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	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, Demerara - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jonestown ("Jonestown, Mahaica" or "Jonestown, Mahaica, ECD") is a small village in Demerara, Guyana.
		Jonestown stands on the low coastal plain of Guyana, whereon the country's population and agriculture are concentrated, at a place roughly 30 km southeasterly from Georgetown and near the lower reaches of the Mahaica River.
		This Jonestown must not be confused with the Jonestown of the 1978 mass murder-and-suicide by members of the Peoples Temple cult.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jonestown,_Guyana (444 words)

	: An Analysis of Jonestown
		The members of thePeoples Temple settlement in Guyana, under the direction of theReverend Jim Jones, fed a poison-laced drink to their children,administered the potion to their infants, and drank it themselves.Their bodies were found lying together, arm in arm; over 900perished.
		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.guyana.org /features/jonestown.html (6304 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 allegations in the Grace Stoen case are well known, whereby Stoen, a Temple defector attempted through the Guyana High Court to retrieve her son from the commune at Jonestown.
		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 Jonestown Massacre
		Though dubbed a "massacre," what transpired at Jonestown on November 18, 1978, was to some extent done willingly, making the mass suicide all the more disturbing.
		The Jonestown cult (officially named the "People's Temple") was founded in 1955 by Indianapolis preacher James Warren Jones.
		In 1977, Jones and many of his followers relocated to Jonestown, located on a tract of land the People's Temple had purchased and begun to develop in Guyana three years earlier.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/jonestown1.html (402 words)

	People's Temple, Jim Jones, Jonestown - religious cults and sects
		Defense lawyers referred to the mass suicide of 912 followers of cult leader Reverend Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana, to attack the evidence of the expert witness of the Central Christian Church.
		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)

	Jonestown: 20 Years Later
		Jonestown is also an object lesson in what happens when social or religious movements encourage the suspension of critical reasoning, autonomy, individuality and personal rights.
		It is disheartening to see, twenty years after Jonestown, American political hopefuls of both parties vociferously shoring up their campaigns by citing religious credentials, campaigning in churches, temples or synagogues, and embracing religious faith as a litmus test of worth to the electorate.
		Jonestown was the agricultural compound Jones' followers carved out of the Guyanese jungle, 150 miles northwest of the nation's capital, Georgetown.
	www.positiveatheism.org /writ/jonestn1.htm (6975 words)

	CNN.com - Jonestown survivors recall fateful day - Nov. 18, 2003
		A total of 913 men, women and children died in the 1978 Jonestown massacre, the worst mass murder-suicide in recent history.
		They had followed their charismatic leader Jim Jones from San Francisco to a jungle settlement in the South American nation of Guyana in 1978, believing he was leading them to a utopia of racial harmony and social justice.
		Reports of trouble in the jungle utopia prompted U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan to lead a delegation of family members of Jonestown residents and journalists to the compound to investigate claims that followers were being imprisoned and abused.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/West/11/17/jonestown.anniversary (681 words)

	Jonestown Massacre: A 'Reason' to Die
		The first reports out of Guyana on November 18, 1978 were that Congressman Leo J. Ryan and four other members of his party were shot and killed as they attempted to board a plane at Port Kaituma airstrip.
		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.
		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 /notorious_murders/mass/jonestown/index_1.html (2028 words)

	Jonestown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Instead, all of Jonestown's residents, including children, ended up raising food and animals for the "Peoples Temple Agricultural Project." The work was performed six days a week, from seven in the morning to six in the evening, with temperatures that often reached over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius), given Guyana's climate.
		The tractor got within about 30 feet of the Otter, and Jones loyalists proceeded to open fire while circling the plane on foot and apparently in military-style formation (a few seconds of the shooting was captured on camera by NBC cameraman Bob Brown, whose camera kept rolling even as he was shot dead).
		A movie entitled Guyana: Cult of the Damned, aka Guyana: Crime of the Century, was released theatrically in 1980.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jonestown (5786 words)

	THE PEOPLE'S TEMPLE (JIM JONES)
		Some claim that Jonestown was a spectacularly successful grass-roots demonstration of what people could accomplish if they break free of capitalism and join in a common cause.
		Our understanding of the Jonestown deaths is still hindered by the unavailability of numerous key documents that would highlight the situation at Jonestown immediately prior to and during Congressman Ryan's visit, the relationship of the State Department to the Jonestown community, and the state of mind of Peoples Temple leader, Rev. Jim Jones.
		The Jonestown, Guyana Tragedy: Primary Source Materials From The U.S. Department of State at: http://www.icehouse.net/zodiac/ had over 6000 documents obtained from the State Department.
	www.religioustolerance.org /dc_jones.htm (1733 words)

	Jonestown
		Following the tragedy at Jonestown, the Peoples Temple was identified as a “cult,” and Jones was depicted by the media as the epitome of an evil cult leader.
		On Nov. 14, 1978, U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan of California arrived in Guyana with a group of newsmen and relatives of cultists to conduct an unofficial investigation of alleged abuses.
		Guyanese troops reached Jonestown the next day, and the death toll of cultists was eventually placed at 913 (including 276 children).
	www.gaiaguys.net /jonestown.htm (791 words)

	The Religious Movements Homepage: Peoples Temple
		And in Guyana’s capital city of Georgetown, yet another member of the group killed her three children and then herself after receiving word of the deaths in Jonestown.
		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.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/Jonestwn.html (4957 words)

	The Assassination of Representative Leo J. Ryan and the Jonestown, Guyana Tragedy
		John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana, informing the Ambassador of his proposed date of arrival in Georgetown (November 14), and relaying to Ambassador Burke the text of his telegram to Jones.
		Representatives of the Jonestown People's Temple facility also at the airstrip met privately with Lane and Garry and it was eventually decided that only they together with Mr.
		The Guyanese related stories of alleged beatings at Jonestown, complained that local Guyanese officials were denied entry to and had no authority in Jonestown, and described a "torture hole" in the compound.
	www.rickross.com /reference/jonestown/jonestown2.html (2839 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)

	Jonestown, Guyana Mass Suicide, Massacre, & Jim Jones Cult
		After the People's Temple mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, Father Divine was posthumously slandered in a made-for-TV movie, "Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones".
		The convert wrote Mother Divine trying to convince her that Jones was Father Divine until the infamous mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978.
		Pictures of the Guyana tragedy and the conspiracy regarding rogue elements in the CIA.
	www.geocities.com /oldsayville/jones.htm (3125 words)

	Jonestown
		I think the Jonestown incident was an extension of In Search of the Manchurian Candidate, I think those people were conditioned to act in certain ways and would have probably just moved from Montreal to Guyana, in this case.
		Jonestown I think was an extension of Mk-Ultra from the CIA and there are probably other experiments going on........I think the Special Forces units were pulled together as an exterminator after it had reached a point where they had to destroy the evidence."--Bo Gritz Interrogated by Adam Parfrey
		Jonestown was a CIA experiment to determine whether it was possible to establish a large mind-controlled slave labor force.
	www.whale.to /b/jonestown.html (863 words)

	Jim Jones, Jonestown, People's Temple in the News 7
		November 16, 2003 Jonestown and City Hall slayings eerily linked in time and memory/Both events continue to haunt city a quarter century later, Richard Rapaport, San Francisco Chronicle, California (...Before Sept. 11, Jonestown was the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster...
		In the middle of the jungle in Guyana, South America, nearly 1,000 people drank lethal cyanide punch or were shot to death, following the orders of their leader, Jim Jones.
		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...
	www.cultsoncampus.com /jimjones7.html (2563 words)

	The Black Hole of Guyana--The Untold Story of the Jonestown Massacre, by John Judge, 1985
		At the Jonestown site, survivors described a special group of Jones' followers who were allowed to carry weapons and money, and to come and go from the camp.
		One of the persistent problems in researching Jonestown is that it seems to lead to so many other criminal activities, each with its own complex history and cast of characters.
		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.
	www.ratical.org /ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/Jonestown.html (14319 words)

	Jonestown, Jim Jones and the People's Temple
		Guyana's Foreign Trade Minister Calls On Opposition To Tell All On Jonestown
		Jonestown only the beginning of episodic cult nightmare
		The Assassination of Representative Leo J. Ryan and the Jonestown, Guyana Tragedy
	www.rickross.com /groups/jonestown.html (147 words)

	Jim Jones, Jonestown, People's Temple in the News
		Speier, who went with Ryan to Jonestown, Guyana, to investigate reports that cult leader Jim Jones was holding constituents hostage, was shot five times and left for dead on the Jonestown airstrip where Ryan died.
		Veteran documentarian Stanley Nelson's "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" is an unflashy, straightforward account of Jim Jones and his great social experiment -- which notoriously culminated in the largest mass murder/suicide in modern memory.
		As a defector/survivor of Peoples Temple, a bit of whose testimony is used in the film [Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple] about what led up to Jonestown, I want to thank the Guardian and Matt Gonzalez for the excellent and revealing interview ["28 Years Later," 4/5/06].
	www.cultsoncampus.com /jimjones.html (1783 words)

	Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown
		On November 18, 1978, 913 men, women, and children --followers of cult leader Jim Jones -- died during a mass suicide and murder in Jonestown, Guyana.
		Airing in 1981, the documentary was written by James Reston, Jr and Noah Adams, and produced by Deborah Amos.
		She had escaped Jonestown several months before, and tried to alert authorities to the insanity and cruelty of life under the rule of Jim Jones.
	www.npr.org /programs/specials/jonestown.html (307 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act
		On November 18, 1978, Congressman Leo J. Ryan was shot and killed in Guyana, along with four other individuals.
		Congressman Ryan was visiting Jonestown, Guyana, for the purpose of conducting a Congressional inquiry into the activities of the People's Temple and Reverend Jim Jones.
		The FBI investigated his murder under the code name "RYMUR" and in 1986, Lawrence John Layton was found guilty in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, of several federal violations, including conspiracy to murder a congressman.
	foia.fbi.gov /foiaindex/jonestown.htm (160 words)

	NPR : Remembering Jonestown
		Listen to the 1981 NPR documentary about Jonestown, 'Father Cares,' Part 1.
		All Things Considered, November 17, 2003 · Tuesday marks the 25th anniversary of the mass suicide and murder in Jonestown, Guyana.
		The idea was to create an agricultural utopia in the jungle, free from racism and based on communist principles.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1509317 (330 words)

	Jonestown
		In the mid 1970's, when allegations of wrongdoing within the Temple mounted, Jones moved some of the Temple membership to Jonestown, Guyana, South America.
		914 followers of Jim Jones perished in a remote Guyana jungle after obeying orders from Jones to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
		The Jonestown Massacre: A Tragedy Made in San Francisco
	www.ohnonews.com /jonestown.html (400 words)

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