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I said this is got to be a perfect way to live. I’ve been here a few days and I have — I have absolutely no complaints at all. In 1978 over 900 people died in the largest mass murder-suicide in history. What I was feeling was — this is an opportunity that I can vocalize how much I believe in what we are doing here. Take that step. The True Jim Jones Documentary Jimmy has so much swagger this movie has to be pure fucking gold. Jim Jones (archival, subtitles): Quickly! Jim Jones (archival): What about the fact that the Ku Klux Klan has increased one hundred times in its membership? Everybody was thrilled that Ryan was thrilled. Patrick Ramirez. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: My wife came up to me, she didn’t have no tears in her eyes. You've never seen Jonestown like this. Jim Jones (archival): People play games, friend. Stephan Jones and Jim Jones Jr., the surviving son of Jim Jones, tell all in a new documentary about the Jonestown massacre. Carroll Parrott Blue Rebecca Moore, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: Peoples Temple really was a black church. I just beg you, please leave us. Blinded by the Light (1998) Terrific documentary that tries to explain the phenomenon of modern cults and why their followers would sacrifice... Bobby March 14, 2013. On a certain level, it’s normal, you know? The trailer comes to a stop and then you can see the wooden pathway that leads to the pavilion. Stephen Sung, sound technician This documentary, Jamestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple, is about the massacre of over 900 people in Jonestown, Guyana.Led by Jim Jones, the film follows the Peoples Temple and how they were subsequently murdered (or how they committed suicide according to some) in 1978. Marshall Kilduff, Journalist: Well, in 1975 it was a mayoral election in San Francisco. It gave them the opportunity to — to really be a part of creating a utopia. Tim Reiterman, Journalist: He saw that they were a surrogate home. Jonestown also includes never-before-seen footage shot inside Peoples Temple, providing a rare glimpse of Jones’s passionate preaching and emotional healing services. Amy Wellnitz, Ukiah Daily Journal Neva Sly Hargrave, Peoples Temple Member: Jim started talking about our cause and he said, “This punch is going to be passed out to everybody here.” We all drank our punch and then he said, “You just drank poison. And I’ll be leaving in a couple weeks and they could come with me, but they said they didn’t want to come. Ted ‘Black Lightning’ Patrick started an anti-cult crusade in the 1970s, at times snatching cult members so they could be forcibly mentally reprogrammed, with the help of friends and family, into non-cultists. I don’t know what kind of games people like. The man responsible, Jim Jones, has gone down in history as a madman who drove his followers to suicide. We didn’t commit suicide. A husband would turn in a wife. Jim Jones was a mad man, and how he ordered 900+ people to kill themselves is absolutely sickening. What sets this documentary apart, however, is the original footage in features shot by Will Allen, a member of the cult for two decades. Composed by Charles Stepney, Maurice White, and Verdine Adams White “It’s impossible to say exactly what went on that day,” says Nelson. A dog barks. Jackie Speier, Aide to Congressman Leo Ryan: We heard this great uproar in the pavilion and the truck stopped. Garrett Lambrev, Peoples Temple member In Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, award-winning filmmakers Stanley Nelson, Marcia Smith, and Noland Walker reveal the true, tragic story behind enigmatic preacher Jim Jones and his promise of a world of economic and racial equality that ultimately led to the largest mass murder-suicide in history. The reporter next to me said, “I’ve never felt anything like this before,” and I said, “Because you haven’t felt anything like this before.” I actually felt pretty good overall. I’m thinking, “Where did all of these [expletive] guns come from?”. The vat, the vat…Bring it here, so the adults can begin. Jim Jones (archival): We had a lady who visited us a week ago here and was speaking to one at the door, and she was a member of a prominent church, a pastor’s wife, and she said, “I think that the poor should be made to control how many children they bring into the earth.” You remember? He had books. You can’t describe it. Just vulcanize yourself.”. I didn’t know I’d never see her again. Jonestown was meant to be a utopia and, for a while, it was. He had this hands-on approach to legislating. It looked like — like freedom. Nelson was drawn to making this film by a persistent question: What drove thousands of people to join Peoples Temple? It was very quiet. Male Peoples Temple Member (archival): No. Stephen Sung, Sound Technician: We flew in sometime in the afternoon, about 6pm. E. A. Phillips and Michelle G. Phillips Lionel Wedekind Why are we going to throw all this away? What do you see? Jon Vargo, Video Arts/San Francisco, Re-Recording Mixer Here is the trailer for the documentary coming out about Jimmy's life. Garrett Lambrev, Peoples Temple Member: The Peoples Temple services, they had life, they had soul, they had power. And I said to her, “Well, if you’re going to speak publicly — I’m going to speak with you. We had Indians in front of us with machetes, and we had Indians behind us with machetes. KGO TV We got to — we got to go to sleep. Jim Jones Jr., Peoples Temple Member: He talked black. Deborah Layton, Peoples Temple Member, Author, Seductive Poison: For those people that hadn’t grown up in the apostolic world, Jim would say, you know — “I know this is different for you. They had a little medical clinic, a little daycare area. Stephen Sung, Sound Technician: We drove back to the airstrip, Port Kaituma. There was a fire in the San Francisco Temple. Jim Jones (Documentary)Jim Jones was best known as the cult leader of the Peoples Temple who led more than 900 followers in a mass suicide via cyanide-laced punch known as the Jonestown Massacre.Who Was Jim Jones?Born on May 13, 1931, in Crete (near Lynn), Indiana, Jim Jones was a notorious cult leader. Jim Jones (archival): Take your glasses off. Why does it have to end in Kool-Aid and misery? Senior Woman (archival): I was just wondering whether I could go or not. And all of a sudden, the answer was there. Stand up. Nice little comment from Angie Martinez there… Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection He captivated followers with his vision of a coming social revolution, and convinced them to give up their decision making to him. It might not never happen. 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ECS8C_C01.qxd IMT Custom Machine Company, Inc.: Selection of an Information Technology What does this story, overall, tell you about leadership? My brothers used to go over to Jimmy’s house and hung around his barn, which was where he played. Through a forceful personality, charm and genuine good works, he managed to draw a massive following and lead them, like a modern-day pied piper, to the jungles of Guyana. Ed Rudolph, Video Arts/San Francisco, Online Editor I mean, I just felt the life go out of him. Jim Jones (May 13, 1931–November 18, 1978), the leader of the Peoples Temple cult, was both charismatic and disturbed. Kelly Frankeny Two of them are in the film.”. We were going to California, our new world. We saw this beautiful sign, “Welcome to Jonestown.”. And that frightened the hell out of me. But if it’s so damned bad, why is he leaving his son here? Everything was new and unique and —- and just fun. UCLA Film and Television Archive, Archival Photographs Stephan Jones and Jim Jones Jr., the surviving son of Jim Jones, tell all in a new documentary about the Jonestown massacre. Jim Jones (archival): By Christmas, do you want to be gone? So all you could hear the engine noise. Stephen Sung, Sound Technician: We were there, supposed to interview some of the family members to ask them why they cannot leave. The man was Jim Jones, the cult leader who ordered 918 people to kill themselves in Jonestown, Guyana. Composed and Performed by Timmy Thomas Garnett Day, minister Jim Jones Jr., Peoples Temple Member: When you don’t have anything, you own Jonestown — you are part of Jonestown. Now, is the pain gone? I’ve never been any happier in my life. Susan Starr Katherine McMillan, Interns But shortly afterwards, I heard my partner, the cameraman. I was there the afternoon that Edith drove away. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of … Yes, we tried it. They’ll torture some of our children here. 7 months ago. KQED Marshall Kilduff, Journalist: The sheer staginess, the controlled atmosphere that sort of enclosed this guy, made him so unusual, so different than the norm, that it made me very curious. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: When Ryan came, he came on a Friday night and we put on a reception for him. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: Jones came down off the podium and he said, “Hey, we got to do this. Hue Fortson Jr., Peoples Temple Member: He said, “If you see me as your friend, I’ll be your friend. Jackie Speier, Aide to Congressman Leo Ryan: More people wanted to leave. Kristine Kravitz, Peoples Temple Member: Pretty soon we were seeing film footage of the first crew that went down there. Neva Sly Hargrave lost her husband and son. Chuck Wilmore, Childhood Friend: From the time I was five years old, I thought Jimmy was a really weird kid, there was something not quite right. Phyllis Wilmore Zimmerman, childhood friend of Jim Jones, Special Thanks I couldn’t say goodbye to my son or my husband because at that point, it was like the Gestapo — the families were turning in each other. Jim Jones the video director. Jim Jones (singing, archival): Never shall forget what He’s done for me. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: I was one of those kind of guys that — I used drugs. Are you people going to — leave us. And that is what people began to do. It’s nothing to death. The Family is nonfiction; it’s all true. Laura Johnston Kohl, Peoples Temple Member: We had no other radio or T.V. Jackie Speier, Aide to Congressman Leo Ryan: When word got out that people were leaving, all hell broke out. Marshall Kilduff, Journalist: The Concerned Relatives were the ex-members who wanted other family members, still in the church, to know they could leave. And I’ll say this about November 18th, I felt I’d lost a family and I knew I’d lost my children. I just kind of took everything in stride. And finally he opened the door, and without any talk or anything, he just pulled down his pants and — and had sex with me. Female (archival): Definitely. 1978’s Jonestown massacre was one of the first times that cults entered the public imagination, after 909 extreme Marxist followers of Jim Jones died in Guyana after drinking Kool-Aid laced with poison. Wherever there are people struggling for justice and righteousness, there I am.” We have different containers surrounding the place — we couldn’t go through all of the tremendous inventory they built up. They drove this truck all the way across the airstrip and stop on this side of the plane, so literally they cut us off from the jungle. I’ve seen situations where they actually knocked the person out and actually took water and threw water back on him, woke him up, and whooped him some more. Barbara Peterson Joyce Shaw-Houston, Peoples Temple Member: Jim said that this was a test of loyalty. He was carrying on an adulterous relationship with my sister. If I had said goodbye, one of them would have reported me. Jackie Speier, Aide to Congressman Leo Ryan: On the night of the 17th, it was still a vibrant community. (Singing, archival): As pilgrims here, we sometimes journey. The powerful two hour special “jonestown: the women behind the massacre,” focuses on four women in jim jones’ inner circle who helped plan the 1978 jonestown massacre, one of the largest murder suicide events in modern history which left 918 men, women and children dead. Mike Touchette, Peoples Temple Member: They had their own rooms, they had every need taken care of, they had their food provided. This episode dives deep into the life of Jones, from his lonely childhood to his spectacular rise as … Neva Sly Hargrave, Peoples Temple member The older Jim was a disabled war veteran. Juanell Smart, Peoples Temple Member: When people heard Jim, they didn’t look upon him as being a white preacher, you know. Now look at my face. This, along with interviews with former acolytes documents their slow descent into madness, makes it a truly fascinating chronicle of cult life. Female Peoples Temple Member (archival): But they won’t listen to me. Jonestown: The Life and Death of … Gary Fong, San Francisco Chronicle A small child would turn in a parent. He took it as a betrayal to the cause, and to him personally. Jordan Vilchez, Peoples Temple Member: No matter where you were, you could hear. Glenn Fukushima Jim Jones (archival): Jesus Christ had the most revolutionary teachings to be said, in the sense that he said to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, take in the stranger, administer to those who are widows and afflicted in their suffering. Bryan Kravitz, Peoples Temple Member: I decided not to go to Vietnam, and I was just at the point of what am I going to do with myself? Oakland Tribune Jim Jones Jr., Peoples Temple Member: I think in everything that I tell you about Jim Jones, there is going to be a paradox. Jim Jones (archival): The world is like a human family. Kelsey Dorwart By Christmas, do you want to be gone?!! And we would be enthusiastic. And the bag fell and he was gone. Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: We were just [expletive] slaughtered. Marion K. Towne Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: Everything up to that point was, was — was good. Listen, he was in a dysfunctional family. Don Como Please, just let me catch my breath; let me figure out what’s happening here. Jim Jones (archival): Flour, rice, black-eyed peas, more peas. Oh, what’s he done for me. Female Peoples Temple Member (archival): share with them. Moore Family Collection Neva Sly Hargrave, Peoples Temple Member: And she starts taking forward steps. A documentary on the 40th anniversary of the largest murder-suicide in American history, when over 900 members of the Peoples Temple consumed a deadly cyanide-laced drink on the orders of leader Jim Jones; interviews with Jones' two surviving sons. Nobody knew that until perhaps it was their time to find out. Joyce Shaw-Houston, Peoples Temple Member: It’s kind of like when you get married and you have this ideal. So it was through that that she met Jim Jones, and came back saying that he had invited her to church this next Sunday. Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: Congressman Ryan was directly across from me, and I saw this Temple member walk up behind him — and he was actually crying and shaking — and all of a sudden, he pulled out this knife and said, “All right, [expletive], you’re gonna die.” We all jumped on him, and there were just screams of horror everywhere. Laura Bowman We let them, the enemies, defeat us. Woman (archival): Before I came here, I was taking LSD, marijuana, every type of dope you can imagine. Kristine Kravitz, Peoples Temple Member: There were people who ran rest homes. My wife died in my arms and my dead baby son was in her arms. Quickly! So at that point, we knew that something was very, very wrong. That’s what was happening. Female Peoples Temple Member (archival): Well. There was an attitude of, “We can change the world.” And that’s what we wanted to do. In 1952, Jim enters the ministry and starts his work as a student pastor at the Somerset Methodist Church in Indianapolis. Getty Images Jim Jones Jr., Peoples Temple Member: The move to California was really fun. Kristine Kravitz, Peoples Temple Member: We all wanted to go. What makes you think you’ve got something that he wants anyway?” And so another woman says, “Well, you know what? Doubletree Hotel Berkeley Marina Juanell Smart, Peoples Temple Member: I’m saddened because it didn’t work out. Lovella Brown He understood how it was to be treated differently. Rebecca Moore, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: The reward for the election of George Moscone was the appointment of Jim Jones as Chairman of the City Housing Authority. Jim Jones (archival): Come forth, my dear. Scientology seems like a great place to start in your cult film (sorry) marathon, being perhaps the most well-publicized and well-funded secret society of modern times. It was rural. She said, “I can feel it.” He said, “Yes, I know you can feel it. Male Peoples Temple Member (archival): Won’t listen to you, huh? We never know there’s people hidden inside the dump truck. Girl’s Mother (archival): Well, I believe it. He was standing in the middle of a duffel bag. Jim Jones (archival, subtitles): You can’t know how much of a conspiracy there is in the U.S. these days. Phyllis Wilmore-Zimmerman, Childhood Friend: I grew up with Jimmy Jones. Grace Stoen, Peoples Temple member Laura Johnston Kohl, Peoples Temple Member: We thought of ourselves as one big family that did handle our own discipline. But don’t do this. As the self-proclaimed messiah of the Peoples Temple religious cult, Jones … Everything they could think of, they were saying. The moment I think of it a great deal of pain comes. Male Peoples Temple Member (archival): I would ask you, could I go home and make a trip to see my people? I told him, “You are in extreme danger. Some people do. Christine Miller, Peoples Temple Member (archival, subtitles): When we destroy ourselves, we’re defeated. O. James Fox Collection, Indiana Historical Society And she went up to that Kool-Aid, to that death barrel and she just, I mean — didn’t hesitate, just took it and drunk it and then told me to hold her, to take her, and I did. Jordan Vilchez, Peoples Temple Member: It’s like a child in a dysfunctional family. They had cabins. I took the pain and hold still. Fielding McGehee, relative of Peoples Temple member Stephen Sung, Sound Technician: The gun’s dead and all we can hear — this one engine was still running. He was just their preacher. When Rosalyn Carter came to San Francisco, she gave Jim Jones a private audience. Perhaps the best, and the one to drop into conversation with your friends if you want to inspire frothing at the mouth. By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing, I’m a Soldier (In The Army of the Lord) We were alive in those services. It’s obvious that Martin Luther King was murdered by conspiracy…Malcolm X, Senator Kennedy…. We have about every level of society, all socio-economic income strata — professional down to the ordinary field worker, field laborer. Hue Fortson Jr., Peoples Temple Member: And he said, “What you need to believe in is what you can see.” He said, “If you see me as your friend, I’ll be your friend. And you’re, you know, you’re in love and then — you know, the honeymoon wears off and reality sets in. Jim Jones, leader of the People’s Temple, has come to symbolize the ultimate in sleazy, evil cult figures. Courtesy of Rhino Entertainment Company “My mother, my grandmother, my sister, my brother, they gone.” You know she said, “Just take me. At one point, he said, “Well, of course you can go if you want.” But clearly, that was not the message. "This groundbreaking feature-length hybrid of documentary and drama definitively examines the five tense days leading up to that unthinkable massacre in Guyana. Male Reporter (archival): What about now? Jackie Speier, aide to Congressman Leo Ryan He just didn’t take no for an answer. Greg Shea, Legal Jim Jones In November 1978, a delegation, including Reps Leo Ryan and Jackie Speier, visited Jonestown with a news crew in an attempt to assist people who may have been held against their will. It’s just stepping over into another plane. Rebecca Moore, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: California is perceived to be a very progressive state. Neva Sly Hargrave, Peoples Temple Member: Well it got to the point where there were so many duties in the Temple that some people had to become full time. And I did allow Jones to think for me because I figured that he had the better plan. Marshall Kilduff, journalist All Rights Reserved. Don’t, don’t be this way! Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: I went back to my cottage. Visually-Impaired Woman (archival): One finger. They looked in people’s faces. Forty years on from America’s most infamous massacre, this harrowing documentary traces the Rev Jim Jones’s suicide sect – and hears from the handful who made it out alive He was on one phone and I was on — taping the other end of it, while somebody else listened on another one. Oh, what he’s done for me. He just kind of praised us. And we will all die, right here in the church, together as one.” The women were just screaming, “Oh no, my baby, my baby,” and others just sat there. Hue Fortson Jr., Peoples Temple Member: But then we felt like we had gotten involved and gotten in so deep that it was actually no way out. Performed by the Sterling Jubilee Singers Grace Stoen, Peoples Temple Member: Peoples Temple truly had the potential to be something big and powerful and great, and yet for whatever reason, Jim took the other road. It was very somber. And that’s from his roots coming out of Lynn. I can’t begin to describe it. Now take your other leg and do it.” And so another real slow, shaky step and he says, “Now I want you to walk toward me.”. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: We all got suited down, neck-tied and everything. We committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world. My family was a template of a rainbow family. What he spoke from the pulpit wasn’t what he did behind the scenes. But this is a loyalty test and you need to turn them in.”. John R. Hall, sociologist It was about 11:30 in the morning. Tim Reiterman, Journalist: As we approached Jonestown, it was spartan, but very impressive. Anthony Simons They come and go all the time. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: I was like the first to rise up the following morning. You’re my people. Neva Sly Hargrave, Peoples Temple Member: I had welts really bad, and when I went to work the next day, one of my employees noticed the welts when I sat down. The fire proved they are out to get us. Jones had several hundred people who would go door-to-door Election Day. And she starts walking up one of the aisles. Jim Jones (archival): I represent divine principle, total equality, a society where people own all things in common. They organized letter-writing campaigns to public officials, to members of Congress. Here are the best documentaries on Netflix to watch if you’re cult obsessed. I’m not going to let you do this alone.”, Marshall Kilduff, Journalist: I finally heard from some ex-members who heard I was interested in writing a story about the Temple for New West magazine, and they took a chance. Janet Shular, Peoples Temple Member: Well it wasn’t about our loyalty, because we were demonstrating loyalty all the time. Instead of a group that might give you twenty or thirty of these people — or a hundred — you had three or four hundred. The message was, “You are betraying me.”. They’re all liars.” The last words I heard from Jim Jones was, “I just want you to know that you can come back to Jonestown and visit your son any time you want.”. You must be insane. A division of Universal Music Publishing Group You know, cyanide makes people froth at the mouth. I Never Heard a Man Jim Jones attracted a large following to his Peoples Temple through sermons on tolerance, social responsibility and community. Traditional Never heard a man speak like this man before. He was sitting up. Included in your analysis should be things like (not limited to, but inclusive of) was Jim Jones a great leader? Hue Fortson Jr., Peoples Temple Member: There was an interracial group. Jim Jones (archival): We started with about a hundred and forty-one people and from that, we’ve grown to a very thriving congregation. Jim Jones (archival, subtitles): but also they deserve…what’s more, they deserve peace. Narrator (anonymous letter, archival): “A teeny kitten sits next to me watching. People didn’t look at Jim as being white. It is really nice here. I mean this reporter said, “We got our story.” You know, “The story’s here. “But it is very clear that the kids — something like 250 people who were under eighteen – were all murdered.” Stanley Clayton, one of the few who escaped alive, clearly states his opinion in the film: “That man was killin’ us.”, Teleplay by He had a desk. The woman was Carolyn Layton, a California woman who became his enabler. Hue Fortson Jr., Peoples Temple Member: We would always try to let each other know the next day, “Well, how long did you sleep?” “Oh, I slept two hours.” “You only slept two? Bryan Kravitz, Peoples Temple member Courtesy of Vee-Jay Ltd. Partnership, That’s The Way Of The World And you’re seeing in the distance, housing complexes, that are being built. Narrator (anonymous letter, archival): “To whomever finds this note. Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: As soon as I walked into the San Francisco temple, I was home. Chuck Wilmore, childhood friend of Jim Jones (On-screen text): Voice of Jim Jones, 1953. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh relocated his followers there in the 80s in search of enlightenment and utopia, but in episode one we’re already being told by the FBI that the move resulted in the largest poisoning case in the USA (amongst other truly awful things). Who knows what it is? While working as a hospital orderly, Jones met Marceline Baldwin, a nursing student, and they married in 1949. Tim Carter, Personal Collection Pyramid Media And I can tell you right now, that from the few conversations I’ve had with some of the folks here already this evening, that whatever these comments are — there are some people here who believe that this is the best thing they’ve ever had in their whole lives. Jim Jones was afraid that the time has come when he would be sent to Jail for the rest of the life and he became a maniac which could be clearly seen in his actions. With Rebecca Moore, Janet Shular, Tim Carter, Stanley Clayton. Jim Jones’ Sons Speak Out in ABC’s 40th Anniversary Jonestown Documentary On November 18, 1978, 909 members of the Peoples Temple living in the Jonestown settlement in Guyana consumed a deadly, cyanide-laced drink. 6 months ago. And that role represented power over the lives of your congregation. If you are in need of healthcare, you get healthcare. This documentary looks at the tragic death of 913 men, women and children who lived in a religious compound in the jungles of Guyana, South America, and investigates leader Jim Jones and his message of brotherhood and social justice. Jim Jones died in the largest mass murder-suicide in history, at Jonestown, Guyana. You think they’re going to allow us to get by with this? Eugene Cordell, Relative of Peoples Temple member Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: What I saw that creation as being was building a city where we could move and raise our children, outside of the oppression and the racism of the United States of America. In 1977, as media interest grew Jim Jones and hundreds of his supporters left San Francisco, California and set out for Guyana determined to build a new community in the South American country. “I represent divine principle, total equality, a society where people own all things in common, where there’s no rich or poor, where there are no races. “Of the five people who survived, there are — to my knowledge — three left alive. I got a tremendous pain ran through my arm and on my shoulder. So she looked in the Indianapolis Star, and in that Indianapolis Star was Jim Jones’s ad that he had some monkeys to sell. And when he flung it and let it go, the place got dead quiet like. There were the publications. And we feel that no one really tried Christianity too effectively in the Judeo-Christian tradition. On-screen text: Peoples Temple Choir — He’s Able. James Molesky Tim Reiterman, journalist That you’re standing there is because of him. Well, by this time the whole congregation’s running down these aisles with us — we’re all just running around the aisles, just hoopin’ and hollerin’ up a storm. Fred Lewis came home and found that his wife had taken their seven children and gone to Guyana, along with all their possessions. David Bushway, Mendocino College Library Then, I’d work on files. Not Indianapolis, which seems hopeless, but California, which seems to be the Promised Land. On-screen text: 909 Peoples Temple members died at Jonestown. Quickly! But what I personally felt was that evil itself blew into Jonestown. They wanted them to feel that there was an outside world — that Jones was wrong about telling people they could never leave the church, and that they would be treated badly in the real world. It was loud. Having this vision to change the world, but having this whole undercurrent of dysfunction that was underneath that vision. Quickly! With this sleep I’m not getting, I’m not getting enough anyway.”. No! Susan Sutton, Indiana Historical Society They have no problem about getting out of here. Move forward, darlin’. Jim Jones Jr., Peoples Temple Member: And he was kind of left to his own devices. Jim Jones Jr., Peoples Temple Member: He had a real issue with separation. Yes, it was very tragic. My son was dead and he was frothing at the mouth. Vernon Gosney, Peoples Temple Member: A father would turn in a son. He yelled, “Oh [expletive].” He said he got — he got shot. In 1978, 909 Americans were led to mass murder-suicide by Rev. I was hit in my arm and wrist. 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