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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]
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.
The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, [1] originally Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church and commonly shortened to Peoples Temple, was an American new religious organization which existed between 1954 and 1978 and was affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
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 ...
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.
Christine Miller (June 4, 1918 – November 18, 1978) [1] was a member of the Peoples Temple cult led by Jim Jones.She is known for being the only Temple member to publicly urge Jones against carrying out the group's mass murder in Jonestown, Guyana on November 18, 1978.