Name Marshall Kilduff | ||
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Education Stanford University, Town School for Boys Profiles | ||
Marshall Kilduff (born February 14, 1949) is a journalist currently writing for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is noted for being the coauthor of the investigatory report criticizing the leader of Peoples Temple, Jim Jones. In 1978, after the publication of the article in New West Magazine, Jones and the Peoples Temple congregation fled to Jonestown, Guyana. Kilduff has been with the Chronicle ever since, becoming an editor and later an editorial writer. He began a weekly quiz in the Chronicle's Insight section testing readers' knowledge of the news of the week.
Early life
Kilduff was born in San Francisco in 1949. He went on to attend Town School for Boys through eighth grade and later St. Ignatius College Preparatory before transferring to St. George's School, Newport, for the remainder of high school. After graduating, Kilduff attended Stanford University and graduated with a major in English.