[EnderWiggin1970]

Don’t they have any beaches or anything? Surely anything would be a better tourist attraction than such a sad site.

[Telepathic Intruder]

They should call it a communist paradise. Jim Jones was a lifelong communist, and founded the People’s Temple after he became an atheist.

[Tell It Right]

At the Jonestown site should be a giant market talking about Jim Jones' connections to Dims Willie Brown, Jerry Brown, and Harvey Milk.

No shocker, but pedo Harvey Milk wrote President Carter to ask him to intervene in a child custody battle on Jones' behalf. A couple left the cult, but somehow Jones had the kid on his compound and wasn't giving him up.

[lee martell]

Yes, it’s morbid, some might even call it ghoulish, but Hey,
don’t we still have re-enactment shows in reference to Gettysburg?

**Just this year, July 6 and 7th, gunpowder filled the air during the Reenactment that took place at The Historic Daniel Lady Farm in Gettyburg, Pennsylvania

[MortMan]

Whp will have the kool aid concession?

[clee1]

Da fuq???

[The Louiswu]

any worse that the Vietnamese turning war time tunnels and pungi traps into walking tours?...be careful where you step!

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Pretty sick, but not surprising, for this world.

The way the world is headed, I expect a repeat - only this time, it will be everyone, with 900 left.

[fella]

Like Civil War battlefields.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment?

The book discloses how Nazis were in the CIA’s start. Chapter 6 on the “H File” is one of the most fascinating things I’ve read.

The book shared how Jonestown kept Venezuela from taking over disputed territory, so that may be a good thing.

Despite weekly medical exams, the Jonestown medical records “disappeared.”

[Organic Panic]

Jim Jones. Democrat party hero...

[Veto!]

We moved to SF and had to drive past the People’s Temple every day going to work. It felt creepy even from the street, the very definition of “bad vibes”.
That was about two months before they moved to Jonestown and drank the Kool Aid.

It’s still a mystery to me why anyone would be that stupid. But “drinking the Kool Aid” remains an apt definition for idiots following an evil leader. Kamalala voters, for example.

[logi_cal869]

In 1978, a group of former Temple members and concerned relatives of current members convinced U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan, a Democrat of California, to travel to Jonestown and investigate the settlement. On November 17, 1978, Ryan arrived in Jonestown with a group of journalists and other observers. At first the visit went well, but the next day, as Ryan’s delegation was about to leave, several Jonestown residents approached the group and asked them for passage out of Guyana. Jones became distressed at the defection of his followers, and one of Jones’ lieutenants attacked Ryan with a knife. The congressman escaped from the incident unharmed, but Jones then ordered Ryan and his companions ambushed and killed at the airstrip as they attempted to leave. The congressman and four others were murdered as they boarded their charter planes.

Back in Jonestown, Jones commanded everyone to gather in the main pavilion and commit what he termed a “revolutionary act.” The youngest members of the Peoples Temple were the first to die, as parents and nurses used syringes to drop a potent mix of cyanide, sedatives and powdered fruit juice into children’s throats. Adults then lined up to drink the poison-laced concoction while armed guards surrounded the pavilion.

When Guyanese officials arrived at the Jonestown compound the next day, they found it carpeted with hundreds of bodies. Many people had perished with their arms around each other. A few residents managed to escape into the jungle as the suicides took place, while at least several dozen more Peoples Temple members, including several of Jones’ sons, survived because they were in another part of Guyana at the time.

Mass suicide at Jonestown