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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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81. The Blakey People's Temple Affidavit
    OF mass suicide. BY MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE S temple. I, DEBORAH LAYTON BLAKEY, In jonestown, the concept of mass suicide for socialism arose.  
    http://www.gbs.sha.bw.schule.de/outlaw.htm
    
    Extractions: AFFIDAVIT OF DEBORAH LAYTON BLAKEY RE THE THREAT AND POSSIBILITY OF MASS SUICIDE BY MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE'S TEMPLE I, DEBORAH LAYTON BLAKEY, declare the following under penalty of perjury: 1. The purpose of this affidavit is to call to the attention of the United States government the existence of a situation which threatens the lives of United States citizens living in Jonestown, Guyana. 2. From August, 1971 until May 13, 1978, I was a member of the People's Temple. For a substantial period of time prior to my departure for Guyana in December, 1977, I held the position of Financial Secretary of the People's Temple. 3. I was 18 years old when I joined the People's Temple. I had grown up in affluent circumstances in the permissive atmosphere of Berkeley, California. By joining the People's Temple, I hoped to help others and in the process to bring structure and self-discipline to my own life. 4. During the years I was a member of the People's Temple, I watched the organization depart with increasing frequency from its professed dedication for social change and participatory democracy. The Rev. Jim Jones gradually assumed a tyrannical hold over the lives of Temple members. 5. Any disagreement with his dictates came to be regarded as "treason". The Rev. Jones labelled any person who left the organization a "traitor" and "fair game". He steadfastly and convincingly maintained that the punishment for defection was death. The fact that severe corporal punishment was frequently administered to Temple members gave the threats a frightening air of reality.

82. [Jonestown] Who Was Jim Jones?
    The last visitor to Jim Jones and the People s temple in jonestown was US lunatics who committed an unparalleled act of mass suicide. This version  
    http://www.apfn.org/apfn/jones.htm

83. Kathleen Kinsolving Answers Questions About Jim Jones And The People's Temple
    When temple members began to leave jonestown with Congressman Ryan, he decidedto have he called for a masssuicide of all those present in jonestown.  
    http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/p/peoplestemple/templequest.h
    
    Extractions: Students' Questions about Jonestown Project Q. The first question I would like to ask you is do you have any info. about the Jonestown incident? A. Yes, as I mentioned in my earlier e-mail to you, you can read the article my brother Tom and I wrote, "Madman in Our Midst: Jim Jones and the California Cover-Up" found under "Resources" at www.freedomofmind.com Q. Why do you think Jones did this and what could have possibly lead him to this solution? A. Jones was a sociopath; it seems as if he was born this way in fact, he tried to shoot one of his friends when he was only 10 years old. Jones was so terrified of abandonment that he would kill people for wanting to leave his cult. He used the guise of religion to seduce people and then would trap them. When Temple members began to leave Jonestown with Congressman Ryan, he decided to have his goons shoot them down. Then realizing what he had done, he called for a "mass-suicide" of all those present in Jonestown. Jones was also intoxicated from drugs, and had become increasingly paranoid which exacerbated his sociopathic condition. Q. Why did the people follow Jones for so long and why was he able to recruit so many new people?

84. Jonestown
    Potential members or visitors to the People s temple were invited to cozy From jonestown he threatened mass suicide, announcing over the temple s  
    http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch30.htm
    
    Extractions: home 1945-21st century previous next Jim Jones, Progressive Take some shouting, stomping, rolling on the floor religion, mix it with Jim's Jones belief in socialism and fears of persecution and what you get is a disaster named Jonestown. Some old-fashioned Christians would see another ingredient in the mix Satan. And Pentecostalists would have a special reason for being offended. Jim Jones grew up in Indiana during the Great Depression, his parents struggling to find work and to make a living. Jones was a boy with curiosity. On his own he wandered into a Pentecostalist congregation, the Gospel Tabernacle, on the edge of the town of Lynn, Indiana. The congregation was largely of people from Kentucky and Tennessee, who had come to work in Indiana during World War II, people derisively called hillbillies, "holly rollers" and "tongues people" by the town's more respectable residents. In early adolescence Jones was not interested in sports and or play with other boys. He was interested in the theatrics, emotionality and the religious ecstasies that he found at the Gospel Tabernacle. There Jones was introduced to spiritual healing, and there he learned to preach, and he won praise. At the age of sixteen (in 1947), Jim Jones was preaching on street corners, believing that he had wisdom and knowledge that others needed, and a few people would stop to listen, and reward him with coins tossed onto a blanket next to him. Jones believed in brotherhood. Unlike the respectable townspeople he had not looked down upon the "hillbillies." Jones dressed as neatly as he could for his preaching. But he sympathized with the poor, and he preached also in black neighborhoods. What he did look down upon was the frivolity and sinfulness of other boys his age.

85. 1 09-18-88 11:37 Aed Jonestown `diary Of The Dead' Resurfaces SAN FRANCISCO (UPI
    While Prokes survived the temple commune s mass suicide, Jones then issuedthe order for the mass murdersuicide, and 913 people including Jones drank  
    http://www.skepticfiles.org/cultinfo/jonesdc3.htm

86. Bad Subjects: He's Able
    In 1978, when the People s temple folk swilled cynanideflavor Kool-Aide - or mass death at jonestown was written off as a suicide pact enforced by an  
    http://bad.eserver.org/reviews/2000/2000-8-14-7.06PM.html
    
    Extractions: @import url(http://bad.eserver.org/ploneColumns.css); @import url(http://bad.eserver.org/plone.css); @import url(http://bad.eserver.org/ploneCustom.css); Skip to content. EServer bad home Bad Reviews He's Able Search Sections The producers surely have a great 'Scream for Death' album from Argentinean and Chilean torture chambers of the 70s out there waiting for them. Yeah, it's bottom-feeding, but it's a business... Reviewed by Joe Lockard In 1978, when the People's Temple folk swilled cynanide-flavor Kool-Aide - or had it poured down their throats - I was living in San Francisco. The lack of demonstrable public reaction in San Francisco or horrified reaction over the death of more than nine hundred once-local citizens made me sympathetic towards their decision to leave the city. Calculating that film coverage of the Jonestown death scene would be arriving from Guyana on a Monday, fellow Bad editor Mike Mosher, my brother and I agreed to meet and watch the coverage in a neighborhood bar. None of us had a television. When we met and strolled into the bar, Monday Night football was on. The bartender assured us that we would be able to watch the local evening news and asked what we wanted to drink in the meanwhile. When time for the news came and we asked for a channel change, several football-engrossed patrons made very disturbed noises and the barkeep shrugged sheepishly.

87. Online NewsHour: A New Play Reconsiders The Jonestown Massacre -- June 2, 2005
    The People s temple, a new play based on the jonestown massacre, That wasthe great revolutionary that was the mass suicide that took place.  
    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june05/jonestown_6-02.html
    
    Extractions: ACTOR: I am ready to die now. Darkness settles over Jonestown on its last day on earth. DIRECTOR: Okay hold. SPENCER MICHELS: On a stage in Berkeley, California, actors rehearsed "The People's Temple," a new, highly-anticipated play that tells the story of pastor Jim Jones and his followers, most of whom died in South America 27 years ago. Today, all that many people recall about People's Temple is the death of a congressman and three journalists, and the specter of more than 900 of bodies lying face down and a vat of poison. STEPHAN JONES: I think they're probably people that will only be able to see that image. SPENCER MICHELS: Stephan Jones is one of Jim Jones' surviving sons, who grew up with temple members mostly poor African Americans who had joined a California-based church that pledged integration and a better life. STEPHAN JONES: I would like for the people that I knew and loved to be known better than that. And I don't want I don't want the story to be sugar-coated. You know, we were capable of real heights and great lows and everything in between.

88. ContraCostaTimes.com 04/17/2005 Jonestown From Utopia To
    of the mass suicide and nine days later when the assassination took place, People who talk about the death of People s temple talk about it as the  
    http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/11417392.htm

89. Indiana Jones's Temple Of Doom
    members of the peoples temple died at the command of their leader, Jim Jones . White nights, rehearsals for mass suicide by drinking an allegedly  
    http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=19990201&s=drew

90. Drinking Poison: Inside Jonestown
    People from all walks of life joined People s temple, rich and poor. Rachael Kohn Your mother actually did not die at that mass suicide.  
    http://www.holysmoke.org/wicca/jjones.htm
    
    Extractions: on Sunday 08/08/1999 Drinking Poison: Inside Jonestown Summary: On November 18, 1978, 913 men, women and children died in a mass murder-suicide (most drinking cyanide-laced punch) orchestrated by the Reverend Jim Jones in his compound in Guyana, South America. We hear from a survivor of the Jonestown suicide. A full transcript is now available. Details or Transcript: Deborah Layton was a devotee, trusted confidante and high level member of The People's Temple, the church Jim Jones founded. She tells her "up close and personal" account of life in a poisonous cult where theft, fraud, sexual, physical and psychological abuse, and finally death were required of its members. A full transcript follows. Rachael Kohn: Deborah Layton, welcome to The Spirit of Things. Deborah Layton: Thank you very much for inviting me. Rachael Kohn: Deborah, most people would remember Jonestown as a place where a lot of people died, forced to commit suicide by a deranged cult leader. It would come as something of a surprise to know that Jim Jones enjoyed a great deal of support and even patronage by local government leaders in San Francisco and even in Guyana, where the Jonestown debacle took place. Deborah Layton: Correct.

91. SUICIDE FOR SOCIALISM
    Members had to give up 25% of their wages to the peoples temple . Once aweek there was a dress rehearsal for the mass suicide.  
    http://www.uncarved.org/pol/brinton1.html
    
    Extractions: SUICIDE FOR SOCIALISM? - Maurice Brinton Part Two Part One THE RELEVANCE OF JONESTOWN 'We're gonna die for the revolution. We're gonna die to expose this racist and fascist society. It's good to die in this great revolutionary suicide.' The words uttered by two young men in Jonestown (Guyana) a few minutes before they, together with hundreds of others, poisoned themselves were reported in the Los Angeles Times (November 26, 1978) by Charles Garry of San Francisco, attorney for the Peoples Temple. Garry was no critic of this particular cult. He was the trendy leftist lawyer who, referring to the Guyana commune, had written in the Peoples Forum, journal of the Temple: 'I have seen Paradise'. For those who think that socialism is about life and reason (and not about giving cyanide to babies... whether in Paradise or elsewhere) the events of last November are deeply disturbing. Let's not quibble about how many died. The latest reports put it at 921 (912 in the Jonestown commune, 5 at Port Kaituma airport, and 4 in the Peoples Temple in Georgetown). Or about the complicities (both in the USA and in Guyana) which led 900 American 'socialists' to this particular part of the South American rain forest. Or about the relations of the Jonestown commune with Soviet Russia (to whose Embassy in Georgetown two survivors sought to hand over a vast amount of money). On all these matters a lot more information will come to light in the months to come.

92. Tim Worstall: Where Does "Drink The Kool Aid" Come From?
    People s temple leader Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass Back in jonestown, Jones directed his followers in a mass suicide in a  
    http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/2004/11/where_does_drin.html
    
    Extractions: Main To "drink the Kool Aid" is a description of someone who's gone quite mad in a partisan (not always political but often) fashion. I think (and please note that it's think ) that the phrase itself comes from the Jonestown mass suicide. Today might be a good day to try and find out as it all happened on Nov 18: People's Temple leader Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their “Jonestown” agricultural commune in remote northwestern Guyana. The few cult members who refused to take the cyanide-laced fruit-flavored concoction were either forced to do so at gunpoint or shot as they fled. The final death toll was 913, including 276 children. [list of the dead] James Warren “Jim” Jones (born 13 May 1931) was a charismatic churchman who founded the initially Christian sect The Wings of Deliverance (precursor of The Peoples Temple) on 04 April 1955, in Indianapolis. He preached against racism, and his integrated congregation attracted mostly African Americans. In 1965, he moved the group to northern California, settling in Ukiah and after 1971 in San Francisco. In the 1970s, his church was accused by the press of financial fraud, physical abuse of its members, and mistreatment of children. In response to the mounting criticism, Jones led several hundred of his followers to South America in 1977 and set up a utopian agricultural settlement called Jonestown in the jungle of Guyana.

93. Please Log In, Or Sign Up For Access
    up to the mass murdersuicide that shocked the world 20 years ago this month . There was a scary side to the peoples temple beatings of fractious  
    http://www.cjonline.com/stories/111598/new_jonestown.shtml
    
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94. Jonestown, Jim Jones And The People's Temple
    jonestown, People s temple, Jim Jones. Hell s 25Year Echo The jonestownMass suicide Jones disciple recovers from, recalls painful past  
    http://www.rickross.com/groups/jonestown.html

95. BBC ON THIS DAY | 18 | 1978: Mass Suicide Leaves 900 Dead
    1978 mass suicide leaves 900 dead. The bodies of 914 people, including 276 However, the body of the People s temple charismatic leader, Jim Jones,  
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/18/newsid_2540000/2540
    
    Extractions: 18 November 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 1978: Mass suicide leaves 900 dead The bodies of 914 people, including 276 children, have been found in Guyana in South America. Most of the dead - members of the People's Temple Christian Church - had consumed a soft drink laced with cyanide and sedatives. However, the body of the People's Temple charismatic leader, Jim Jones, was said to have a bullet wound in the right temple, believed to be self-inflicted. The deaths are being linked to the earlier killings of five people, including US Congressman Leo Ryan, on a nearby airstrip. Mr Ryan had led a fact-finding mission to the church's jungle settlement - Jonestown - after allegations by relatives in the US of human rights abuses. Last year Jim Jones and most of the 1,000 members of the People's Temple moved to Guyana from San Francisco after an investigation began into the church for tax evasion. People who had left the organisation told the authorities of brutal beatings, murders and a mass suicide plan but were not believed.

96. Feasibility Report
    The article covers every angle of the jonestown mass Murder suicide, People’sTemple and jonestown a Corrective Comparison and Critique by Richardson,  
    http://people.stu.ca/~gxtwl/truth/feasible.htm
    
    Extractions: The Jonestown mass-murder suicides of 1978 is definitely a “do-able” subject to further investigate. We found countless articles, books, resources on the main event, issues around the event, the consequences of the event, the back round information on Jim Jones, and peoples survivor stories. I am sure there are still countless resources that we did not run into. From my understanding, the reason for these feasibility statements is to narrow our choices down to the ’episodes of believing’ which are “do-able” to further research. Can we find out how Jim Jones came to ‘believe’ these mass suicides and why? Can we find out how his followers came to ‘believe’ them and why? We truly ‘believe’ the answer is “yes”!

97. The Richmond Review, Feature Article, Jonestown By Robert Templer
    heard on a recording of the mass suicides and murders at jonestown, Guyana . Twenty years after the deaths at jonestown, the People s temple still  
    http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/features/temple02.html
    
    Extractions: - Jim Jones's last statement heard on a recording of the mass suicides and murders at Jonestown, Guyana. "I'm going to tell you ?, without me, life has no meaning. I'm the best thing you will ever have." In 1955, Jim Jones founded the People's Temple Full Gospel Church in Indianapolis. In the city that once housed the headquarters to the Ku Klux Klan, Jones created a racially integrated church that focused not just on prayer but on social activism. A decade later, Jones, haunted by a vision he had of a nuclear war, moved his congregation to Redwood Valley in northern California, which Esquire magazine had listed as among the safest places in the United States in the event of an atomic attack. That year the church had just 86 members but it grew exponentially to several thousand members, attracting many African-Americans drawn in by its message of racial equality. In the early 1970s, Jones opened churches in San Francisco and Los Angeles and began a period of political activity, increasing his followers to several thousand. He was a skilled political operator, sending out his followers to canvas voters, and was much courted by California's Democrat elite including then-Governor Jerry Brown. Rosalyn Carter tried to win his endorsement for her husband's presidential campaign. People's Temple members campaigned vigorously for the liberal George Moscone for mayor of San Francisco and after his election, Jones was rewarded with the chairmanship of the city's powerful housing authority. Among the many causes he adopted at that time was a campaign to install a barrier on Golden Gate Bridge to prevent suicides.

98. Jonestown: 20 Years Later
    The 20th Anniversary of the jonestown Murders, Suicides Within a few monthsof the mass deaths, other People s temple members who had survived also  
    http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/jonestn1.htm
    
    Extractions: AANEWS from American Atheists November 18, 1998 Today marks the 20th anniversary of the mass murders and suicides at Jonestown, Guyana, the utopian religious colony organized by followers of the late Pastor Jim Jones. The media, of course, is marking the event with the usual platitudes and "questions" supposedly meant to stimulate critical thought in the midst of the Tripp-Lewinsky tapes, or the burning question of who should be this year's MVP. There are a few points, though, which do need to be made about the Guyana tragedy. At one testimonial dinner for Jim Jones, the dais and audience resembled a local gathering of the "Who's Who" for the area. San Francisco District Attorney Joe Freitas honored Jones with his presence, as did California State Assemblyman Willie Brown, Jr., who is now the Mayor of that city. "I have had the great pleasure of knowing a leader with tremendous character and integrity," swooned Brown. Not sparing the hyperbole, he added "Rev. Jones is regarding among government officials, civic and religious leaders, and particularly the black community and working class people, with utter respect for what he has done to upgrade the quality of life in our area and to bring greater health and well-being to thousands of poor, minority, and disadvantaged people." Mervyn Dymally, California Lieutenant Governor, agreed. And let's not forget the drop-in visits to Peoples Temple by other luminaries, such as California Governor Jerry Brown.

99. Section I Dismantling Of AUM By 1995 Aum Supreme Truth In
    He interviewed 40 people at jonestown and spent the night and spoke highly it could be possible for over nine hundred people to commit a mass suicide.  
    http://www.cultawarenessnetwork.org/AUM/SECTION_2/07.html
    
    Extractions: Chapter 7 JONESTOWN IN GUYANA- THE TRUE STORY No discussion of brainwashing or mind-control could truly be complete without the true data on Jonestown being reviewed and the fabricated, yet publicly held false data corrected. In November 1978 the tragedy of Jonestown occurred where over nine hundred residents of the Peoples' Temple Christian colony in Guyana died from murder, and not the supposed suicide as promoted by the anti religious movement after the fact. Under a 1993 Freedom Of Information request by Freedom But what is also of interest that night is that as Ryan was preparing to leave Jonestown he was assaulted by an alleged member of the People's Temple, Don Sly, with a knife. The attack failed. Then later, the following day, at the Port Kaituma airstrip the drama unfolded further as the delegation were attacked by a squad of gunmen. One source told Freedom that the killers had been planted in the People's Temple. They killed those not dead from the first raid, and the principal target, Leo Ryan was finished off with a point-blank shot gun blast to the head. He was later reported to have had twelve gunshot wounds. Of note was that an alleged CIA operative, William Dwyer, deputy chief of the United States embassy in Guyana, lay nearby and survived unscathed. He soon returned to Jonestown. What is also not dealt with in the official scenario of Jonestown, is that there were also troops and a military plane on the airstrip at the same time as Leo Ryan was there. Why were they there?

100. In History - November 16th - 22nd - Learn English Magazine - British Council
     mass suicide of Followers of US People s temple Sect Mr Ryan had visitedJonestown to investigate the sect after he had received complaints from  
     http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/magazine/keesings_jonestown.html
     
     Extractions: Double-click on any word in the text to get its definition from Cambridge Online Dictionaries . The definition will open in a new window. November 1978 "Mass Suicide" of Followers of US "People's Temple" Sect In what was described as an unprecedented mass suicide, over 900 persons died as a result of poisoning or of gunshot wounds on Nov.18, 1978, at the Jonestown agricultural commune of the (US) People's Temple sect, some 150 miles northwest of Georgetown (the capital of Guyana). During the previous night Mr Leo J. Ryan (53), a US Democratic congressman from San Francisco, and four other US citizens (three journalists and a woman) were shot dead at an airstrip at Port Kaituma (about eight miles from Jonestown), while nine other persons were wounded-among them Mr Richard Dwyer, the second most senior official at the US embassy in Georgetown. Mr Ryan had visited Jonestown to investigate the sect after he had received complaints from some of his constituents alleging that members of their families were being kept at the commune against their will; he was shot as he was about to board an aircraft together with several persons who had decided to leave the sect.

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