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Jonestown was held up as a benevolent communist community, with Jones stating: "I believe we're the purest communists there are." [ 39 ] Jones' wife, Marceline, described Jonestown as "dedicated to live for socialism, total economic and racial and social equality.
The entrance to Jonestown (photo:Jonestown Institute). While Jones' exit was hasty, the exodus of most Temple members had been carefully prepared. [105] The San Francisco field office of Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) received hundreds of requests for passports in the weeks before the New West article was published. [106]
The phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid" as used to describe either unquestioning obedience or loyalty to a cause is considered offensive by some of the relatives of the dead and survivors who escaped Jonestown. [10] Seventy or more individuals at Jonestown were injected with poison, and a third (304) of the victims were minors.
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what Jones termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, is a 2006 documentary film made by Firelight Media, produced and directed by Stanley Nelson.The documentary reveals new footage of the incidents surrounding the Peoples Temple and its leader Jim Jones who led over 900 members of his religious group to a settlement in Guyana called Jonestown, where he orchestrated a mass suicide with poisoned ...
Articles relating to Jonestown, a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, a US-based cult under the leadership of Jim Jones.Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 909 people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city.
In the last half of the 20th century, Jonestown has shifted from a predominantly Eastern European and Jewish neighborhood into a predominantly African-American neighborhood. Public housing replaced many of the former rowhouses and townhouses throughout the area, though a historical presence is still felt. In the early 2000s, though, modern row ...
Jonestown: Paradise Lost is a 2007 documentary television film on the History Channel about the final days of Jonestown, the Peoples Temple, and Jim Jones.From eyewitness and survivor accounts, the program recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978.