A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown

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The People?

A Congressman's visit threatened to expose Jonestown lies.

Not only did the People? And that is one of the other things that the newly released documents make crystal clear: The people who died at Jonestown, for the most part, had been trapped by Jim Jones and those at the top of the People?

Parents were separated from their children and forced to sign false confessions of abuse and other crimes to keep them compliant; spouses and other family members were likewise separated. Others were threatened with the revocation of parole if they left the church.

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And at the end, there were guns in addition to the cyanide punch. And this fact makes the many lost opportunities to shut Jones down even more distressing.

Those few who left the church and denounced his fake healings and abusive behavior were seen to have joined a giant conspiracy to destroy him. Scheeres quotes him as telling his congregation on Sept. By then, he had picked Guyana — poor, socialist-ruled, English-speaking and predominantly black and East Indian — as the ideal sanctuary from persecution.

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From then on, Scheeres unfolds a chronicle of a massacre foretold. As journalists and a group of concerned relatives began demanding an investigation of the cult, Jones prepared his followers for mass suicide.

This time it was a loyalty test, not poison. But Jones had been importing sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide and was ready when the time came. On Nov.

Vats of Flavor-Aid and cyanide appeared. Watched by armed men, women and their babies, then everyone else, took the poison before lying down to die.

Only a few dozen settlers survived, mainly by fleeing into the jungle. So was this a mass suicide? Scheeres notes that the children were given no choice and that many adults felt pressured to take the poison.

A Thousand Lives : The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown

And the rest? They rejected sexist gender roles. They believed in a dream.

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