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A portrait of Jim Jones taken in the early days of the Jonestown community in Guyana, South America. Michelle VIGNES/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images. Back in November 1978, Americans were shocked by newspaper headlines about the deaths of more than 900 people in the South American nation of Guyana, in what appeared to be a combination of mass murder and suicide by poison. The carnage took place at a ...
17. Nov. 2021 · Time after time, we see the people of Jonestown described as “blind followers” and Jim Jones as the “cult leader” who ordered them to die.
- Jim Jones’ Cruelty and Madness Were Rooted in His Childhood
- Jones to Move His Church to California Because He Feared Nuclear War
- An African American Preacher Showed Jim Jones The Way
- Jim Jones Claimed He Was The only Heterosexual on Earth
- The Peoples Temple Had A Pet Chimpanzee Named Mr. Muggs
- A 6-Year-Old Boy Was The Catalyst That Led to The Tragedy
- Rep. Leo Ryan Was A ‘Hard-Charging’ Maverick Congressman
- An Elderly Woman Slept Through The Whole Ordeal
- A Farewell Note May Have Came from Richard Tropp, One of The Dead
- Some Think It Was Mass Murder, Not Mass Suicide
People have wondered how Jim Jones, a man who preached racial and social equality, turned evil. But as Tim Reiterman explained in Raven, Jones’ dark qualities – his need to control people, his deceit, and his anger toward people who betray or abandon him – could be traced to his childhood in Indiana. A loner during his youth, Jim would entertain hi...
In 1955, Jim Jones founded the Peoples Temple in Indianapolis. The church stood out for of its multiracial membership, which was quite revolutionary during a time of racial segregation. Sometime the early 1960s, Jones came across an Esquirearticle that listed the nine safe places in the world in the event of a nuclear catastrophe. One of those cite...
Looking to expand the reach of his organization, Jones frequently met with Father Divine, a popular, if controversial, black evangelist and founder of the Peace Mission movement. Born sometime in the early 1880s, Father Divine started a religious movement in the 1910s that drew huge numbers of worshippers who saw him as God. As described in Raven, ...
Jones didn’t always practice what he preached in his personal life. In December 1973, he wasarrested for lewd conduct at a Los Angeles movie theater. And during his final months in Jonestown, Jones was addicted to pharmaceutical drugs. A married man who adopted children of different racial backgrounds, Jones also engaged in sexual relations with so...
Mr. Muggs was a chimpanzee Jim Jones claimed he had rescued from scientific experiments, though according to Jeff Guinn’s The Road in Jonestown, Jones may have actually purchased Muggs from a pet store. (In his Indiana days, Jones once sold pet monkeys door to door). Muggs became sort of a mascot for the Temple under the care of Joyce Touchette, wh...
Tim and Grace Stoen were a married couple and followers of Jim Jones during the Temple’s early years in California; Tim was an attorney for the Temple, and Grace was a member of Jones’ inner circle. In 1972, Grace gave birth to a boy named John Victor Stoen, and Jones claimed to be the father. Complicating matters about the paternity, Tim signed an...
One of the forgotten people of the Jonestown tragedy is California Congressman Leo Ryan. A Democrat, Ryan was an unconventional politician: He once had himself briefly incarcerated at Folsom State Prison to see what the prison conditions were like, and he went to Canada to investigate the hunting of baby seals. Ryan became involved in the Peoples T...
Amid the hundreds and hundreds of deaths, there were a number of survivors in Jonestown On the morning of November 18, 1978, hours before the dramatic events unfolded, a group of 11 Temple members – including a mother and her three-year-old son – walked 35 miles to escape under the pretense of going on a picnic. Two men, Stanley Clayton and Odell R...
At least two farewell notes were left behind at Jonestown, including an unsigned letter that is often attributed to Richard Tropp, a teacher and writer for the Temple. That letter eloquently explained why it was necessary for the Temple members to commit suicide, and that Jim Jones didn’t order the attack on Congressman Ryan and his party. The lett...
While the general view of what happened was a mass suicide because people lined up to take the poisoned drink, there have been arguments from witnesses and former Temple members that it was really mass murder. Long before the actual event, Jones had his followers drink what they initially believed was poison as a test of loyalty to him, which in hi...
2. Okt. 2020 · Now more determined than ever, Leo Ryan wrote to Jim Jones on November 1, 1978, informing the Temple leader that, after having received numerous requests from his constituents concerning the well-being of their relatives, he was “going to visit Guyana/Jonestown in order to satisfy his constituents.” Although Ryan was quite firm ...
19. Nov. 2018 · Nov 19, 2018 6:25 PM EDT. Transcript Audio. This weekend marked the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre, in which more than 900 followers of Jim Jones were victims of a cult mass...
