million dollars in Peoples Temple assets and that its court-appointed receiver later recovered approximately 13 million dollars for distribution against claims.
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Tier 2: The Jonestown Institute, an academic reference project on Peoples Temple and the Jonestown deaths hosted by San Diego State University's religious studies department, read directly. Its FAQ page states that by the end of 1978 an initial accounting had located more than 8.5 million dollars in Temple assets, and that the court-appointed receiver, Robert Fabian, eventually identified approximately 10 million dollars he was able to recover, which grew to roughly 13 million dollars available for distribution once accrued interest was added. A secondary academic account relaying a probate court receiver's accounting rather than the receiver's own filed report, which this pass did not locate directly. No single publication date is given for the page itself, an absence named here rather than left silent. Citation
PublisherThe Jonestown Institute, San Diego State University
URLhttps://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=35330
Source Typereference-database
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This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- New Religious Movements, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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