Hello, I don't know if these links may help you:

http://www.britishpoliticalspeech.org/speech-archive.htm

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches

https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/research/alic/presidents

Good luck!

Hi Patrizia Giampieri,

Thank you for reaching out and sharing your fascinating research project — it’s an important and timely area of study. You're on the right track with your selection of cult groups and your analytical approach through forensic linguistics and discourse analysis.

Here are a few suggestions and resources that might help:

1. Jonestown / Peoples Temple (Jim Jones):

• The Jonestown Institute (https://jonestown.sdsu.edu) is an excellent source. They host a large archive of transcribed sermons, letters, and audio recordings from Jim Jones. Look specifically under their "Primary Sources" and "Transcripts" sections.
• Many of the “Death Tape” and earlier sermons are available as MP3s with partial or full transcripts.

2. Charles Manson:

• Complete transcripts of Manson’s interviews (e.g., with Geraldo Rivera, Diane Sawyer, etc.) are sometimes available on sites like YouTube with community-generated subtitles, which can be cleaned up using tools like YouTube Transcript Extractor.
• You can also check out court testimony archives. For example, Court TV or Famous Trials (by Prof. Douglas Linder, UMKC) may still have archived transcripts or excerpts of the Manson trial and his own statements: https://famous-trials.com/manson (Look under "Testimony of Charles Manson" and related trial documents.)

3. Aum Shinrikyo (Shoko Asahara):

• AUM materials are a bit harder to find in English, but you can locate translated excerpts of Asahara’s writings and speeches through academic papers and books such as Destroying the World to Save It by Robert Jay Lifton.
• Some translated sermons and writings are archived by Japanese scholars or cult-monitoring NGOs. One source is the Japanese Ministry of Justice or scholarly databases like JSTOR (when you regain access).
• You may also try searching the Wayback Machine for archived AUM websites before they were taken down.

4. NXIVM (Keith Raniere):

• As you mentioned, many videos and courtroom testimonies are available. FrankReport and HBO's The Vow have direct quotations and segments from Raniere’s talks.
• The court trial transcripts from the U.S. v. Raniere case are publicly available through PACER (for a small fee) or sometimes hosted freely by journalists covering the case.

General Suggestions for Transcripts:

• YouTube and Internet Archive (archive.org) often have rare interviews, sermons, or speeches. Tools like otter.ai, YouTube Transcript Extractor, or Descript can help transcribe them.
• CLAN software, as you already know, can work wonders once you’ve got the audio segmented or time-aligned. You might even consider building a small corpus.

Control Groups – Hobby Clubs:

• Try public forums like Reddit, YouTube hobby podcasts, or Toastmasters International, where speeches are freely available and transcripts can be extracted or generated.
• Look into public meeting minutes or recorded speeches of hobbyist conventions (e.g., chess clubs, gardening groups, amateur radio enthusiasts).

If you're open to expanding your data set, you might also look at:

• David Koresh (Branch Davidians)
• Heaven’s Gate (Marshall Applewhite — the group left behind video testimonies)

Warm regards, Asist. Prof. Ahmad ALALI

Hello Maya, I am also fascinated by the topic you pursue. If you wish to implement anything from quantitative linguistics / stylometry into your research, I am at your full disposal. These methods may help boost the intersubjectivity of your findings and discover things you would not think of. Feel free to e-mail me if you are interested in collaboration.