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PEO IEW&S Product Lead Pens Intense Play About Jim Jones

Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors

Jan. 20, 2019 | 1:58

Jim Jones, portrayed on stage in the play Thank You, Dad throughout his life by Lance Bankard in a play penned by Aladrian Wetzel, the Product Lead for Joint Tactical Terminal (JTT) under Project Manager Distributed Common Ground System-Army (PM DCGS-A).

The play presents Jones by himself on stage at three very different points in his life, first as the humble door to door salesmen supporting his church, then as a fiery and driven preacher, bellowing from behind a podium about his power, his will and his plans for the future. The last act finds Jones at the end of his life, defeated and believing that death is a better alternative for him and his congregation than living in an unjust world.