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 Michael H. de Young. The pap ...

'' 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 preacher, political activist and mass murderer. He led the Peoples Temple, a new religious movement, between 1955 and 1978. In what he called "revolutionary suicide", ...

.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, a U.S.–based cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationall ...

, Guyana. 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 St. Ignatius College Preparatory, commonly referred to as SI, is a private, Catholic preparatory school in the Jesuit tradition, serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 1855. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, in the Su ...

before transferring to St. George's School, in Middletown, Rhode Island, for the remainder of high school. After graduating, Kilduff attended Stanford University and graduated with a major in English.

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