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Jim Jones (archival, subtitles): You’re gonna help yourself, or you’ll get no help! I would never have imagined that 24 hours later, they would all be dead. Never heard a man speak like this man before. They’re all liars.” The last words I heard from Jim Jones was, “I just want you to know that you can come back to Jonestown and visit your son any time you want.”. What he spoke from the pulpit wasn’t what he did behind the scenes. Gary Fong, San Francisco Chronicle I didn’t know I’d never see her again. Girl (archival): Yeah. An illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk. Shortly after November 18, 1978, a tape emerged from the ruins of Jonestown. The story is told by survivors, Temple defectors, relatives, and journalists. He had books. Ed Rudolph, Video Arts/San Francisco, Online Editor (Singing, archival): Welcome, welcome all of you. Phyllis Wilmore Zimmerman, childhood friend of Jim Jones, Special Thanks They so don’t want us to do what we’re doing; they’ve burned down the Temple. (Singing, archival): Something got a hold of me, oh yes indeed. It was a bright sunny day, but it was a dark day. Neva Sly Hargrave, Peoples Temple Member: What he spoke about were things that were in our hearts. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: When Ryan came, he came on a Friday night and we put on a reception for him. I could see myself in Jonestown walking, and when I looked to my left, there was my son. Jim Jones Jr., Jim Jones' son, said. A division of Universal Music Publishing Group But this is a loyalty test and you need to turn them in.”. Rebecca Moore, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: The Concerned Relatives promptedFCC investigation of Peoples Temple. Don’t, don’t be this way. Neva Sly Hargrave, Peoples Temple Member: We turned our paychecks over every time we got paid. Christopher Chow, Asian American Media Center, Inc. "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple", website for the film broadcast on PBS includes video interviews with survivors from 2006. Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: Literally, out of nowhere, this storm came blowing in. She said, “I can feel it.” He said, “Yes, I know you can feel it. I wanted to go. Darkness settles over Jonestown on its last day on Earth.”. And just as you reach the edge of the pavilion, people started rushing you that you knew. Tim Reiterman, Journalist: Jim Jones, I think, realized that ultimately Ukiah was not the sort of climate where Peoples Temple would thrive. “They saw themselves changing the world, with the church as a tool,” he says, noting that Jones offered prospective members jobs, homes, and a sense of common purpose — striving to create a just world. And so anyone that showed any interest in sex was just compensating. The first thing came to my mind was Jonestown. They’ll torture our seniors. Hue Fortson Jr., Peoples Temple Member: I remember one night, one of the brothers had stood up and said, “You know, I think everybody that wants Father to [expletive] them in the butt, you need to take an enema first.” I’m telling you the truth man, I’m telling you the truth. You could hear it when you were working in the field. Quickly! Some of the most sweetesost uragple I've even knn ved in jonestown. Male Peoples Temple Member (archival): What you think about your friends back down in the States? Male Peoples Temple Member (archival): No. He was just their preacher. Deborah Layton, Peoples Temple Member, Author, Seductive Poison: In Jonestown, there was a speaker system and only Jim spoke on it. And there was a sort of feeling that smaller groups — neighborhood groups, activist groups — had a bigger chance. Jim Jones (archival, subtitles): The congressman is dead! Janet Shular, Peoples Temple Member: Well it wasn’t about our loyalty, because we were demonstrating loyalty all the time. Maureen Jordan Woman (archival): You bring those kids back here! But shortly afterwards, I heard my partner, the cameraman. Everybody ran toward the plane, on this side of plane. Bryan Kravitz, Peoples Temple Member: I decided not to go to Vietnam, and I was just at the point of what am I going to do with myself? History Channel Video and Stills "Mass Suicide at Jonestown: 30 Years Later". Jim Jones (archival): Jesus Christ had the most revolutionary teachings to be said, in the sense that he said to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, take in the stranger, administer to those who are widows and afflicted in their suffering. They had cabins. Willie Brown, California State Assemblyman (archival): You have managed to make the many persons associated with Peoples Temple part of a family. Laura Johnston Kohl, Peoples Temple member Man (archival, subtitles): Christine, your life has been extended to today. Then, I’d work on files. Sunday 18 November is the 40th anniversary of the notorious Jonestown massacre where more than 900 people died at a settlement run by Christian cult leader Jim Jones. Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple. He said, “Now, did you see any lightning come from the sky and strike me dead?”. Kristine Kravitz, Peoples Temple Member: We all wanted to go. A dog barks. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: There wasn’t a week that went by that I wasn’t called up on the floor because of my behavior, because of my attitude. If I had to go to the dentist, it was taken care of. Vernon Gosney, Peoples Temple Member: When Congressman Ryan came, I wanted to pass him a note that said, “Help us get out of Jonestown.” When one of the reporters was walking around toward the edge of the pavilion, I stuck the note in the fold of his arm and it fell to the ground. Why did my friends die?" Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: We all got suited down, neck-tied and everything. Jonestown was an official selection of numerous 2006 film festivals, including Tribeca, Silverdocs, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Making a Difference Janet Shular, Peoples Temple Member: People lifted Jim to a level of adoration because many believed that he had healed them of cancer. The most forbidden thing to express was to leave. When we came back, something had happened. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: I ain’t never used the term “suicide,” and I’m not gonna never use the term “suicide.” That man killed — was killing us. They drank the kool-aid. Tim Reiterman, Journalist: When vice presidential candidate, Walter Mondale, came to San Francisco, Jim Jones was part of the entourage that boarded his private jet. Are your accessibility or localization needs BIG? NBC News Archives And I’ll say this about November 18th, I felt I’d lost a family and I knew I’d lost my children. Jackie Speier, Aide to Congressman Leo Ryan: More people wanted to leave. O. James Fox Collection, Indiana Historical Society It might not never happen. Kool-aid —. It’s happening right now.”, Vernon Gosney, Peoples Temple Member: Jim Jones came to talk to me and the first thing he said was, “Don’t say anything to the reporters. I was there the afternoon that Edith drove away. Jim Jones (archival): I have the power to send you home by Christmas, but it’s not on Transworld Airlines. ©2007 WGBH Educational Foundation My mother-in-law, Edith Cordell, had a monkey and it hung itself and she wanted to replace the monkey. I looked to my right and I saw my wife, with our son in her arms and poison being injected into his mouth. They were well looked after. I was really shaking, but I didn’t move. ... From the death row inmate who sued the state for botching his execution, to a bank robber who gave the cashier his full name and address, 365 Days of Crime is this summer’s ULTIMATE true crime treat. John Gollin, San Francisco Examiner Andrea Robinson It appeared to be an audio recording of the actual death scene. There were about a hundred and twenty people. Jim had promised, as an alternative to them dying in Jonestown, that they could go to the Soviet Union. Jones summoned his … Where? Rebecca Moore, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: California is perceived to be a very progressive state. Dead bodies lie around the compound of the People’s Temple cult on November 18, 1978. Having this vision to change the world, but having this whole undercurrent of dysfunction that was underneath that vision. Corbis Hue Fortson Jr., Peoples Temple Member: By the time Jones did come out to do his speaking, the table had already been set. Neva Sly Hargrave, Peoples Temple Member: And she starts taking forward steps. Instead of a group that might give you twenty or thirty of these people — or a hundred — you had three or four hundred. She died in my arms, man. They got up in the audience and they said they disagreed with him. Never-Before-Seen Historical Shots of the Jonestown Massacre. Neva Sly Hargrave, Peoples Temple Member: Jim started talking about our cause and he said, “This punch is going to be passed out to everybody here.” We all drank our punch and then he said, “You just drank poison. The wind came up and it just — torrential rain. He understood how it was to be treated differently. Susan Starr Katherine McMillan, Interns I remember someone coming to me and telling me that Congressman Ryan was dead. A&E Real Crime spoke with Marcus Parks—whose podcast “The Last Podcast on the Left” ran a five-part, 10-hour special on Jonestown—to learn more about the last fateful hours of the men, women and children who died that tragic day. Plot Summary | Add Synopsis It was green. Peoples Temple Collection, courtesy of California Historical Society Images. This documentary tells the story of the people who joined Peoples Temple, following Jones from Indiana to California and ultimately to their deaths in Guyana in November 1978. And — we were Star Trek fans. It was very quiet. Tdea of driing the kool-aid, that was jonestown language.e you had bought in so much that you couldn't t.en though they didn't actually drink kool-aid, it was cyanide T R is that I was not some giant, let's get together and die for Jim Jones moment. Narrator (anonymous letter, archival): “If nobody understands, it matters not. Call 911 to report emergencies. They were tailor-made for a political rally. Don’t lay down with tears and agony! Who knows what it is? They organized letter-writing campaigns to public officials, to members of Congress. When it hit the floor, he stood and he looked back and forth. "Dateline NBC" will broadcast a one-hour investigation at 10 p.m. Friday. Grace Stoen, Peoples Temple Member: Peoples Temple truly had the potential to be something big and powerful and great, and yet for whatever reason, Jim took the other road. And that’s it. This feature length film, a hybrid of documentary and drama, tracks the final, 5-day build up to a horrific doomsday - the infamous mass murder/suicides of Jim Jones' People's Temple on November 18th, 1978. You know, people would be dancing or singing. The search for videos of the band “The Brian Jonestown Massacre,” whose name is play on the events of Jonestown and the early Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, inevitably yielded videos about Jonestown. How many people died in Jonestown? Composed and Performed by Timmy Thomas The Temple was burned down and had to be rebuilt. You — you could hear it all the time. Oh, what’s he done for me. And most people, once the going gets rough, don’t jump out immediately. You know, that’s not the way I operated — but when I was in Guyana, and when I’d watch the sun rise, I actually thought there was a heaven on Earth. Male Peoples Temple Member (archival): Won’t listen to you, huh? Jim Jones (archival, subtitles): Hurry, hurry, my children, hurry! Just take me and just lay me down next to my grandmamma.”. They had crops growing. Jim was not celibate. Joyce Shaw-Houston, Peoples Temple Member: It’s kind of like when you get married and you have this ideal. Marion K. Towne Hurry my children! It is really nice here. Janet Shular, Peoples Temple member Jim didn’t understand that there was no way he could talk her down from whatever this article was going to say. Those people shouldn' died. The body will be shipped at E. Eagon' get $450 of ac eight membof my fami back. And she called the manager of the station up and they talked to me about leaving. I’ve been here a few days and I have — I have absolutely no complaints at all. "I wanted to know why. By the end of that day, 918 men, women and children will die. I just kind of took everything in stride. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: I grabbed the kid from the shoulders up, and in that process of taking him out of the pavilion, this kid died in my arms. “I gave my rights up to him. Come and I’ll give you a bed?” “But I’ve got nothing but a pension.” “Go and leave your pension behind,” who else will tell you that? Deborah Harvin Eugene Cordell, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: We had some people that disagreed with Jimmy. And it went twenty-four hours a day and he would tape himself. I Never Heard a Man Jim Jones Jr., Peoples Temple Member: He had a real issue with separation. We are trying to make — and we are making a place of refuge for all of you here. 918, 294 of them being children. Jim Jones (archival): Well, then be seated and shut your mouth and don’t be in my face anymore. Woman (archival): Before I came here, I was taking LSD, marijuana, every type of dope you can imagine. He was not white. An illustration of an audio speaker. Courtesy of New World Records But behind that, I think it was to gather more members for the Temple. The story of this movement, this action, must be examined over and over. He just kind of praised us. Quickly! Fielding McGehee, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: Eventually, the rhetoric ratchets up enough that she is shouted down. He was carrying on an adulterous relationship with my sister. Make video accessible to the world with Amara! And you’re just — you want to run, but you know, you just try — “Alright I’m gonna be cool.”. Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: If I had to go to the doctor, it was taken care of. He really understood it. Moore Family Collection The sky is gray. A diverse group, the members of Peoples Temple shared a common goal: to create an egalitarian society free of problems of class and race. Stephen Sung, Sound Technician: We flew in sometime in the afternoon, about 6pm. When Rosalyn Carter came to San Francisco, she gave Jim Jones a private audience. I never shall forget what he’s done for me. Some people do. There was a fire in the San Francisco Temple. Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: That response to him was spontaneous. And I did allow Jones to think for me because I figured that he had the better plan. “Of the five people who survived, there are — to my knowledge — three left alive. And he waited until it hit the floor — POW! So when you were full-time Temple, you worked about twenty hours a day. Deborah Layton, Peoples Temple Member, Author, Seductive Poison: Every single person felt that they had a purpose there and that they were exceptionally special. Woman (archival): Don’t you touch my kids! Incredibly paranoid. There were grape vines everywhere, and I fell in love. Female Peoples Temple Member (archival): But they won’t listen to me. An illustration of text ellipses. These three guys, they get off the truck and walk around this area as though they were looking for somebody. It’s been a — it’s such a joy and great pleasure being here, because of Father’s love. “Yeah, that’s a good idea.”. A husband would turn in a wife. We didn’t commit suicide. Jim Jones (archival, subtitles): There’s a little town in Indiana. Jonestown Part 10: World reacts to deaths of hundreds in Jonestown massacre. You think they’re going to allow us to get by with this? So you had to credit a big chunk of decisive votes to Peoples Temple. We did not want this kind of ending. I certainly do. Laura Johnston Kohl, Peoples Temple Member: December of ’75, ninety of us went by plane, into Guyana, and saw where we were building the community there. Coming up in the next {{countdown}} {{countdownlbl}}. I’m thinking, “Where did all of these [expletive] guns come from?”. Without our pastor, Jim Jones, to teach me the right way, I would not be in college right now. Bettmann / Contributor via Getty Images The village has been abandoned since the deadly events that took place in November 1978, according to McGehee. Nobody joins something they think is going to hurt them. Why did my WIFD my mother die? He passed a note!”. And that’s from his roots coming out of Lynn. But when Jones was present, it was very, very dark. Eugene Smith, Peoples Temple Member: We were people that — we wanted to make a change. Oakland Tribune We saw this beautiful sign, “Welcome to Jonestown.”. Janet Shular, Peoples Temple Member: People were brought up front and asked — had to tell who they had slept with and who they had sneaked off to a restaurant with. She didn’t even know I was Peoples Temple. Grace Stoen, Peoples Temple member The government was not taking care of the people. We can not have this! He was talking better this and better that. Deborah Layton, Peoples Temple member and author, Seductive Poison But for people to come from extremely religious backgrounds — so that I can bring them forward to the message that’s so important for all of us today and that is activism — then I need to speak on each person’s level.”, Hue Fortson Jr., Peoples Temple Member: He said, “A lot of you people, you Christian people coming in, you’re so hung-up on this Bible.” He said, “This black book has held down black people for the last two-hundred years.” He said, “But I’m going to show you this has no power.” So he leaned way back like a football player and he flung it. Oh, what he’s done for me. The Jonestown Massacre killed the largest number of American civilians in a non-natural even preceding the September 11th attacks. The death toll exceeded 900, making it one of the largest mass deaths in American history. And an't have at communities. News Weather ... Fourteen-year-old Claire Miller appeared in Lancaster County Court Friday by video feed from a state prison to face a criminal homicide charge in connection with the February stabbing death of her disabled sister. Jim Jones (archival): By Christmas, do you want to be gone? This would be the place to implement the dream of racial equality. Mike Touchette, Peoples Temple Member: They had their own rooms, they had every need taken care of, they had their food provided. The website Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple (jonestown.sdsu.edu) , run by the sister and brother in law of the late Moore sisters (Carolyn Moore Layton and Annie Moore) is your one-stop website for primary sources regarding Jonestown and Peoples Temple.There you will find everything from transcripts and audio of the trove of tapes found at the Jonestown … It was almost like a dark cloud. Neva Sly Hargrave lost her husband and son. Juanell Smart, Peoples Temple Member: I’m saddened because it didn’t work out. And we would be enthusiastic. Soon after November 18, 1978, Lewis found out that his wife and children, as well as 19 other relatives, all died at Jonestown. Things that, like, I wanted to get involved with, but didn’t even know where to make an entrée. Scott Kardel, Project Administration And all of a sudden, the answer was there. The little child may not be able to go and draw a paycheck, but the father guarantees the childcare. As many others did.”, In an audiotape that was recovered from the disaster site, Jones declares, “We committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world.”, But was it suicide — or murder? Don’t do this! You can do it. Jim and Marceline actually went to adopt a Caucasian child. US: PBS. She just was — was just in a daze. There were animals to be taken care of. Jim Jones attracted a large following to his Peoples Temple through sermons on tolerance, social responsibility and community. And — and all these people that were like my age, they were clean. My wife died in my arms and my dead baby son was in her arms. But he did find community in the Pentecostal Church. Claire Janaro, Peoples Temple Member: The purpose of the bus trips was to spread Jim’s beliefs about socialism and the world, and how we can live a better life and about an integrated lifestyle. 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