Jonestown - The Terrible Fate of the People's Temple | Free Documentary History

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  • Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024

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  • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
    @FreeDocumentaryHistory  7 месяцев назад +51

    This documentary delves into the final chapters of the Peoples Temple saga in Jonestown, Guyana. Through a combination of survivor testimonials and dramatic reenactments, it portrays the escalating paranoia and erratic behavior of Reverend Jim Jones as internal and external pressures mount. Congressman Leo Ryan's insistence on visiting triggers a tense standoff as Jones vacillates between allowing and resisting the visit.
    Unexpected defections during the visit catch Jones off guard, prompting drastic actions. In the end over 900 individuals, including men, women, and children, found themselves entangled in a web of manipulation and coercion, ultimately resulting in a devastating loss of life.

    • @chrismack5908
      @chrismack5908 7 месяцев назад +6

      I respect and appreciate the topic of this video. I cannot watch it as this depicts people who believed in one man's words which lead to their and others dying. It was a horror. Be careful to not fall into another's delusions.

    • @dorleenlastra3337
      @dorleenlastra3337 7 месяцев назад +4

      Narcissism losing power. 🤯

    • @amazeng6867
      @amazeng6867 5 месяцев назад +9

      Brave congressman compared to the ones we’ve seen lately.

    • @sharoneuleenlammersgivenna7986
      @sharoneuleenlammersgivenna7986 4 месяца назад

      @@FreeDocumentaryHistory everything that the outside word saw was planned out to the words and everything. Jones never let anyone see anything he didn't want them to see. However, he never counted on the will of some children to live free without him saying we could. He didn't count on small eyes and ears seeing and hearing the truth for themselves. He never counted on the love for family from some children. And the other leaders never counted on buried nightmares being remembered and talked about openly.

    • @marinahostler3706
      @marinahostler3706 2 месяца назад +1

      I agree. I definitely know he was scared. So we definitely don't know what we'd do in that situation. But I would look at it as what life is would have without our kids

  • @Ccr-kd6rd
    @Ccr-kd6rd 4 месяца назад +62

    I have the greatest respect for congressman Ryan.

  • @emilyderry5466
    @emilyderry5466 5 месяцев назад +91

    All those innocent people. Those children. They all died because of one man's narcissism and sickness. May the innocents rest in peace

    • @michellejohnson8003
      @michellejohnson8003 2 месяца назад +4

      Sounds like Trump with his mismanagement of Covid

    • @ditzygypsy
      @ditzygypsy 2 месяца назад

      @@michellejohnson8003 Yes!

    • @DanCrawl
      @DanCrawl Месяц назад

      Just like Trump

    • @kerrybarrera3410
      @kerrybarrera3410 Месяц назад

      ​@@michellejohnson8003Trump didn't mandate covid shots. Biden did.

    • @jeanjones1846
      @jeanjones1846 29 дней назад +1

      No No No ... they all went on their own. No force at all. Ignorance is what did this. Looking for a savior on earth is like finding a 10 pd dimond. You are dreaming. It was ignorance ... Scintology is a perfect example.

  • @theskateboardfan
    @theskateboardfan 7 месяцев назад +121

    My father acted like Jim Jones. I didn’t fully escape him until I was 50. Narcissists are dangerous people.

    • @winngriff
      @winngriff 7 месяцев назад +4

      How so and why did it take so long?

    • @fraxizztv6433
      @fraxizztv6433 6 месяцев назад +9

      ​@@winngriffpeople usually are willing to turn a blind eye to those close to them, especially family. That's just speculation on my part, though. 🤭

    • @catnipsmile
      @catnipsmile 6 месяцев назад

      @@fraxizztv6433 You got it. For me I've learned (my mom) charm, money, lies, sometimes s*xual abuse. When confronted she invoked her followers, those she bought mentally & financially. My mom's a religious narcissist. I learned at 52. My sister, nephew & nieces, also some other's I've known my whole life won't talk to me because of the aforementioned. Doing great without them all.

    • @RAMONECRUTE
      @RAMONECRUTE 3 месяца назад +1

      WOW

    • @merediths2cents
      @merediths2cents 3 месяца назад +4

      Seems as if you survived. God bless.

  • @vermithrax7796
    @vermithrax7796 6 месяцев назад +132

    It is amazing to think that a U.S. congressman and news crew would travel to such a precarious situation without any security of any kind.

    • @fraxizztv6433
      @fraxizztv6433 6 месяцев назад +12

      The good old times

    • @MarCapa-ed5uv
      @MarCapa-ed5uv 6 месяцев назад +44

      I don’t think they imagined it was this bad.

    • @kandikaye4405
      @kandikaye4405 5 месяцев назад +12

      ​@@MarCapa-ed5uvbut they knew their were armed guards there

    • @jondishmonmusicandstuff2753
      @jondishmonmusicandstuff2753 4 месяца назад +6

      Those were the days. Do you as humans, especially in america?Learn some hard stuff after the fact.It's always after the fact

    • @DanealLamb
      @DanealLamb 3 месяца назад +14

      The senator made the mistake of thinking because he was from the US he was safe. Hindsight is always 20/20.

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um 7 месяцев назад +55

    914 of the 918 dead, including Jones himself, were collected by the United States military in Guyana, then transported by military cargo plane to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, a location that had been used previously for mass processing of the dead from the Tenerife airport disaster. The last shipment of bodies arrived early on the morning of November 27, 1978. The base's mortuary was tasked with fingerprinting, identifying, and processing bodies. The base's resources were overwhelmed, and numerous individuals tasked with moving or identifying the bodies suffered symptoms of PTSD. In many cases, responsibility for cremation of the remains was distributed to Dover area funeral homes.
    In August 2014, the never-claimed cremated remains of nine people from Jonestown were found in a former funeral home in Dover. As of September 2014, four of their remains had been returned to next-of-kin, and the remaining five had not. Those five were publicly identified in the hope that family would claim their remains; all five remain unclaimed by family and have been interred at the Jonestown Memorial at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, CA, along with the remains of approximately half of those who perished on November 18, 1978.

    • @JerryOrbachFan
      @JerryOrbachFan 5 месяцев назад +2

      I can't imagine the horror these men went through when retrieving the bodies. One woman said a friend of hers who went down there was not the same person when he returned.

    • @Tavington-xx3uz
      @Tavington-xx3uz 4 месяца назад +4

      Thank you for the information. I didn’t know the Tenerife victims went there too.

    • @Disloyalyouth
      @Disloyalyouth 19 дней назад +2

      Do u know the names of the unclaimed families?

    • @KefiraChosenRoyalty
      @KefiraChosenRoyalty 14 дней назад +1

      Thank you for the extra info. Prayers for all innocent victims and workers in Yahshua's name. 🙏🏾🕊

    • @donnaking7439
      @donnaking7439 8 дней назад

      Thanks for that info.

  • @IntrepidFraidyCat
    @IntrepidFraidyCat 7 месяцев назад +50

    I was 11 when this happened. I remember seeing the photos in Time magazine. It was surreal.

    • @lisascorp
      @lisascorp 2 месяца назад +3

      I was 13 and remember it on the news.

    • @cyndieve6032
      @cyndieve6032 22 дня назад

      I was 10 years old , I also remember it being in the news , it was traumatizing for anyone who remembers it , not too mention the congressman , some of his staff , relatives etc.... Such a thing should never should've happened in the first place. I just watched an NBC full footage of them landing , all the interviews in those 2 days. So sad 😢

    • @Sthmohtwenty
      @Sthmohtwenty 20 дней назад

      I was 14 I see the plane transfer the dead bodies.

  • @KenBaker-x5o
    @KenBaker-x5o 19 дней назад +18

    Congressman Ryan was a fearless badass. RIP

  • @TheRisky9
    @TheRisky9 6 месяцев назад +62

    It's not what a narcissistic person does that's necessarily the scariest thing. It's what they can convince you to do.

    • @georgeikinya2779
      @georgeikinya2779 Месяц назад +1

      Most people simply are manipulated easily. Too lazy to engage their minds especially when you introduce religion and evil people knows it .

  • @devannneil8262
    @devannneil8262 2 месяца назад +16

    It is so amazing to think that one man can have such influence to control so many people’s minds. It goes to tell us that we must make sure to protect and cover our mind, because we have some people amongst us that if given a chance, we can have a Jim Jones at any and any minute.

    • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
      @FreeDocumentaryHistory  2 месяца назад +3

      @@devannneil8262 yeah I don’t understand how and why some people willingly give up their own selves to have it taken over by a svengali type.

    • @vze4vjxt
      @vze4vjxt Месяц назад

      he had over 12 barrels of mind control drugs to help with that. It was no cult it was a mind control experiment. Our minister of information said hundreds escaped into the jungle but the next day she recanted ( I suspect after being briefed)

    • @sue3061
      @sue3061 Месяц назад +9

      Trump is the next Jim Jones

    • @devannneil8262
      @devannneil8262 Месяц назад +1

      @@sue3061 facts. The election says it all. It is very evident that people are so caught up with this man that it seems he is the next saviour of the world. But I have said it before and I will say it again, they will be in for a nasty surprise.

    • @corsario5944
      @corsario5944 28 дней назад +2

      ​@@sue3061I was just thinking that

  • @anthonysummerfield3702
    @anthonysummerfield3702 5 месяцев назад +21

    An exceptional documentary that has been put together with respect for those who lost their lives to the delusional meglamanical perception of one man, I can't recommend this documentary high enough.

  • @jacksondodd8835
    @jacksondodd8835 7 месяцев назад +63

    I don’t know why, but this story gives me such a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach!! I can watch horror, movies, and have no issue, but this will always get me!!

    • @StarGoddess_516
      @StarGoddess_516 7 месяцев назад +12

      Agree because it was real life not “Fantasy”!

    • @jacksondodd8835
      @jacksondodd8835 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@StarGoddess_516 good point!

    • @rubi588
      @rubi588 7 месяцев назад +6

      Same as the Waco guys, the branch Davidian stuff

    • @RafeDean1972
      @RafeDean1972 7 месяцев назад

      It’s because this type of “religion” is still going strong. All you have to do is look to Stephen Furtick, Kenneth Copeland, Bill Gaither, etc etc.
      There’s no difference. It’s called the New Apostolic Reformation.

    • @winngriff
      @winngriff 7 месяцев назад

      Because there is a trust built between parson and congregation. There is vulnerability because of counseling etc. There is a thin line and when that line is crossed sometimes it's too late

  • @RevisitingHistoryChannel
    @RevisitingHistoryChannel 7 месяцев назад +17

    Super important film ! Thanks for posting 🗽

  • @eckankar7756
    @eckankar7756 6 месяцев назад +46

    I attended his church in Indiana. I spent Christmas at Jim's house, sat on his lap, and loved going to church. That was long before this happened. I had a few very strange occurrences as a child with Jim. Those glasses hid more than you'd imagine.

    • @fraxizztv6433
      @fraxizztv6433 6 месяцев назад +2

      Gosh, looking back at those memories, knowing what you do now, must be.. 😅

    • @lisascorp
      @lisascorp 2 месяца назад +10

      Oh my. You actually knew him. I hope no SA was involved. That's got to be a weird feeling that you were so close to an eventual madman killer.

    • @HayzelBerry
      @HayzelBerry Месяц назад +1

      Thank God, God protect you from this evil man, may He continue to protect you always. ❤

    • @shawnkemp7781
      @shawnkemp7781 Месяц назад +1

      Damn ya parents allowed that ??? Hmmm

    • @tatertottwinz
      @tatertottwinz Месяц назад +1

      Those glasses told me a lot.

  • @remy12
    @remy12 7 месяцев назад +24

    Jim Jones had a church a couple blocks away from my family's business in the early 60s, before he went coo-coo. He was well known in the community and helped many people in the area with charity work, a food pantry, housing etc. I believe 50-60 Indianapolis/Indiana natives died in Jones Town, unfortunately.

    • @Cthomas5678
      @Cthomas5678 5 месяцев назад +5

      His original hometown is approx 20 miles from my hometown. My husband is from his hometown. When I was working in an assisted care facility some years ago I took care of a lady who was around 98 years old and she had a room full of wonderful memorabilia including all kinds of things related to Jim jones she had dementia but spoke fondly of him as he had been one of her many students as she had taught for years in that small town. Shel had boxes with index cards with names of all the students she had taught neatly and orderly filed. Mrs wright I think was her name

    • @JerryOrbachFan
      @JerryOrbachFan 3 месяца назад +3

      @@remy12 Jones was always coo coo, starting as a child. He would hold 'funerals' for road kill.

  • @deniseknicely783
    @deniseknicely783 Месяц назад +36

    I will never understand the guy who left his son there. Bring this poor baby with no mother to a cult and then leave him there? I have no doubt he loved his kid in his own way but what a selfish, self preservation move to leave him there. He was only four or five. No mother, it was just him and his dad there. This man has said so many conflicting things “I wasn’t thinking clearly….if they saw me pass a note to the congressman they would have killed me…..I couldn’t tell my son he would have reported me (newsflash. You don’t tell your kid you’re taking him, you just take him because he is only four)….my son is black I didn’t want to subject him to a racist government in the US. He would have been better off staying there….I didn’t know what was going to happen to me”. WTF. You have a white congressman with black relatives of other followers trying to all fly and rescue them together and you leave your son there with a man you know is a murderer because you think the US government might be racist? So why did you beg to go with them? That congressman lost his life there trying to save and protect any person of any color from a white sociopath. I just don’t get it and never will with this dude and his excuses. He knowingly signed custody over to Jones in a document before he left with the congressman. Custody to a man he knew was a murderer. That little boy died alone in fright most likely looking everywhere for his dad as people were screaming and waiting for his turn to die. Heartbreaking and completely inexcusable.

    • @KenBaker-x5o
      @KenBaker-x5o Месяц назад +6

      Very well said.

    • @bobhebel4116
      @bobhebel4116 Месяц назад +13

      Yes, well said. He was just using the race card to try and excuse or justify the fact that he chose to save himself over his little boy. The man took the coward's way out. He knows it, we know it, and sadly, his (now dead) son might have known it too.

    • @Ready4Raw
      @Ready4Raw 27 дней назад +2

      He sound like sugar is in his tank. God will judge him for what he did to his poor son.

    • @CB-es8zf
      @CB-es8zf 20 дней назад +2

      For most of the video I was thinking the exact same thing. His weakness is written all over his face and I couldn't make sense of why he would leave his son there and go. While he was riding away in the truck though, he said, "as our truck was pulling away, I had no faith whatsoever that we were ever gonna get out of there". I tried to consider the tension in the place at that time. Maybe he bet on possibly dying getting out and didn't want his son to die too. He may have figured that it'd make more sense to risk dying on the way out and if he did, his son lives. If not, he gets out, tells the public the real story of Jonestown, and they send a more capable group to retrieve his son and others who want to leave. Not at all defending him, because he gives the impression of someone too weak to be a parent, but I'd like to imagine that no one would leave their kid in a place where they though they were worse off, and that it somehow made sense at the time in his mind. In any case, it's a decision he'll live with 'til he's dead..

    • @adriana-jn8ru
      @adriana-jn8ru 16 дней назад

      You are clueless.

  • @NikkiR-m6s
    @NikkiR-m6s 26 дней назад +8

    Narcissist psychological abuse ......The ability to influence people mind ....Mercy God

  • @miawilliams6653
    @miawilliams6653 2 месяца назад +17

    The congressman should have come with military. It wouldn't have gone done this way. 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

  • @hobi-wan-kanobi2016
    @hobi-wan-kanobi2016 2 месяца назад +23

    Bro really left his son to die like that.

    • @robynedudleyjones5157
      @robynedudleyjones5157 Месяц назад +3

      He didn't know what Jones would do as his final solution.

    • @KenBaker-x5o
      @KenBaker-x5o Месяц назад +12

      It doesn't matter that Vern didn't know what Jones was going to do. Jonestown was bad enough to make Vern want to leave, but it's not bad enough to take his son?

    • @raczgreen6053
      @raczgreen6053 Месяц назад +4

      Hard pill to swallow it hunted him for the rest of his life. 😢

    • @RaeBattleRapsMood
      @RaeBattleRapsMood 17 дней назад +1

      I remember him saying something to the affect of he’d signed paperwork and he knew he wouldn’t be able to take him without possibly being killed. But to heck with that…I’d die taking my children with me!! I’m sure I heard him say he regretted it..ALOT.

    • @adriana-jn8ru
      @adriana-jn8ru 16 дней назад

      He coukd not take his son. Many had to leave children behind to escape and the. Work to get the children out!!!! Get a clue

  • @chris.asi_romeo
    @chris.asi_romeo 7 месяцев назад +9

    Excellent documentary 💯💯👏👏

  • @lupesanchez6903
    @lupesanchez6903 2 месяца назад +11

    Jim jones left San Francisco California to Guyana to avoid facing the music.

  • @James-cz4xv
    @James-cz4xv 2 месяца назад +12

    I wish that there was videos of this and not just recordings. Because it would showed what really happened

  • @zillsburyy1
    @zillsburyy1 7 месяцев назад +28

    powers booth played it well

  • @KidMetairie
    @KidMetairie 7 месяцев назад +30

    I saw this one on RUclips back before they decided we can’t handle video shown on the freakin’ NEWS back in the ‘70s. Much more punch seeing what the reality was like. Thanks, YT, for protecting me.

    • @baruchavraham1939
      @baruchavraham1939 7 месяцев назад +4

      😂😂😂 Blur out history YT

    • @pjotarendewolf2195
      @pjotarendewolf2195 7 месяцев назад +7

      Yes it's for your own good! 😂
      People should stand up to this bs every time , Netflix is full of it, RUclips is full of it, they change every event in history systematically,

    • @cmhrr
      @cmhrr 6 месяцев назад +1

      "punch" 😬

  • @Uvray
    @Uvray 7 месяцев назад +23

    One of the most awful things I have ever seen. Really frightening that people can be controlled in such a way. Frightening because it can happen again. And Jim Jones is not that much different from a lot of dangerous politicians.

    • @winngriff
      @winngriff 7 месяцев назад +8

      It's happening.See MAGA

    • @bojanfrntic8596
      @bojanfrntic8596 6 месяцев назад +3

      Bifen. Putin. . Zelensky are all Jim Jones

    • @nicoletrandel2966
      @nicoletrandel2966 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@winngriffwhats maga??

    • @auschwitzsoccercoach
      @auschwitzsoccercoach Месяц назад

      ​@@winngriffit seems you're the one that can't stop being nuts about trump 😂😂 cry harder it's hilarious

    • @corsario5944
      @corsario5944 28 дней назад

      ​​@@auschwitzsoccercoachI guess you're drinking the Kool aid if you make fun of someone that's actually being conscious about what he or she said, unlike other people that are not.
      P.S. Oh! Now reading your name here, I can see why would you have that attitude towards the person making that comment about Maga

  • @turnerification123
    @turnerification123 4 месяца назад +31

    This guy who left his kid keeps giving excuses he knew what he was doing

    • @wezite1983
      @wezite1983 2 месяца назад +15

      Ain't it funny, he was being held as a prisoner, yet he was okay with his son staying in JT. I've heard different 2 excuses from Vern Gosney why he left his son. The first was because America was too racist and the second was that in order to be allowed to leave, he had to agree to leave his son. Vern Gosney went on to join other cults after before moving to Hawaii and joining the police.

    • @amandawolfe1054
      @amandawolfe1054 25 дней назад +3

      Vern is a coward.

    • @jillionnae9466
      @jillionnae9466 День назад

      I won’t call Vern a coward exactly . I do have empathy for him because #1.) he was held prisoner by a master manipulator,#2.)He wasn’t exactly in the right state of mind to make a rational decision #3) Yes he should’ve taken his son with him,however keep in mind what kind of person Jim Jones was. A monster who had no regard for the life’s of others, complete control over every aspect of their lives, were threatened with death if they wanted to leave his cult. All those people were terrified to go against Jim Jones. For those of us who have only heard and seen documentaries about The People’s Temple can’t fully comprehend why people acted the way they did. The people who lived through this tragedy know better than any of us can. In this interview you can see the regret, guilt and grief in his eyes. My heart breaks for you Vern and I hope you are healing from this tragedy in your life . I’m so sorry u lost your wife and son. My condolences 💐.

  • @GraffitiForensics
    @GraffitiForensics 7 месяцев назад +17

    Wikipedia's context flag is rather interesting. One of the most interesting characteristics of Jonestown is invoked in the documentary multiple times. A remote "settlement"? Not that simple. The Cult of The Peoples Temple & Jim Jones was motivated by his desire to create a socialist utopia, and not so much a place to safely worship. And like your classic profiles of socialist regimes, it was sustained by restricting the whereabouts, movement, communication, discussions and personal interests of it's members residing in Jonestown. After all, there is a cult mentality cultivated in a totalitarian state. And the tenets of totalitarianism is sometimes what is cultivating the cult mentality. In a sense, they are bedfellows. This is how I summarize what Jim Jones perpetrated. And that crime serves as an example of how 'sheepish' followers can be convinced by authority to not only hate others, but to take their own lives, in objection to those people and things they hate. The story of Jonestown and it's false prophet does reveal some thought-provoking similarities to some of the words and action by the current U.S. government, and the chief political figureheads of the rest of the world. One of which may be tied to my suspicion that socialism, not democracy, is experiencing a revival in several governments of the world who are looking to secure their power by imposing more control. When I heard the documentary speak of Jones' "White Knight" loudspeaker announcements to residents, for emergency meetings during the night, I was reminded of the current trends in national emergency declarations over everything from climate fears to viruses, and how this has people feeling. We have the same problem Jonestown residents did. How do we know the difference between a real emergency and a fabricated one, if we are being denied information, and access to some information is being blocked? People who are not fully informed are the most vulnerable. And as it was for Jim Jones, that ignorance was key to him maintaining power over his followers.

    • @remy12
      @remy12 7 месяцев назад +1

      I believe they did a test run a few years ago(C-19) to see how people would react. We definitely got a taste of what governments can and will do when they deem it appropriate. Quite scary really.

    • @teresaarvidson44
      @teresaarvidson44 18 дней назад +2

      brilliant observation, I agree absolutely!

  • @rubi588
    @rubi588 7 месяцев назад +18

    You can find the audio files from a recording device that was placed hidden under his chair, it’s well over an hour long and starts before they get into the drinks…the screaming and delving into chaos further into it isn’t for the faint of heart 😕

    • @Littlemissdirtbag
      @Littlemissdirtbag 7 месяцев назад +3

      I have read and listened to a ton of true crime in my life, but that recording is absolutely the most horrific and terrifying thing I have ever had the misfortune of listening to. I felt so sad for the people who were too afraid to speak up. And the woman who tried to argue with him about Russia still being an option broke my heart. Dumb question. Did that woman end up dying or did she end up leaving?

    • @plaguerat6356
      @plaguerat6356 7 месяцев назад +1

      ​​​​​​@@Littlemissdirtbag She was killed there. 1:25:08-1:25:31 is the depiction, followed up by her real-life photo.

    • @bryansewell4937
      @bryansewell4937 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@Littlemissdirtbag she dies there but did not drink the poison. She was found with a needle poke in her arm.

  • @Boeman683
    @Boeman683 3 месяца назад +11

    May they all rest in peace with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.eternally in heaven.

  • @deloriserodriguez6005
    @deloriserodriguez6005 Месяц назад +8

    😮😫😢😭
    Many deaths because of Jim Jones and Adoph Hither too. Along with other gangs, terriosts , family members , criminals, police, doctors ( does kill unborn babies, ect who aremurderous people who have killed others.
    R. I. P. all victims.🙏🙏🙏
    In God we trust.

  • @carlydelvecchio2287
    @carlydelvecchio2287 28 дней назад +3

    After watching this I have to watch Family Affair episodes. This is so heart breaking. JJ holds the title for the biggest con man over the most people in the world.

  • @VishnuRamdin-xe7yd
    @VishnuRamdin-xe7yd 3 месяца назад +7

    That house was located on lamaha street close to prashad Nagar. I remember seeing TV newscasters reporting the news .I knew the house.Whenever I visit guyana again from canada I will surely check it out.

  • @123animefreakify
    @123animefreakify 4 месяца назад +12

    The scene where the congress came to check the welfare of the people, it reminds me of the way abusive parents covering up when cps comes to visit.

  • @rakorakable
    @rakorakable 2 месяца назад +8

    As a Guyanese living in Guyana, Jonestown is now on my bucket list to visit.

    • @tiffanywilliams1174
      @tiffanywilliams1174 2 месяца назад +8

      Jonestown is just Bush now

    • @Rene.A.D
      @Rene.A.D Месяц назад +1

      search on google for "tourism jonestown" and read the article from "dark tourism". Apparently there's almost nothing to be seen there

    • @latricemitchell7807
      @latricemitchell7807 Месяц назад +2

      Why?!😳

    • @DonnyLusk
      @DonnyLusk Месяц назад +3

      The jungle took it back over. There's nothing there anymore.

    • @dharmendranauthramnauth3206
      @dharmendranauthramnauth3206 24 дня назад +1

      From Jonestown to Ghostown.

  • @RafeDean1972
    @RafeDean1972 7 месяцев назад +23

    And people don’t see the similarities between this and Kenneth Copeland, Stephen Furtick, Benny Hinn, Bill Gaither, and the list goes on and on and on.

    • @bethcrumpton476
      @bethcrumpton476 5 месяцев назад +7

      Joel Osteen

    • @svenerikjohansson8130
      @svenerikjohansson8130 5 месяцев назад +2

      There may be similarities, but also differences as that Jim Jones openly preached atheism during the allter period of Peoles Temple. So It was actually in fact a secular movement.

    • @RafeDean1972
      @RafeDean1972 5 месяцев назад

      @@svenerikjohansson8130They all start somewhere. A common denominator with Jim Jones and all the modern day heretics I mentioned is their growing distance from the Bible. They’re teaching what they believe and do not teach what the Bible says. The farther they get away from the Bible, the worse it gets.

    • @richardcranium3579
      @richardcranium3579 4 месяца назад

      Kamala Harris, WHO, etc…….all preaching that government is your savior. Government knows best.
      The plandemic. Etc.
      “You will own nothing and be happy.”
      “People will have to be ‘struggled’”.
      “Eat Zee Bugs”

    • @JerryOrbachFan
      @JerryOrbachFan 3 месяца назад +2

      @@RafeDean1972 Except Jones was an atheist.

  • @deniseknicely783
    @deniseknicely783 Месяц назад +3

    Poor Stephan. He was so convinced his mother was wanting him out of there. It isn’t true because she begged him to come back before everyone was murdered. Thank God he refused.

  • @Dawn-we7vd
    @Dawn-we7vd Месяц назад +2

    Those poor people must of been terrified! I can’t even imagine! He had such a hold over those people for them to take their own lives? Over 900 people? My God!

  • @briandelaney9710
    @briandelaney9710 24 дня назад +5

    This isn’t a documentary. It’s a dramatization

  • @johnnycrepaul547
    @johnnycrepaul547 2 месяца назад +9

    Guyana was a communist nation. Only the rich could get phones and tv. There was no tv station only radio stations and all controlled by the Guyana government. The press was also controlled by the government. Many Indian Guyanese was running away from the country and fear was all the time.

  • @MichaelOsterhaus
    @MichaelOsterhaus 2 месяца назад +5

    When I first heard of Jonestown I learned that it actually existed, once I learned it existed, I'm still learning.

    • @lisascorp
      @lisascorp 2 месяца назад +1

      I was 13 when this happened. I remember it was all over the news and was so shocking.

    • @MichaelOsterhaus
      @MichaelOsterhaus 2 месяца назад

      I was 7 and never watched the news, what news we got was from the newspaper. When I first got the full grip of what had happened, it was just as shocking and I wanted to know more.

  • @glion7792
    @glion7792 4 месяца назад +20

    Pack your things? What did he have worth packing and taking- just leave. Leaving your kid was chicken shite.

    • @RaeBattleRapsMood
      @RaeBattleRapsMood 17 дней назад

      Right they were only allowed to have 1 outfit and socks!!!

  • @adrianbristol4392
    @adrianbristol4392 Месяц назад +8

    they are many Jim Jones in this world today

  • @mkl-ahel
    @mkl-ahel 7 месяцев назад +13

    El diablo nunca recompensa con algo bueno. Él es miserable y su recompensa miseria.

  • @evonadcock
    @evonadcock Месяц назад +4

    How Sad And Tragic 😢. 😥. They Maybe Gone But Not Forgotten. R.I. P.

  • @sharoddgardner8348
    @sharoddgardner8348 Месяц назад +6

    The guy who left his son is a coward he knew what was going on and was quick to get on that plane but leave his son smh

    • @Dawn-we7vd
      @Dawn-we7vd Месяц назад +2

      You can’t judge him like that! He was terrified, and not in his right mind! You have to walk in someone’s shoes! Poor man lost his son! He has to live with that everyday. He doesn’t need to be judged. You weren’t there!

    • @Ready4Raw
      @Ready4Raw 27 дней назад +3

      No excuses, he gets judged because his only job was to protect his child! ​@Dawn-we7vd

    • @dorothyhodges2542
      @dorothyhodges2542 25 дней назад

      @@Dawn-we7vd The poor kid, abandoned by his father! What kind of 🤡 are you?

  • @NessaRaquel-q2l
    @NessaRaquel-q2l Месяц назад +8

    Im from guyana but i never go to region 1 jim jones town but i hear that place is haunted.

    • @vze4vjxt
      @vze4vjxt Месяц назад

      900 JIMBIE - HA HA

    • @teresaarvidson44
      @teresaarvidson44 18 дней назад

      ya think?

    • @RaeBattleRapsMood
      @RaeBattleRapsMood 17 дней назад

      I BET my life that place is haunted! The way those people went out. None of them are at rest😢

  • @jamaljames2578
    @jamaljames2578 8 дней назад

    Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾

  • @queenhchannel1226
    @queenhchannel1226 3 месяца назад +4

    Looking at that picture of Ms. Parks and knowing how she looked the last image before They went to Pt. Kaituma those ppl were definitely stressed and being starved 😢

    • @RaeBattleRapsMood
      @RaeBattleRapsMood 17 дней назад

      I read the crops wouldn’t grow and he couldn’t feed them all, so they mostly ate rice with watered down gravy😢

  • @joeyojoeyo3613
    @joeyojoeyo3613 24 дня назад +4

    Jim Jones was a monster.

  • @heatherprescott514
    @heatherprescott514 2 месяца назад +9

    Why wasn't he the first to drink the Kool aid.

    • @SHall-xk1tn
      @SHall-xk1tn Месяц назад +1

      Bc he was a sick freak who wanted to make sure everyone died. Then probably chickened out once he saw how the poisonous death looked painful. I wonder who took him out bc I read that it wasn’t self inflicted.

  • @jessicacollins8049
    @jessicacollins8049 17 дней назад +1

    I was just shy of 6 months old. Ive heard of Jonestown but never looked into it.

  • @wendyyhap8994
    @wendyyhap8994 26 дней назад +3

    I was 5 years old when this happened in my country Guyana.

  • @bubbasparxxx9492
    @bubbasparxxx9492 7 месяцев назад +7

    Why is it censored? 😡

    • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
      @FreeDocumentaryHistory  7 месяцев назад +6

      YT requirement for unrestricted viewing. (I believe most have seen dead bodies while most don’t know the story of Jonestown. A compromise and acceptable one in our opinion.

    • @bubbasparxxx9492
      @bubbasparxxx9492 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@FreeDocumentaryHistory I figured it was YT. Thanks for the upload!

    • @turnerification123
      @turnerification123 4 месяца назад +1

      We all know the story utube is getting bad do not censor !

  • @James-cz4xv
    @James-cz4xv 2 месяца назад +5

    But the supplier in town had to know what he was delivering

  • @dorleenlastra3337
    @dorleenlastra3337 7 месяцев назад +7

    Couldn't sensor it 1978. Evil is evil AND alive today. 2024

  • @sn4rff
    @sn4rff 4 месяца назад

    very sensitively done 🖤

  • @KendraWood-o3e
    @KendraWood-o3e Месяц назад +7

    He was a psychopath FACE IT😢😢😢😢

  • @eachoneteachone8977
    @eachoneteachone8977 19 дней назад +2

    What happened to the elder woman who hide?

  • @johnnycrepaul547
    @johnnycrepaul547 2 месяца назад +5

    America was falling and no one wanted to live in America. The time period was the Cold War.

  • @TopG-lu1hq
    @TopG-lu1hq 7 месяцев назад +2

    Can you do a video about the troubles in Belfast

  • @VishnuRamdin-xe7yd
    @VishnuRamdin-xe7yd 3 месяца назад +1

    Two movies was about "Jones town""crime of the century "and "the story of Jim jones"The book "people's temple peoples tomb"was ban in guyana by the pnc govt.I read it in canada for my grade 12 book report .

  • @bryantwilliams8052
    @bryantwilliams8052 Месяц назад +3

    HOw do you not show without
    the military?

  • @ChrisWong-l9u
    @ChrisWong-l9u Месяц назад +2

    So sad. Thats y Jesus said " not all those who say Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but thosr who does the will of God".

  • @SHARONJONES-ty1gw
    @SHARONJONES-ty1gw 2 месяца назад +5

    THEY TRUSTED HIM @ FORGOT ABOUT GOD @ HIS WARNING ABOUT FALSE CULTS LEADERS

  • @SunilSingh-xw2hg
    @SunilSingh-xw2hg 2 месяца назад +1

    Im from South América guyana

  • @MikeGibson1984
    @MikeGibson1984 Месяц назад +5

    Why on earth a congressman and crew went without a protection from us army or guyenise police?

    • @RaeBattleRapsMood
      @RaeBattleRapsMood 17 дней назад

      The Guyana refused to get involved because it was American vs American.

  • @hhays44
    @hhays44 2 месяца назад +2

    I feel for Stephen Jones

  • @TheChamp1971
    @TheChamp1971 7 месяцев назад +2

    When was this documentary made? There's not way it could have been recent. I'm guessing late 1990s/early 2000s.

    • @retrospectors6595
      @retrospectors6595 7 месяцев назад +1

      Definitely not new, I’ve seen it crop up a bunch on RUclips over the years.
      (Looked it up, it was made in 2007. Good eye!)

    • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
      @FreeDocumentaryHistory  7 месяцев назад +3

      2007

    • @falcon3268
      @falcon3268 4 месяца назад +5

      Vernon Gosney passed away back in 2021 reunited with his son. R.I.P.

    • @lisandro777
      @lisandro777 4 месяца назад

      @@falcon3268 thank for the update😢

  • @RameshSharma-jo5lc
    @RameshSharma-jo5lc 5 месяцев назад +1

    Last few minutes ..really hurted..heart broken..Really it was big Tragedy..Still I hate The Philoshoper woh called himself like the God or messenger..Sir,Tears can't stop ..It was happen Before 46 years..But nobody can forget This.

  • @DimitriMccullum-bg9nz
    @DimitriMccullum-bg9nz 4 месяца назад +12

    U have to know the differences between a real region n a cult. Jim Jones was a cult leader a real peacher doesn't make himself a god. This guy wasn't a real Christian this guy a fake

  • @TheMMFamily9
    @TheMMFamily9 25 дней назад

    Wow😢

  • @AcaciaApparition
    @AcaciaApparition 4 месяца назад +4

    The guy playing Jim doesn’t sound like him at all

    • @helldomine68
      @helldomine68 2 месяца назад +4

      But he did do a spectacular job at portraying him

    • @AcaciaApparition
      @AcaciaApparition 2 месяца назад

      @@helldomine68 I could do better lol jk

  • @sonsofjacob5253
    @sonsofjacob5253 День назад

    The young man leaving his son behind was a deal breaker for me. Couldn't do it, both of us or none of us....

  • @eileenlocke9397
    @eileenlocke9397 25 дней назад +2

    He was a total mad man Jim jones mad

  • @ih8utbe
    @ih8utbe Месяц назад +3

    Cults usually have a religious affiliation but also political. I never liked groups so I would never make it in a cult as I don't follow leaders. Whether your Communist, Socialist, or Capitalist, Religious or not, you need to be individualist and have some backbone. If it sounds to good to be true, leave. Many people left the Peoples Temple before 1975. Many sensed there was something wrong long before 1978. They were they lucky and smart ones.

    • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
      @FreeDocumentaryHistory  Месяц назад +1

      @@ih8utbe The problem is many people like being part of a group/cult/tribe - it gives them comfort and they find strength in numbers because they themselves as an individual are lost. Lost in that they lack belief in their own abilities. Or something like that.

  • @southernmostrebel
    @southernmostrebel Месяц назад

    1:37:39 dancing children just like FBR jungle Dave's town and the peoples forces temple

  • @PeaceLoveHappiness7719
    @PeaceLoveHappiness7719 23 дня назад

    What kind of a man leaves his son. Sick.

  • @jacintagamble-brunson1483
    @jacintagamble-brunson1483 27 дней назад +1

    How could he leave his baby?😢😢

  • @petersam4182
    @petersam4182 Месяц назад +2

    I was 13 when the first news came. I came home from school and the radio was on and at first they said that there was an accident on the Port Kaituma airstrip.
    At the time we did not have television and the only radio was government controlled.
    However, it got bigger and they could not hide it from us. My brother was a pilot with the national army and my brother in law was a lieutenant and was the first with a platoon to arrive in Jonestown.
    I also remember Steven Jones when he and others would come to the basketball court in my neighbourhood, they had nice fancy ten speed bicycles 😆 well it was so to me because we never saw them.
    They shared out pamphlets and said they would teach us how to repair radios, well the rest is history and I am alive to share.

  • @GwenBeckford
    @GwenBeckford 17 дней назад

    What happen to the rest of the football theme that were with you.

  • @athorpe630
    @athorpe630 26 дней назад +2

    So sad that no one got them out before all this happened. I remember everyone being in total shock that this happened. His mental illness and being narcissistic caused them their lives.

  • @VishnuRamdin-xe7yd
    @VishnuRamdin-xe7yd 3 месяца назад +1

    I think these are from the movie"story of Jim jones"He was not the real Jim Jones.I knew him from GBC radio in Hadfield st where he was doing a radio program

  • @newlifecogic4666
    @newlifecogic4666 3 месяца назад +2

    Im still perplexed on how he was able to brainwash all those people...I don't think he did it by himself..he had help

    • @Dman425
      @Dman425 Месяц назад +2

      Most were not brainwashed, IMO. They knew as soon as they got to Guyana, they were screwed

    • @vze4vjxt
      @vze4vjxt Месяц назад

      he had help yes - over 12 barrels of mind control drugs were found there - the same drugs they had in San Francisco

    • @AllisonCorona-nv7ov
      @AllisonCorona-nv7ov 29 дней назад +1

      One method he used was malnutrition; most of their diet was rice with little or no protein. Without enough protein your mind can turn into jelly. Jim Jones could have told his followers that he was a man from Mars and they would believe it.

  • @Ready4Raw
    @Ready4Raw 27 дней назад

    The irony is that their story is continually being told til today

  • @MargaretKhan-mk1sw
    @MargaretKhan-mk1sw 25 дней назад

    The Bible says in Numbers,35;33-"Because it is blood that pollutes the land."And Isa;24:6-"That is why the curse has eaten up the land."Because of this horrifying incident Guyana came under a curse.But because of good deeds of the people atonement was made.God has blessed the country once more.

  • @eileenlocke9397
    @eileenlocke9397 25 дней назад

    Horrific

  • @I_Palaver
    @I_Palaver 11 дней назад

    I remember this like it happeed yesterday. Those poor people were trapped and the worst part about is if they had only resd thier Bibles, instead of taking one man' sick lead, NONE of this, Waco and others would have happened. Christ Himself clearly warns His followers and those who will read and understand His own words according to the Apostle Matthew in chapter 7 verses 15-16 "Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves. You WILL kow them by their fruits," Then He goes on to explain what the fruits are that He is taliking about.
    My heart hurts for his son Stephen and all whose families and lives have been shattered.

  • @Kimtwister
    @Kimtwister 9 дней назад +1

    AND NOW WE HAVE TO WORRRRY ABOUT SCIENTOLOGY

    • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
      @FreeDocumentaryHistory  9 дней назад +1

      @@Kimtwister did you watch our doc on the cult of scientology? It’s over on ENDEVR

  • @eileenlocke9397
    @eileenlocke9397 25 дней назад

    Omg horrific

  • @dancingdingo
    @dancingdingo 7 месяцев назад +7

    Don't drink the Kool-aid 😮!!!

  • @DawnMorian
    @DawnMorian 27 дней назад +2

    If the us Government took.this very seriously all could have been saved. They need to be excorted by the Guyana military and policr. This could have been avoided. The US is always slow

  • @Chris-y2l5q
    @Chris-y2l5q 2 месяца назад +1

    why :(

  • @sadowragnos9633
    @sadowragnos9633 Месяц назад

    1:12:24

  • @janellerose942
    @janellerose942 2 месяца назад +2

    Omge his son!

  • @Rondon68
    @Rondon68 26 дней назад +3

    Stop blurring the pictures. We are adults. And if your children want to learn the horrible things that happen in this world, they need to see it. I'm talking about teens. Every responsible parent should set their young kids phones/ tablet to parental controls. It's not hard ffs.

    • @marciajones2993
      @marciajones2993 16 дней назад

      Poor Ron can’t see pics of dead kids. Come on 🙄🙄

    • @enoughwithsociety
      @enoughwithsociety 11 дней назад +1

      @@marciajones2993reality is real. Censorship deprives the actual shock.

    • @marciajones2993
      @marciajones2993 11 дней назад

      @@enoughwithsociety why do you need to see dead kids to prove it happened. 👀👀👀

  • @marybassit8246
    @marybassit8246 Месяц назад +1

    I was 10 when this happened. As a child I didn’t know about this until growing up., now I am seeing this happening in my beautiful country.. sick man.

  • @marsazorean62
    @marsazorean62 6 месяцев назад +4

    The dramatization is awful.

  • @daviebetham936
    @daviebetham936 3 месяца назад +1

    They should go with soldier and to arrest him

  • @VishnuRamdin-xe7yd
    @VishnuRamdin-xe7yd 3 месяца назад +1

    Sad time for the pnc mismagement.Blame the ppp but we are party of compassion and respest for human life.

    • @francoamerican4632
      @francoamerican4632 Месяц назад

      Are you saying that banking mismanagement of paycheck protection played a role in this tragedy?

  • @VishnuRamdin-xe7yd
    @VishnuRamdin-xe7yd 3 месяца назад +1

    A state within a state in guyana under the pnc govt