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Jonestown: Jim Jones
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The Jonestown massacre is one of the most notorious mass suicides in history. More than 900 people died there. The quasi-socialist spiritual utopia turned hell on earth was founded by the Reverend Jim Jones.
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As the shootings were taking place at the jungle airstrip, Jim Jones gathered the community at Jonestown. He informed them that the Congressman's party would be killed and then initiated the final ritual; the "revolutionary suicide" that the membership rehearsed on prior occasions. The poison was brought out. It was taken.
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Close to one thousand people died at Jonestown. The members of the Peoples Temple settlement in Guyana, under the direction of the Reverend 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 900 perished.
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It is the aspect of Jonestown that is perhaps the most troubling.To the end, and even beyond, the vast majority of the Peoples Templemembers believed in Jim Jones. External forces, in the form of poweror persuasion, can exact compliance. But one must examine a differentset of processes to account for the members internalizing thosebeliefs.
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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the mass murders and suicides at Jonestown, Guyana, the utopian religious colony organized by followers of the late Pastor Jim Jones. The media, of course, is marking the event with the usual platitudes and "questions" supposedly meant to stimulate critical thought in the midst of the Tripp-Lewinsky tapes, or the burning question of who should be this year's MVP.
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