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.
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.
@@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.
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
@@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.
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.
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 😢
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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!!
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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..
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?
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.
I saw this one on UA-cam 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.
Yes it's for your own good! 😂 People should stand up to this bs every time , Netflix is full of it, UA-cam is full of it, they change every event in history systematically,
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.
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 💐.
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.
@@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
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 😕
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
😮😫😢😭 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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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”
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 😢
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.
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 .
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Narcissism losing power. 🤯
Brave congressman compared to the ones we’ve seen lately.
@@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.
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
I have the greatest respect for congressman Ryan.
My father acted like Jim Jones. I didn’t fully escape him until I was 50. Narcissists are dangerous people.
How so and why did it take so long?
@@winngriffpeople usually are willing to turn a blind eye to those close to them, especially family. That's just speculation on my part, though. 🤭
@@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.
WOW
Seems as if you survived. God bless.
All those innocent people. Those children. They all died because of one man's narcissism and sickness. May the innocents rest in peace
Sounds like Trump with his mismanagement of Covid
@@michellejohnson8003 Yes!
Just like Trump
@@michellejohnson8003Trump didn't mandate covid shots. Biden did.
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.
Congressman Ryan was a fearless badass. RIP
take that
I was 11 when this happened. I remember seeing the photos in Time magazine. It was surreal.
I was 13 and remember it on the news.
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 😢
I was 14 I see the plane transfer the dead bodies.
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.
The good old times
I don’t think they imagined it was this bad.
@@MarCapa-ed5uvbut they knew their were armed guards there
Those were the days. Do you as humans, especially in america?Learn some hard stuff after the fact.It's always after the fact
The senator made the mistake of thinking because he was from the US he was safe. Hindsight is always 20/20.
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.
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.
Thank you for the information. I didn’t know the Tenerife victims went there too.
Do u know the names of the unclaimed families?
Thank you for the extra info. Prayers for all innocent victims and workers in Yahshua's name. 🙏🏾🕊
Thanks for that info.
It's not what a narcissistic person does that's necessarily the scariest thing. It's what they can convince you to do.
Most people simply are manipulated easily. Too lazy to engage their minds especially when you introduce religion and evil people knows it .
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.
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.
@@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.
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)
Trump is the next Jim Jones
@@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.
@@sue3061I was just thinking that
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!!
Agree because it was real life not “Fantasy”!
@@StarGoddess_516 good point!
Same as the Waco guys, the branch Davidian stuff
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.
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
Super important film ! Thanks for posting 🗽
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.
Gosh, looking back at those memories, knowing what you do now, must be.. 😅
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.
Thank God, God protect you from this evil man, may He continue to protect you always. ❤
Damn ya parents allowed that ??? Hmmm
Those glasses told me a lot.
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.
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
@@remy12 Jones was always coo coo, starting as a child. He would hold 'funerals' for road kill.
The congressman should have come with military. It wouldn't have gone done this way. 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
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.
Very well said.
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.
He sound like sugar is in his tank. God will judge him for what he did to his poor son.
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..
You are clueless.
Narcissist psychological abuse ......The ability to influence people mind ....Mercy God
powers booth played it well
Jim jones left San Francisco California to Guyana to avoid facing the music.
Bro really left his son to die like that.
He didn't know what Jones would do as his final solution.
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?
Hard pill to swallow it hunted him for the rest of his life. 😢
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.
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
I saw this one on UA-cam 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.
😂😂😂 Blur out history YT
Yes it's for your own good! 😂
People should stand up to this bs every time , Netflix is full of it, UA-cam is full of it, they change every event in history systematically,
"punch" 😬
I wish that there was videos of this and not just recordings. Because it would showed what really happened
Excellent documentary 💯💯👏👏
This guy who left his kid keeps giving excuses he knew what he was doing
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.
Vern is a coward.
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 💐.
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.
It's happening.See MAGA
Bifen. Putin. . Zelensky are all Jim Jones
@@winngriffwhats maga??
@@winngriffit seems you're the one that can't stop being nuts about trump 😂😂 cry harder it's hilarious
@@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
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 😕
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?
@@Littlemissdirtbag She was killed there. 1:25:08-1:25:31 is the depiction, followed up by her real-life photo.
@@Littlemissdirtbag she dies there but did not drink the poison. She was found with a needle poke in her arm.
Jim Jones was a monster.
This isn’t a documentary. It’s a dramatization
May they all rest in peace with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.eternally in heaven.
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.
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.
As a Guyanese living in Guyana, Jonestown is now on my bucket list to visit.
Jonestown is just Bush now
search on google for "tourism jonestown" and read the article from "dark tourism". Apparently there's almost nothing to be seen there
Why?!😳
The jungle took it back over. There's nothing there anymore.
From Jonestown to Ghostown.
they are many Jim Jones in this world today
yeah, "Dr. Anthony Fauci" for one....
@teresaarvidson44
Trump too
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.
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.
brilliant observation, I agree absolutely!
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.
Is that house still in existence?
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!
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.
Im from guyana but i never go to region 1 jim jones town but i hear that place is haunted.
900 JIMBIE - HA HA
ya think?
I BET my life that place is haunted! The way those people went out. None of them are at rest😢
😮😫😢😭
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.
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.
Joel Osteen
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.
@@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.
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”
@@RafeDean1972 Except Jones was an atheist.
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
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!
No excuses, he gets judged because his only job was to protect his child! @Dawn-we7vd
@@Dawn-we7vd The poor kid, abandoned by his father! What kind of 🤡 are you?
Pack your things? What did he have worth packing and taking- just leave. Leaving your kid was chicken shite.
Right they were only allowed to have 1 outfit and socks!!!
When I first heard of Jonestown I learned that it actually existed, once I learned it existed, I'm still learning.
I was 13 when this happened. I remember it was all over the news and was so shocking.
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.
I was 5 years old when this happened in my country Guyana.
May I ask how old are u now
Why wasn't he the first to drink the Kool aid.
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.
How Sad And Tragic 😢. 😥. They Maybe Gone But Not Forgotten. R.I. P.
El diablo nunca recompensa con algo bueno. Él es miserable y su recompensa miseria.
Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
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.
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 😢
I read the crops wouldn’t grow and he couldn’t feed them all, so they mostly ate rice with watered down gravy😢
He was a psychopath FACE IT😢😢😢😢
I was just shy of 6 months old. Ive heard of Jonestown but never looked into it.
What happened to the elder woman who hide?
But the supplier in town had to know what he was delivering
HOw do you not show without
the military?
Couldn't sensor it 1978. Evil is evil AND alive today. 2024
Why is it censored? 😡
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.
@@FreeDocumentaryHistory I figured it was YT. Thanks for the upload!
We all know the story utube is getting bad do not censor !
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 .
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".
America was falling and no one wanted to live in America. The time period was the Cold War.
Why on earth a congressman and crew went without a protection from us army or guyenise police?
The Guyana refused to get involved because it was American vs American.
He was a total mad man Jim jones mad
Im from South América guyana
How could he leave his baby?😢😢
The young man leaving his son behind was a deal breaker for me. Couldn't do it, both of us or none of us....
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
I feel for Stephen Jones
very sensitively done 🖤
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.
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.
What kind of a man leaves his son. Sick.
THEY TRUSTED HIM @ FORGOT ABOUT GOD @ HIS WARNING ABOUT FALSE CULTS LEADERS
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.
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.
Poor Ron can’t see pics of dead kids. Come on 🙄🙄
@@marciajones2993reality is real. Censorship deprives the actual shock.
@@enoughwithsociety why do you need to see dead kids to prove it happened. 👀👀👀
The guy playing Jim doesn’t sound like him at all
But he did do a spectacular job at portraying him
@@helldomine68 I could do better lol jk
Don't drink the Kool-aid 😮!!!
The irony is that their story is continually being told til today
AND NOW WE HAVE TO WORRRRY ABOUT SCIENTOLOGY
@@Kimtwister did you watch our doc on the cult of scientology? It’s over on ENDEVR
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.
Can you do a video about the troubles in Belfast
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.
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
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.
@@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.
When was this documentary made? There's not way it could have been recent. I'm guessing late 1990s/early 2000s.
Definitely not new, I’ve seen it crop up a bunch on UA-cam over the years.
(Looked it up, it was made in 2007. Good eye!)
2007
Vernon Gosney passed away back in 2021 reunited with his son. R.I.P.
@@falcon3268 thank for the update😢
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
Most were not brainwashed, IMO. They knew as soon as they got to Guyana, they were screwed
he had help yes - over 12 barrels of mind control drugs were found there - the same drugs they had in San Francisco
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.
What happen to the rest of the football theme that were with you.
why :(
What's scary to me is that I see similarities of this today in November 2024. People have literally drank the Kool aid all over again.
It’s not nearly the same
Tomorrow 19 November
Exactly
Horrific
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
A state within a state in guyana under the pnc govt
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.
May I ask how old are u now?
1:37:39 dancing children just like FBR jungle Dave's town and the peoples forces temple
Where are the shooters and his enforers at? Were they Guyanese or American? Either way they need to answer for the role they played in this...
They should go with soldier and to arrest him
The dramatization is awful.
I agree, that guy has to give God an account for his son thst he left behind a coward.
1:12:24
Wow😢