Seductive Poison (56 page)

“Mutti,” my grandmother, Anita Philip, in Hamburg, 1914.
(COURTESY DR. THOMAS LAYTON)

“Papsche,” my grandfather, Hugo Philip, playing his Guadagnini violin.
(COURTESY DR. THOMAS LAYTON)

Working the crowd.
(COURTESY STEPHAN JONES)

Ever-present support from Marcie.
(COURTESY STEPHAN JONES)

Making contact with a new member.
Larry is singing in the background.
(COURTESY STEPHAN JONES)

Receiving praise. (COURTESY STEPHAN JONES)

Jim working a spell on his congregation.
(COURTESY STEPHAN JONES)

First phone transmissions into
Jonestown, the Temple’s newly acquired
outpost in Guyana, South America,
1974. (COURTESY STEPHAN JONES)

Larry in front of a Temple bus in
1972. (COURTESY STEPHAN JONES)

Karen (left), already recruiting Mama
(right) and me, Berkeley, 1974.
(COURTESY DR. THOMAS LAYTON)

Receiving my surgeon’s assistant
diploma, San Francisco, 1975.
(COURTESY DR. THOMAS LAYTON)

A convoy of Temple buses out to conquer
the United States.
(COURTESY STEPHAN JONES)

Father turning water into wine.
(COURTESY STEPHAN JONES)