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Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple by Rebecca Moore, 2009-03-20 JONESTOWN AND PEOPLES TEMPLE: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Encyclopedia of Religion</i> by David Chidester, 2005 Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple by Deborah Layton, 1999-11-09 Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple: An entry from Gale's <i>American Decades: Primary Sources</i> Dear People: Remembering Jonestown Gone from the Promised Land by John Hall, 2004-04-01 Hearing the Voices of Jonestown (Religion and Politics) by Mary McCormick Maaga, 1998-05 Death of a Cult Family: Jim Jones (Days of Tragedy) by Sue L. Hamilton, 1989-11

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41. NPR : Remembering Jonestown
    peoples temple leader Jim Jones. He ordered the mass killing of his 900 followers . 25th anniversary of the mass suicide and murder in jonestown, Guyana.  
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1509317

42. A Tentative First Report On The Deaths In Uganda, By J. Gordon Melton
    Ten Commandments of God mass suicide in Uganda. the count reached andsurpassed the 913 that died at the peoples temple community in jonestown, Guyana.  
    http://www.cesnur.org/testi/uganda_005.htm
    
    Extractions: by J. Gordon Melton (updated: April 14, 2000) First it was 150 dead. Then it was 350, and gradually the count reached and surpassed the 913 that died at the Peoples Temple community in Jonestown, Guyana. It has now risen above 1,000, and the search for victims of Uganda's Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God continues. The sheer extent of the tragedy in Kanungu, Uganda, calls forth comparison with Jonestown, where in November 1978 the visit of California Representative Leo J. Ryan became the catalyst for the group to turn in upon itself and commit mass suicide, and to murder the minority who would not participate. On the surface, Jonestown and Kanungu have striking similarities: More than 900 known dead, both exhibited some primary characteristics of so-called "cults"charismatic leaders and geographic isolation. But closer reflection shows some equally striking differencesdespite equally tragic ends.

43. People's Temple
    jonestown. What was the peoples temple? peoples temple began in the was underattack and the preparation to commit a revolutionary mass suicide began.  
    http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/relstudies/290/newage/peoplest.htm
    
    Extractions: JONESTOWN What was the Peoples Temple? Peoples Temple began in the 1950's in Indianapolis, IN under the leadership of Jim Jones Jones and his followers engaged in numerous activities to help the poor. In addition, they made racial integration central to their work mission. In 1959, Jones affiliated his congregation with the Christian Church(Disciple of Christ) naming it the Peoples Temple Christian Church Full Gospel. After reading an article entitled "Nine Places to in the World to Hide," Jones relocated his family and some 70 followers to northern California thinking that in the case of a nuclear war, they would be safe. There, the church became known as the Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ. The three populations within the Peoples Temple included: -people, predominantly Whites, who joined primarily in family groups in the Christian sect in Indiana -young, college-educated Whites who joined Peoples Temple beginning in 1968 in California -Blacks who joined in the early 1970's when the Peoples Temple began urban ministries in California The pressures on Peoples Temple in California prompted preparations to move to Guyana. The first news stories critical of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple began to appear in 1972. And

44. NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS
    People around the world watched in horror as news about jonestown trickled outslowly One was New Religious Movements, mass suicide, and peoples temple,  
    http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/library/Libpub/nrm's.html
    
    Extractions: OF NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS Twenty years ago, on November 18, more than 900 Americans destroyed their children, their parents, and themselves in a remote agriculture project in the South American country of Guyana. People around the world watched in horror as news about Jonestown trickled out slowly. My family viewed events in particular fascination, since my two sisters, my nephew, and many friends were living in Jonestown as members of a religious group called Peoples Temple. What struck us then, and continues to haunt us today, is how the news media and the government demonized the people who died that day. When the Heaven's Gate deaths occurred last year, the media icon for Jonestown re-appeared: an aerial shot of brightly colored bodies lying out under the jungle sun. Because we had known those bodies as living human beings, my family and I tried to humanize the Jonestown victims in discussions with the news media, with officials, and with strangers. Part of that humanization process resulted in writing and editing five books, published by Edwin Mellen Press, which are currently housed in the Chester Fritz Library's regular holdings and in Special Collections. A wave of instant paperbacks came out after November 18, 1978, purporting to tell "what it was really like" inside the "suicide cult." Most of the accounts came from Peoples Temple apostates, that is, former members who had turned from being extremely pro-Temple to extremely anti-Temple. Needless to say, the accounts focused on the lurid and the sensational, and failed to provide any real explanations for why people might leave America and set up a new life in a new land. They also made the deaths inexplicable, the product of people who must have suffered mass delusion, brainwashing, or both.

45. Eastbayexpress.com | Culture | Theater | Jonestown Revisited | 2005-05-04
    peoples temple to poison themselves and their children in a mass murdersuicide . of her latest work, Stories from jonestown and the People s temple.  
    http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2005-05-04/culture/theater.html
    
    Extractions: It's no coincidence that the parts of our history we don't like to remember are precisely those parts it's imperative that we not forget. So it is with the 1978 tragedy at Jonestown, Guyana, where the Reverend Jim Jones, self-styled messiah and erstwhile darling of the San Francisco progressive political set, murdered visiting Congressman Leo J. Ryan and commanded nine hundred members of Peoples Temple to poison themselves and their children in a mass murder-suicide. That it happened and happened here , no matter how far away the horrific conclusion took place is impossible to comprehend, but understanding how it happened is the only way to ensure that it doesn't happen again.

46. Academic Info: Religious Movements & Alternative Spirituality: People's Temple
    Re The Threat and Possibility of mass suicide by Members of the People s temple Alternative Considerations of jonestown peoples temple  
    http://www.academicinfo.net/nrmspt.html
    
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47. Book Review The American Historical Review, 104.5 The
    Twenty years after the mass suicide/murder of over 920 people in the remotejungles of to the members of the peoples temple, jonestown represented the  
    http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/104.5/br_105.html
    
    Extractions: Set up your online account for the first time. AHA members can go to the AHA individual membership section to locate their member numbers. If you are not a member of the American Historical Association, you can: Join the AHA and receive many member benefits including print and electronic issues of the American Historical Review. Purchase a research pass to gain two hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the American Historical Review (104.3-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the American Historical Review. Instititutions can: Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.

48. After Watching The Story Of Jim Jones And The Mass Suicide Of The His Followers
    My research of the media response to the jonestown suicides concentrates on the mass suicides received the same type of coverage as the People’s temple  
    http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~reli238/Completed Final Paper.htm
    
    Extractions: What happened in Jonestown? How could “sensible people” follow the “ rantings of a crazed lunatic?” The questions and the simplified answers that are provided by the media coverage of Jonestown and Heaven’s Gate perhaps contributed to their downfall. The feeling of public persecution is a central theme of many new religious movements, and the negative publicity of suicide cults only fuels the fear of other like-minded religious groups. The misleading definitions the media provided for the how, what and why of these new religious movements were symptomatic of the media bias against all such movements. Through examination of the print media response immediately following both mass suicides, I will expose the hollow definitions and explanations provided for tragedies that were much more complex. Moreover, although the Jonestown Suicide occurred twenty years before the Heaven’s Gate suicides in March of 1997, coverage remained ignorant and simplistic of the critical differences between movements, and perhaps exacerbated their cultural alienation. My research of the media response to the Jonestown suicides concentrates on the coverage of the tragedy in the New York Times because the newspaper is one of the most widely read American newspapers, replete with religion “experts.” Through the coverage in the

49. Hell's 25-Year Echo: The Jonestown Mass Suicide
    jonestown, People s temple, Jim Jones. Hell s 25Year Echo The jonestownmass suicide. A reporter who was in the vortex of the cult catastrophe finds  
    http://www.rickross.com/reference/jonestown/jonestown29.html
    
    Extractions: By Tim Reiterman Oakland On a grassy slope in Oakland, more than 400 take their final rest, mostly children who were unclaimed or unidentified. And across San Francisco Bay, a U.S. congressman is buried in a national cemetery not far from a park that bears his name. Their lives converged 25 years ago Tuesday in a South American jungle clearing that has come to symbolize the worst that organized religion, cults and madness can reap. "The people of Jonestown were a precious people, family people," the Rev. Jynona Norwood, who lost 27 relatives in Jonestown, told mourners in Oakland. "It is an injustice when people say they were unintelligent.... They had a natural desire for a better life for themselves and their children." Jungle reclaimed Jonestown years ago. But even now I can see them together in the open-air pavilion there - Rep. Leo Ryan (D-San Mateo) on stage, microphone in hand, addressing a rainbow of Peoples Temple members from the heartland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Taking their cues from the Rev. Jim Jones, they applauded Ryan on the opening night of his mission to find whether the settlement was the brutal work camp described by escapees or the utopia extolled by supporters. Within 24 hours, virtually all would be dead. Ryan was shot to death on a nearby airstrip, along with a church defector and three of my fellow newsmen. Then the temple members were killed at the pavilion in a ritual of mass suicide and murder. The final toll: 913.

50. The Jonestown Massacre
    The dead were all members of a group known as “The People’s temple” which According to the official report, the mass suicide began at about 500 pm as  
    http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial4/jonestown/
    
    Extractions: The first reports out of Guyana on November 18, 1978 were that Congressman Leo J. Ryan and four other members of his party were shot and killed as they attempted to board a plane at Port Kaituma airstrip. Within hours, came the shocking announcement that 408 American citizens had committed suicide at a communal village they had built in the jungle in Northwest Guyana. The community had come to be known as “Jonestown.” The dead were all members of a group known as “The People’s Temple” which was led by the Reverend Jim Jones. It would soon be learned that 913 of the 1100 people believed to have been at “Jonestown” at the time, had died in a mass suicide. According to the official report submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives on May 15, 1979, the chain of events leading to Leo Ryan’s death in Guyana began a year earlier, after he read an article in the San Francisco Examiner on 13 November 1977. The article entitled “Scared Too Long” related the death of Sam Houston’s son, Bob, in October 1976. Houston had decided to speak out about his son’s death because he believed that the reason Bob had died, beneath the wheels of a train, was because he had announced his decision to leave the People’s Temple the day before. Houston was also concerned that his two granddaughters, sent to New York for a vacation, had ended up in “Jonestown,” Guyana and never returned.

51. BBC ON THIS DAY | 5 | 1994: Cult Members Die In 'mass Suicide'
    The Order of the Solar temple condones the mass stockpiling of weapons to preparefor the 0, 18 November 1978 mass suicide leaves 900 dead in jonestown  
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/5/newsid_3933000/393395
    
    Extractions: 5 October Search ON THIS DAY by date Day Month January February March April May June July August September October November December Front Page Years Themes Witness ... Text Only 1994: Cult members die in 'mass suicide' The bodies of 48 cult members have been discovered by Swiss police following an apparent mass suicide. Twenty-three of the bodies were found in a concealed chamber beneath a remote farmhouse in the village of Cheiry, 48 miles north-east of Geneva. A further 25 bodies, including some children, were recovered in three burnt-out chalets in Granges-sur-Salvan, 47 miles east of Geneva, near the Italian border. The deaths have been linked to the apocalyptical Order of the Solar Temple sect, which was founded in 1984 by Dr Luc Jouret and Joseph di Mambro. The Order of the Solar Temple condones the mass stock-piling of weapons to prepare for the end of the world. Just hours before the grisly discoveries in Switzerland, the bodies of two more people, also believed to be linked to the sect, were found in Quebec, Canada, in a burnt-out apartment owned by Dr Jouret. It is not known yet whether either of the cult leaders are among the dead, but the Swiss authorities have said they are searching for two people in connection with the deaths.

52. CNN - Jonestown Massacre + 20: Questions Linger - November 18, 1998
    dead bodies. jonestown mass murdersuicide scene in 1978 But peoples Templemembers who worked the fields and subsisted mostly on rice soon learned it  
    http://www.cnn.com/US/9811/18/jonestown.anniv.01/
    
    Extractions: Web posted at: 12:56 p.m. EST (1756 GMT) SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) Twenty years after the world was shocked by the mass murder-suicide in the supposedly utopian community known as Jonestown, the questions linger: How and why did 913 people die? Some believe answers may lie in more than 5,000 pages of information the U.S. government has kept secret. "Twenty years later, it would be nice to know what went down," said J. Gordon Melton, founder and director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion. Time to declassify?

53. CNN.com - Timeline: Road To Tragedy In Jonestown - Nov. 17, 2003
    The massacre was so shocking that every case of mass suicide with Bodies ofPeoples temple members are strewn around the jonestown Commune in Guyana.  
    http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/11/17/jonestown.timeline.ap/
    
    Extractions: International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Autos SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters Your E-mail Alerts RSS ... Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com Bodies of Peoples Temple members are strewn around the Jonestown Commune in Guyana. Story Tools (AP) The Rev. Jim Jones and his followers participated in a murder/suicide that took the lives of more than 900 people, including a U.S. congressman, 25 years ago. The massacre was so shocking that every case of mass suicide with religious overtones afterward has been compared to it. May 13, 1931: Jim Jones is born in Crete, Indiana. September 1954: Jones speaks at Laurel Street Tabernacle, an Assemblies of God Pentecostal church in Indianapolis. April 4, 1955: Several members of the Laurel Street Tabernacle join with Jones to form the Wings of Deliverance church, later renamed the Peoples Temple. The church was formed in part to further Jones' beliefs in racial diversity. 1960: The Peoples Temple officially becomes a member of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and Jones is ordained as a minister, despite lacking any formal training. The church changes its name again to the Peoples Temple Christian Church. Twenty percent of church members are African-Americans. Jones is pictured during Jonestown's final month.

54. Jonestown: Information From Answers.com
    The mass suicides that were to make jonestown notorious were practiced during socalled Alternative considerations of jonestown and peoples temple,  
    http://www.answers.com/topic/jonestown-1
    
    Extractions: showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping Jonestown Wikipedia Jonestown Houses in Jonestown Jonestown was a town in Guyana established by Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones . It was located about six to eight miles (10 to 12 km) from Port Kaituma http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=7_44_N_59_53_W_ ). At Jones' directions, the inhabitants committed mass suicide in Jim Jones' the Peoples Temple was formed in Indianapolis, Indiana during the late . Jones and his 140 followers then moved to Redwood Valley in Mendocino County, California , as they believed that they would be safe from nuclear fallout in case of a nuclear attack on the United States. In the late , members of Jones' congregation had dwindled to less than a hundred and were on the verge of collapse but Jones managed to secure an affiliation with the Disciples of Christ and in turn kept the survival of the Temple. Jones' affiliation with the church boosted the Temple's reputation and spread his influence in the West Coast area. Jones then moved his congregation again to his main church in

55. Jim Jones And The People's Temple Suicide
    She revealed weekly drills for mass suicide. jonestown relatives pushed for aninvestigation. The People s temple mass suicide was not unique.  
    http://www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com/rants/1118a-almanac.htm
    
    Extractions: It was on this date, November 18, 1978, that over 900 members of the People's Temple religious cult, along with their leader Jim Jones, committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, South America. The leader of the cult, James Warren Jones, was born on 13 May 1931, the son of a Ku Klux Klansman in Lynn, Indiana. He opened his own independent, but non-Fundamentalist Christian church in Indianapolis by 1953, and in 1964, at the height of the American civil rights movement, the Disciples of Christ ordained him. His group of followers called themselves the People's Temple and started out as an inter-racial mission for the sick, homeless and jobless. An interracial organization was unusual for the segregated 1950s, and Jones drew many black congregants. Believing a nuclear Armageddon was coming, Jones moved his congregation to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1965. There he gained respect from politicians and civic leaders for his social programs. Jones was able to organize his followers to support political candidates in California and was rewarded by Mayor George Moscone with a seat on the Housing Authority Commission. But a 1977 New West magazine article charged Jones with faith-healing fakery, physical abuse of his parishioners and questionable finances. Having already leased some jungle land in Guyana for a "People's Temple Agricultural Project," Jones warned his followers his persecutors could end his mission. He ordered a select thousand to accompany him to Jonestown in 1977 and 1978.

56. Jonestown
    Within a few months of the mass deaths, other People s temple members who hadsurvived also committed suicide, with one mother slitting the throats of her  
    http://www.factnet.org/cults/jonestown/20_years_later.html?FACTNet

57. Jim Jones, Jonestown, People's Temple In The News 2
    November 21, 1978 Jones Rehearsed Cultists in mass suicide, Ex Members Say by Jim Jones, founder of the People s temple settlement called jonestown,  
    http://www.cultsoncampus.com/jimjones2.html
    
    Extractions: Updated News on Jim Jones, Jonestown, People's Temple December 4, 1978 TIME Magazine Cover: Jonestown Deaths December 4, 1978 Newsweek Magazine Cover: The Cult Of Death: Jonestown November 23, 1978 U.S. Asks Help of Jonestown Kin, Washington Post (Frustrated in its efforts to locate the next-of-kin of deceased members of the Jonestown colony in Guyana, the State Department yesterday appealed to persons who are related to Jonestown residents to contact its special operations center...) November 21, 1978 'The Primary Emotions Were Exhaustion and Fear' - Washington Post (Deborah Layton Blakey, 25, was a top side of the Rev. Jim Jones until May, when she asked American consul officials to safeguard her departure from the Peoples Temple jungle outpost in Guyana. In the following June 15, 1978, affidavit given to her lawyer for potential action, she detailed conditions at the agricultural mission, saying Jones had become a "paranoid" obsessed with "traitors." Spokesmen for the temple categorically denied her charges at the time...) November 21, 1978

58. Jim Jones, Jonestown, People's Temple In The News
    The People s temple, a new play based on the jonestown massacre, reconsiders the November 19, 2003 Hell s 25Year Echo The jonestown mass suicide,  
    http://www.cultsoncampus.com/jimjones.html
    
    Extractions: September 15, 2005 After leaving IU, these five students became NOTORIOUS FOR MURDER , By Meghan Lucas, Indiana Daily Student, Indiana University ...Jim Jones was not your average college student... ...Jones later went on to lead a religious sect called The Peoples Temple... ...In November 1978, Jones became infamous when he led 914 people 638 adults and 276 children to commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana... ...Those who resisted the mass suicide were shot or injected with cyanide... September 15, 2005 Jonestown: Mystery of a Massacre. Aired on Thursday, September 15, 2005 Using audiotapes, this documentary reveals that most of the 900 victims of the Jonestown mass "suicide" of 1978 were actually murderedinjected with cyanide against their will... September 1, 2005 'The People's Temple': By KORRY KEEKER, Juneau Empire via Google's cache Play examines the Jonestown Massacre The play explores the social, cultural and racially inclusive dynamics of The Peoples Temple (the cult name carries no apostrophe)… ...On Nov. 18, 1978, 913 died in a mass suicide after drinking Kool-Aid spiked with cyanide...

59. Jonestown Massacre
    By 1963 he had his own congregation in Indianapolis The People s temple Full He dropped it quickly in favor of mass suicide (a follower asked Jones,  
    http://www.carpenoctem.tv/cons/jones.html
    
    Extractions: On November 18, 1978, in a cleared-out patch of Guyanese jungle, the Reverend Jim Jones ordered the 913 members of his flock to kill themselves by drinking a cyanide potion, and they did. The cultists were brainwashed by the megalomaniac Jones, who had named their jungle village after himself and held them as virtual slaves, if not living zombies. Jones himself was found dead. He'd shot himself in the head, or someone else had shot him. Square-jaw, jet black hair and sunglasses, looking like a secret service agent on antipsychotic drugs, Jones takes his place alongside Charles Manson in America's iconography of evil. But was Jones really a lone madman as Americans are so often advised about their villains? Is it plausible that more that nine hundred people took their own lives willingly, simply because he told them to? Or is there another explanation? Not long after the slaughter in Jonestown, whispers began, strange hints of human experiments in mind control, even genocide, and the lurking presence of the CIA. At the very least, these stories maintained, the U.S. government could have prevented the Jonestown massacre, but instead it did nothing. At worst, Jonestown was a CIA-run concentration camp set up as a dry tun for the secret government's attempt to reprogram the American psyche. There are suggestions of parallel "Jonestowns" and that the conspiracy did not end with the deaths in Guyana.

60. Jonestown - Enpsychlopedia
    The beginning of jonestown. Jim Jones the peoples temple was formed in The mass suicides that were to make jonestown notorious were practiced during so  
    http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Jonestown
    
    Extractions: Jonestown_Houses.jpg Houses in Jonestown Jonestown was a town in Guyana established by Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones . It was located about six to eight miles (10 to 12 km) from Port Kaituma http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=7_44_N_59_53_W_ ). At Jones' directions, the inhabitants committed mass suicide in Contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The beginning of Jonestown 2 Life in Jonestown 3 Shootout 4 Mass suicide ... edit Jim Jones' the Peoples Temple was formed in Indianapolis, Indiana during the late . Jones and his 140 followers then moved to Redwood Valley in Mendocino County, California , as they believed that they would be safe from nuclear fallout in case of a nuclear attack on the United States. In the late , members of Jones' congregation had dwindled to less than a hundred and were on the verge of collapse but Jones managed to secure an affiliation with the Disciples of Christ and in turn kept the survival of the Temple. Jones' affiliation with the church boosted the Temple's reputation and spread his influence in the West Coast area. Jones then moved his congregation again to his main church in

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