00:09The taste the leading canned drink can't match.
00:30And against all reason, today the Jonestown story got much worse.
00:58The original count of persons found dead at the Jonestown site has been found to be seriously in error.
01:07It now appears there may be as many as 780 bodies total found at the site.
01:15They were found simply buried under other bodies.
01:20There were larger adults that were grouped together and under their bodies were found the bodies of smaller adults and children.
01:29As we began to work into the area and clear out the bodies that were visible, we kept discovering more and more and more.
01:38Welcome, welcome on!
01:47Welcome, welcome on!
01:50Glad you are with us!
01:53The shake and throw you to the floor!
01:57Welcome to you!
02:00Welcome, welcome on!
02:03Glad you are with us!
02:07The shake and throw you to the floor!
02:10Welcome to you!
02:29He's just singing it all day long!
02:33to fill this atmosphere with warmth and love.
02:45Now as we meditate, God is love.
02:49Love is a healing remedy.
02:53We're going to reach out to areas
02:57where man has seemed to have difficulty.
03:01As we concentrate that the gifts
03:05of the Holy Spirit might function are what the secularists
03:09might speak of as the paranormal, let us
03:13believe. Let us believe.
03:17Sister Ingram,
03:21you're concerned about the losing,
03:25the losing of your sight.
03:29You're not able to see me clearly.
03:33Things just blur to you.
03:37You have to stumble around lately through
03:39crowds and are not able to
03:41see even people's faces close up to you clearly.
03:45That's true.
03:47You've told me nothing about your condition.
03:53No, I haven't.
03:55Give that little sweetheart a little bit of love.
03:59Thank you, baby.
04:01Thank you, baby.
04:03Shh.
04:05Peace.
04:07Peace.
04:09Peace.
04:11Now,
04:13Take your glasses off.
04:19Just as dare in our faith.
04:21We've seen
04:23Sister Brown here who was blind, totally healed.
04:25Saw one of our sisters blind from her childhood.
04:29It could be hysterical blindness, whatever.
04:31We're not concerned. She was blind and could not see.
04:33Now,
04:35Look at my face.
04:39I'm going to hold up some fingers.
04:43You concentrate hard.
04:45I love you.
04:49The people love you.
04:51Most importantly, Christ loves you.
04:53What do you see?
04:55How many fingers?
04:57Three.
04:59One finger.
05:13One finger.
05:15You don't even need your glasses, child.
05:19Let's all be thankful as she cries back there.
05:25Let's cry and rejoice with her.
05:33Counting?
05:35Two o'clock in the morning!
05:37Five-year-old
05:39One hours late.
05:41Anyway.
05:43Once again,
05:45there's nothing to worry about there everybody keep calm and try and keep your children calm
06:09and the older children are going to help love the little children and reassure them
06:16but I'm crying from pain it's just a little bitter tasting but that they're not crying out of any
06:25pain
06:35it's hard it's hard only first only at first is it hard it's hard only at first living you're looking
06:44at death it only looks the living is much much more difficult raise it up every morning and not
06:51knowing what's going to be the night's bringing it's much more difficult it's much more difficult
06:57believe me James Warren Jones born May 13 1931 died November 18 1978 was an American cult leader and
07:08mass murderer who led the people's temple between 1955 and 1978 in what Jones termed revolutionary
07:19suicide Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder suicide
07:25in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown Guyana on November 18 1978 Jones and the events that occurred
07:35at Jonestown have had a defining influence on society's perceptions of cults as a child Jones
07:45Jones developed an affinity for Pentecostalism and a desire to preach he was ordained as a Christian minister
07:52in the independent assemblies of God attracting his first group of followers while participating in the
07:59Pentecostal latter rain movement and the healing revival during the 1950s Jones's initial popularity arose from his
08:09joint campaign appearances with the movement's prominent leaders William Branham and Joseph Mattson Bowes in their endorsement of his ministry
08:18Jones founded the organization that would become the people's temple in Indianapolis in 1955 1956 Jones began to be influenced by Father divine in the peace mission movement
08:32Jones distinguished himself through civil rights activism founding the temple as a fully integrated congregation
08:39in 1964 Jones joined and was ordained a minister by the disciples of Christ his attraction to the disciples was largely due to the autonomy and tolerance they granted to differing views within their
08:50denomination in 1965
09:03in 1965 Jones moved the temple to California the group established its headquarters in San Frans, where he became heavily involved in political and charitable activity throughout the 1970s
09:15throughout the 1970s. Jones developed connections with prominent California politicians and was
09:23appointed as chairman of the San Francisco Housing Authority Commission in 1975. Beginning
09:30in the late 1960s, reports of abuse began to surface as Jones became increasingly vocal in
09:38his rejection of traditional Christianity and began promoting a form of anti-capitalism
09:44he called apostolic socialism and making claims of his own divinity.
09:53Jones became progressively more controlling of his followers in People's Temple, which at its peak
09:59had over 3,000 members. Jones's followers engaged in a communal lifestyle in which many turned over
10:07all their income and property to Jones and People's Temple, who directed all aspects
10:13of community life. Following a period of negative publicity and reports of abuse
10:20at People's Temple, Jones ordered the construction of the Jonestown Commune in Guyana in 1974 and
10:27convinced or compelled many of his followers to live there with him. Jones claimed he was constructing a
10:35socialist paradise free from the oppression of the United States government. By 1978, reports surfaced of
10:44human rights abuses and accusations that people were being held in Jonestown against their will.
10:51U.S. Representative Leo Ryan led a delegation to the Commune in November of that year to investigate
10:58these reports. While boarding a return flight with some former Temple members who wished to leave,
11:08Ryan and four others were murdered by gunmen from Jonestown.
11:13Sponsored by Marquinhos mansion remains a similar situation and stopped Chance Jay and a
11:24conocedore team ofdistorted transμέal gü
11:32of one of the most notable honoring of the Mount Washington in Monday of November
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11:39Jones then ordered a mass murder-suicide that claimed the lives of 909 commune members.
11:58Almost all of the members died by drinking flavor aid laced with cyanide.
12:03Come forward, my dear. Stand up. Take that step. Bless your heart. Take that step.
12:12Take that step. Now. Now. Now. Now. Move forward. Move forward. Move forward. Move forward. Move forward. You can do it. Move forward.
12:33Move forward. Now. Move forward. Freely. Freely. Freely. Now begin to exercise with him. Begin to exercise the joy of him.
12:50I love you. Christ loves you. The people love you.
12:55Come on.
13:02Oh, listen, come on. Be real.
13:06Come on.
13:21But in spite of all of what I've tried, a handful of our people with their lives have
13:35made our life impossible.
13:37There's no way to detach ourselves from what's happened today.
13:43Not only we're in a compound situation, not only are there those who have left and committed
13:50the betrayal of the century.
13:54Some have stolen children from others and they're in pursuit right now to kill them because
13:58they stole their children.
14:01And we are sitting here waiting on a powder keg.
14:05I don't think this is what we want to do with our babies.
14:09I don't think that's what we had in mind to do with our babies.
14:12It was said by the greatest of prophets from time immemorial, no man takes my life from
14:18me.
14:19I lay my life down.
14:22So to sit here and wait for the catastrophe that's going to happen on that airplane, it's
14:27going to be a catastrophe, almost happened here.
14:39The world, the kingdom's toughest violence, and the violence shall take it by force.
14:45If we can't live in peace, then let's die in peace.
14:50We've been so betrayed, may have been so terribly betrayed.
15:03But we tried, and as Jack Beam off and said, I don't know where he sat right this moment,
15:08where Jack, he said, if this only worked one day, it was worthwhile.
15:15James Warren Jones was born on May 13, 1931, in the rural community of Creight, Indiana,
15:27to James Thurman Jones, born 1887 and died 1951, and Lynetta Putnam, born 1902 and died 1977.
15:37Jones was of Irish and Welsh descent.
15:40He and his mother both claimed to also have some Cherokee ancestry, but there's no evidence
15:45of this.
15:47Jones's father was a disabled World War I veteran who suffered from severe breathing difficulties
15:54due to injuries which he sustained in a chemical weapons attack.
15:59He tried to augment his income by occasionally working on neighborhood road repair projects,
16:05because the military pension he earned due to his wounds was insufficient to support his
16:11family.
16:12His father's illness led to financial difficulties, which in turn resulted in intense marital problems
16:20between Jones's parents.
16:23In 1934, in the midst of the Great Depression, the Jones family was evicted from their home for
16:30failure to make mortgage payments.
16:32The relatives purchased a shack for them to live in, at the nearby town of Lynn.
16:38The new home, where Jones grew up, lacked plumbing and electricity.
16:43In Lynn, the family attempted to earn an income through farming, but again met with failure when
16:49Jones's father's health further deteriorated.
16:54The family often lacked adequate food and relied on financial support from their extended family.
17:00They sometimes resorted to foraging in the nearby forest and fields to supplement their diet.
17:07According to multiple Jones biographers, his mother had, quote,
17:12no natural maternal instincts, unquote, and she frequently neglected her son.
17:18When Jones started to attend school, his extended family threatened to cut off their financial
17:24assistance unless his mother got a job, forcing her to work outside her home.
17:29Meanwhile, Jones's father was hospitalized multiple times due to his illness.
17:37As a result, Jones's parents were frequently absent during his childhood.
17:43Although his aunts and uncles lived close by and gave him some supervision, Jones often wandered the streets of the town, sometimes naked.
17:53Jones was cared for by the female residents of Lynn, and they frequently invited him into their houses to give him food, clothing, and other gifts.
18:04Myrtle Kennedy, the wife of the Nazarene church's pastor, developed a special attachment to Jones.
18:12She gave Jones a Bible and encouraged him to study it, teaching him to follow the holiness code of the Nazarene church.
18:21As Jones grew older, he attended services at most of the churches in Lynn, often going to multiple churches each week, and he was baptized in several of them.
18:32Jones developed a desire to become a preacher as a child, and he began to practice preaching in private.
18:41His mother claimed that she was disturbed when she caught him imitating the pastor of the local Apostolic Pentecostal church, and she unsuccessfully attempted to prevent him from attending the church's services.
18:54Although they had sympathy for Jones, because of his poor circumstances, his neighbors reported that he was an unusual child, who was obsessed with religion and death.
19:10Jones regularly visited a casket manufacturer in Lynn and held mock funerals for roadkill that he collected.
19:19One neighbor of the Jones family even stated that Jones killed a cat with a knife for one of these funerals.
19:34When he could not get any children to attend his funerals, he would perform the services alone.
19:41This is so sad. Oh my god. I didn't know this.
19:45Jones claimed to have unique abilities, such as the capacity to fly.
19:51He once leaped off a building's roof to demonstrate his abilities to others, but he fell and broke his arm.
19:59He nonetheless persisted in saying he had exceptional abilities despite the fall.
20:05That is so fucking symbolic of this whole story, right there.
20:12At times, he would put other children into life-threatening situations and tell them he was guided by the angel of death.
20:20Jones allegedly committed countless sacrilegious pranks in the churches he attended as a boy.
20:29According to claims he made in adult life, he claimed that he had stolen the Pentecostal minister's Bible and had covered Acts 238 with cow manure.
20:40He also asserted that he substituted a cup of his own urine for the holy water once at a Catholic church.
20:50One Jones biographer suggested that he developed his unusual interests because he found it difficult to make friends.
20:59Although his strange religious practices stood out the most to his neighbors, they reported that he misbehaved in more serious ways.
21:12He frequently stole candy from merchants in the town.
21:16Oh no!
21:18His mother was required to pay for his thefts.
21:22Jones regularly used offensive profanity, commonly greeting his friends and neighbors by saying,
21:29Good morning, you son of a bitch!
21:31Or, Hello, you dirty bastard!
21:34Similar to his mother, Lynetta, who frequently swore in public and found amusement in people being offended at a woman cursing.
21:43Jones' mother usually beat him with a leather belt in order to punish his misbehavior.
21:49Jones also developed an intense interest in social doctrines.
21:56He became a voracious reader who studied Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, and Mahatma Gandhi.
22:04Jones would tell his wife that Mao Zedong was his hero.
22:09He spent hours in the community library and he brought books home so he could read them in the evenings.
22:16Although he studied different political systems, Jones did not espouse any radical political views in his youth.
22:25But as World War II started, Jones developed an intense interest in the Nazi party.
22:32He was fascinated by their pomp, their cohesion, and Hitler's total power.
22:37The members of his neighborhood found it disconcerting that he extolled Nazi Germany.
22:45Jones acted as a dictator over the other kids, ordering them to goose-step together and beating those who disobeyed.
22:54One childhood friend recalled Jones shouting,
22:56Heal Hitler and giving the Nazi salute to German prisoners of war who were traveling through their town on their way to a detention facility.
23:08Commenting on his childhood, Jones stated,
23:11I was ready to kill by the end of the third grade.
23:15I mean, I was so aggressive and hostile.
23:18I was ready to kill.
23:20Nobody gave me love, any understanding.
23:23In those days, a parent was supposed to go with a child to school functions.
23:27There was some kind of school performance.
23:29And everybody's parent was there but mine.
23:32I'm standing there, alone, always was alone.
23:36Tim Reiterman, a journalist and biographer of Jones, wrote that Jones' attraction to religion was strongly influenced by his desire for a family.
23:49Jones went to see the Kennedy family in 1942, where they spent the summer in Richmond, Indiana.
23:55They took part in services four times a week while attending a summer religious convention at a nearby Pentecostal church.
24:04When Jones returned to Lynn in the fall, he upset his neighbors by explaining sexual reproduction in detail to young children.
24:15Jones' mother was urged to control his behavior by many individuals in Lynn, but she refused.
24:23Many parents decided to keep their kids away from Jones as a result of the issue.
24:28He had established himself as an outcast among his friends by the time he started high school and was progressively despised by the locals.
24:39He was usually angry with many others who were
25:01y and he could see them away from the people's lives in my hands, and I certainly don't want your life in my hands.
25:07your life in my hand but I'm gonna tell you Christine without me life has no
25:10meaning I'm the best friend you'll ever have I have to pay I'm standing with you
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