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Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple by Rebecca Moore, 2009-03-20

JONESTOWN AND PEOPLES TEMPLE: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Encyclopedia of Religion</i> by David Chidester, 2005

Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple by Deborah Layton, 1999-11-09

Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple: An entry from Gale's <i>American Decades: Primary Sources</i>

Dear People: Remembering Jonestown

Gone from the Promised Land by John Hall, 2004-04-01

Hearing the Voices of Jonestown (Religion and Politics) by Mary McCormick Maaga, 1998-05

Death of a Cult Family: Jim Jones (Days of Tragedy) by Sue L. Hamilton, 1989-11

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http//foia.fbi.gov/jonestown.htm 10. Jim Jones led 408 of his followers in the PeoplesTemple Church to a mass suicidemurder and was himself shot to
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Seductive Poison : A Jonestown Survivor's Story Of Life And Death In The Peoples
of one womans seven years in the peoples temple, culminating in the mass suicidejust months after she escaped from the dystopian community of jonestown.
http://hallbiographies.com/leaders/169.shtml

Extractions: Deborah Layton was, by her own account, a typical rebellious youth, with nothing in her dossier to indicate that she would eventually find herself in Jim Jones's People's Temple in Guyana, looking for a way out of the green hell that had become the People's Temple Agricultural Project. She barely escaped in June 1978. Within months, more than 900 people drank Jones's cyanide punch and committed "revolutionary suicide" in the face of mounting stateside pressure on the cult, some of it prompted by Layton's own testimonials upon her safe return home. Her brother, Larry, also survived, and as one of the few left alive in Guyana became a scapegoat for Jones's crimes; he is now serving a life sentence in federal prison. Seductive Poison Tjames Madison The Boston Globe , Renée Graham In reading this chilling memoir, some may desire ultimate answers to the most obvious question, namely, why any sane person would join such a group. Layton doesn't cheapen her ordeal, or the lives of those lost, with throwaway analysis. Perhaps the only answer lies in the basic human need for fulfillment, sanctuary, and belonging.
NEWSFLASH
What was the real motivation of the mass suicide at jonestown. Was peoples Templean innocuous community that was being unjustly harassed or were there
http://www.jonestown.com/order/newsflash.htm

Extractions: NEWSFLASH JONESTOWN SURVIVOR BREAKS HER TWENTY-YEAR SILENCE, PROVIDING A DEEPLY PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE ON ONE OF THE MOST TRAGIC AND PUZZLING EVENTS OF THIS CENTURY; IN SNAKE DANCE: UNRAVELLING THE MYSTERIES OF JONESTOWN, AUTHOR AND WITNESS LAURIE EFREIN KAHALAS SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT; In SNAKE DANCE: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown (Trafford Publishing, Inc., November, 1998), Laurie chronicles with honesty, intelligence, and sensitivity, the story behind the headlines, revealing the human side of this mythic tragedy. She provides compelling documents, never before available to the public, that open up a whole new set of unanswered questions and justify a thorough and aggressive re-evaluation of the facts. Some of those questions include: Why were members of an American church living in a remote rainforest in Guyana Was the mainstream press given accurate information about the conditions at the commune Was there any truth to the rumor that a political agenda against Peoples Temple actually existed Is it true that the community was desperately trying to relocate to safety by the time of the tragedy Was Jonestown really an "armed camp"
Jimjones.html
about 16 temple members decided that they wanted to leave jonestown with the The Peoplestemple organization did not survive the mass suicide/murder in
http://hercules.gcsu.edu/~rviau/jimjones.html

Extractions: Jim Jones Jim Jones Was a Mass Murderer Jim Jones: The People's Temple Jonestown History The Jonestown Massacre CIA Mind Control Run Amok? ... Jim Jones and the People's Temple James Warren Jones (1931-1978) Degrees from Indiana University and Butler University Ordained in the Christian Church/Disciples of Christ. The Peoples Temple was initially structured as an inter-racial mission for the sick, homeless, and jobless. He assembled a large following of over 900 members in Indianapolis IN during the 1950's. "He preached a 'social gospel' of human freedom, equality, and love, which required helping the least and the lowliest of society's members. Later on, however, this gospel became explicitly socialistic, or communist, in Jones' own view, and the hypocrisy of white Christianity was ridiculed while 'apostolic socialism' was preached." When an investigation began into his cures for cancer, heart disease, and arthritis, he decided to move the group to Ukiah in Northern California . He preached the imminent end of the world in a nuclear war; Ukiah was judged to be as safe as any when war broke out. They later moved to San Francisco and Los Angeles After an expose during the mid 1970's in the magazine New West raised suspicions of illegal activities within the Temple, he moved some of the Temple membership
The History Of Jonestown
The History of jonestown. In 1978, 913 followers of Jim Jones and the peoples Templecommitted a mass suicide in northern Guyana at a site called, jonestown.
http://www.meta-religion.com/New_religious_groups/Articles/history_of_jonestown.

Extractions: Back to New Religious... In 1978, U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan went to Jonestown to investigate supposed abuses by the People's Temple onto its members. After staying for a day, Ryan tried to leave, taking four of the cult members who had decided to defect. Realizing this, Jones ordered them killed, as was done. Sensing that his utopia in the jungle would surely come to an end after word got back to the states about Ryan; Jones decide to put his suicide plan into action. Telling his subjects that it was a "revolutionary death," he had a large quantity of fruit punch laced with cyanide prepared. After making all 276 children at Jonestown drink the punch, all the adults proceeded. In the end, after Jones apparently killed himself with a gunshot to the head, 914 people had died.
Fragile Millennial Groups
to jonestown and was leaving with some longtime peoples temple members. The jonestownmass suicide and murders were prompted by stresses within the community
http://www.loyno.edu/~wessing/law/Encyclopedia/5.fragile.html

Extractions: 517 words) Fragile millennial group members usually believe that they are being persecuted by opponents in outside society. These opponents may be law enforcement agents, government agents and agencies, news reporters, apostates, concerned family members, and anticultists. The cultural opposition (Hall 1995) may indeed be present, but the radical dualistic worldview of catastrophic millennial groups, which sees good battling evil and which translates into a sense of us vs. them, amplifies the magnitude of any degree of opposition in the minds of the believers. When the members of a fragile millennial group become convinced that they are failing to achieve their ultimate concern, they might resort to violence to preserve their religious goal. They might direct their violence outwardly to kill enemies or inwardly to commit murders and group suicide. Often the violence is directed both outwardly and inwardly. Catherine Wessinger Loyola University, New Orleans Hall, John R. 1987. Gone From the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History New Brunswick: Transaction Books.
1 09-18-88 11:37 Aed Jonestown `diary Of The Dead' Resurfaces SAN FRANCISCO (UPI
1 0918-88 1137 aed jonestown `diary of people died a decade ago in a mass murder-suicideat written by Mike Prokes, a lieutenant of peoples temple leader the
http://www.skepticfiles.org/cultinfo/jonesdc3.htm
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Eight Boxes Of Correspondence And Memos From The Peoples T
AP) Eight boxes of correspondence and memos from the peoples temple commune atJonestown, Guyana, where 913 people died in a mass suicide 10 years ago, have
http://www.skepticfiles.org/cultinfo/jonesdoc.htm
1978 Massacre
was the gathering at central pavilion in jonestown. The choice that peoples Templemembers saw on that Jones claimed the mass suicide a revoultionary act and
http://conncoll.edu/academics/departments/relstudies/290/newage/1978.html

Extractions: Jonestown On Saturday, November 18, 1978, the communal settlement of the Peoples Temple church in Guyana, South America, became the paradigmatic "destructive cult." A total of 918 persons died on that day as aresult of the activities of the memebers. Some argue that Jonestown was a CIA mind-control experiment, and that Jim Jones was a rogue CIA agent. Ohters claim that the U.S. government could not tolerate an inter-racial and socialist group of Americans to survive and hence, murdered them. Still others believe that repeated suicide rehearsals had prepared the group to die. Temple members had practiced suicide drills for years. That is, they pretended to drink poison and then fall down "dead" as a part of a loyalty test to Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. The mental preparation and physical enactment required to accept the idea of suicide was step one in this scenario. Step Two was a hostile visit by U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan, which Temple members saw as an "attack" by their enemies. Step Three was the defection of 16 members which Jones saw as disloyal and a betrayal. This led to step four, which was an attack on the congressman and the group of defectors.
Seductive Poison: A Survivor Of Jonestown Shares Her Story
was a place where devoted peoples temple members believed constantly spoke of a revolutionarymass suicide, and Layton over the minds of jonestown residents to
http://www.deborahlayton.com/

Extractions: From Waco to Heaven's Gate, the past decade has seen its share of cult tragedies. But none has been quite so dramatic or compelling as the Jonestown massacre, in which the Reverend Jim Jones and 913 of his disciples of the Peoples Temple perished. In Seductive Poison , Deborah Layton writes about the Peoples Temple as it has never been written about before: with the keen hindsight and insider perspective of a former high-level member. Layton had been a member for seven years when she left Peoples Temple headquarters in San Francisco, California, for Jonestown, Guyana, the promised land nestled deep in the South American jungle. It was a place where devoted Peoples Temple members believed they could escape racism and persecution from the press and the government in the United Sates, and live peacefully in a socialist utopia. When she arrived, however, Layton saw that something was seriously wrong. The settlement was surrounded by armed guards, food was scarce, and members were forced to work long hours and follow rigid codes of behavior. Jones, who was becoming increasingly delusional and dictatorial, constantly spoke of a revolutionary mass suicide, and Layton knew only too well that he had enough control over the minds of Jonestown residents to carry it out. When he finally did, in November of 1978, the news that over nine hundred Americans had swallowed cyanide-laced punch on a commune in South America shocked the world. But just six months before, Layton had narrowly escaped from Jonestown and returned to the United States with warnings of impending disaster. In a
Reviews For Seductive Poison
of one woman's seven years in the peoples temple, culminating in the mass suicidejust months after she escaped from the dystopian community of jonestown.
http://www.deborahlayton.com/reviews.html

Extractions: Book Reviews Complete Reviews The following is a partial listing.... Personal Comments " Seductive Poison is an absolutely riveting story, told as memoir but with the pulse-pounding suspense of a murder mystery. I read Layton's account non-stop through the night, unable to let go, struck by the realization that this is not simply an account of a bygone tragedy. It has great relevance to many of the terrible events we see unfolding today, for this is a story about those who seek a better world and are then inextricably caught in a plan to end it. This is a universal tale about ideology gone awry."
Guyana Outpost: Wayne's Guyana Page
of the largest mass suicide in modern history. Deborah Layton lived in Jonestownbut did not die there. Among the few members of Jim Jones' peoples temple to
http://guyana.gwebworks.com/features/jonestown_survivor.shtml

Extractions: 03:41:24 PM AP 14-NOV-98 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Twenty years ago this month, Tim Stoen was holed up in hell. He and his wife had gone to Guyana with U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan in one last attempt to retrieve their son, who had been claimed by cult leader Jim Jones as his own. Waiting in Georgetown, their hope died as they heard that Ryan and four others had been shot to death in an ambush at the Jonestown airstrip. They knew it was only a matter of time before Jones followed through his long-threatened mass murder-suicide. "It was really a horrific night ... knowing at any moment that our son was going to be dead. It was utterly hopeless. If anything could remind you of hell, it would be that moment, that feeling," Stoen says. More than 900 people died after Jones ordered his followers to drink cyanide-poisoned punch. Nearly one-third were children. Among them John Victor Stoen, age 6. "The lesson for me is that every group ... has to make sure that they hold their leader to a set of standards, constantly hold that leader accountable," Stoen says. Stoen, a former San Francisco prosecutor, had represented Jones in California and became a trusted member of the Peoples Temple.
USA Today (Magazine): JONESTOWN MASSACRE: The Unrevealed Story.
suicide of hundreds of people in jonestown, Guyana. of more than $26,000,000, plannedmass murder (not and financial manager of the peoples temple in California
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1272/2644_127/53630954/p1/article.jhtml?term=
Hist300work
in 1973, the first possibility of mass suicide by the to what would become known asJonestown in Guyana named for the leader of the peoples temple, members and
http://www.trincoll.edu/~jmiller/hist300w.htm

Extractions: myself memory Here are the four individuals I chose as the most influential religious leaders of the twentieth century. Each may not be what is considered an obvious choice, but each in their own way, effected the world because of their religious beliefs, and in most cases, their political activities as well. Beneath each section there are websites that will provide greater research and learning abilities for each individual. Enjoy! Mother Teresa Throughout time there have been individuals that have represented the best of what humans can be. In any field, those who were caring, compassionate, leaders have always been seen in a special light. The twentieth century has seen several individuals who match this description. However, it seems that one more than any other stands out as the most influential and special person of our time: Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa’s preachings were of peace and love and prayer. She could see no reason for suffering or despair. From her childhood, her life’s work was to help others. She was compassionate to a level that nobody else could know. She has been described as a "living saint" and is known around the world as a great missionary. Her death only brought her work to a greater level. By looking at her impact on the poor and suffering of the world, many people have changed their lives and their thinking. Mother Teresa was not simply a religious figure and promoter. Her religion was at the center of her life and her work. However, the lessons to be learned from this amazing woman surpass any difference in religious belief. Her work and lessons are that of all of humanity. To be kind, to love, and to be compassionate. Mother Teresa effected the world like no other person in recent history. To imagine a history without her is to see a world less humane and compassionate. She truly was one of the most influential people in history, religious or any other.
Jonestown
Within a few months of the mass deaths, other People's temple collection of US StateDepartment records on jonestown and the peoples temple www.icehouse.net
http://www.factnet.org/cults/jonestown/20_years_later.html?FACTNet
The Xenu Bookstore
of Life and Death in the peoples temple The author Leo Ryan to investigate Jonestownwith her affidavit The threat and possibility of mass suicide by members
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Uganda Toll Tops Jonestown
The toll surpasses the November 1978 peoples temple tragedy. The jonestown mass suicideand killings claimed 913 lives in the jungles of Guyana, including that
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ccf4f/magic/millenial6.html

Extractions: KABUMBA, Uganda (AP) Ugandan police revised the number of deaths linked to a Christian doomsday sect to 924 today, surpassing the 1978 Jonestown tragedy and making it one of the largest cult-related killings in history. Investigators have yet to search a fifth cult compound believed to hold more victims. They canceled today's search of the site, deep in a rainforest near the Ruwenzori Mountians along the Congolese border, until they have the proper equipment, said police spokesman Eric Naigambi. The death toll rose after police re-estimated those killed in the March 17 church fire that first revealed the deadly activities of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God. Authorities initially reported at least 330 charred bodies inside the ruins of the makeshift church in Kanunga. Today, they said they had confirmed that at least 530 people perished in what was believed to have been a gasoline-fueled inferno inside the sealed church. Subsequent searches of three other sect compounds unearthed mass graves yielding victims apparently killed after what had been the cult's Dec. 31 deadline for the world to end. Some of the victims appeared to have been knifed or strangled. Hundreds were children.
Totse.com | The Unanswered Questions Of Jonestown
sinker, the mythology that the greatest mass murder in Ten years after jonestown,the truth of November of the Ryan assassination or the peoples temple massacre
http://totse.com/en/conspiracy/institutional_analysis/jones.html

Extractions: About Community Bad Ideas Drugs ... ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY / CALDENDAR MAGAZINE / DECEMBER 1-15, 1988 The Unanswered Questions of Jonestown, by Art Silverman Outside of the war it was the greatest mass murder in American history. Nine hundred bodies lay rotting in the Guyanese jungle, most of them black. Many of them came from right here in the Bay Area. Nearly three hundred were children. All of the dead, along with three journalists and the first United States Congressman ever assassinated in the line of duty. I purposely say mass murder and not suicide, for perhaps the greatest lie about Jonestown is that 913 people killed themselves on November 18, 1978 at the urging of Jim Jones. This despite the testimony of Dr. Leslie Mootoo, a forensic pathologist and the chief medical examiner of Guyana, who was the first doctor to arrive at the scene and conducted 70 autopsies. Dr. Mootoo clearly stated that at least 700 of the victims were murdered and not suicides. Many dozens and perhaps hundreds were forcibly injected with poison by hypodermic. Hundreds more were forced to drink the cyanide punch at gunpoint. The infants and small children first to be killed, as a means of breaking their parents' will to live surely cannot be considered suicides. And yet suicide is the single lasting image of Jonestown in the public consciousness.
The Government Psychiatric Torture Site
as being on the scene at the mass killings, a original $600,000 down payment on theJonestown lease to How did peoples temple amass more than $15 million, most
http://www.mk-resistance.com/jonestown.html

Extractions: DECEMBER 1-15, 1988 Courtesy of MindNet Outside of the war it was the greatest mass murder in American history. Nine hundred bodies lay rotting in the Guyanese jungle, most of them black. Many of them came from right here in the Bay Area. Nearly three hundred were children. All of the dead, along with three journalists and the first United States Congressman ever assassinated in the line of duty. I purposely say mass murder and not suicide, for perhaps the greatest lie about Jonestown is that 913 people killed themselves on November 18, 1978 at the urging of Jim Jones. This despite the testimony of Dr. Leslie Mootoo, a forensic pathologist and the chief medical examiner of Guyana, who was the first doctor to arrive at the scene and conducted 70 autopsies. Dr. Mootoo clearly stated that at least 700 of the victims were murdered and not suicides. Many dozens and perhaps hundreds were forcibly injected with poison by hypodermic. Hundreds more were forced to drink the cyanide punch at gunpoint. The infants and small children first to be killed, as a means of breaking their parents' will to live surely cannot be considered suicides. And yet suicide is the single lasting image of Jonestown in the public consciousness. It's a funny thing. The Gallup Poll reports that 25 years after the murder of John Kennedy, fully 80 percent of the American public believes his assassination was the result of a conspiracy. Oswald himself was perhaps a conspirator or maybe just a patsy. But we don't buy the theory of Lee Harvey Oswald as lone madman. So why have we swallowed, hook, line, and sinker, the mythology that the greatest mass murder in American history was the work of a single madman?
Religious Movements Homepage: People's Temple (Jonestown)
Article examines the jonestown tragedy on its twentieth anniversary. Find a list of related sites, such as the jonestown Memorial Project.
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jkh8x/soc257/nrms/Jonestwn.html

Extractions: On November 18, 1978 over 900 persons died in Jonestown, Guyana. For twenty years a small group of people have attempted to make the name Jonestown synonymous with Auschwitz. The tragedy of Jonestown is not diminished in the slightest by declaring this to be an inappropriate analogy. Indeed, this linking of one of the most horrible events of the 20ththe systematic annihiliation of Jewswith the tragedy in Guyana presumes that all there is to know about Jonestown is already known. The model of psychopathology and criminality that informs this perspective is most likely wrong and, further, it discourages inquiry that might advance our understanding of this terrible event. It also invites bigotry of the highest order against all new religious movements. On the occasion of this 20th anniversary, three new documents of considerable significance have been added to this page: A petition to the Congressional House Committee on International Relations asking for the declassification of important Jonestown documents. The Petition is important because it calls attention to the unfinished business of seeking a clearer understanding of what really happened in Jonestown. The failure of the government to declassify materials thwarts these efforts and also feeds fuel to conspiracy theories. New Information on Jonestown is found on an important new web site that presents over a hundred original source documents previously unavailable. Using the Freedom of Information Act, Brian Csuk obtained more than 6,000 pages of declassified materials. Over 100 of these documents are now available on his web page and additional documents are being added; and

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