Pt. 1 - Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

This is part 1 of the entire PBS Documentary of Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple. Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch. For more information about Peoples Temple and Jamestown, visit these links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown

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[lisakn27]

I really wish they wouldn't call this mass suicide ..this was mass murder, and jim jones was the murderer. The people were ran down and injected with this stuff. Some drank it out , only out of fear, but it's still not suicide.

[nosorab3]

"Rice, black eyed peas...*koolaide*"

*wince*

[DAVIDInitiative]

The children's choir really sent a chill down my spine.

[ryan489]

I'm taking an Understanding cults class in College and just seeing two minutes of this in class gave me a freaky feeling, especially the scene that shows the vibrant community if you can call it that the night before and then cutting to Jones telling everyone to just lay down and die. People did it. If they didn't they would have been shot but still. Now I want to see the whole thing.

[iluvsouljaboy1910]

When he said kool-aide i stopped the video because i knew what he did with that kool-aide that just makes me sick

[lettersfromaboy]

@nosorab3 Unfortunately something so sweet as koolaid will always associated with something so tainted as Jim Jones. We have got koolaid. lol Oh shit, time to die rather of dehydration now. Jim Jones was the worst pitchman for beverages ever in history. What a tall glass of watery piss shit he was.

[EyeJayAre]

Jim jones was not a preacher, he was a murderer from the start

[blackstruggle77]

It's been speculated for years that Jim Jones was dying of AIDS. He was bisexual and lived in San Fran in yhe mid-lat 1970's when HIV was not documented.

[cocoinfinity1]

Dont drink the koolaid. Cant have me. Or my vote. Another made in america cult they call religion.

[set972]

@httm241 im jewish and im proud to be a zionist fuck living in israel

[httm241]

@sweetheart2109 Well I am Jewish and I hate vein affiliated with those zionist fucks

[lucy9359]

@deejayalemus He is good, religion is bad...I don't believe in religion I believe in God...