The House on Graceland | Peoples Temple Pt. 1

Both Things Are True Crime · Oct 19, 2026 · 2h 6m · transcript

Before Jonestown, before California, there was a house at 40th and Graceland in Indianapolis. Hyacinth Thrash bought it herself, in a city the whole sundown system was built to keep her out of, and shared it with her baby sister, Zipporah. In 1957 the two of them joined a small integrated church on New Jersey Street.

Part 1 starts on a farm in Wilsonville, Alabama, rides the train north, and sits inside the Indiana of the second Klan. It tells the story of Madge Oberholtzer, whose dying declaration took down Grand Dragon D. C. Stephenson, and explains causation in plain English. Then it…