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=== Investigation and mass migration === {{Further|Peoples Temple in San Francisco}} [[File:PTinGuyana Cen image001.gif|thumb|upright=1.6|Migration to Jonestown ([http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=35655 Migration figures after June 1978 are not known], Jonestown Report)]] In the summer of 1977, Jones and several hundred Temple members moved to Jonestown to escape building pressure from San Francisco media investigations.<ref name="layton113">{{Harvnb|Layton|1998|p=113}}</ref> Jones left the same night that an editor at ''New West'' magazine read to him an article to be published by [[Marshall Kilduff]] detailing allegations of abuse by former Temple members.<ref name="layton113"/><ref>Kilduff, Marshall and Phil Tracy.[http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=14025 "Inside Peoples Temple."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217064220/http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/PrimarySources/newWestart.htm|date=December 17, 2010}} ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University. August 1, 1977.</ref> After the mass migration, Jonestown became overcrowded.<ref name="raven390">{{Harvnb|Reiterman|Jacobs|1982|pp=390β392}}</ref> Jonestown's population was slightly under 900 at its peak in 1978.
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