Laura Bowman Jackie Speier, Aide to Congressman Leo Ryan: More people wanted to leave. Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: Immediately, the whole vibe changed. Senior Woman (archival): I was just wondering whether I could go or not. Reach the fingers out that are bothering you. In California, the Peoples Temple continued to grow and develop into a political and social advocacy group. Jim Jones (archival): He’s the one that I’m just talking about. And not only that, but these forces were traveling to Guyana to destroy them there. It was very quiet. So wild you’ll just have to watch it to understand what we’re talking about. Five years later, an extended family of eighty people had become an organization of thousands. KQED And when he flung it and let it go, the place got dead quiet like. Roc-a-fella breakup "Who gone tell us no" - Jim Including commentary… Neva Sly Hargrave, Peoples Temple Member: Jim started talking about our cause and he said, “This punch is going to be passed out to everybody here.” We all drank our punch and then he said, “You just drank poison. And that frightened the hell out of me. Neva Sly Hargrave, Peoples Temple member When it hit the floor, he stood and he looked back and forth. Female Peoples Temple Member (archival): I wished I could. I was there the afternoon that Edith drove away. It’s blasphemy to talk about going back when you have not been given any approval! Jesus Camp is a fascinating look into the psychology of Evangelicals in the USA, and how their warlike mindset has swayed the nation’s politics in their direction. There was nothing dignified about it. Laura Johnston Kohl, Peoples Temple Member: And often on Saturday night, we’d have planning commission meetings until 2 or 3 in the morning. This feature length film, a hybrid of documentary and drama, tracks the final, 5-day build up to a horrific doomsday - the infamous mass murder/suicides of Jim Jones' People's Temple on November 18th, 1978. Susan Sutton, Indiana Historical Society Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: You might fight five people in one night. We got to — we got to go, that if we don’t go this way, we going to go like this.” They were coming, taking like newborn babies out of their mothers’ arms. And so I picked up the note and I — and I gave it back to him. What sets this documentary apart, however, is the original footage in features shot by Will Allen, a member of the cult for two decades. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: My wife came up to me, she didn’t have no tears in her eyes. There were about twelve to fifteen cars driving across United States and making that journey to a place that none of us knew, you know — none of us could even imagine. Jackie Speier, Aide to Congressman Leo Ryan: Then the Congressman ran under the plane, and I sort of followed suit and got behind one of the tires. And finally he opened the door, and without any talk or anything, he just pulled down his pants and — and had sex with me. He was on one phone and I was on — taping the other end of it, while somebody else listened on another one. But ya The Game has a doc, and Jadakiss. And there I am involved. There were too many poor people out there. A division of Universal Music Publishing Group Here are the best documentaries on Netflix to watch if you’re cult obsessed. And then we got an allowance — five dollars a week. Oh, what’s he done for me. Male Reporter (archival): What about now? Neva Sly Hargrave, Peoples Temple Member: And she starts taking forward steps. And I did allow Jones to think for me because I figured that he had the better plan. Christine Miller, Peoples Temple Member (archival, subtitles): When we destroy ourselves, we’re defeated. Jim Jones, Jr., Peoples Temple member Collect all the tapes, all the writing, all the history. Susan Starr Katherine McMillan, Interns The little child may not be able to go and draw a paycheck, but the father guarantees the childcare. Eugene Cordell, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: We had some people that disagreed with Jimmy. Connie Roundebush You ought to just take off your clothes and show him what you got. And I was sitting there and I thought, “That’s weird — it smells like alcohol next to me.” And he leaned over and he said, “Do you know what you do to me?” He had informed me that I was to come in — on Bus Seven, there was a room in the back for just him. Rebecca Moore, relative of Peoples Temple member Peoples Temple welcomed people of every race and ethnicity. Jimmy's looks dope though, seen a couple clips. Along with the Robot steez. It is really nice here. Stephen Sung, Sound Technician: All you can hear is the gun — pop, pop, pop — goes off constantly. I’ve never been any happier in my life. John R. Hall, Sociologist: In Lynn, Jim Jones looked for community and couldn’t find community, in Lynn as a town — which had a population of what, a thousand people? “Stanley Clayton, up, front, center.”, Janet Shular, Peoples Temple Member: He would ask people, “What do you think we ought to do with them? You — you could hear it all the time. Jim Jones (archival): We had a lady who visited us a week ago here and was speaking to one at the door, and she was a member of a prominent church, a pastor’s wife, and she said, “I think that the poor should be made to control how many children they bring into the earth.” You remember? How is it going? Reporter (archival): Last night, someone came and passed me this note. Robert Shepard And he reached up and kind of patted the back of my neck, and he said, “I’ll [expletive] you in the ass if you want.” And I just kind of stammered, “No.” You know, “No.” And he said, “Well, you know, if you ever want that, that’s okay, just let me know and we’ll do that.”. Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel & Lisa Kuhn, Post Production Why do you want to leave?” It was an emotional roller coaster for everyone there. I said this is got to be a perfect way to live. Mark Kitchell Jim Jones (archival, subtitles): The congressman is dead! He was obsessed with religion; he was obsessed with death. Now a new documentary sheds light on Rev. It’s just stepping over into another plane. Bryan Kravitz, Peoples Temple Member: I decided not to go to Vietnam, and I was just at the point of what am I going to do with myself? Kristine Kravitz, Peoples Temple Member: Pretty soon we were seeing film footage of the first crew that went down there. Do you think you could? They’ll torture some of our children here. They see Christ in me, a hope of glory. He would have her to come up in the midst of one of his meetings, and she used to say, “The man got power. Laura Johnston Kohl, Peoples Temple Member: We had no other radio or T.V. Jim Jones (archival): I make my stand clear. Five people were killed on the airstrip. It was green. Established on 64,000 acres of land in rural Oregon in the 80s, the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh wanted to build a utopian community. On a certain level, it’s normal, you know? Mary Leggett, M’s Bed and Breakfast And then the question went on, “Well, how many of you in here have had him to do that?” And whether they were lying or just following suit, hands of the men just went up around the room. Tim Reiterman, Journalist: He saw that they were a surrogate home. They didn’t ask anything. As you see me as your father, I’ll be your father.” He said, “If you see me as your God, I’ll be your God.”. We all wanted to go. I said something got a hold of me. ... Is it too late for Russia? Jim Jones (Documentary)Jim Jones was best known as the cult leader of the Peoples Temple who led more than 900 followers in a mass suicide via cyanide-laced punch known as the Jonestown Massacre.Who Was Jim Jones?Born on May 13, 1931, in Crete (near Lynn), Indiana, Jim Jones was a notorious cult leader. You know, people would be dancing or singing. The choir was interracial and they used to sing this song — “Never heard a man speak like this man before. He was carrying on an adulterous relationship with my sister. Laura Johnston Kohl, Peoples Temple Member: Over the summer of 1978, all of us noticed that Jim was — seemed to be getting sicker. I’ve seen situations where they actually knocked the person out and actually took water and threw water back on him, woke him up, and whooped him some more. Reporter (archival): Doesn’t it concern you, though, that this man, for whatever reason, one of the people in your group…. Wherever there are people struggling for justice and righteousness, there I am.” On-screen text: 909 Peoples Temple members died at Jonestown. Inside, I just wanted things to stop. Don’t lay down with tears and agony! Ted ‘Black Lightning’ Patrick started an anti-cult crusade in the 1970s, at times snatching cult members so they could be forcibly mentally reprogrammed, with the help of friends and family, into non-cultists. If I had to go to the dentist, it was taken care of. If you have an interest in cults, and cult leaders, then Jonestown and Jim Jones are names you will have heard before. Peoples Temple Collection, courtesy of California Historical Society And then Jim Jones started to make pleas to people, saying, “You can’t leave. In 1978 over 900 people died in the largest mass murder-suicide in history. Bass Photo Co Collection, Indiana Historical Society Adapted for Film by Tom Phillips. Claire Janaro, Peoples Temple Member: I would be up jumping in the balcony and clapping my hands. Narrator (anonymous letter, archival): “There’s quiet as we leave this world. Janet Shular, Peoples Temple Member: The first time I visited Peoples Temple, I drove at the urging of a friend — a co-worker — to Redwood Valley. Jim Jones (archival): Somebody is gonna get on the freedom train in Philadelphia! We didn’t really get the story until we were in the car going home. On-screen text: Peoples Temple Farm, Ukiah — Redwood Valley, California. So you had to credit a big chunk of decisive votes to Peoples Temple. Through a forceful personality, charm and genuine good works, he managed to draw a massive following and lead them, like a modern-day pied piper, to the jungles of Guyana. There’s no heaven up there…We’ll have to make heaven down here! I heard Jim Jones was going to be coming to Philadelphia, and coming to Benjamin Franklin High School. Three-hundred miles into the jungle, we literally built a city in the middle of the jungle, in the middle of nowhere. And once I laid her down and she told me how she wanted to lay with her grandmother, I — at that point, knew that I didn’t have no reason to be here no more. And just right when I got ready to reach to touch his head, he pulled the bag up like this. Laura Johnston Kohl, Peoples Temple Member: My week kind of ran like this — I’d work my regular job on Mondays, you know, eight to five. Jim Jones had political power that few people, let alone preachers, could have imagined. Jim Jones (archival): The United States is calling for the removal of all Blacks and Indians. Eugene Smith lost his wife, son, daughter, and mother. Incredibly, the leader they knew as “Andreas” still has a following in Hawaii, despite allegations of sexual abuse. (Enter your ZIP code for information on American Experience events and screening in your area.). Move forward, darlin’. “There are two kinds of people in the world — people who love Jesus and people who don’t,” says one of the mothers in Jesus Camp, about why she’s chosen to enroll her children in a program that turns them into God’s soldiers. Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple - Wikipedia And that the women were all lesbians and the guys were all gay. Jim Jones in white robe and sunglasses being touched by members of the Peoples Temple in Los Angeles, CA in 1974. Tim Carter, Personal Collection Okay, if that’s where they at, that’s not where I’m at.” Because I’m thinking, “My wife — I’m happy with my wife. And she died in my arms. Guy Morrison Perhaps the best, and the one to drop into conversation with your friends if you want to inspire frothing at the mouth. Vernon Gosney, Peoples Temple Member: There was always threats. He just wanted to see if we were truly committed to our cause, and that was how we would show it. But what I personally felt was that evil itself blew into Jonestown. It has been almost 30 years since the mass suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, shocked the world. Jonestown also includes never-before-seen footage shot inside Peoples Temple, providing a rare glimpse of Jones’s passionate preaching and emotional healing services. Incredibly, Jones’s son Stephen was away at the time and thus survived — he and other survivors stories serve as grim testimony to what was the biggest single loss of American life pre-9/11. I said, “You dropped something,” and this little boy, about nine years old, started saying, “He passed a note! "Oh Boy" controversy. If you’re in need of transportation, you get that. Joyce Shaw-Houston, Peoples Temple Member: Jim said that this was a test of loyalty. In 1977, as media interest grew Jim Jones and hundreds of his supporters left San Francisco, California and set out for Guyana determined to build a new community in the South American country. Later, I found out that this person that I had seen healed and cried with was really one of the secretaries, made up to look crippled and blind. Narrator (anonymous letter, archival): “A teeny kitten sits next to me watching. With this sleep I’m not getting, I’m not getting enough anyway.”. But yet still, everyday it was getting worse and worse. NBC News Archives Laura Johnston Kohl, Peoples Temple Member: It changed over the years, but it was always busy. It was very somber. They called me and some of them said, you know, “You don’t know nothing about the Church. I never shall forget what he’s done for me. People didn’t look at Jim as being white. Jim jones documentary. Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: I went back to my cottage. Without our pastor, Jim Jones, to teach me the right way, I would not be in college right now. But don’t do this. Marshall Kilduff, Journalist: The Concerned Relatives were the ex-members who wanted other family members, still in the church, to know they could leave. Jen Holmes She died in my arms, man. Former Peoples Temple Member (archival): My impression now — that those are fronts for him. Jim Jones (archival, subtitles): Mother, mother, mother, mother, mother please. And he waited until it hit the floor — POW! Creig Turner You join a religious organization, you join a political movement, and you join with people that you really like. They try to hide underneath the wheels. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of … Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: I have a conscious memory of sitting there, thinking to myself, “This is wrong.” And I didn’t do a damned thing to stand up and say, “This is wrong.”. But when Jones was present, it was very, very dark. Bryan Kravitz, Peoples Temple member There was a fire in the San Francisco Temple. Deborah Layton, Peoples Temple Member, Author, Seductive Poison: For those people that hadn’t grown up in the apostolic world, Jim would say, you know — “I know this is different for you. They have no problem about getting out of here. Jim Jones Jr. lost his wife, unborn child, sister, two brothers, four nephews, niece, mother and father. If I needed clothes, that was taken care of. The remote Guyana outpost of cult leader Jim Jones' Peoples Temple, Jonestown was the site of a 1978 massacre that resulted in the deaths of more than 900 people. Eugene Cordell, Relative of Peoples Temple member (Singing, archival): Something got a hold of me, oh yes indeed. There was no freedom to express to one another what was going on, because everything was suspect. It was everybody welcome there in that church and he made it very plain from the platform. Jim Jones (archival): Well, then be seated and shut your mouth and don’t be in my face anymore. Tim Reiterman, Journalist: There were people tumbling and yelling and letting out cries as they were hit. Not Mississippi, I’m talking about New York State. Denice Stephenson, California Historical Society As you see me as your father, I’ll be your father, for those of you that don’t have a father.” He said, “If you see me as your savior, I’ll be your savior.” He said, even so, “If you see me as your God, I’ll be your God.”. By Christmas, do you want to be gone?!! We are trying to make — and we are making a place of refuge for all of you here. Claire Janaro, Peoples Temple member It was led by a white minister, but in terms of the worship service, commitment to the social gospel, its membership — it functioned completely like a black church. Jim didn’t understand that there was no way he could talk her down from whatever this article was going to say. Eugene Smith, Peoples Temple Member: When Jim Jones wasn’t there, things tended to be a little bit lighter. And I’ll be leaving in a couple weeks and they could come with me, but they said they didn’t want to come. By Christmas, do you want to be gone?! Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: As soon as I walked into the San Francisco temple, I was home. These three guys, they get off the truck and walk around this area as though they were looking for somebody. UCLA Film and Television Archive, Archival Photographs My family was a template of a rainbow family. Vernon Gosney, Peoples Temple Member: Jim Jones represented the Peoples Temple as a progressive movement that was threatened. Hue Fortson Jr., Peoples Temple Member: He said, “If you see me as your friend, I’ll be your friend. Phyllis Wilmore-Zimmerman, Childhood Friend: I grew up with Jimmy Jones. The woman was Carolyn Layton, a California woman who became his enabler. Jim Jones" Documentaries . You think they should be here? Vernon Gosney, Peoples Temple member Hue Fortson Jr., Peoples Temple Member: And he said, “What you need to believe in is what you can see.” He said, “If you see me as your friend, I’ll be your friend. The grandmother may not be able to work anymore, but the father and mother guarantees her the right to live. A conservative candidate and a liberal candidate, George Moscone. Rebecca Moore, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: I vividly remember the first time that I met Jim Jones. Fielding McGehee, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: He chose Ukiah in northern California — about 90 miles north of San Francisco — because there was an article in Esquire Magazine that said that Ukiah was one of the nine places in the world that in the event of thermonuclear attack, people would survive. Make your decisions — sixty percent of your decisions — based on logic, fact and reason, and allow emotion to be the secondary motivator. I’m not going to let you do this alone.”, Marshall Kilduff, Journalist: I finally heard from some ex-members who heard I was interested in writing a story about the Temple for New West magazine, and they took a chance. And she starts walking up one of the aisles. As the group boarded planes to leave, they were shot at by several temple members. He was not white. But the truth is more complicated, more horrifying, and more tragic than that. Eugene Cordell, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: I told Edith, “If you follow Jimmy to California, you’re crazy.” So what did Jimmy do, but took her to a psychiatrist and sent me a certified letter that she is of sound mind, and she is not crazy. It’s happening right now.”, Vernon Gosney, Peoples Temple Member: Jim Jones came to talk to me and the first thing he said was, “Don’t say anything to the reporters. Hurry my children! Jim Jones (archival, subtitles): You’re gonna help yourself, or you’ll get no help! Narrator (anonymous letter, archival): “If nobody understands, it matters not. Fielding McGehee, Jonestown Institute, Graphic Design Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh relocated his followers there in the 80s in search of enlightenment and utopia, but in episode one we’re already being told by the FBI that the move resulted in the largest poisoning case in the USA (amongst other truly awful things). Jim Jones’ Sons Speak Out in ABC’s 40th Anniversary Jonestown Documentary On November 18, 1978, 909 members of the Peoples Temple living in the Jonestown settlement in Guyana consumed a deadly, cyanide-laced drink. Oh, no. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: We all got suited down, neck-tied and everything. The Occult. Mike Touchette lost his mother, sister, brother, uncle, and grandfather. Female (archival): Oh, I should say I am. Well having a funeral for it was a little strange, killing the animal was very strange. Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006) - IMDb Laura Johnston Kohl, Peoples Temple Member: And Friday, I’d go to work and I’d get off of work, and I’d hop on the bus or drive the bus to San Francisco. Gregory Robinson, San Francisco Examiner But at least we tried. "This groundbreaking feature-length hybrid of documentary and drama definitively examines the five tense days leading up to that unthinkable massacre in Guyana. I was sent backstage in Los Angeles to — to get something for somebody, I don’t remember what. Jones had a vision for a better world and established the Peoples Temple to help make that happen. Well, by this time the whole congregation’s running down these aisles with us — we’re all just running around the aisles, just hoopin’ and hollerin’ up a storm. Laura Johnston Kohl, Peoples Temple Member: We thought of ourselves as one big family that did handle our own discipline. Marshall Kilduff, Journalist: The sheer staginess, the controlled atmosphere that sort of enclosed this guy, made him so unusual, so different than the norm, that it made me very curious. Oh, what he’s done for me. Phyllis Wilmore-Zimmerman, Childhood Friend: My brothers came back with stories of him conducting funerals for small animals that had died. They wanted them to feel that there was an outside world — that Jones was wrong about telling people they could never leave the church, and that they would be treated badly in the real world. Girl (archival): Yeah. A dog barks. Fielding McGehee, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: There had been pressures on him to leave Indianapolis. I am ready to die now. Visually-Impaired Woman (archival): One finger. A documentary on the 40th anniversary of the largest murder-suicide in American history, when over 900 members of the Peoples Temple consumed a deadly cyanide-laced drink on the orders of leader Jim Jones; interviews with Jones' two surviving sons. Traditional Jim Jones One-third of the dead at Jonestown were children; only 33 people survived Jones was a … He was going to let him in. Where there are no races. Jim Jones was hated and despised by some people, particularly in the white community. San Francisco Chronicle It was loud. It was about 11:30 in the morning. From Scientology to salvation in Jesus Christ, from Kool-Aid to killer abs, we've seemingly watched every documentary on the subject — and if they hadn't been so fascinatingly depressing, maybe we'd be ready to start our own. Quickly! Jim Jones (archival, subtitles): Anyone that has any dissenting opinion, please speak.

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ECS8C_C01.qxd IMT Custom Machine Company, Inc.: Selection of an Information Technology What does this story, overall, tell you about leadership? The series follows eventual Jonestown leader Jim Jones from his origins as a civil rights-oriented preacher to the creation of Peoples Temple and through the group’s move to … They got up in the audience and they said they disagreed with him. Tim Reiterman, Journalist: When Jim Jones decided that there was too much pressure, too much trouble to stay in San Francisco, he ordered the move to Jonestown and it happened almost overnight. Jackie Speier, Aide to Congressman Leo Ryan: I was very fearful about making the trip. Some people do. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: He said, “Well, we got to go. This documentary tells the story of the people who joined Peoples Temple, following Jones from Indiana to California and ultimately to their deaths in Guyana in November 1978. People file by us slowly and take the somewhat bitter drink. Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: That response to him was spontaneous. Haven’t seen my mother in over a year or so. All the days of my life, ever since I been born, I never heard a man speak like this man before.” After they sang one or two songs, the whole place was lit up. A small child would turn in a parent. Jim Jones speaking in 1972. He was sitting up. Neva Sly Hargrave, Peoples Temple Member: Well it got to the point where there were so many duties in the Temple that some people had to become full time. I remember someone coming to me and telling me that Congressman Ryan was dead. Jim’s mother had to work in order to support the family. It was enough for the Congressman to say, “You know what? Jim Jones (archival): We started with about a hundred and forty-one people and from that, we’ve grown to a very thriving congregation. Jim Jones (archival, subtitles): I’m listening to you. Grace Stoen, Peoples Temple Member: Peoples Temple truly had the potential to be something big and powerful and great, and yet for whatever reason, Jim took the other road. Joyce Shaw-Houston, Peoples Temple Member: We were celebrating New Years Eve. Joyce Bowman, Personal Collection And he sat down next to me. My wife was there. I can’t begin to describe it. The reporter next to me said, “I’ve never felt anything like this before,” and I said, “Because you haven’t felt anything like this before.” I actually felt pretty good overall. Maybe it’s economics? The dramatic reenactments in this documentary are actually quite good, ramping up the tension until the inevitable demise of the People’s Temple members. We let them, the enemies, defeat us. In Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, award-winning filmmakers Stanley Nelson, Marcia Smith, and Noland Walker reveal the true, tragic story behind enigmatic preacher Jim Jones and his promise of a world of economic and racial equality that ultimately led to the largest mass murder-suicide in history. Jim Jones Jr., Peoples Temple Member: My father used to tell me that people’s lives — sixty percent of people’s lives — were made on emotional decisions. Scientology seems like a great place to start in your cult film (sorry) marathon, being perhaps the most well-publicized and well-funded secret society of modern times. Jackie Speier, Aide to Congressman Leo Ryan: It was a vibrant community. Rev. Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: We walked up to the pavilion together, with everybody else. 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