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Thirty years ago, 909 Americans were led to their death by the Rev. Jim Jones in a mass murder-and-suicide pact in a South American jungle, shortly after Jones' gunmen killed a visiting U.S ...
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Born on May 13, 1931, in Crete (near Lynn), Indiana, Jim Jones was a notorious cult leader. As the self-proclaimed messiah of the Peoples Temple religious cult, Jones promised his followers utopia if they followed him. On November 18, 1978, in what became known as the Jonestown Massacre, Jones led more than 900 men, women and children to their deat...
The fascination with Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple have helped spawn various movies throughout the years. Among them: Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980), The Sacrament (2013) and The Veil(2016). In the world of documentary, there have been even more: Jonestown: Paradise Lost (2007), CNN Presents: Escape From Jonestown (2008), Seconds ...
After years of struggling to find his way, Jones announced that he was entering the ministry in 1952. He got a job as a student pastor at the Somerset Methodist Church in a poor, predominantly white neighborhood in Indianapolis. By the following year, Jones was making a reputation for himself in the state as a healer and evangelist. He was interest...
In 1974, Jones bought land in Guyana, a state in northern South America, to develop into a new home for himself and his followers. He had become increasingly paranoid and disturbed by this time and soon moved to the Peoples Temple compound there with about 1,000 people. The compound was known as Jonestown, and it wasn't any tropical paradise. Jones...
On November 18, 1978, Ryan toured Jonestown with a television crew in tow. He invited anyone who wanted to leave the compound to come with him, but his rescue operation did not go as planned. That afternoon, Ryan, a small group of Peoples Temple defectors, and some visitors were driven to an airstrip in Port Kaituma. There they were attacked by Peo...
Meanwhile back at Jonestown, Jones launched what he called his "revolutionary suicide" campaign. Cyanide and Valium were mixed into a batch of grape-flavored powdered drink mix to make a toxic punch, and cups of this lethal beverage were distributed to the members. The first to die were the children and those who refused to drink were forced to by ...
Cult Leader James Warren "Jim" Jones was born on May 13, 1931, in Crete, Indiana, and was responsible for the deaths of roughly 900 of his followers in 1978, in what became known as the Jonestown Massacre. He was the son of James Thurman Jones, a disabled World War I veteran, and Lynetta (Putnam) Jones, who worked a variety of jobs. Jones was large...
Nov 13, 2008 · English. CNN Presents: "Escape from Jonestown" premiered on Nov. 13, 2008. In 1978, 909 Americans were led to mass murder-suicide by Rev. Jim Jones. One-third of the dead at Jonestown were children; only 33 people survived. CNN special correspondent Soledad O'Brien reports on untold stories of survivors.
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May 23, 2024 · Revisit the tragic and infamous Jonestown massacre in the new trailer for an upcoming docuseries that examines the final hours of Jim Jones ’ cult in Guyana. Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown ...
Aug 29, 2015 · A look back at the 1978 Jonestown massacre in Guyana, in which more than 900 members of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple committed suicide. Included: interviews with...
Aug 1, 2021 · 01:34. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), who was shot by members of the Peoples Temple during the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, says she sees similarities between cult leader Jim Jones and former President...
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