Finally, the list of survivors who were neither in Jonestown nor Georgetown include: • Helen Swinney, Charlie Touchette, Richard Janaro, and Phil Blakey, who were on another Temple boat – the Marceline – in the Caribbean; • Joyce Parks, who was in Venezuela purchasing medical supplies for Jonestown; and.
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The story of the Peoples Temple is not enshrouded in mystery,however. Jim Jones had founded his church over twenty years before,in Indiana. His preaching stressed the need for racial brotherhoodand integration, and his group helped feed the poor and find themjobs.
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With that in mind, we can identify 87 Temple members who survived. • 11 Jonestown residents in a party led by Richard Clark who left the community on the morning of 18 November and walked to Matthews Ridge (go here for an FAQ on this group).
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I was afraid of him and stayed afraid of him for seven years.”. The good in Jim Jones eroded with drug use at Jonestown, O’Shea told The Atlantic. Just before the massacre, he seemed unwell and deeply paranoid, Reiterman told TIME. “[I]t was very bothersome to realize that over 900 lives were in the hands of this man,” he said.
http://time.com/3583781/jonestown-massacre/
THE TRUTH BEHIND THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE. THE TRUTH BEHIND THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE. On November 18, 1978, 913 people died in Jonestown, a small compound carved out of the jungles of Guyana, a small country on the northeast coast of South America.
http://nstarzone.com/JONESTOWN.html
The Jonestown Massacre, Remembered. Nov. 18, 1978: More than 900 people die after drinking poisoned Flavor Aid under instructions from cult leader Jim Jones. Rumors had already spread that Jim Jones’ socialist community in the Guyana jungle was no utopia.
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Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple. The number of survivors depends upon one’s definition of “survivor.” Generally on this website, we identify survivors as members of Peoples Temple who were in (or near) Guyana on November 18 and who survived the deaths.
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But there was something off about Jones even in his early days, according to Tim Reiterman, one of the journalists who was nearly killed in Guyana on this day 36 years ago. In a 2008 interview with TIME, Reiterman said he believed good and evil had always coexisted in the charismatic leader.
http://time.com/3583781/jonestown-massacre/
At one level, the deaths at Jonestown can be viewed as the productof obedience, of people complying with the orders of a leader andreacting to the threat of force. In the Peoples Temple, whatever JimJones commanded, the members did.
http://www.guyana.org/features/jonestown.html
In fact, the notion of a mass suicide at Jonestown has been repeated so many times that it is accepted as fact, and the association is so strong that when most people hear Jonestown, the first thing which pops in their head is Kool-Aid.. This association is false.
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when did the jonestown massacre occur
Jonestown massacre occured in November 18, 1978. The Jonestown Massacre occurred on November 18, 1978. 