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.
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.
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.
I will never understand the guy who left his son 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.
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.
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
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 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,
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.
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 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?
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.
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?
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.
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”
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.
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.
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 😢
😮😫😢😭 Many deaths because of Jom Jones and Adoph Hither too Along with other crimlinal murderous people who killed. R. I. P. all victims.🙏🙏🙏 In God we trust.
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.
@JamesHoffman-jl9ne it is common knowledge. The only one of the red brigade, who survived was a man named larry layton. He fled, and was later arrested and sent back to the u s where he was charged for crimes related to the mass murder.
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
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.
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
Your fear leads to anger. Your anger has lead you to hate and that ultimately will lead to suffering. It’s only a matter of time. We see it all around. Did you ever consider yourself the same side of the coin 🪙. You need to let go of all you fear to lose. I see both sides of that coin but have not let hate consume me. I just muse at how simple minded so many have become.
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.
What is sad situation...back in 1978. I was just 13 remembering that it was all about having fun and having boyfriends and to find out that this Maniac killed over 900 people are those who have lost in this terrible terrible tragedy your children are not forgetting😢😢😢. There's something called The Resurrection for God is going to resurrect the righteous and the unrighteous and in this fact your babies are going to come back in Paradise.. I'm 60 years old today I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses so it took me decades Define a religion that I could truly defend I tell you now that I believe that Jesus along with Jehovah is his name are going to resurrect does baby that died and those who were manipulated by this monster
I wouldn't want the unrighteous to be brought back to life, I truly believe that these kinds of people won't change their ways or views. No matter if God gives them a second chance. Sure it will be nice for the good people to be resurrected. I used to be Jehovah's Witness, no longer believe in the religions practices, I'm still respectful of you wanting to believe in something.
People like Jim Jones are why I don't have a belief in God or Jesus because if God was as good as his so-called followers said then Jim Jones would have never existed
This was unbelievable what Jim Jones did to his family and congressional community. Just can sum this up as a paranoid schizophrenic leader. That had no way out except but kill his followers. It was really hard to watch this. But, I did. And to this day is one of the most horrific event in history. I’m sure it had to be hard putting this even together knowing the outcome.🥲
He wasn't Schizophrenic, he was narcissistic and drug addicted. But the problem wasn't just him, it was his ideology. Any survivor of the deadly experiment known as Jonestown should speak OUT against the evils of socialism and collectivism. "Social justice" is a subversion of actual justice. THOSE WHO REFUSE TO LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT. 1
It just shocks me how people can have their mind. Twisted, and led by one vicious. Individual sounds familiar today to me. Sounds familiar today our apropos
It does use actual footage and interview survivors, but the guy playing Jim Jones in the rest of it looks more like a bad Elvis impersonator. And the guy playing Stephen Jones looks nothing like the actual Stephen Jones.
@rhondahelfrich2563 that's not an opinion, that's a fact. A cult believes that only their leader can lead them to salvation, which is utterly preposterous.
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
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.
I have the greatest respect for congressman Ryan.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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 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.
I will never understand the guy who left his son 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.
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.
I wish that there was videos of this and not just recordings. Because it would showed what really happened
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
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
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.
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" 😬
Super important film ! Thanks for posting 🗽
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.
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.
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. 😢
Pack your things? What did he have worth packing and taking- just leave. Leaving your kid was chicken shite.
Jim jones left San Francisco California to Guyana to avoid facing the music.
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.
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.
powers booth played it well
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Excellent documentary 💯💯👏👏
The congressman should have come with military. It wouldn't have gone done this way. 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
May they all rest in peace with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.eternally in heaven.
they are many Jim Jones in this world today
Why wasn't he the first to drink the Kool aid.
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 😢
El diablo nunca recompensa con algo bueno. Él es miserable y su recompensa miseria.
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.
😮😫😢😭
Many deaths because of Jom Jones and Adoph Hither too Along with other crimlinal murderous people who killed.
R. I. P. all victims.🙏🙏🙏
In God we trust.
But the supplier in town had to know what he was delivering
Couldn't sensor it 1978. Evil is evil AND alive today. 2024
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
very sensitively done 🖤
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
How Sad And Tragic 😢. 😥. They Maybe Gone But Not Forgotten. R.I. P.
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.
What about the shooters? Did they kill themselves?
Yes
@@aprilthomas1489how do you know that
@JamesHoffman-jl9ne it is common knowledge. The only one of the red brigade, who survived was a man named larry layton. He fled, and was later arrested and sent back to the u s where he was charged for crimes related to the mass murder.
I saw a documentary of three of the shooters went to jail,and one was released in 2002. There were two other shooters killed in Jonestown.
@ only one Larry Layton
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 .
America was falling and no one wanted to live in America. The time period was the Cold War.
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
Can you do a video about the troubles in Belfast
I feel for Stephen Jones
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 !
This happened under the dictatorship of Burnham . Leader of the PNC. 28 years of starvation under that dictator.
Why on earth a congressman and crew went without a protection from us army or guyenise police?
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".
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
Im from guyana but i never go to region 1 jim jones town but i hear that place is haunted.
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
They should go with soldier and to arrest him
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😢
All these protesters could learn something from Jim Jones. They sure are drinking the Social Media Kool Aid. 😆
You ever consider that maybe YOU are drinking some sorta Kool aid as well
@@law1588 nope. 👎. I’m not that naïve nor misinformed.
@@baruchavraham1939 you certainly sound a lot like those same people
That Trump Kool-Aid... deadly
Your fear leads to anger. Your anger has lead you to hate and that ultimately will lead to suffering. It’s only a matter of time. We see it all around. Did you ever consider yourself the same side of the coin 🪙. You need to let go of all you fear to lose. I see both sides of that coin but have not let hate consume me. I just muse at how simple minded so many have become.
Sad time for the pnc mismagement.Blame the ppp but we are party of compassion and respest for human life.
Are you saying that banking mismanagement of paycheck protection played a role in this tragedy?
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.
why :(
He was a psychopath FACE IT😢😢😢😢
A state within a state in guyana under the pnc govt
The dramatization is awful.
Don't drink the Kool-aid 😮!!!
1:37:39 dancing children just like FBR jungle Dave's town and the peoples forces temple
Im from South América guyana
God I pray
HOw do you not show without
the military?
I hate Jim jones
THEY TRUSTED HIM @ FORGOT ABOUT GOD @ HIS WARNING ABOUT FALSE CULTS LEADERS
What is sad situation...back in 1978. I was just 13 remembering that it was all about having fun and having boyfriends and to find out that this Maniac killed over 900 people are those who have lost in this terrible terrible tragedy your children are not forgetting😢😢😢. There's something called The Resurrection for God is going to resurrect the righteous and the unrighteous and in this fact your babies are going to come back in Paradise.. I'm 60 years old today I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses so it took me decades Define a religion that I could truly defend I tell you now that I believe that Jesus along with Jehovah is his name are going to resurrect does baby that died and those who were manipulated by this monster
I wouldn't want the unrighteous to be brought back to life, I truly believe that these kinds of people won't change their ways or views. No matter if God gives them a second chance. Sure it will be nice for the good people to be resurrected. I used to be Jehovah's Witness, no longer believe in the religions practices, I'm still respectful of you wanting to believe in something.
People like Jim Jones are why I don't have a belief in God or Jesus because if God was as good as his so-called followers said then Jim Jones would have never existed
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No sir u were brainwashed
Omge his son!
Y'all are going to prison for paying Kid Rock to kill me and you're gonna give back what you stole from me too
Alot of commenters here using this terrible tragedy to push their political agendas. Despicable.
Rest in peace Vern Gosney. Reunited with his son at last 🙏🌈💐.
I'm alive and well😅
This was unbelievable what Jim Jones did to his family and congressional community. Just can sum this up as a paranoid schizophrenic leader. That had no way out except but kill his followers. It was really hard to watch this. But, I did. And to this day is one of the most horrific event in history. I’m sure it had to be hard putting this even together knowing the outcome.🥲
He wasn't schizophrenic. He was evil.
He wasn't Schizophrenic, he was narcissistic and drug addicted. But the problem wasn't just him, it was his ideology. Any survivor of the deadly experiment known as Jonestown should speak OUT against the evils of socialism and collectivism. "Social justice" is a subversion of actual justice. THOSE WHO REFUSE TO LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT.
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I love Kool-Aid
It just shocks me how people can have their mind. Twisted, and led by one vicious. Individual sounds familiar today to me. Sounds familiar today our apropos
Hybrid trucks
We ate rice and vegetables and he ate steak and lobster, and if you watch this thing closely you will see Nancy Pelosi.
the pictures of Stephan Jones younger looks like Tiger Whitehurst!
John Compton behaved like Jim Jones, sweet talks you in then shows his true evil.
If you look hardly, I. The mirror you’ll see you’re acoustic.
@@AcaciaApparition so what definitions of the word are you calling me?
Kool aid, anyone??
Bloke was mad lol only in America
Terwat, only in America lol
This is NOT a documentary; it's a cheap drama with terrible acting. Lolz
Probably should’ve said docudrama instead.
It does use actual footage and interview survivors, but the guy playing Jim Jones in the rest of it looks more like a bad Elvis impersonator.
And the guy playing Stephen Jones looks nothing like the actual Stephen Jones.
Not cheap, very well done.
@@partridgefamilybus2021yeah I agree. This was one of the best Jonestown documentaries I've seen
trump Jones
Everyone knows Jim Jones was a Liberal......please
@@rhondahelfrich2563 And trump is a cult leader, which was the point I was making.
@@jakeplumber1373That's just not true we all have a right to our own opinions even you 🙏
@rhondahelfrich2563 that's not an opinion, that's a fact. A cult believes that only their leader can lead them to salvation, which is utterly preposterous.
@@jakeplumber1373 Coming from a party who believes it's right to murder their babies I'm going to pray for you !
This guy who left his kid keeps giving excuses he knew what he was doing