00:00You can go in the ghettos, but we don't want you or the people, and he walked away from a $1,500 salary.
00:06He would not compromise. He walked away from the biggest church, a presidency, a treasure ship of the whole state of Texas.
00:13He walked away from it all and said, I want to see Jesus.
00:21I want a picture of somebody that is an instrument of God like that.
00:26And that's why people find healings through these pictures by the untold tens of thousands, because they have seen, their eye have seen, their ear have heard, their heart has been stirred.
00:39They have seen the emanation of the hundredfold God manifesting through this temple.
00:45And it triggers a faith in them, and it quickens their spirit, and it causes their mortal bodies to put on immortality.
00:52Because of people like our sister Evans, who would have died of this tumor, and gone blind, but now is healed, healed, just because she had faith in the God that was working in this picture.
01:11Spirit. That's it.
01:13In the fall of 1973, Jones and the Planning Commission devised a plan to escape from the United States in the event of a government raid, and they began to develop a longer-turn plan to relocate People's Temple.
01:29The group decided on Guyana as a favorable location, citing its recent revolution, Socialist Government, and the favorable reaction Jones received when he traveled there in 1963.
01:42By the summer of 1974, land and supplies were purchased in Guyana.
01:50Jones was put in charge of the project, and oversaw the installation of a power generation station, clearance of fields for farming, and the construction of dormitories to prepare for the first settlers.
02:04This is the hottest part of the entire year, and they're doing real well. We've not lost any chickens.
02:09This is a heating lamp. These are the small chickens in another one of the coops, besides the eight coops. These are small babies that have just been hatched.
02:20This is a feed barn, packed for the thousands and thousands of chickens we now have, and there is the pasture for our cattle.
02:26Back over here is the area that we're clearing for, way to my right, Mike, is the area that we're clearing for more planting.
02:33And potatoes, and carrots, and eddos, and papaya, citrus, all kinds of various fruit trees that you've never heard of in your life.
02:43And I wouldn't. These fences we made all of ourselves, so there was hardly any cost to them.
02:47We lumbered our own wood. Wood you see standing is not dead wood. It's been purposefully made that way, prepared for lumbering, so we can build housing for all of our beautiful family.
02:56That's Anthony. He is so delightful a worker. He's a farm supervisor over the many, many dozens of employees we have.
03:02He's just come in with a tractor with supplies, and the worker is just over that, oh, several, about a mile of pasture you see there in the background.
03:09Four in the background. This is one of the many generators that we've purchased with our sweat and blood.
03:14We have generators all over our property that gives us power for everything we need.
03:17This is the cassava mill, which we are now making over 30 U.S. dollars a day in sauces, and we're doing it on just handmade basis.
03:38We're going to get some equipment to do, make noodles also, which will be fantastic. Then we'll be able to talk more in big money.
03:44In December 1974, the first group arrived in Guyana to start operating the commune that would become known as Jonestown.
04:14For the first several months, Temple members worked six days a week from approximately 6.30 a.m. to 6 o'clock p.m. with an hour for lunch.
04:31I only know Jim Jones as a man who cares for humanity, and I've known him for 29 years, and I was born into a middle-class white family.
04:42I'm a professional person. I work for the California State Department of Health.
04:46I have never been financially dependent upon Jim Jones, and I would not be here if I did not totally believe in him as a person. I am not a blind follower.
04:56The work week was shortened to eight hours a day for five days a week in the middle of 1978 after Jones' health started to fail and his wife started taking on more of the management of Jonestown's activities.
05:12I cannot say why. I can say that I think that certainly when people get to the place where they can't make the total commitment
05:24that the kind of life that the kind of life that Jim Jones lives requires, and they decide that they do no longer want to be a part of it because of the total commitment
05:35that is required, you come to a place in your life where you have to make a choice whether you're willing to make that kind of a commitment.
05:43And when you're not willing to make it, there's a certain guilt that causes you to turn against the thing.
05:49After the day's work ended, Temple members would attend several hours of activities in a pavilion, including classes and socialism.
05:59Jones compared the schedule to the North Korean system of eight hours of daily work followed by eight hours of study.
06:08This also comported with the Temple's practice of gradually subjecting its followers to sophisticated mind control
06:16and behavior modification techniques borrowed from Kim Il-sung's Korea and Mao Zedong's China.
06:24Jones would often read news and commentary, including items from Radio Moscow and Radio Havana
06:32and was known to side with the Soviets over the Chinese during the Sino-Soviet split.
06:39Jones' news readings usually portrayed the U.S. as a capitalist and imperialist villain
06:45while casting the socialist leaders such as Kim Il-sung, Robert Mugabe, and Joseph Stalin in a positive light.
06:55Recordings of commune meetings show how livid and frustrated Jones would get
07:00when anyone did not understand or find interesting the message Jones was placing upon them.
07:07Jones forced every member of the People's Temple to say they were homosexual while proclaiming himself the only heterosexual.
07:19What?
07:20In spite of this, Jones was bisexual, having sex with both male and female followers in Jonestown.
07:28Women who slept with him claimed he was the best lover they ever had.
07:32People's Temple member Tim Carter felt Jones, quote,
07:37put them up to that kind of talk, unquote.
07:40I appreciate the sensitivity you young men have shown for our program.
07:44I can see that you have a concern for your fellow man by the way you,
07:48things you've shown interest in.
07:50I think I'm going to have to leave at this time.
07:54You want me to go?
07:56Lovely insects and all kinds of birds and animals who don't harm at all.
08:10In fact, they've never been harmed by anything down here in the terms of being bit or anything.
08:15Tommy's come such a long way.
08:18He's not afraid of anything now.
08:19Such a good student.
08:20He's on the honor roll.
08:22Thank you, Tommy.
08:23Well, Tommy's all right.
08:25He can tell he's not afraid.
08:30Well, that's a gentle guy.
08:32Walking stick now.
08:34That isn't too much.
08:36We've been talking about so many of the miracles, such a brain tumor being healed.
08:40We were just down looking at a tank a little while ago,
08:43a fuel tank that they were trying to convert into a water tank,
08:46and it blew up and threw Charlie eight feet.
08:49It should have killed him and no harm whatsoever.
08:52There's just a miracle like that after a miracle.
08:55It's just tremendous what the power of fathers' socialism can do for all.
09:00In the autumn of 1977,
09:02Timothy Stowen and other temple defectors formed a concerned relatives group
09:08because they had family members in Jonestown
09:11who were not being permitted to return to the United States.
09:15Stowen traveled to Washington, D.C. in January 1978
09:20to visit with State Department officials and members of Congress
09:25and wrote a white paper detailing his grievances against Jones and the temple
09:31and to attempt to recover his son.
09:34His efforts aroused the curiosity of California Congressman Leo Ryan,
09:40who wrote a letter on Stowen's behalf to Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham.
09:46The concerned relatives began a legal battle with the temple
09:50over the custody of Stowen's son.
09:52Stowen's son.
09:56That's why he was involved.
09:59Stowen, rampant up our You and of C!
10:04W Vivian,�!
10:05My Chinese are all aware of those who own people and the 팀 amount
10:07that made himself 1892!
10:10Stowen, rampant up my people!
10:13Stowen, rampant up our one!
10:14Stowen, rampant up our C!
10:15Stowen, rampant up our country!
10:16Stowen, rampant up our country!
10:17Stowen, rampant up our country!
10:20Stowen, rampant up our country!
10:21Tonight, to never be the people, tonight, to never be the people!
10:51I'm not going to be the people.
10:56I'm not going to be the people.
11:01I'm not going to be the people.
11:08I'm not going to be the people.
11:30I'm not going to be the people.
11:50I think one is forgiveness, forgiveness for myself for surviving.
12:17I think two is forgiveness for the failures of Reverend Jim Jones.
12:24He is not God. He is only a man.
12:27And when many people placed him in a God-like role, he then believed it.
12:35And thus, that's the tragedy of Jonestown.
12:38A mother, for example, who would say,
12:40No, I don't want to kill my child. I won't do that.
12:43She, as an example to us, would be taken from that child and drugged and kept in the medical unit, comatose.
12:50So your choices were you follow, you act like you're part of the team,
12:55and during that time, somehow you hope you can figure a way out.
13:00Those people, in the very end, what seems comforting to people to say that these people committed suicide, they didn't.
13:11They were murdered by Jim Jones.
13:13In June 1978, Deborah Layton, a People's Temple member who escaped Jonestown six months before the massacre,
13:22provided the group with a further affidavit detailing crimes by the temple and substandard living conditions in Jonestown.
13:32Layton's affidavit stated that Jonestown residents were being deliberately undernourished.
13:39There was rice for breakfast, rice water soup for lunch, and rice and beans for dinner.
13:45On Sunday, we each received an egg and a cookie.
13:49Two or three times a week, we had vegetables.
13:52Some very weak and elderly members received one egg per day.
13:56Jonestown stood on poor soil, so it was not self-sufficient,
14:01and had to import large quantities of commodities, such as wheat.
14:06Filled with noodles, chow mein noodles, sugar, sea oil.
14:12We have much more of this than meatzai.
14:15Flour, flour, rice, black-eyed peas, more peas.
14:23We have different containers around the place.
14:25We couldn't go through all the tremendous inventory.
14:27They built up Kool-Aid, icing, frost icing, various kind of cookies.
14:32These are filled with crackers back here.
14:34Of course, this is a soda pop.
14:35What is three cents a bottle, by our standards?
14:37What's the average knowledge?
14:38What is about the same?
14:39A little more, maybe?
14:40Three cents a bottle.
14:41It's quite cheap compared to our standards, Pepsi.
14:43However, Layton noted that Jones did not rely on the same diet as his followers.
14:49Instead, he consumed more substantial meals that frequently contained meat,
14:55while claiming problems with his blood sugar.
14:58Besides that, we're down to counting all the half grains and corn.
15:05Two, four, three.
15:17He also permitted a few chosen members of his inner circle to eat from his personal supplies.
15:23That bug wasn't hurting you?
15:26I saw you.
15:27Don't you tell me you weren't.
15:28I saw you step-toe put on that bug.
15:32Playing with animals, dissecting them.
15:36You do that in biology, our necessity, when they're dead.
15:40You don't need to.
15:41Why'd you do it?
15:42Will you tell me why you stepped up?
15:43Do you have any counseling set up for these kids?
15:46When you get a kid like this, do you have any counseling set up in the teacher program?
15:50I'm going to give you a break this time.
15:55Comrade Grubbs put you in principle into a class where you'll talk about why you didn't step on that bug.
16:05You understand what I'm saying?
16:07Don't torture things.
16:09It's like...
16:12The world is so full of pain.
16:15And that poor bug was still alive when you finished.
16:20Still alive.
16:22Did you tear his wing off?
16:25I wonder how he lost the wing.
16:28I hope you wake up some of these kids.
16:34I'm sick of them doing this.
16:36They do this all time around here.
16:39He did, he did, he did.
16:42He said yes, he took the wing off the bug.
16:45Am I overacting?
16:47You people tell me.
16:48No, you're not.
16:49No, no.
16:50If you don't learn sensitivity for life young, you sure ain't going to learn it later.
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