My father is a retired Congregationalist minister. He told me about this incident when I was younger as a cautionary tale, warning me about the dangers of blindly following religious leaders. The belief should always be in God and never in the leaders who want that belief for themselves, because as he put it, "That path leads to Jonestown."
Jim Jones was actually a Communist (yes, really). He used the facade of religion to attract more followers to his cult. His only god was power and himself.
Leo Ryan was a congressman from my district, and was a teacher at my High school. There is a small plaque right by the flag pole in his memory. I saluted it every day. We even had Leo’s club that promoted community service and activism. I doubt anyone in the club made the connection. His aid Jackie Speier is the representative for my district currently. She is a survivor and was with him when he was shot.
My great grandmother died in this cult 6 months before I was born. My family still has the letters she sent trying to get my dad to come visit. Thank God he didn't.
I'm sure she was a good person ..This is a very horrible lesson learned and people like Biden and their left wing Marxist ideologies only serve themselves
@@heyheytaytay The guards with AK's were enforcing the rule regardless. Some went willingly, most did not. If you listen to the tape, you can hear the crying, screaming and general discord. Not the hallmark of willful suicide. What a fucking nightmare.
Most of the documentaries I've watched about Jones Town they've all said that they were pretty much held by gun point to either drink it or be shot. Alot of them were poked with a needle full of poison. All the children and most of the adults were. So, they didn't "drink the kool-aid" as some say. Jim Jones and the men with the guns pretty much murdered all those poor innocent people. All they wanted was a better life.
@A Publick Domain you heard that they all took it willingly? An willingly gave it to their children as well? If you can think of whatever documentaries they were called about Jones Town I'd really like to watch it all over again. Whenever I watched a documentary about it it was several.. several... years ago. Maybe I've just convinced myself that they wouldn't do that. I don't know.
I know I’ve commented this on other videos but my mom almost died as a child in the Jonestown massacre. She was in the people’s church in sf with my grandpa. My grandpa would disguise himself on outings with them to look like Jim for potential assassins. Long story short, they didn’t die because my Grandmother wouldn’t let my grandpa take my mom to Guyana. So since my mom wasn’t allowed to go, he didn’t go either. THANK GOD. I have more stories about it if y’all are interested. (I know it’s not a church it’s a Temple, I wrote it too fast)
Sounds like your grandmother had more sense than your grandfather. She didn't get caught up in the game of intrigue, the shadow warriors that were trying to stop Jones and his good work. There's a certain crowd that fighting back against that sort of victimization appeals to. Good thing your grandmother didn't fall for it.
@@chuckrobinson599 yes I’m very glad she had that going for her. It was a shame she was an alcoholic because I never got to meet her, she died in her 40’s. I wish I knew her.
@@roshni2511 well apparently from what my mom said in the church if you did something bad like sexually harassed a temple goer you would have to fight someone. They would have to big bigger than you too. Like one time my mom and this girl were arguing and they got caught so they had to beat each other up in front of the church. They ended up being great friends after that but sadly the little girl died when she was 12 in the massacre. Her name was Aurora.
@Nathan Michaels there was also a lot of foster programs in the church my mom would go to as well. There was a home that would take care of the children. They were all African lady’s. They were very nice and would clothe and feed my mom. They did this because I’m guessing my grandfather was busy and my moms mom wasn’t really there to take care of her as she had addiction problems. My uncle was also there with my mom, my uncle Che.
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If you listen to the whole tape on RUclips, there are alot of people commenting about how great he was etc.. shows there are still loads of fools in this world.
Thank you for pronouncing Guyana correctly. I'm from Guyana and it's sad that people only are familiar with this country because of that bastard of a man.
I just went to the Wikipedia pages about Guyana and picked up some cool facts (very multicultural including indigenous tribes as well as a really large subcontinental Indian influence, the huge waterfall, the beautiful birds, the Carribean style food, the creole language) and some sad facts (has the highest proportional suicide rate in the world as of 2014, educational infrastructure is lacking even with a very high literacy rate, slavery of Africans just like elsewhere in the Carribean, and of course the psychopathic cult leader here).
i learned through guyana because my freshman classmate came from, wrote & share his poems and website to us on a multicultural Zoom Class club. the fact some of them spoke french and where the french/EU Spaceshuttle Was? or am i wrong?. anyways really cool country in the Pics yet i never wholly researched that country's history & such. but focusing what is modern
I saw a documentary where a little old black woman (she was absolutely precious), hid under her bed and just prayed the whole time the poisoning was going on. When they called everyone to the main area, she had a bad feeling and hid under her bunk instead. Poor woman. I can't even imagine how scared she must have been. 🥺
yes! I heard about her, there was also an elderly man if I remember properly, he was hard of hearing so he didn't come out of his building when the announcement called everyone to come out since he didn't hear it
One story I've read from one of the survivors noted that the early stages of the temple was as promised by Jones: A wonderful utopia where followers get to enjoy better food and drinks, hang out with and most importantly have sex freely without any care in the world. It was, after all fresh from the hippie and peace era of the 60's and early 70's. It quickly faded from there as the living conditions worsened. Meat and vegetables were often rancid but since they don't have the choice they're forced to eat it anyway. Add to that the general gaslighting from Jones, White Night rehearsals, physical and sexual abuse conducted by the higher members of Jonestown, as well as death threats for not sharing their secrets or ratting out other members who intended to leave. It's only today that I learned that Jones bought the cyanide LONG before he set up the temple, making his eventual end-goal a pre-meditated murder instead of previously thought "desperation and paranoia-driven murder-suicide" like the cult in Waco, Texas. Sick fuck.
He certainly was. He planned to drag those naive people to Guyana and murder them, including children and infants who never did anything to harm anyone. That's pathological by any definition.
Sounds like the paradise communist try to sell everytime and that it backfires everytime. But people keep thinking it will work if they try one more time
That happened the day I was born. 11/18/1978. And my name is Jim. My mother literally told them to put me back in for a day so I wouldn't have to share my birthday with this. But... it's also Mickey Mouse's birthday, so there's that.
My Only nephew was born on that exact day also 11/18/78,,, I remember bringing the paper to my sister as she was going to name him James,,,,, she read this n said Hell no , So she named him BRANDON ....
I was born on the 25th birthday of Jim Jones, May 13, 1956, and the Pope was shot on my 25th birthday, May 13th, 1981. With the value of that information and about ten bucks, you can get a beer in a downtown bar here in Helsinki. 🙃
Have you heard the audio recordings of the kids screaming after they ingested the poison? Jim Jones keeps lying to them that if they were quiet, it wouldn't hurt. Beyond horrific. 😵
FYI - The expression "Women and Children first" is known as the "Birkenhead Drill". When the ship (The Birkenhead) became shipwrecked off the coast of South African, near Cape Agulhas, the captain stated that Women and Childten were the first to evacuate the ship. Hence forth it became a staple. Fun fact, my great grandfather had to cling to the mast of the ship for 3 days. And was one of very few survivors. As a child my family attended a televised memorial to the victims as guests.
@NuBz the narrator referred to the phrase even mentioning not knowing where it originated. As they are a history based channel, the information I provided will be appreciated. Stop moaning for no reason.
@@justayoutuber1906 I don't know, many false teachers are a 100x times worse than what he mostly did to be honest (and besides, 50% of the population hated him). A successful (and EXTREMELY dangerous) false teacher convinces nearly an ENTIRE group or country to believe something. See Adolf Hitler, Mao and Kim Il-Sung for example. Their countrymen overwhelmingly fell for their lies and suffered for decades afterward. There are a couple extreme Mormon cults that are insane as well (polygamy is common in them).
@@justayoutuber1906 legit, what makes him a "false prophet"? Or you are just throwing stuff around against people you dont like even if it makes no sense?
"Hurry, my children, there isn't much time but we'll meet again, for we are the sign! Be good to the children and old people first Hand them a drink, they're dying of thirst!"
My parents both grew-up in Ukiah, CA. Jim Jones was my Dad's substitute teacher. My Mom worked with two ladies at the bank, who left for Guyana, and later died. My aunt went to school with Tracy the survivor. The Church Jones use to go to is still there in Ukiah.
Imagine going to Jonestown expecting it to be a paradise, then all within a few days, you realize it's hard agricultural labor, men with guns, heat, bugs, bad food and shitty living conditions.
What I heard is the reason people were pulled into his cult (first he operated in Indiana, then California) was that many of them were outsiders, people on the fringes of society and other folks who were not accepted into mainstream society and/or churches.
The reason why people got into the cult is because they were st*pid, always that and that will never change. Being outsider doesn't mean you need to join a sekt.
exactly, a lot of his followers were also African American I believe, and during that period they were still treated like shit, and civil rights were poor, racism was so rampant, so it's understandable about the people who got pulled in
Hint when someone names a religion/movement/set of beliefs after themselves don't believe anything that comes from their mouth, and most definitely do not follow them to the ends of the earth without the means of going back where you came from.
At that time people still discriminated against black people. A lot of the churches where white exclusive only. In this situation jones became a beacon of hope for them because he didn't discriminate against them. Since most of the people were poor he gave them shelter and respect which they needed. It is easier to manipulate poor people and jones took advantage of their naiveness
918 to be exact. 909 at Jonestown, 5 more shot to death at a nearby airstrip (including Congressman Ryan and Patricia Parks, the defector mentioned in this video) and four family members in a murder-suicide that night at Georgetown, Guyana's capital. Details here: jonestown.sdsu.edu/?post_type=who_died
Two phrases that will forever haunt me. A child wailing "I Don't Feel Good" as cyanide enters their system. And Jones saying "Mother Mother Mother Mother Please!" As he attempts to console a hysterical woman (EDIT: His Wife) as she watches a group of children die. I wasn't there (obviously) but that recording is Visceral.
My aunts name is Liz Schwartz. She was a Jonestown member who got out two years because the mass murder. She described jones as a extremely charismatic and charming person who on the inside was delusional and deeply disturbed.
I'd like to see a video on the history of Canada's RCMP, or what it was like to live in a native American residential school. I know it's a touchy subject. But it would be pretty eye opening subject for those who have no idea about Canada's history
I wish to see this too! The rest of the world knows by now that Canada has uncovered last month, and it would be a good idea to tell the history behind this tragedy. Canada was not a nice country back then.
Hi, Canadian here. You can do a RUclips search "Canadian residential schools", and there are plenty of full documentaries, and deep interviews with survivors of this genocide. It's so important that we learn and understand the full horror of what happened here in Canada. For myself, a channel called "Weird History" isn't quite the right fit, but thank you for wanting to learn more. 🇨🇦
I remember this very clearly. It took several days to finally determine how many people had died, they were stacked in layers like cord wood. Survivor Vernon Gosney was shot three times, ran into the jungle, escaped and ended up on Maui, retired from the police department and just died in January 2021 from complications of heart bypass surgery. He was only 67 years old
@@mcflex8913 He wasn't all that moved about it either that I saw in a documentary with him talking about it in recent years. Maybe he didn't like anymore that he (his son) was half black?
He didn’t know that Jones was going to kill him. The members were forced to sign their children over to the church. He thought he would be able to go back and get him. He said he felt guilty and I saw him get emotional in that interview. Trauma screws you up.
You should do a video on Delphine LaLaurie and the LaLaurie Mansion. It had a torture chamber for her slaves that was so horrible that when the townspeople discovered it during a fire, they decided to tear the entire house to the ground.
@@paulvoorhies8821 you clearly didn’t read the last few words. I made clear that the character IN AHS is fictional. They ALL are. They’re BASED on real people but obviously this story is fiction.
@@OnceUponLater That doesn’t make them fictional characters. Sure, some of the stories were fictionally based, but Madame LaLaurie was a real person. Not a fictional character. You can’t have it both ways. Real person. Some fictional storylines.
I know two teen agers who were killed there. Their parents had traveled to San Francisco that day to look for more land for the People's Temple. They came back to the massacre. Both parents had Doctoral degrees. Go figure? RIP Mauri and Darin. The father went insane and died of Alzheimer's. The mother had a horrible remaining life. I don't know how she ended up. Very sad.
Why were they Socialists? What did they have to say about all of this? Why were they not with their children?! What was the mother's "remaining life like"?
Jonestown and the Peoples Temple has always interested me. I wonder how normal people can be drawn in to this situation. I think it could easily happen to any of us.
In a situation such as this, no. When I was 11 years old, my sister and I went to a church where they were telling the teenagers to bring in their rock albums, so they could break them up, {I saw a lot of KISS albums up there}. Even at that young age, I realized how wrong this was. So for adults to not see how dangerous Jim Jones was is beyond me. I've learned never to trust anyone who claims they are a "prophet"...
@@cheeverbeaver it was the Cherub series, its about a branch of the British secret service but its all kids. Predictably it's for a young adult audience, I read them when I was that age group. Still worth a look though
One of my maternal aunts was a part of The People's Temple. She even asked my mother for money and my mom refused. Even though she is now deceased, my mother helped to save her life from that incident.
There was a saying about Jim Jones if Jones had died in the late 60s he'd be a civil rights hero backing the old saying The road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions
@@deborahwhitney9427 bruh, you can be the world nicest person and be similar or have something relatable in your appearence to hitler,stalin or another bad person. One thing doesnt cancel the other one.
I was an 8 yr old girl seeing this on TV news I remember my dad shouting that son of a bitch!!! My home town is near San Francisco and Oakland. Jones recruited African American victims particularly. My Spanish Teacher in college mentioned his College aged romance with a beautiful black woman who he adored but she had told him she and her mom had a calling to follow this man. My teacher seemed so crushed even 20 years later to think about those ladies. He said, "They were so good, how could something so bad be done to them." Jackie Spears is a rock star politician in my book, tough as nails she risked her life to go see what was going on down there. Guyana is an American territory. My whole family was stunned when this happened. Spears survived being shot and the flight back. They should've covered those elected officials who went to help and got shot.
After dealing lately with what my abusive ex has been putting me through with smearing me and drawing in strangers etc. I can fully understand how people would follow someone like Jim. My ex is manipulative like that, even with blatant horrible actions on display he is able to brainwash and control and keep you in what feels like a confused and powerless state. He’s that good at covering his tracks, editing, stalking etc. I can only imagine how someone who tries to come off as more compassionate than my ex ever did would be able to draw so many in.
@@awil4875 oop looks like my abusive ex tracked this down 😂 wild. And he thinks this is going to prove anything other than he is who I say he is. I provided a ton of proof earlier today against him so he is triggered rn.
I find it hard to believe that there are so many gullible people in the world. In 1980 I attended a church with a very strong pastor. In fact he often referred to some things as being " Jim Jonesish." When I saw him straying from the bible in some areas, I left the church. He was not anywhere near as crazy as Jim Jones, but many parishioners began to almost worship him. The church had been a success for a number of years, but as people realized that some of Jesus' teachings were being subverted, membership dwindled. Soon the pastor left for another location and the church building sold to another Denomination. The hypocrisy that I saw in this pastor and his leaders caused me to leave organized religion behind. Do not blindly follow anyone,
Just imagine being a person that was like nah I'm good with the Kool aid. Watching it all is horrifying. Listening to Jones last tape while every one drank the Kool aid
The majority were forced at gunpoint and shot up with it in needles in the back. You didn’t just get to decide to leave either. The brainwashed family members kept the ones wanting to leave by threats of death and they had very little opportunity to get back to the US because being in another country they knew nothing about besides the camp itself, they felt truly trapped. It’s way more sad then that. Some of the only ones that escaped were still horrified that they would be tracked down and shot by their own family members as they ran. Jones’ wife begged him to stop killing the children, and he mocked her as more people were murdered. Mothers crying while their children are injected and then they are fed the poison themselves.
Even though it wasn’t Kool Aid ( it was a knock off Flavor Aid) I have never given my kids Kool Aid again after that dreadful day. It just brought sadness at the thought 😢
Brainwashed? He simply took advantage of their belief in socialism, he didn't have to brain wash anybody. Their Own communities, the media, their politicians, they already had them brainwashed. Jones just stepped in to reap the rewards. This video leaves out how he used sex to control the people. Not just the women, the men too. A totally sick society, came to it's logical end.
@@chuckrobinson599 yeah, these cult leaders are always portrayed as some god tier manipulators but actually they're just taking advantage of vulnerable people 👎 in reality they aren't charismatic geniuses, just huge losers with a tiny pinch charisma
@OneHairyGuy try again. Socialism is the doctrine of the Democrats. Also this fostering the poor blacks, who can't look out for themselves in this racist world, more Democrat doctrine. How many in the MSM would you guess are Republican? I'd guess that if there are any, they'd keep quiet about it. By the way, did you know that Bo Snerdly, and HR Kit Carson who were big parts of Rush Limbaugh's show were both black? Yeah, me neither, because it was radio, and it wasn't a job qualification. So a Republican does the biggest most successful radio show of all time, and his producer, and his PR man are both black. They were very successful men. Kit Carson died of cancer about two years before Rush. On the other hand, a socialist takes a bunch of blacks to create a utopia. They all wind up dead. How are Republicans bad again?
If you want a really in depth look at Jonestown, read The Road to Jonestown or listen to the Last Podcast on the Left. They did a 5 part series on the cult
Leslie Wagner Wilson and the group she helped lead the morning of when it happened, didn't just walk 30 miles to freedom. Her account on CNN in its special for the 30th anniversary described walking along a railroad line, and even a train stopped to pick them up. They rode to the last stop, Matthew's Ridge, saw heavily armed soldiers and police, and realized something bad was happening.
I have seen a video of Jones showing all of their food supplys and in it he showed kool-aid, this however was early in the development of Jonestown, he may have changed to flavor aid sometime after.
I worked at SFO cargo for airlift international and saw the 900 metal caskets stacked nice and tight at the United Airlines maintenance tarmac that was creepy.
For those who want the FULL story of Jim Jones, Jonestown, and the Peoples Temple, from his childhood to the date of the suicide/massacre, you need to read the book titled “Raven”. Published around 1982, it is a thick book that explains the whole thing. I was 14 when that happened, and I still recall the ABC or NBC helicopters hovering over the Jonestown commune, showing HUNDREDS of bloated bodies. The only thing I can think of that’s equally horrific was the 1964 Stanleyville massacre in the Congo of Africa.
"Jones took hold of a rubber rose, and proceeded in front of others, to beat this man's privates...... HEY WEIRD HISTORY! WE'VE GOT A MESSAGE ABOUT CURIOUSITY STREAM!"
I believe people are so intrigued to join a cult because they may feel hopeless,lonely, or people who don’t like authority and among other reasons why. They need a strong support system and they feel like they can gain that with the cult. They offer you nice things and tell you all the good you want to hear. After a cult has lured you in then you’d like to escape or sometimes the people are so brainwashed they can’t escape
Sadly, there are always people looking for a "Daddy" (or a "Mommy") to tell them what to do, so that they can remain children psychologically and not face the hard realities of life on their own. There are always those who will take advantage of them.
I have a watched a Jonestown documentary before and it was horrible but important to learn. When I think about read about, or watch Jonestown, I thought back to people who have done similar things before the Jonestown suicide/shooting. Compared to Hitler, large people with huge influence, and everyone, Jonestown provided a cruel but important life lesson to people follow someone too closely. This lesson is to be open minded to whom you are following because you don't know them. Just because they say things or do things you agree with, doesn't 100% mean they're good people and there is a possibility they may using those beliefs to strengthen their influence. You can still trust them, but it's important to have a balance of no trust too. When it's over, depending on the kind of person you are, you may live the regret and shame you followed this person to the end or not at all.
I turned 14 the day before this happened and remembered it being on the news and all over the front pages of the newspaper. My dad was a pastor for 25yrs. I’ve grown up in church my whole life and I make no apologies for my Christian beliefs but I am ALWAYS baffled when I hear about people blindly following people like Jim Jones and other cultish leaders…. I loved my father but if he had told me to “Drink The Kool-Aid” I would have laughed and said HELL NO!!😂🤦🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
I would say, that this was another case of the Blind leading the Blind, but it's a bit more Complex, than that. It's more like what happens, after People hear what a Politician has to say, and if they agree with it, rouse or not, they Follow that Politician.
I wasn't prepared for this video, I've watched countless docs or RUclips videos about this massacre, since becoming a father, I can't imagine killing your child all for 1 man. Some I think we're forced and others loyal to the last.
Truth be told: Jones had around a third of his followers shot because once they saw their friends all dying a painful death from the drink they refused to drink it themselves. Even Jones himself had to be shot because he couldn't bring himself to drink it either.
I remember seeing the newspaper headline about this mass suicide. The picture that accompanied the front page article showed all the dead sprawled out, face down in the blazing equatorial sun, their bodies bloated from the heat. The looked like human balloons.
They were given ‘ flavour aid ‘ !! He was so cheap, he couldn’t even give them the more expensive stuff!! Terrible, terrible incident and the example of what happens when a madman has an organisation that thinks he’s a god.
I had heard about a survivor who said that people went through the compound and arranged the people to have their arms over each other and that some adults, particularly elderly ones, were injected with cyanide by force. He was interviewed on the show Most Evil in the Cult Leaders episode.
At the airport where I work there is an old storage building, up on a high shelf , covered in dust is a PT-6 turbine hot section can . It has a bullet hole and some deflection damage …it’s kinda creepy knowing this is from one of the Guyana airways Twin Otters that was shot up during an escape attempt.
Its amazing how humans all over the world intrinsically experience the same things. Currently Kenyan is experiencing its own cult suicide/ massacre. A charismatic preacher had almost 1000 people in a forest in kilifi starving to death. Currently the death tol is at 200, with 600 still missing. Faith is a dangerous thing
The Temple was at Geary and Fillmore in San Francisco, the location is now a US Post Office. My dad's Masonic Lodge needed knew folding seats for their lodge room where rituals were held. One of the Brothers as they are called managed to get some of these seats and put them in the lodge room. Every year the is the installation of new lodge officers and families are welcome to come. I went to a bunch of these events as a kid. So, yes, I have sat in People's Temple old folding seats. On one occasion my dad was telling us that so and so got the seats from The People's Temple. This one old lady overheard this and looked at the seats with disgust and made some comment about had she know, she would not have sat in the seats. As a teenager I well remember the Temple but I was not overly creeped out about the seats. I think that was the last time I went to a Lodge function there, the Masons moved the lodge out of East Oakland to Livermore and left the seats behind.
I find it complexing how religious people will follow anyone without thinking things through. It's why I'm an Ex-Christian. Those prophets misinterpreted so many things and think it was from a God. From Adam & Eve, the flood to Jesus. Then they threw in Satan and Demons to keep people faithful through fear. So many gullible people who refuse to think for themselves. So sad how humanity can be at times.
Jones seemed to be all about integration in the 60s. He got many institutions in Indiana de-segregated, and was severely hated because of it. Churches, restaurants, the telephone company, the Indianapolis Police Department, a theater, an amusement park, and the Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital. I wonder if he did all of that merely to gain the trust of abused black future congregation members. Religious leaders are highly predatory and seek out the weak, the disenfranchised, and those who feel that they have nowhere left to go. It's as if there aren't any gods watching over us, and nobody is driving the bus. So whenever someone says they can save your soul, or they want you to join their group, be VERY wary and alert.
Ironic you say that about Jones because he was shown more about his psychotic politics than religion when he denounced religion in front of his congregation.
12 minutes just isn't enough to get into Jones himself and Jonestown. I highly recommend stephanie harlowes series on this. I've read and watched a lot about this and i learned new things
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you know there are many study or knowledge videos on RUclips more than that
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Your lead-in-to an ad leaves Lots to Desire... maybe learn something of humanity/civility... WoW!
You sound like Indy Neidell
My father is a retired Congregationalist minister. He told me about this incident when I was younger as a cautionary tale, warning me about the dangers of blindly following religious leaders. The belief should always be in God and never in the leaders who want that belief for themselves, because as he put it, "That path leads to Jonestown."
Words to live by
Your father sounds like a wise man. Don't ever forget his advice and instill it into anyone you meet that might be headed down the same path...
Belief in gods is no better.
Yes he was a wise man, but I would add, and the path from jonestown leads straight to hell.
Jim Jones was actually a Communist (yes, really). He used the facade of religion to attract more followers to his cult. His only god was power and himself.
Leo Ryan was a congressman from my district, and was a teacher at my High school. There is a small plaque right by the flag pole in his memory. I saluted it every day. We even had Leo’s club that promoted community service and activism. I doubt anyone in the club made the connection. His aid Jackie Speier is the representative for my district currently. She is a survivor and was with him when he was shot.
The world lost a really good man that day. I pray Leo and the others are resting in peace.
@@katemaloney4296 It certainly did. All he wanted to do was to get the people who wanted to leave out.
A man who did what he could may he rest in peace
What a shock it was to hear he was shot- even though I was just a 17 year old then.
My dad grew up in SF, he sent Leo a letter and he actually got a legit response Instead of a form letter. He still has that letter today
My great grandmother died in this cult 6 months before I was born. My family still has the letters she sent trying to get my dad to come visit. Thank God he didn't.
I'm glad your didn't didn't go either.
Very sorry this happened to her, I wonder if he would've visited if they would let him leave?.......
I bet Kool Aid is forbidden in your family
@@aresgodaware0369it was flavor aid.
I'm sure she was a good person ..This is a very horrible lesson learned and people like Biden and their left wing Marxist ideologies only serve themselves
Flavor aid, babe
I am very glad you called this horrible piece of history a murder and suicide. The children and many people who didn’t want to die were murdered
They knew the kool-aid was poisoned tho...
@@heyheytaytay Try explaining that to a six year old whose parents are telling him to drink up
@@heyheytaytay The guards with AK's were enforcing the rule regardless. Some went willingly, most did not. If you listen to the tape, you can hear the crying, screaming and general discord. Not the hallmark of willful suicide. What a fucking nightmare.
@@heyheytaytay many were forced- and those who didn't drink still were shot.
@@brownicusfutiv2175 99 percent went willingly though
Never trust a preacher who always wears sunglasses even at night
...same goes for dates.🤣
Especially if his name is corey hart
Anyone for that.
Cause their future won’t be bright 😎🤦🏻♂️
He wore them to hide the fact that he was a massive drug addict. He took uppers and downers, making his eyes look red
Most of the documentaries I've watched about Jones Town they've all said that they were pretty much held by gun point to either drink it or be shot. Alot of them were poked with a needle full of poison. All the children and most of the adults were. So, they didn't "drink the kool-aid" as some say. Jim Jones and the men with the guns pretty much murdered all those poor innocent people. All they wanted was a better life.
@A Publick Domain you heard that they all took it willingly? An willingly gave it to their children as well? If you can think of whatever documentaries they were called about Jones Town I'd really like to watch it all over again. Whenever I watched a documentary about it it was several.. several... years ago. Maybe I've just convinced myself that they wouldn't do that. I don't know.
@A Publick Domainwell thanks for the information. Thats so unbelievably sad I actually have know words right now.
That’s all lies, we were just sold faulty flavor-aid.
@@RaoulDuke3030 hell nah 😆
That's what I've also heard on other documentaries
I know I’ve commented this on other videos but my mom almost died as a child in the Jonestown massacre. She was in the people’s church in sf with my grandpa. My grandpa would disguise himself on outings with them to look like Jim for potential assassins. Long story short, they didn’t die because my Grandmother wouldn’t let my grandpa take my mom to Guyana. So since my mom wasn’t allowed to go, he didn’t go either. THANK GOD. I have more stories about it if y’all are interested.
(I know it’s not a church it’s a Temple, I wrote it too fast)
Sounds like your grandmother had more sense than your grandfather. She didn't get caught up in the game of intrigue, the shadow warriors that were trying to stop Jones and his good work. There's a certain crowd that fighting back against that sort of victimization appeals to. Good thing your grandmother didn't fall for it.
@@chuckrobinson599 yes I’m very glad she had that going for her. It was a shame she was an alcoholic because I never got to meet her, she died in her 40’s. I wish I knew her.
I would like to hear more about it
@@roshni2511 well apparently from what my mom said in the church if you did something bad like sexually harassed a temple goer you would have to fight someone. They would have to big bigger than you too. Like one time my mom and this girl were arguing and they got caught so they had to beat each other up in front of the church. They ended up being great friends after that but sadly the little girl died when she was 12 in the massacre. Her name was Aurora.
@Nathan Michaels there was also a lot of foster programs in the church my mom would go to as well. There was a home that would take care of the children. They were all African lady’s. They were very nice and would clothe and feed my mom. They did this because I’m guessing my grandfather was busy and my moms mom wasn’t really there to take care of her as she had addiction problems. My uncle was also there with my mom, my uncle Che.
The Jonestown "Death Tape" is so fucking haunting in it's entirety.
Especially the line "If we can't live in peace then let's just die in peace
My love I ran around on you
Yes I broke your heart in two
And I want the world to know I'm sorry (sorry)
So if by chance you want to know
If I really love you so
All you have do to is come and ask me
And never mind what they say
Never mind what they do
I'll tell you tra la la la la la
Know that I love you
Tra la la la la la
Know that I love you
Now I hunger for your touch
I never knew you meant so much
I know that I have hurt you and I'm sorry (sorry)
So darling take me back again
And our… More
It's just so disturbing to listen to. Especially hearing the innocent children screaming and crying...
If you listen to the whole tape on RUclips, there are alot of people commenting about how great he was etc.. shows there are still loads of fools in this world.
imagine if Jones hadnt been switching it on and off- we'd have heard what the detractors really believed.
Thank you for pronouncing Guyana correctly. I'm from Guyana and it's sad that people only are familiar with this country because of that bastard of a man.
Hmm is it really mispronounced? Maybe I was just lucky to have great friends from Guyana growing up.
I just went to the Wikipedia pages about Guyana and picked up some cool facts (very multicultural including indigenous tribes as well as a really large subcontinental Indian influence, the huge waterfall, the beautiful birds, the Carribean style food, the creole language) and some sad facts (has the highest proportional suicide rate in the world as of 2014, educational infrastructure is lacking even with a very high literacy rate, slavery of Africans just like elsewhere in the Carribean, and of course the psychopathic cult leader here).
i learned through guyana because my freshman classmate came from, wrote & share his poems and website to us on a multicultural Zoom Class club. the fact some of them spoke french and where the french/EU Spaceshuttle Was? or am i wrong?. anyways really cool country in the Pics yet i never wholly researched that country's history & such. but focusing what is modern
I knew it before, from my old neighborhood. I had plenty of Guyanese friends growing up.
Beautiful ladies
I saw a documentary where a little old black woman (she was absolutely precious), hid under her bed and just prayed the whole time the poisoning was going on. When they called everyone to the main area, she had a bad feeling and hid under her bunk instead. Poor woman. I can't even imagine how scared she must have been. 🥺
Why is her race relevant?
@@chiarosuburekeni9325
Most of the followers were Black.
When a person is described, the race/ color is one of the 1st questions asked.
Her name was Hyacinth Thrash. She wrote a biography called, "The Onliest One Alive".
@@tinytt854 that doesn't make it relevant lol
yes! I heard about her, there was also an elderly man if I remember properly, he was hard of hearing so he didn't come out of his building when the announcement called everyone to come out since he didn't hear it
“He proceeded to beat the man in his privates, on the other hand, here’s curiosity stream!”
Lmfao
What was the name of that Aerosmith album? Oh, yes - Night in the Ruts . . .
A master manipulator who chose not to drink his own Flavor Aid.
Well... at least he killed himself. If only he did that before forcing everyone else to die.
@@cocogoat1111 That would have been the decent thing to do. But as we know, Jones was not a decent human being.
@@cocogoat1111 Jones couldn't even bring himself to inflict a gunshot wound to his own head. He had to get one of his underlings shoot him.
The media and schools are doing the same brainwashing bullshit. These were nothing but weak minded fools who I don't feel a damn bit sorry for.
That is accurate. Kool-aid gets all the undue credit.
One story I've read from one of the survivors noted that the early stages of the temple was as promised by Jones: A wonderful utopia where followers get to enjoy better food and drinks, hang out with and most importantly have sex freely without any care in the world. It was, after all fresh from the hippie and peace era of the 60's and early 70's. It quickly faded from there as the living conditions worsened. Meat and vegetables were often rancid but since they don't have the choice they're forced to eat it anyway. Add to that the general gaslighting from Jones, White Night rehearsals, physical and sexual abuse conducted by the higher members of Jonestown, as well as death threats for not sharing their secrets or ratting out other members who intended to leave.
It's only today that I learned that Jones bought the cyanide LONG before he set up the temple, making his eventual end-goal a pre-meditated murder instead of previously thought "desperation and paranoia-driven murder-suicide" like the cult in Waco, Texas. Sick fuck.
Yes they were
He certainly was. He planned to drag those naive people to Guyana and murder them, including children and infants who never did anything to harm anyone. That's pathological by any definition.
Sounds like the paradise communist try to sell everytime and that it backfires everytime.
But people keep thinking it will work if they try one more time
bro you would have definitely been swayed by jones lol
@Lex Bright Raven yes, yes vote for your communism. Drink the cool aid so you go quickly. You will probably be starving too.
That happened the day I was born. 11/18/1978. And my name is Jim. My mother literally told them to put me back in for a day so I wouldn't have to share my birthday with this. But... it's also Mickey Mouse's birthday, so there's that.
That’s scary. Have you ever had anyone ask about it?
My Only nephew was born on that exact day also 11/18/78,,, I remember bringing the paper to my sister as she was going to name him James,,,,, she read this n said Hell no , So she named him BRANDON ....
I was born on this day too. 11/18/1978.
It was the wedding anniversary for the mother of my children and myself, we were together for 21yrs
I was born on the 25th birthday of Jim Jones, May 13, 1956, and the Pope was shot on my 25th birthday, May 13th, 1981. With the value of that information and about ten bucks, you can get a beer in a downtown bar here in Helsinki. 🙃
Have you heard the audio recordings of the kids screaming after they ingested the poison? Jim Jones keeps lying to them that if they were quiet, it wouldn't hurt. Beyond horrific. 😵
Yes sure did horrible
Where can I listen to it?
@@BestofThaWorldWhy do you want to listen to real humans that are no actors agonizing till death . Save your soul from this. Jésus loves you.
@@BestofThaWorldyou can find it on RUclips just look up the jonestown death tape
Horror beyond belief.
FYI - The expression "Women and Children first" is known as the "Birkenhead Drill". When the ship (The Birkenhead) became shipwrecked off the coast of South African, near Cape Agulhas, the captain stated that Women and Childten were the first to evacuate the ship. Hence forth it became a staple. Fun fact, my great grandfather had to cling to the mast of the ship for 3 days. And was one of very few survivors. As a child my family attended a televised memorial to the victims as guests.
@NuBz the narrator referred to the phrase even mentioning not knowing where it originated. As they are a history based channel, the information I provided will be appreciated. Stop moaning for no reason.
@NuBz Speak for yourself, oaf.
@NuBz Joe’s comment is appreciated on this, a history channel
@NuBz why you even on here if you don't care about history?
@NuBz What a downer, this guy is sharing what others did not know and people like me as interesting and a good heads up! Today i Learned moment (TIL)
Dude was ALWAYS wearing sunglasses. Of course he was a drug addict. LMAO.
Yeah that's pretty much a good indicator
Hey I wear sunglasses all the time.
And the mouth and tongue dont stoping, a good indicator as well
Jim Jones was one of those false prophets we were warned about.
The Bible warns about men like this (false teachers) multiple times. Drive. Them. Out. Shun them.
Like Trump.
@@justayoutuber1906 I don't know, many false teachers are a 100x times worse than what he mostly did to be honest (and besides, 50% of the population hated him). A successful (and EXTREMELY dangerous) false teacher convinces nearly an ENTIRE group or country to believe something. See Adolf Hitler, Mao and Kim Il-Sung for example. Their countrymen overwhelmingly fell for their lies and suffered for decades afterward. There are a couple extreme Mormon cults that are insane as well (polygamy is common in them).
@@justayoutuber1906 legit, what makes him a "false prophet"? Or you are just throwing stuff around against people you dont like even if it makes no sense?
That's what happens whenever you involve Marxism.
It was Flavor aid, now thats the facts we need
imagine dying by being forced to drink some off brand bushit
Damn, he couldn't even spend the extra 4 cents a pack for the real stuff???
Yeah, we called all those kool aid type drinks kool aid back then. Maybe people still do.
Ok so don't drink the flavor aid then. Potato-patato 😉
It’s ‘Flavor Ade’
"Hurry, my children, there isn't much time
but we'll meet again, for we are the sign!
Be good to the children and old people first
Hand them a drink, they're dying of thirst!"
"Thank you for the Kool-Aid, Reverend Jim."
@@timfortune9 Will it be like what they say about Mountain Dew in the old ads, Reverend Jim? Will it "tickle my innards"? Gee, I sure hope so . . .
My parents both grew-up in Ukiah, CA. Jim Jones was my Dad's substitute teacher. My Mom worked with two ladies at the bank, who left for Guyana, and later died. My aunt went to school with Tracy the survivor. The Church Jones use to go to is still there in Ukiah.
Imagine going to Jonestown expecting it to be a paradise, then all within a few days, you realize it's hard agricultural labor, men with guns, heat, bugs, bad food and shitty living conditions.
This was a test for something more large scale in the future.
Sounds like California
And wooden bed frames with no mattresses...and no sleep.
What I heard is the reason people were pulled into his cult (first he operated in Indiana, then California) was that many of them were outsiders, people on the fringes of society and other folks who were not accepted into mainstream society and/or churches.
That's where cults members come from. That formula never changes.
The reason why people got into the cult is because they were st*pid, always that and that will never change.
Being outsider doesn't mean you need to join a sekt.
@@mikatu *sect (Unless you’re referring to Sekt, the German sparkling white wine)
exactly, a lot of his followers were also African American I believe, and during that period they were still treated like shit, and civil rights were poor, racism was so rampant, so it's understandable about the people who got pulled in
😅😅
He deceived them from the start, and in the end he killed them.
Guy was a psychopath who tortured small animals as a kid...signs were all over
Sounds a lot like Dr. Fauci
Text book communism.
Hint when someone names a religion/movement/set of beliefs after themselves don't believe anything that comes from their mouth, and most definitely do not follow them to the ends of the earth without the means of going back where you came from.
This man was beyond sick & evil. There was so many red flags
Too bad that those red flags were ignored or missed.because it was on display in San Francisco.
Who, Trump?
@@justayoutuber1906 why bring trump into this? Are you desperate or something?
Were
i heard somewhere that jim jones was also fascinated by people like stalin and hitler from a young age. major red flag
Over 900 people?? Holy shit I had no idea it was so many.
Same
Easy to manipulate people it seems, though I think many where children and sadly just had to go with their parents to their deaths.
I remember when this happened. Everyone was shocked. At first it was hard to believe
At that time people still discriminated against black people. A lot of the churches where white exclusive only. In this situation jones became a beacon of hope for them because he didn't discriminate against them. Since most of the people were poor he gave them shelter and respect which they needed. It is easier to manipulate poor people and jones took advantage of their naiveness
918 to be exact. 909 at Jonestown, 5 more shot to death at a nearby airstrip (including Congressman Ryan and Patricia Parks, the defector mentioned in this video) and four family members in a murder-suicide that night at Georgetown, Guyana's capital. Details here: jonestown.sdsu.edu/?post_type=who_died
Two phrases that will forever haunt me.
A child wailing "I Don't Feel Good" as cyanide enters their system.
And Jones saying "Mother Mother Mother Mother Please!" As he attempts to console a hysterical woman (EDIT: His Wife) as she watches a group of children die.
I wasn't there (obviously) but that recording is Visceral.
He was talking to his wife.
jones was talking to his wife as she was trying to change his mind
My aunts name is Liz Schwartz. She was a Jonestown member who got out two years because the mass murder. She described jones as a extremely charismatic and charming person who on the inside was delusional and deeply disturbed.
It seems to be a characteristic of many psychopaths to be superficially charming, yes.
He was an evil psychopath cult leader from day one.
Sounds like she still liked him?
As they say: "Even the Devil has his charm"...
How does she get out? Does she have special permission to travel.
Jim Jones was a crack pot. He is now someplace where he can't hurt anyone else. I'm so sorry for his victims and there families.
I'd like to see a video on the history of Canada's RCMP, or what it was like to live in a native American residential school. I know it's a touchy subject. But it would be pretty eye opening subject for those who have no idea about Canada's history
I wish to see this too! The rest of the world knows by now that Canada has uncovered last month, and it would be a good idea to tell the history behind this tragedy. Canada was not a nice country back then.
Hi, Canadian here. You can do a RUclips search "Canadian residential schools", and there are plenty of full documentaries, and deep interviews with survivors of this genocide. It's so important that we learn and understand the full horror of what happened here in Canada. For myself, a channel called "Weird History" isn't quite the right fit, but thank you for wanting to learn more. 🇨🇦
It’s not just Canada. There were those schools in America as well.
@@cgj28ok your right. It isn't weird history. I was just thinking of the history. I am Canadian also, and Aboriginal.
Indian schools?
True story, I was in 1st grade when this happened and it took me months before I would drink Kool Aid again.
I remember this very clearly. It took several days to finally determine how many people had died, they were stacked in layers like cord wood. Survivor Vernon Gosney was shot three times, ran into the jungle, escaped and ended up on Maui, retired from the police department and just died in January 2021 from complications of heart bypass surgery. He was only 67 years old
Thanks for telling us about Gosney, I think that was a coward move to leave your baby son behind.
@@mcflex8913 He wasn't all that moved about it either that I saw in a documentary with him talking about it in recent years. Maybe he didn't like anymore that he (his son) was half black?
@@alexkx8599 Or he was only thinking about himself.
He didn’t know that Jones was going to kill him. The members were forced to sign their children over to the church. He thought he would be able to go back and get him. He said he felt guilty and I saw him get emotional in that interview. Trauma screws you up.
Evil screws you up. Giving your child to a psycho cult leader is evil.
Pretty smooth transition from groin beating to sponser message 👍
"the people were brutally murdered or beaten..."
"bUT MEET OUR SPONSER FOR TODAY😍🥰😀"
Hey Beavis, that old guy beat someone in the nads, huh-huh, huh-huh!
You should do a video on Delphine LaLaurie and the LaLaurie Mansion. It had a torture chamber for her slaves that was so horrible that when the townspeople discovered it during a fire, they decided to tear the entire house to the ground.
And this would help people not only know of the fictional character in American Horror Story: Coven but the real person
@@OnceUponLater. She wasn’t a fictional character.
@@paulvoorhies8821 you clearly didn’t read the last few words. I made clear that the character IN AHS is fictional. They ALL are. They’re BASED on real people but obviously this story is fiction.
@@OnceUponLater That doesn’t make them fictional characters. Sure, some of the stories were fictionally based, but Madame LaLaurie was a real person. Not a fictional character. You can’t have it both ways. Real person. Some fictional storylines.
I know two teen agers who were killed there. Their parents had traveled to San Francisco that day to look for more land for the People's Temple. They came back to the massacre. Both parents had Doctoral degrees. Go figure? RIP Mauri and Darin. The father went insane and died of Alzheimer's. The mother had a horrible remaining life. I don't know how she ended up. Very sad.
@@soundsilence Indeed. Very sad.
Why were they Socialists? What did they have to say about all of this? Why were they not with their children?! What was the mother's "remaining life like"?
Jonestown and the Peoples Temple has always interested me. I wonder how normal people can be drawn in to this situation. I think it could easily happen to any of us.
They weren't normal. They were socialists and communists. Most people wouldn't feel so bad for them if they knew this though.
In a situation such as this, no. When I was 11 years old, my sister and I went to a church where they were telling the teenagers to bring in their rock albums, so they could break them up, {I saw a lot of KISS albums up there}.
Even at that young age, I realized how wrong this was. So for adults to not see how dangerous Jim Jones was is beyond me. I've learned never to trust anyone who claims they are a "prophet"...
Not everyone. I've been invited to go to different churches but I won't go. Everybody don't believe in the same God.
Poor Kool Aid took the rap for a bargain brand instant soft drink mix.
My parents claimed they couldn't afford Kool-Aid, so they bought Flavor-Aid instead. I always wondered what was going on inside their heads.
Even that didn't hurt the brand.
And it wasn’t even actually Kool-aid! It was Flavor-aid!
Why does everyone keep getting stuck in Kool Aid? NOBODY drank the Kool Aid. They were murdered!
Yeah, the cheap shit of course!
But I think some of the labels had that name on it in the media ran with it.
Man I remember first hearing about this in a novel I was reading and I thought it was part of that fictitious setting. Freaky stuff
What was the novel? I love reading new books.
@@cheeverbeaver it was the Cherub series, its about a branch of the British secret service but its all kids. Predictably it's for a young adult audience, I read them when I was that age group. Still worth a look though
The best way to avoid trouble is to avoid joining groups.
Truth 100%
You ain’t lying. Who in the hell would join some of these nut job groups??
Every cult starts with small group meetings
@@cattibingo and cults with enough followers and years under their belt get recognized as religions.
One of my maternal aunts was a part of The People's Temple. She even asked my mother for money and my mom refused. Even though she is now deceased, my mother helped to save her life from that incident.
This is what happens when you let other people think for you.
There was a saying about Jim Jones if Jones had died in the late 60s he'd be a civil rights hero backing the old saying The road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions
“You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
@@terrencehamm4662 that sums up Jim Jones perfectly
He won the Martin Luther King pease award. He was a progressive communist.
@@noone8418 I knew the communist part but not the peace award part
@@noone8418 Peace*
Jim jones looks a bit like a mix of Gadafi and Elvis Presley
Don't dare compare Elvis to that evil man.
@@deborahwhitney9427 bruh, you can be the world nicest person and be similar or have something relatable in your appearence to hitler,stalin or another bad person. One thing doesnt cancel the other one.
& Selena’s dad 🌚
@@Xiodeminsa bruh lol....
@@deborahwhitney9427 gaddafi was the nicest man ever for Africa.
I was an 8 yr old girl seeing this on TV news I remember my dad shouting that son of a bitch!!! My home town is near San Francisco and Oakland. Jones recruited African American victims particularly. My Spanish Teacher in college mentioned his College aged romance with a beautiful black woman who he adored but she had told him she and her mom had a calling to follow this man. My teacher seemed so crushed even 20 years later to think about those ladies. He said, "They were so good, how could something so bad be done to them." Jackie Spears is a rock star politician in my book, tough as nails she risked her life to go see what was going on down there. Guyana is an American territory. My whole family was stunned when this happened. Spears survived being shot and the flight back. They should've covered those elected officials who went to help and got shot.
Dude was a Monster🥴 RIP to the victims☹️
wHaT hYgEiNe wAs LiKe iN jOnEsToWn
Yes please!
@@kayvan671 NO!
@@Zeldaftw
Why not?
Imagine a 2 year long music festival in the tropics with no easily accessible water,
They weren’t allowed toilet paper only expected to use newspaper
After dealing lately with what my abusive ex has been putting me through with smearing me and drawing in strangers etc. I can fully understand how people would follow someone like Jim. My ex is manipulative like that, even with blatant horrible actions on display he is able to brainwash and control and keep you in what feels like a confused and powerless state. He’s that good at covering his tracks, editing, stalking etc.
I can only imagine how someone who tries to come off as more compassionate than my ex ever did would be able to draw so many in.
For once can something be not revolved around you? 😂
@@awil4875 oop looks like my abusive ex tracked this down 😂 wild. And he thinks this is going to prove anything other than he is who I say he is.
I provided a ton of proof earlier today against him so he is triggered rn.
@@morbidlymeg Tell him dont drink the kool aid...lol
@@awil4875 you are him.
@@morbidlymeg huh ????
I find it hard to believe that there are so many gullible people in the world. In 1980 I attended a church with a very strong pastor. In fact he often referred to some things as being " Jim Jonesish." When I saw him straying from the bible in some areas, I left the church. He was not anywhere near as crazy as Jim Jones, but many parishioners began to almost worship him. The church had been a success for a number of years, but as people realized that some of Jesus' teachings were being subverted, membership dwindled. Soon the pastor left for another location and the church building sold to another Denomination. The hypocrisy that I saw in this pastor and his leaders caused me to leave organized religion behind. Do not blindly follow anyone,
Just imagine being a person that was like nah I'm good with the Kool aid. Watching it all is horrifying. Listening to Jones last tape while every one drank the Kool aid
The majority were forced at gunpoint and shot up with it in needles in the back. You didn’t just get to decide to leave either. The brainwashed family members kept the ones wanting to leave by threats of death and they had very little opportunity to get back to the US because being in another country they knew nothing about besides the camp itself, they felt truly trapped. It’s way more sad then that. Some of the only ones that escaped were still horrified that they would be tracked down and shot by their own family members as they ran. Jones’ wife begged him to stop killing the children, and he mocked her as more people were murdered. Mothers crying while their children are injected and then they are fed the poison themselves.
Even though it wasn’t Kool Aid
( it was a knock off Flavor Aid)
I have never given my kids Kool Aid again after that dreadful day. It just brought sadness at the thought 😢
I turned 16 that day and remember the news. Considering how many black folk he brainwashed and murdered it was especially frightening for me.
I was 9 years old and I remember it too on tv
Brainwashed? He simply took advantage of their belief in socialism, he didn't have to brain wash anybody. Their Own communities, the media, their politicians, they already had them brainwashed. Jones just stepped in to reap the rewards. This video leaves out how he used sex to control the people. Not just the women, the men too. A totally sick society, came to it's logical end.
@@chuckrobinson599 yeah, these cult leaders are always portrayed as some god tier manipulators but actually they're just taking advantage of vulnerable people 👎 in reality they aren't charismatic geniuses, just huge losers with a tiny pinch charisma
@OneHairyGuy Jim Jones was a Democrat before he started in with the socialist garbage, tho.. but hee hoo Republicans bad amirite?
@OneHairyGuy try again. Socialism is the doctrine of the Democrats. Also this fostering the poor blacks, who can't look out for themselves in this racist world, more Democrat doctrine. How many in the MSM would you guess are Republican? I'd guess that if there are any, they'd keep quiet about it. By the way, did you know that Bo Snerdly, and HR Kit Carson who were big parts of Rush Limbaugh's show were both black? Yeah, me neither, because it was radio, and it wasn't a job qualification. So a Republican does the biggest most successful radio show of all time, and his producer, and his PR man are both black. They were very successful men. Kit Carson died of cancer about two years before Rush. On the other hand, a socialist takes a bunch of blacks to create a utopia. They all wind up dead. How are Republicans bad again?
The history behind this is scary but interesting to look into
If you want a really in depth look at Jonestown, read The Road to Jonestown or listen to the Last Podcast on the Left. They did a 5 part series on the cult
* slowly puts down his sweet, fruity beverage and furrows his brow *
🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🏽
@@antisocialbutterfly3680 this reply got me geeking more than the actual comment
@@MrGuyRUclips 🤣🤣🤣👍🏽🤷🏽♀️
Leslie Wagner Wilson and the group she helped lead the morning of when it happened, didn't just walk 30 miles to freedom. Her account on CNN in its special for the 30th anniversary described walking along a railroad line, and even a train stopped to pick them up. They rode to the last stop, Matthew's Ridge, saw heavily armed soldiers and police, and realized something bad was happening.
Flavor Aid, not Kool-aid, I knew it! 🥂🛡️
Jones takes advantage of people and Guyana took advantage of all of them, great history here as always. 🎯💯
Jones couldnt even be bothered to buy Kool-aid. How cheap!
@@derinaries
🎭😁🍻
I have seen a video of Jones showing all of their food supplys and in it he showed kool-aid, this however was early in the development of Jonestown, he may have changed to flavor aid sometime after.
@@thomaswilliams1525
Certainly a possibility, thanks. 🙋
I worked at SFO cargo for airlift international and saw the 900 metal caskets stacked nice and tight at the United Airlines maintenance tarmac that was creepy.
😳whoa
For those who want the FULL story of Jim Jones, Jonestown, and the Peoples Temple, from his childhood to the date of the suicide/massacre, you need to read the book titled “Raven”. Published around 1982, it is a thick book that explains the whole thing. I was 14 when that happened, and I still recall the ABC or NBC helicopters hovering over the Jonestown commune, showing HUNDREDS of bloated bodies. The only thing I can think of that’s equally horrific was the 1964 Stanleyville massacre in the Congo of Africa.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do one about the E-Coli Jack in the Box outbreak in the 90's!!! Don't ignore this, this is a great story LOL. Love the channel :)
It is, it’s part of our meetings at work on keeping our food safe from bacteria.
Thank you Weird History for doing this video my family from Guyana
The only thing I can agree with is “those who fail to learn from the past bound to repeat it.”
"Jones took hold of a rubber rose, and proceeded in front of others, to beat this man's privates...... HEY WEIRD HISTORY! WE'VE GOT A MESSAGE ABOUT CURIOUSITY STREAM!"
I believe people are so intrigued to join a cult because they may feel hopeless,lonely, or people who don’t like authority and among other reasons why. They need a strong support system and they feel like they can gain that with the cult. They offer you nice things and tell you all the good you want to hear. After a cult has lured you in then you’d like to escape or sometimes the people are so brainwashed they can’t escape
Sadly, there are always people looking for a "Daddy" (or a "Mommy") to tell them what to do, so that they can remain children psychologically and not face the hard realities of life on their own. There are always those who will take advantage of them.
I have a watched a Jonestown documentary before and it was horrible but important to learn. When I think about read about, or watch Jonestown, I thought back to people who have done similar things before the Jonestown suicide/shooting. Compared to Hitler, large people with huge influence, and everyone, Jonestown provided a cruel but important life lesson to people follow someone too closely. This lesson is to be open minded to whom you are following because you don't know them. Just because they say things or do things you agree with, doesn't 100% mean they're good people and there is a possibility they may using those beliefs to strengthen their influence. You can still trust them, but it's important to have a balance of no trust too. When it's over, depending on the kind of person you are, you may live the regret and shame you followed this person to the end or not at all.
I'm pretty sure there is an interview with a guy who was divorced and he said his ex wife Linda was forced to go by Sharon.
I turned 14 the day before this happened and remembered it being on the news and all over the front pages of the newspaper. My dad was a pastor for 25yrs. I’ve grown up in church my whole life and I make no apologies for my Christian beliefs but I am ALWAYS baffled when I hear about people blindly following people like Jim Jones and other cultish leaders…. I loved my father but if he had told me to “Drink The Kool-Aid” I would have laughed and said HELL NO!!😂🤦🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
Well look at the situation with politicians. Some people would do the same thing for these politicians.
3:37 Weird Histories cunning eye as he describes drug use while Jones demonsrtates his cotton mouth due to drug usage. I see what you did there.
👍And there's a noticeable difference between "regular" cotton mouth and "hopped up goofballs" cotton mouth
That actually looks more like Tardive's dyskinesia, which can also result from psychoactive drugs.
I would say, that this was another case of the Blind leading the Blind, but it's a bit more Complex, than that. It's more like what happens, after People hear what a Politician has to say, and if they agree with it, rouse or not, they Follow that Politician.
I wasn't prepared for this video, I've watched countless docs or RUclips videos about this massacre, since becoming a father, I can't imagine killing your child all for 1 man. Some I think we're forced and others loyal to the last.
A lot of them were forced but some were loyal to the grave
Because people always want an easy road, something different, always want something else.
“Don’t drink the Kool-aide” WAS from this incident. I’m old enough to have seen this all go down in living color.
Wow I can't imagine someone using civil rights to control people.
Well you don’t have to imagine at all here.
I heard this man had alot of kids. He even had adopted black kid that had his full name. Jones jr said be away at basketball game his life. Smh.
Truth be told: Jones had around a third of his followers shot because once they saw their friends all dying a painful death from the drink they refused to drink it themselves. Even Jones himself had to be shot because he couldn't bring himself to drink it either.
Bad things always happen to people who end up following a cult
Bad things by cults reference?
Eventually the government finds out and the FBI infiltrates it, takes over, kills everyone and smears them as a cult. The government hates opposition
I remember seeing the newspaper headline about this mass suicide. The picture that accompanied the front page article showed all the dead sprawled out, face down in the blazing equatorial sun, their bodies bloated from the heat. The looked like human balloons.
They were given ‘ flavour aid ‘ !! He was so cheap, he couldn’t even give them the more expensive stuff!! Terrible, terrible incident and the example of what happens when a madman has an organisation that thinks he’s a god.
At the time Jim Jones was offering hope to the Hopeless and they went as Lambs to the slaughter. Matthew 10:16🐑
Make America Great Again.....
In case you are wondering, the best documentary about this is BBC Storyville "Jonestown Terror In The Jungle"
I had heard about a survivor who said that people went through the compound and arranged the people to have their arms over each other and that some adults, particularly elderly ones, were injected with cyanide by force. He was interviewed on the show Most Evil in the Cult Leaders episode.
Can you do a deep dive into the heavens gate incident. I found that one interesting also!
Fun fact: professor zimbardo was in charge of the Stanford prison experiment
People have lost their common sense.
Common sense is not common
I was 14 at that time and I remember hearing Leo Ryan give a speech that summer in Washington D.C. something about getting bodies back from Vietnam.
His beliefs in equality and civil rights may have only ever been a ruse? Sounds familiar.
Yup
Stephanie Harlowe does an excellent indepth series on Jim Jones.
Jones is an example of die young a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
I knew a man who was in the army over there and they had to clean up the bodies....he said he could never ever get the site or smell out of him.
At the airport where I work there is an old storage building, up on a high shelf , covered in dust is a PT-6 turbine hot section can . It has a bullet hole and some deflection damage …it’s kinda creepy knowing this is from one of the Guyana airways Twin Otters that was shot up during an escape attempt.
Its amazing how humans all over the world intrinsically experience the same things. Currently Kenyan is experiencing its own cult suicide/ massacre. A charismatic preacher had almost 1000 people in a forest in kilifi starving to death. Currently the death tol is at 200, with 600 still missing. Faith is a dangerous thing
900 people died on this day… AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR!!!
918 actually, including the airstrip shooting
The Temple was at Geary and Fillmore in San Francisco, the location is now a US Post Office. My dad's Masonic Lodge needed knew folding seats for their lodge room where rituals were held. One of the Brothers as they are called managed to get some of these seats and put them in the lodge room. Every year the is the installation of new lodge officers and families are welcome to come. I went to a bunch of these events as a kid. So, yes, I have sat in People's Temple old folding seats. On one occasion my dad was telling us that so and so got the seats from The People's Temple. This one old lady overheard this and looked at the seats with disgust and made some comment about had she know, she would not have sat in the seats. As a teenager I well remember the Temple but I was not overly creeped out about the seats. I think that was the last time I went to a Lodge function there, the Masons moved the lodge out of East Oakland to Livermore and left the seats behind.
Do heavens gate next!
I thought the same thing.
There's no depth, just a bunch of virgins in Nike's killing themselves
@@nickypoundtown9568 yeah but it’s interesting to learn about. And this channel does such a great job I’d love to hear how he covers it!
Yeah, at least those dopes got to go out high on vodka . . . 😄
I find it complexing how religious people will follow anyone without thinking things through. It's why I'm an Ex-Christian. Those prophets misinterpreted so many things and think it was from a God. From Adam & Eve, the flood to Jesus. Then they threw in Satan and Demons to keep people faithful through fear. So many gullible people who refuse to think for themselves. So sad how humanity can be at times.
Jones seemed to be all about integration in the 60s. He got many institutions in Indiana de-segregated, and was severely hated because of it.
Churches, restaurants, the telephone company, the Indianapolis Police Department, a theater, an amusement park, and the Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital.
I wonder if he did all of that merely to gain the trust of abused black future congregation members. Religious leaders are highly predatory and seek out the weak, the disenfranchised, and those who feel that they have nowhere left to go.
It's as if there aren't any gods watching over us, and nobody is driving the bus.
So whenever someone says they can save your soul, or they want you to join their group, be VERY wary and alert.
U are so right he did use poor black people to be abuse and take advantage of them.. and they believed him. So 😥
"Religious people are predatory."
Understatement of the year.
I had 3 black honeys service me 24^7 and it was great. Cant say i blame the good reverend for hankering some nubian flavored koolaid.
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Ironic you say that about Jones because he was shown more about his psychotic politics than religion when he denounced religion in front of his congregation.
Jesus saves. Not false prophets.
12 minutes just isn't enough to get into Jones himself and Jonestown. I highly recommend stephanie harlowes series on this. I've read and watched a lot about this and i learned new things
Mostly, he targeted the poverty stricken folks to his cult so he can make a living out of them. Point blank.
You know it's spicy when our overlords put up a disclaimer
What about a video on the events directly after Jonestown?