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Jonestown: The Final Report

This documentary looks at the tragic death of 913 men, women and children who lived in a religious compound in the jungles of Guyana, South America, and investigates leader Jim Jones and his message of brotherhood and social justice.

Jonestown was the informal name for the “Peoples Temple Agricultural Project”, an intentional community in northwestern Guyana formed by the Peoples Temple, a cult from California, United States, led by Jim Jones. It became internationally notorious in November 1978, when 918 people died in the settlement as well as in a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown, Guyana’s capital. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations.

On November 18, 1978, 909 Temple members died in Jonestown, all but two from apparent cyanide poisoning in an event termed “revolutionary suicide” by Jones and some members on an audio tape of the event and in prior discussions. To the extent the actions in Jonestown were viewed as a mass suicide, it is the largest such event in modern history and resulted in the largest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the events of September 11, 2001. The poisonings in Jonestown followed the murder of five others by Temple members at a nearby Port Kaituma airstrip. The victims included Congressman Leo Ryan, the first and only Congressman murdered in the line of duty in the history of the United States.

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  1. Desperate people are willing to believe and follow anyone.

  2. american cia killed those people because americorp will not tolerate freedom.

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  4. well explained, well paced.. good to watch before bed . not remotely heavy or melodramatic.

  5. well explained, well paced.. good to watch before bed . not remotely heavy or melodramatic.

  6. well explained, well paced.. good to watch before bed . not remotely heavy or melodramatic.

  7. for a 45 min doc… this is very good.if you seen some docs on jim jones befor you will not see new footage .

  8. I have a phobia about any kool-aid now. No but seriously this was a horrible tragedy.

    • your phobia is misplaced … it wasn’t Kool-Aid as widely reported or repeated … it was Flavor-Aid, a competor of Kool-Aid at the time … grape flavored btw … mixed with apple sauce, brand unknown …

      please adjust your unwarranted fears to the facts

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