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Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple by Rebecca Moore, 2009-03-20 JONESTOWN AND PEOPLES TEMPLE: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Encyclopedia of Religion</i> by David Chidester, 2005 Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple by Deborah Layton, 1999-11-09 Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple: An entry from Gale's <i>American Decades: Primary Sources</i> Dear People: Remembering Jonestown Gone from the Promised Land by John Hall, 2004-04-01 Hearing the Voices of Jonestown (Religion and Politics) by Mary McCormick Maaga, 1998-05 Death of a Cult Family: Jim Jones (Days of Tragedy) by Sue L. Hamilton, 1989-11

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41. Jonestown
    and scores of bodies. Guyana, jonestown was the site where some 900 members of theCalifornia based peoples temple died in a selfimposed ritual mass suicide.  
    http://www.farmington.k12.mn.us/3ap70s/jonestown.html
    
    Extractions: Couples with their arms around each other, children holding parents. Nothing moved. One of the first newsman to fly over Jonestown in Guyana described the scene as " IT looked like a parking lot full of cars. When the planned dipped lower, the cars turned out to be bodies. Scores and scores of bodies." Guyana, Jonestown was the site where some 900 members of the California based Peoples Temple died in a self-imposed ritual mass suicide. Back to 70s Main Page

42. The People's Temple
    The macabre mass suicide and murder was directed by factfinding group that had justleft jonestown. three American newsmen and a peoples temple defector were  
    http://www.gbs.sha.bw.schule.de/peoples_temple_wpost.htm
    
    Extractions: November 21, 1978 GEORGETOWN, GUYANA With exhortations on the "beauty of dying," the Rev. Jim Jones led 408 of his followers in the Peoples Temple Church to a mass suicide-murder and was himself shot to death, according to reports yesterday from the scene of the massacre. Guyanese authorities said most of the victims appear to have been killed with poison drawn from a vat set in a clearing in Jonestown, the agricultural settlement where Jones' cult was based. Only three of the bodies had gunshot wounds. By late yesterday only a dozen of the several hundred residents of Jonestown who apparently fled into the surrounding forest had returned to the compound. Authorities said the returnees were helping to identify the dead. A survivor of the mass murder-suicide told an investigating group that visited Jonestown yesterday that the poison consisted of cyanide mixed with Kool-aid in a vat. It was administered by Jonestown's staff doctor and nurses to men, women, children and babies. Those who tried to refuse the poison or escape were forced by armed guards to take it. It was not known if Jones was shot by someone else or killed himself.

43. Guyana
    four other people were killed in jonestown, Guyana, by members of the peoples temple.The killings were followed by a night of mass murder and suicide by 912  
    http://timelines.ws/countries/GUYANA.HTML
    
    Extractions: (WSJ, 4/7/00, p.W9) 1899 Oct, An int'l. tribunal in Paris ruled on a border dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana. Britain received most of the claim for the Essequibo region, close to 111,000 square miles. Venezuela was represented by 2 US judges and the chairman of the panel was Russian jurist Frederic de Martens. (SFC, 10/26/99, p.A12) 1901 Nov 17, Dr. Aubre De Lambert Maynard (d.1999 at 97) was born in Georgetown. In 1958 he performed a successful operation on Martin Luther King who was attacked and had a knife embedded in his sternum. Maynard authored "Surgeons to the Poor: The Harlem Hospital Story" in 1978.

44. Cults Of Hatred
    to jonestown, the Guyana village where peoples temple followers went She escapedfrom jonestown in 1978 and activities there, such as mass suicide drills and  
    http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov02/cults.html
    
    Extractions: Print version: page 30 Holding a briefcase filled with the explosive C4, Kerry Noble entered a church for gay men in Kansas City, Mo., in 1984 with intentions of blowing it up. He waited for his opportunity as he sat among a crowd of about 60 people. "All I had to do was hit the timer and walk out," Noble said. "About 10 or 15 minutes later, there'd be an explosion, and everyone would die." Noble thought he was going to start a revolution. As a cult leader of the Covenant, Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA), he was on a mission for his organization, which had come to hate homosexuals, blacks and Jews. But as Noble sat among the crowd, he put a face to his enemy. And his "enemy" appeared no different than anyone else. He thought of the consequencesof what would have amounted to the largest terrorist attack in America at the time. Then, he picked up the briefcase and left.

45. New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, And Peoples Temple
    New Religious Movements, mass suicide, and peoples temple Scholarly Perspectiveson a The first definitive, scholarly study of the jonestown tragedy a  
    http://www.mellenpress.com/emp/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=1292&pc=9

46. Jonestown
    cannot be said, with any credibility, that jonestown was a mass suicide. It's amazing theymay very well have been networking with the peoples' temple?  
    http://www.geminiwalker-ink.net/HellJonestown.html
    
    Extractions: On November 18, 1978, 913 people died in the jungle of Guyana, a smal country in the northeast coast of South America. It's amazing how many people still assume it was a mass suicide because "that's what it said on the news." The media at the time reported that it was a They also reported that his followers willingly followed their leader into the great beyond by sipping on some cyanide cocktails laced with purple Kool-Aid. It is, of course, a lie. The source of the "Kool-Aid Suicide" stories was the US State Department, which presented the story immediately after the "suicides" were reported as though it was the only obvious truth. No autopsies were done, none were needed. The bodies were then allowed to rot in the jungle. Despite the lack of need for autopsies, Dr. C. Leslie Mootoo, the top Guyanese pathologist, was at Jonestown hours after the deaths, and, refusing the assistance of US pathologists, accompanied the teams that examined the bodies. He found fresh needle marks at the back of the left shoulder blades on 80 to 90 percent of the victims. Others had been shot or strangled. A surviving witness stated that those who resisted were forced by armed guards to comply. Dr. Mootoo's opinion, and that of the Guyanese grand jury investigating Jonestown, was that all but three (only two of which were suicides) were murdered by "persons unknown." The suicide hoax is only the beginning of the deception. The original death count was 408 with the added claim that 700 had fled to the jungle. the final total was changed to 913. American authorities first explained that those "backward, ignorant Guyanese could not count." Finally, the official explanation was that bodies were "stacked on top of each other." This too, was a lie.

47. Religious Studies - FaithCentral - Sects And Cults
    Focuses on the people who belonged to peoples temple and who were committed Examiningthe jonestown temple. A summary analysis of the jonestown mass suicide.  
    http://www.faithcentral.net.nz/inclass/sects.htm
    
    Extractions: Other class topics Art music architecture Beginnings of NZ Church Biblical studies Bio-ethics Changing role of Women Church History Church's year Conscience Morality Values Ecumenism - Church Unity Eucharist Expressions of Catholic Life Holy Spirit Impact of Media Inspiring men and women Jesus Christ Jesus life and times Justice and Peace Loss grief death dying Mary the first disciple Poverty and wealth Psychology of Religion Religions of the world Sects and Cults Signs of God Defining a Sect or Cult Defining a Cult or a Sect is often more difficult than we think. Cults have positive, neutral and negative meanings. On the other hand Sects seem to arouse less emotional response. Tracing the root origins and the different ways scholars have used the terms Sect and Cult help in understanding what is meant by them. What is a cult? Who joins them? Is it hard to get out of a cult? What's mind control? These questions and more.

48. CULTS: RESOURCES
    The government calls the deaths a mass suicide in fires set 18, 1978 In jonestown,Guyana, more than 900 followers in the head, led the peoples temple in San  
    http://www.freedomlink.org/cults.html
    
    Extractions: Some of these groups may increasingly "act out" their visions as 2000 approaches. "As we approach the millennium, we are going to see more and more groups whose interpretation of the apocalypse is either confrontational or suicidal,"says Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates in Cambridge, Mass. The San Diego suicides, as with the recent Solar Temple cult and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, are another public study in the power of suggestion among humans in groups, say experts. These incidents illustrate the lengths to which people will go to sacrifice in the service of an idea they feel is religious or spiritual.

49. Fragile Realities: PREFACE
    started at the time of the jonestown mass murder/suicide. their own children andthen committed suicide at the It was said that the peoples temple was a cult  
    http://employees.oneonta.edu/downinll/PREFACE.htm
    
    Extractions: My interest in this topic started at the time of the Jonestown mass murder/suicide. At that time, in November of 1978, I was teaching a social psychology course and felt obligated to try to say something meaningful about this bizarre situation in which over 900 people had died. Followers had apparently killed their own children and then committed suicide at the order of their messianic leader, Jim Jones. How could people come to a point where they would be willing to obey such an order? Were these people crazy? Were they in a situation that was so powerful that anybody exposed to it would have done the same thing? Was there something peculiar about them as individuals that caused them to behave the way they did, or perhaps, that caused them to be in that kind of situation? The news media were not very helpful at answering such questions. While they did a good job at uncovering the facts and the descriptive characteristics of what took place, explanations of why it happened always seemed to fall short. It was said that the Peoples Temple was a "cult," and that it had "brainwashed" its members. This sounded like an explanation, but I knew little about such "cults," or about "brainwashing."

50. Cults And Suicides
    Cults and suicides Guide picks. Some cults commit mass suicide which ones havedone this and why? jonestown The peoples' temple Aticles and essays about  
    http://atheism.about.com/cs/cultsandsuicides/

51. A Tentative First Report On The Deaths In Uganda, By J. Gordon Melton
    the 913 that died at the peoples temple community in Uganda, calls forth comparisonwith jonestown, where in in upon itself and commit mass suicide, and to  
    http://www.cesnur.org/testi/uganda_005.htm
    
    Extractions: by J. Gordon Melton (updated: April 14, 2000) First it was 150 dead. Then it was 350, and gradually the count reached and surpassed the 913 that died at the Peoples Temple community in Jonestown, Guyana. It has now risen above 1,000, and the search for victims of Uganda's Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God continues. The sheer extent of the tragedy in Kanungu, Uganda, calls forth comparison with Jonestown, where in November 1978 the visit of California Representative Leo J. Ryan became the catalyst for the group to turn in upon itself and commit mass suicide, and to murder the minority who would not participate. On the surface, Jonestown and Kanungu have striking similarities: More than 900 known dead, both exhibited some primary characteristics of so-called "cults"charismatic leaders and geographic isolation. But closer reflection shows some equally striking differencesdespite equally tragic ends.

52. Peoples Temple, EV And CAC
    appointed to defend Larry Layton, the former peoples temple member who Leo Ryan atthe airstrip outside jonestown right before the mass suicide occurred  
    http://www.ex-premie.org/best/Peoples Temple EV and CAC.htm
    
    Extractions: Steve Quint -:- CAC And Recent Exes Forum Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:03:35 (EDT) Jim 'Terrorism' is a bit strong Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 17:00:50 (EDT) JohnT deeply offended and hurt Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 14:46:51 (EDT) Sir Dave Stuff and nonsense Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 04:25:01 (EDT) Pat:C) Of course CAC scared me, Steve Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 03:29:15 (EDT) Francesca CAC shook me up too Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:12:35 (EDT) Marianne Only female CAC victim Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:33:14 (EDT) Dermot I understand, Marianne... Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:14:36 (EDT) Deborah You go! Marianne Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 19:18:12 (EDT) Cynthia Go Marianne! Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 17:07:02 (EDT) Marianne Peoples Temple, EV and CAC Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 22:38:00 (EDT) Pat:C) Absolutely ''BEST OF'' Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:35:11 (EDT) Francesca ~) ***BEST OF FORUM!!!***

53. ABCNEWS.com : Uganda Prays After Mass Cult Slaying
    Worse Than jonestown The toll surpasses the November 1978 peoples temple tragedyat jonestown in Guyana. The jonestown mass suicide and killings claimed 913  
    http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/uganda000401_cult.html

54. Scientology / Jonestown Connection: Sensitive FBI Documents Found In Jonestown R
    The two attorneys were present as peoples temple lawyers when Rep Calif.) made thefateful trip to jonestown in November and then Jones led a mass murdersuicide  
    http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/scientology-jonestown.htm

55. K12 Newsletters: 00-03-13: LII> [LIIWEEK] March 13, 2000
    of jonestown and peoples temple http//www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~remoore/jonestown/Attempting to go beyond the sensational reports of the mass suicide in Guyana  
    http://scout.wisc.edu/addserv/K12news/00-03/00-03-13/0018.html

56. Revisiting The Jonestown Tragedy - Freedom Magazine Published By Church Of Scien
    cases of mass murder had been written off as “mass suicide.”. 39,000 additionalpages of documents concerning jonestown, the peoples temple and related  
    http://www.freedommag.org/english/vol29I4/page04.htm
    
    Extractions: Freedoms: Behind the Terror Deadly Spiral Children of the State The Hidden Hand of Violence Ca$hing In The Great Brain Injury Scam Human Rights and Freedoms Buying off the Drug Traffic Cop Revisiting the Jonestown tragedy The Great Waste A Fire on the Cross In Support of Human Rights The Black and White of Justice Freedom of Speech at Risk in Cyberspace The Psychiatric Subversion of Justice The Story Behind the Controversy The Internet: The Promise and the Perils Page hether they liked him or not, most who knew Leo Ryan agreed he had flamboyance, tenacity, nerve and a knack for drawing attention to social abuses. A man who marched to the beat of his own drum, he galled bureaucrats, some of whom, according to a former aide, viewed the Democratic congressman from Northern California as the worst-case-scenario bull in their china shop. After the riots in Watts in 1965, Ryan, then a California state legislator, traveled to that community under a false identity and became a substitute teacher to investigate conditions in the black community. Five years later, he again went undercover and had himself strip-searched and locked up in Folsom State Prison to discover what life in such a facility was really like. In 1978, he made plans to spend that Christmas season incognito once again, this time as a Postal Service employee to investigate complaints of bad working conditions.

57. SUICIDE FOR SOCIALISM
    The followers of the peoples temple (mainly poor blacks history by inaugurating the‘mass revolutionary suicide Referring to the jonestown events an American  
    http://www.uncarved.demon.co.uk/pol/brinton2.html
    
    Extractions: SUICIDE FOR SOCIALISM? - Maurice Brinton Part One Part Two WHAT DO SECTS PROVIDE? Throughout history religious or political faiths have exercised great influence. They have moved armies and motivated people to build both cathedrals and concentration camps. Their success had had very little to do with whether they were true or not. The fact that thousands (or millions) believed in them made of them real historical and social forces. SECTS IN HISTORY Historically, cults and sects have usually flourished at times of social crisis, when old value systems were collapsing and new ones had not yet asserted themselves. They usually start as small groups which break off from the conventional consensus and espouse very different views of the real, the possible and the moral. They have attracted very diverse followings and achieved very variable results. Christianity started as a religion of slaves. In The Pursuit of the Millennium A detailed analysis of cults would require an analysis of their rhetoric and ideology, and of the culture matrices in which they are embedded. The present appeal of cults is related to the major upheaval of our times. This is

58. Senate Majority Caucus Member
    The day she was shot, 911 cult members committed mass suicide or were murdered atthe peoples temple compound. Jackie has stated that the jonestown tragedy is  
    http://democrats.sen.ca.gov/servlet/gov.ca.senate.democrats.pub.members.memDispl

59. CNN - Jonestown Massacre Memories Linger Amid Rumors Of CIA Link - November 19,
    CNN.comCategory News Online Archives CNN.com 1998 November US escaped the jonestown massacre, met at a mass grave for The people of jonestown wentto racial harmony and social justice preached by peoples temple leader Jim  
    http://www.cnn.com/US/9811/19/jonestown.anniversary.01/
    
    Extractions: Web posted at: 4:45 a.m. EST (0945 GMT) OAKLAND, California (CNN) Twenty years ago, more than 900 people drank from a vat of cyanide-laced punch at a jungle settlement and died in a mass suicide that stunned the world. On Wednesday, the people who went to Jonestown in the hope of starting a new society were remembered not just for the way their lives ended on November 18, 1978. On a quiet hillside, relatives of the dead, as well as a few people who escaped the Jonestown Massacre, met at a mass grave for many of the cult victims and remembered how they lived. "The people of Jonestown went to Guyana to live, not to die," said Jynona Norwood, who lost 27 relatives.

60. Jonestown
    The History of jonestown. In 1978, 913 followers of Jim Jones and the peoples Templecommitted a mass suicide in northern Guyana at a site called, jonestown.  
    http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~reli291/Jonestown/Jonestown.html
    
    Extractions: Jonestown Examining the Peoples Temple Left: Jim Jones with Councilman Lindsay (http://cyberscope.com/deceptor/photos.htm) Right: 914 dead (http://www.pathfinder.com/time/reports/cult/killer2.html) BEFORE YOU SCROLL: We have conceived of the Peoples Temple as a reflective cultural marker. We designed this Web page to emphasize the relationship between the Jonestown cult and the culture out of which it grew. When following our links to other sites, keep this in mind. When following the link to the "Cold War," for example, consider why a new religion such as the Peoples Temple might have emerged as a response to the existing Cold War environment. Ask yourself, "How does this cult reflect and/or react to these more general cultural instances?" It is extremely important, however, to constantly remind yourself of the decontextualizing nature of the Internet. Information exists on the 'Net outside of existing scholarly structures. You must be MORE critical of what you find on the 'Net, always asking, "Who put this here?, Can I be sure of that?, Why did that person put this here?, What did they intend for me to think?, What does this mean?, How am I differently affected by images and texts that I get off a computer screen than those that I find in books or journals?, Can this information from the 'Net be used in good conscience?," and so on. If our attempt at understanding Jonestown as a cultural reflector fails, it will probably be because we were unable to find the right information on the 'Net: we did not have the time to ask enough questions about each link that we have provided. We do not have the computer skill necessary to shorten the topical searches (to find concise information about a specific issue quickly). We freely admit that most of the links provided represent the first interesting site to appear in response to a given keyword search such as "counterculture" in Yahoo, Alta Vista, and cetera.

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