Jonestown mass suicide

billzhao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HTtLHgU9tY
' r: F$ ]# A! b* c" L, b# Z

8 }& F" [" p( Z* ~: KCNN documentary
8 Q% b% `( `. x8 T+ c
New documentary explores Jonestown mass suicide

- u4 r9 ^& k* g8 QTwenty-eight years later, what's left to say about Jonestown? Nine hundred members of a religious cult followed their fanatical leader to Guyana and willingly committed suicide by drinking a Kool-Aid-like mixture laced with cyanide.
) _+ d' E7 \, G  r( M; J
2 U/ y- U9 m$ h2 T3 w" p. OWhat more could there be to the story? Plenty, it turns out.
I watched an advance copy of the new documentary, "Jonestown," by filmmaker Stanley Nelson on Sunday, and found myself drawn deeply into a macabre tale that I had little prior knowledge of.
4 t* }* d" n' e) u! s2 s8 E
6 n  b# u+ I! O: nNelson interviewed more than two dozen former members of Jim Jones' controversial Peoples Temple, including some who survived the Jonestown mass suicide -- which, by the way, looks more like mass murder now. And Nelson has unearthed dramatic video and sound recordings -- never seen or heard before that shed new light on the establishment, development and downfall of the Peoples Temple, right up until the moment Jim Jones passes out the cups.

, {- @7 I) i: B8 J/ M+ T4 dThe most chilling part of the film is the audio tape of Jones urging his followers to choose death over persecution. I heard, for the first time, the emotionally-pitched debate between Jones and parishioners who would rather live than die in the South American jungle. It was like a scene out of Apocalypse Now, only this time, the killing was real.

% p% x3 e2 j1 ^0 F+ B3 H0 gI also learned that Jim Jones didn't suddenly take a hard left onto the highway of darkness. He was deeply disturbed from childhood, and is even suspected of abusing animals, something many experts believe is a hallmark of an emerging psychopath.
- g* u. R8 p5 y) g: m* Z
% J+ E3 ~9 q. O9 }What's most tragic though is that Jones' followers don't come off as a cult of religious deviants. They were -- for the most part -- earnest people, attracted to the Peoples Temple for the sense of community they couldn't find in their own lives. It gave them a feeling of belonging, though as the years wore on and Jones' insanity escalated, membership came at an ever-increasing, and in the end, ultimate price.
6 f. q" T3 X3 z! V* r4 Z2 C; w