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	Jonestown
		The deaths at the Jonestown kibbutz served as the excuse for a massive influx of U.S. military personnel into Guyana, and concealed the casualties that resulted from the military operation, which involved both U.S. and Israeli forces.
		He remained behind in Jonestown when the congressman left for the airstrip, and fled into the jungle with another Temple attorney, Charles Garry, as the deaths were beginning.
		Jonestown was essentially a prototype for small fascist groups which are targeting certain races and religions for elimination.
	jonestown.sdsu.edu /AboutJonestown/Articles/conspiracy.htm (6785 words)

	Jonestown
		The Jonestown cult was born of that culture and in turn reflects back upon it, that is, the Peoples Temple was effected (created) by mainstream American culture of its time and in turn affected that same culture.
		A complete examination into the events and meanings of the Jonestown cult would entail leafing through many pages of letters and documents, listening to taped conversations, and researching the histories of each of that cults followers.
		In her book, Making Sense of the Jonestown Suicides, Judith Weightman suggests that the Temple members may have seen the new religion as a viable option to the more radical counter-culture and anti-racist movements (such as the Black Panthers) that seemed to be cropping up in greater and greater numbers at that time.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~reli291/Jonestown/Jonestown.html (2122 words)

	Jonestown - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Inhabitants of Jonestown were known to partake of Kool-Aid as an alternative to suicide.
		Jonestown was a carnival from 1968 to 1983 in South Africa.
		Jonestown claimed that its petting zoo contained the world's only unicorn, but recent studies have caused historians to believe that it was just two kids in a horse costume with a Bugles ® brand corn chip glued to the head.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Jonestown (813 words)

	Jonestown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jonestown gained lasting international notoriety in 1978, when nearly its whole population -- almost a thousand people -- died in a mass murder/suicide ordered by Jones, who was among the dead.
		Jonestown's population increased greatly from 50 members in 1977 to over 900 at its peak in 1978.
		Jonestown itself became a "ghost town" after 1978 and was mostly destroyed by a fire in the mid-1980s, after which the ruins were left to decay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jonestown (4989 words)

	Lessons from Jonestown
		Jonestown, they say, offers important lessons for psychology, such as the power of situational and social influences and the consequences of a leader using such influences to destructively manipulate others' behavior.
		Indeed, Jonestown should serve as a warning to the social psychology community in what can happen when principles of influence are abused by leaders of an organization, Zimbardo says.
		However, since Jonestown, many social psychologists remain unaware of the psychological impact of the mind control techniques, often elucidated in social psychology research, that cults use to recruit and retain members, Zimbardo says.
	www.apa.org /monitor/nov03/jonestown.html (1400 words)

	Jonestown - StarWiki
		Jonestown is an ancient spaceport located on the edge of the planets of the Kradel satellite.
		A terrible plague was unleashed on Jonestown that decimated its population and brought its golden age to a rather ignoble conclusion.
		Visitors to Jonestown today will be surprised at the variety of life that has managed to gain a foothold here since the plague came all those years ago.
	www.starmud.com /wiki/Jonestown (330 words)

	Jonestown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jonestown was a town in Guyana established by People's Temple cult leader Jim Jones.
		Realizing that the visiting party along with the defectors were in danger, Ryan's group and 16 People's Temple members left Jonestown and hurried to a nearby airstrip, where they planned to use the two planes waiting there and fly to the Georgetown, the capital of Guyana.
		Then Leo Ryan, three journalists and one 18-year-old Jonestown defector were shot and killed when several Jonestown members came out of the jungle to attack the escaping party.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Jonestown_mass_suicide (1077 words)

	Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jonestown is a borough in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States.
		Jonestown is located at 40°24′50″N, 76°28′45″W (40.414001, -76.479030)
		Jonestown is bordered to the north, east, and south by Swatara Township (2.4 mi), and to the west by Union Township (1.18 mi).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jonestown,_Lebanon_County,_Pennsylvania (397 words)

	Peoples Temple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Peoples Temple is best known for the mass murder/suicide that occurred in Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.
		The followers were promised a tropical paradise, free from the supposed wickedness of the outside world, but when they arrived, they were forced to work by Jones' orders, and together they built Jonestown.
		In November 1978, the cult was visited at Jonestown by Leo Ryan, a United States Congressman from San Francisco, California, who was investigating claims of abuse within it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peoples_Temple (1017 words)

	The Jonestown Massacre
		The community had come to be known as “Jonestown.” The dead were all members of a group known as “The People’s Temple” which was led by the Reverend Jim Jones.
		Upon their arrival at “Jonestown,” the delegation was served dinner and entertained by a musical presentation by People’s Temple members.
		Dwyer planned to return to “Jonestown” later to resolve a dispute with a family who was split on the question of leaving Jonestown.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial4/jonestown (1690 words)

	People's Temple, Jim Jones, Jonestown - religious cults and sects
		According to one of these theories, "Jonestown" was a continuation of a CIA mind-control program that infiltrated cults, such as The People's Temple, to carry out their experiments.
		Joseph Blatchford, the officially appointed attorney for the "Jonestown" survivors, was involved in a scandal involving CIA infiltration of the Peace Corps.
		The final area of concern in the "Jonestown" massacre regards the official US decision not to conduct autopsies on the victims of the massacre; the reason given was that the cause of death was readily apparent.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /p21.html (4634 words)

	Gadfly Online.
		It is inscribed, simply, "In memory of the victims of the Jonestown tragedy." A few feet away is another stone, set flat in the dry earth, that gives some sense of the scale of that tragedy.
		More convincing than Maaga's defense of Jonestown against anti‑cult critics is her attempt to trace the trajectory of the group as it descended toward self‑destruction.
		This is one of the big questions—what security issues could be involved in Jonestown twenty years after the event?" Rebecca Moore said she had a mixed reaction to Maaga's book, which explains more about her two sisters and their actions and also shows them to be more powerful in the organization than previously thought.
	www.gadflyonline.com /archive/April99/archive-jonestown.html (2840 words)

	The Jonestown Massacre
		But after the tragic deaths at Jonestown Willie Brown said, "If we knew then he was mad, clearly we wouldn't have appeared with him.
		Eventually about 1,000 core supporters gathered at an isolated retreat there, which was later officially named "Jonestown." But complaints from former members and families continued, ultimately culminating in requests for an official investigation.
		Jim Jones body was found at Jonestown, fatally wounded by a gunshot to the head.
	www.culteducation.com /jonestown.html (697 words)

	Jonestown - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1974, he leased over 3000 acres (12.1 km²) of land from the Guyanese government and members of the People's Temple started the construction of Jonestown, under the supervision of senior members who were assigned by Jones to oversee the construction.
		One popular one suggests that Jones himself was a CIA agent and that Jonestown was a mind control experiment gone wrong.
		Another conspiracy theory suggests that the CIA used this opportunity to assassinate Leo Ryan, as he was a harsh critic of the CIA and had authored the Hughes-Ryan Amendment, which if passed would have required the CIA to report its planned covert missions to Congress for approval.
	voyager.in /Jonestown (2613 words)

	Jonestown
		Jonestown has been in a state of decline since its agrarian-dominated industry, through mechanization, has ceased supporting its growing population in the way it once did.
		These cities provide steady employment for some Jonestown citizens; however, many others are left behind because of their lack of training in specialized fields or their inability to commute to other cities due to the lack of available transportation and twenty-four hour childcare.
		Jonestown needs the old school building to serve as a center to support its needs: elderly care, daycare center, after-school program, city hall support, vocational training facility, and general community needs.
	kubuildingtech.org /scriss/projects/jonestown/jonestown.html (517 words)

	Live in Baltimore - Jonestown
		Jonestown is one of the three original towns that became the city of Baltimore in 1797.
		Jonestown goes back to the late 17th century, when David Jones founded a settlement adjacent to his mill on what is now called the Jones Falls.
		Jonestown was incorporated as a community distinct from its neighbors, Baltimore Town and Fells Point.
	www.livebaltimore.com /nb/list/jonestown (405 words)

	: An Analysis of Jonestown (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jonestown s remoteness caused reports of the event to reach thepublic in stages.
		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.
		Within a few weeks of the deaths at Jonestown, the bodies had beentransported back to the United States, the remnants of the PeoplesTemple membership were said to have disbanded, and the spate ofstories and books about the suicide/murders had begun to lose thepublics attention.
	www.guyanaca.com /features/jonestown.html (6304 words)

	CNN - Jonestown massacre + 20: Questions linger - November 18, 1998
		George Berdes, chief consultant to the committee at the time of the investigation, told the San Francisco Chronicle the papers were classified to assure sources' confidentiality, but he thinks it is time to declassify them.
		What is known about the end of Jonestown is that on November 18, 1978, Jones ordered more than 900 of his followers to drink cyanide-poisoned punch.
		She went to the U.S. consulate and later to newspapers with a warning: Jones was conducting drills for a mass murder-suicide.
	www.cnn.com /US/9811/18/jonestown.anniv.01 (791 words)

	The Black Hole of Guyana
		Jonestown was an experiment, part of a 30-year program called MK-ULTRA, the CIA and military intelligence code name for mind control.[170] A close study of Senator Ervin's 1974 report, Individual Rights and the Government's Role in Behavior Modification, shows that these agencies had certain "target populations" in mind, for both individual and mass control.
		In a desperate attempt to test their conditioning methods, the Jonestown elite apparently tried to implement a real suicide drill.[185] Clearly, it led to a revolt, and the majority of people fled, unaware that there were people waiting to catch them.
		Their participation in Jonestown can be used as an "explanation" for their involvement in later murders here, such as the case of the attack on school children in Los Angeles.[276] They should be named and located.
	www.meta-religion.com /Secret_societies/Conspiracies/Other/black_hole_of_guyana.htm (6201 words)

	Jonestown - Book Reviews - Books - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		Jonestown is Sydney, and Alan Jones' broadcasting success and much-feared power appear to be a peculiarly Sydney phenomenon.
		The aim of Jonestown is to take Jones seriously as a person and as a broadcaster, so as to begin a serious debate about the nexus between politics and the media in Australia.
		Jonestown is as important a contribution to that debate as was an earlier, highly successful Paul Barry book - his 1993 biography of media mogul Kerry Packer.
	www.theage.com.au /news/book-reviews/jonestown/2006/11/10/1162661886289.html (653 words)

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		Instead, Jonestown serves as a lesson in how a combination of media, government, and citizens can create a climate of persecution and fear.
		It is readily apparent that this income contributed substantially to the maintenance of the Jonestown operations.
		Conditions were difficult, but hope was high for life in the "Promised Land." Not only was the settlement in the middle of the South American jungle, but the work needed to maintain it was immense.
	www.lycos.com /info/jonestown--peoples-temple.html (752 words)

	T-Music - Jonestown
		Jonestown first presented them selfes with the single "Sweet thang" in 1997.
		Jonestown were working all the time on a album, but some trouble in the Booya Music caused a delay.
		Sadly, after that Jonestown heavent released anyting new as the group, but Anthony hasn't been sleeping.
	t-music.web.surftown.se /artists/jonestown/jonestown.htm (522 words)

	Jonestown: Dismantling the Disinformation
		The people at Jonestown were "brainwashed"; their defenders "apologists"; the only "credible sources" were the people who had "exposed" Peoples Temple a year and more prior to the tragedy.
		Jonestown was NOT a mind control experiment in the mould of "MK Ultra." I personally do not doubt that the CIA might have been glad to use Jonestown as such had they the chance.
		Jonestown was a beautiful, productive, thriving interracial community, acclaimed as a "paradise," which was the happiest and most fulfilling life that most of its largely-inner city residents had ever known.
	www.newdawnmagazine.com /Article/Jonestown_Dismantling_the_Disinformation.html (4120 words)

	Jonestown 20 Years later
		As is it, Jonestown stands as the archetypal example of the dangers of suppressing the rational faculty and that small inner voice of conscience, and allowing another to do the thinking for us.
		The train of events which led eventually to the Jonestown tragedy, was the visit of Congressman Leo Ryan to the commune.
		She failed, at least in part, it was said, because unknown officials were alleged to have influenced the outcome of the custody proceedings.
	www.guyana.org /features/jonestown_20.html (2041 words)

	The Religious Movements Homepage: Peoples Temple
		The story of Jonestown, and of its parent organization Peoples Temple, however, is more complicated than sound-bites comparing strict parents to Jim Jones, or pundits relating religious violence (such as the suicide air strikes of 11 September 2001) to Jonestown.
		After lengthy negotiations with Jonestown leadership, Ryan and his party were allowed to enter the community to interview residents, as well as to seek out people allegedly being held against their will.
		Tapes made in Jonestown of community members—including one made within a month of the deaths—feature a series of statements by residents professing a willingness to die for the cause.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/Jonestwn.html (4957 words)

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