Marshall Kilduff (born February 14, 1949) is a retired journalist, having written for the ''

San Francisco Chronicle The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded in 1865 as ''The Daily Dramatic Chronicle'' by teenage brothers Charles de Young and M. H. de Young, Michael H. ...

'' since 1971. On January 17, 2021, he announced his retirement in his regular column. He is noted for being the coauthor of the investigatory report criticizing the leader of Peoples Temple,

Jim Jones James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader, preacher and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrat ...

.Kilduff, Marshall and Phil Trac
"Inside Peoples Temple."
''New West Magazine''. 1 August 1977 (hosted at Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University). In 1978, after the publication of the article in '' New West Magazine'', Jones and the Peoples Temple congregation fled to

Jonestown The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American religious movement under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became in ...

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. Kilduff has been with the ''Chronicle'' ever since, becoming an editor and later an editorial writer. He began a weekly quizKilduff, Marshall. "Match Game." ''The San Francisco Chronicle''. 21 December 2008. in the Chronicle's ''Insight'' section testing readers' knowledge of the news of the week.

Early life

Kilduff was born in

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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, in Middletown, Rhode Island, for the remainder of high school. After graduating, Kilduff attended

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

and graduated with a major in English.

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1949 births Living people 20th-century American journalists Journalists from the San Francisco Bay Area Writers from San Francisco San Francisco Chronicle people American male journalists Peoples Temple Stanford University alumni St. George's School (Rhode Island) alumni {{US-journalist-1940s-stub