Jim Jones & Jonestown - Devolution from Political Force to Revolutionary Suicide

The Peoples Temple and Jim Jones devolve in 1976 from a San Francisco political juggernaut secretly harboring designs of world communist revolution to, in 1978, a paranoid North Korean-style enclave in Jonestown. There, they negotiate with the Soviet Union, North Korea and others for a possible exodus. A Soviet delegation visits Jonestown, showering it with praise.

Captured on audio, three weeks before Congressman Ryan, NBC and others visit, they vote to commit Revolutionary Suicide to further the cause of Marxist-Leninism.

The day before Congressman Ryan arrives, Jones announced to Jonestown (and recorded on tape) he's not passing up the opportunity to shoot him.

Two days later, they do precisely as Jones had claimed: The Temple's "Red Brigade" killed Ryan and four others. The only murder of a Congressman in the line of duty in U.S. history. Popular NBC reporter Don Harris is also murdered.

Then, just as the Temple had voted three weeks before, over 900 members commit Revolutionary Suicide -- the largest death toll of American civilians in a non-natural disaster until 9-11.

They die in a "White Night" -- an emergency meeting of the Temple to discuss options to prevent takeover by outside forces. Jonestown had 84 White Nights before the final one.

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[dotore2007]

You talk about 400 dead... Think about 400 milion "living" dead that comunism left befind in eastern europe. I am one of them.

[SaltWaterDiatoms]

@yorubablk3

You're desperate to defend Atheism and Socialism. But there is no defense. YOU BUMBLING MORONS LEAD TO THE DEATHS OF 25,000,000 UNDER ATHEIST MAO. 1,000 UNDER JIM JONES. 25-50 MILLION UNDER STALIN AND LENIN... who gives a damn about your flimsy "defense"?

100 Million deaths in the 20th Century thru 1989... and the murder continues! who gives a damn about your lies in defense of your ideologue. The only way you can force people to accept them is through CENSORSHIP and TYRANNY.

[tthomaselli2]

1:13-2:00.; What song is that?

[tthomaselli2]

According to the Wikipedia page for Jim Jones, they have for the external links section 'LGBT Christians' & 'American Atheists'.; Why is that?

[lisakn27]

He actually says "The congressman's dead, the congressman's Aide is dead"

[salvadory]

@KaptainKaka bs - many communes have flourished for decades- without this kind of madness- this came down to jim jones and his madness and gullible people- in the end they were murdered by a drug addicted power hungry paranoid nutjob!!!!

[salvadory]

@PjPony123 yes carter and obama are secret muslim KGB spies out to destroy america- and you think your so tuned in to the truth - what a joke!!!

[salvadory]

@PatriotBabe this was never "socialism" no matter what they called it themselves- its a cult pure and simple- like the nazis- like the facists - like kamikaze pilots- like al queda- like the neocon right wing who follow orders damn the consequences- keep praying as prayers do nothing- many socialist experiments called communes have flourished for decades without this kind of end result- jones was a maniac!!

[lisakn27]

You didn't play the part where Mothers were crying for their babies, where Jim Jones tried to settle them all down because they didn't want to die. Jim Jones said many things in that tape that would prove these people were being murdered. This video is edited to make people believe they did this to themselves, they didn't.

[lisakn27]

The people saying yes to the suicide vote said yes only because they were afraid to say anything else. They said whatever they felt he wanted to hear. They did not commit suicide, they were murdered. Imo, the only people committing suicide that day was Jim Jones and a few of his loyal followers. The rest were INJECTED with the poison or made to drink it by force.

[prmurphy147]

FACT: Jim Jones was a KGB asset.