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4 days ago · Audio tapes of 1978 meetings within Jonestown attest to Jones' declining physical condition, with the commune leader complaining of high blood pressure which he had since the early 1950s, small strokes, and weight loss of 30 to 40 pounds in the last two weeks of Jonestown, temporary blindness, convulsions, and, in late October to early November ...
Jul 17, 2024 · Bobby Stroud, a Jonestown resident who survived the tragedy by being in Georgetown, died on February 19, 2005. Several remembrances appear here. Helen Swinney, Jonestown resident who survived the tragedy by being on the Temple’s boat, the Cudjoe (October 17, 1999, in South Carolina).
Jul 8, 2024 · Their lives converged 25 years ago Tuesday in a South American jungle clearing that has come to symbolize the worst that organized religion, cults and madness can reap. “The people of Jonestown were a precious people, family people,” the Rev. Jynona Norwood, who lost 27 relatives in Jonestown, told mourners in Oakland.
3 days ago · The 1978 “Jonestown massacre,” as the opening paragraph of Annie Dawid’s Paradise Undone calls the horrific historic event at the novel’s core, soon became simply “Jonestown,” a global trope for what most remembered as a zombielike mass-suicide: crazy, mesmerized followers of a faith leader, Jim Jones, willingly taking their own lives in blind obedience to his delusions.
Jul 9, 2024 · On November 18, 1978, 918 of them died after being given Kool-Aid laced with cyanide. Jim Jones, the founder of The People's Temple and master of the unthinkable torture that occurred through it,...
Jun 29, 2024 · On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of the People’s Temple, including hundreds of children, died in a chilling event that shocked the world. This article delves into the events leading up to the tragedy, exploring the complex factors that contributed to the tragic outcome.
Jul 10, 2024 · Speier was a young Congressional aide 41 years ago who went to investigate the “Jonestown” cult compound. Her boss, Rep. Leo Ryan, was murdered on that trip by cult members– and she was shot five times.
