81. CNN - Jonestown Massacre + 20: Questions Linger - November 18, 1998 CNN.comCategory News Online Archives CNN.com 1998 November US...... was conducting drills for a mass murdersuicide. about their relatives in the PeoplesTemple, decided to a delegation of reporters and relatives to jonestown. http://www.cnn.com/US/9811/18/jonestown.anniv.01/

MAIN PAGE WORLD ASIANOW U.S. ... news quiz CNN WEB SITES: TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW MORE SERVICES: video on demand video archive audio on demand news email services ... pagenet DISCUSSION: message boards chat feedback SITE GUIDES: help contents search FASTER ACCESS: europe japan WEB SERVICES: Jonestown massacre + 20: Questions linger Jonestown mass murder-suicide scene in 1978 November 18, 1998 Web posted at: 12:56 p.m. EST (1756 GMT) In this story: Time to declassify? Paradise becomes a prison 'Time for us to meet in another place' 'Jim had deep hatred in his heart' ... Related stories and sites SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) Twenty years after the world was shocked by the mass murder-suicide in the supposedly utopian community known as Jonestown, the questions linger: How and why did 913 people die? Some believe answers may lie in more than 5,000 pages of information the U.S. government has kept secret. "Twenty years later, it would be nice to know what went down," said J. Gordon Melton, founder and director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion. Time to declassify?

82. Timeline Of The Peoples Temple Student Research Project on the People's temple and jonestown http://clawww.lmu.edu/faculty/fjust/Students/Jonestown.htm

by Elizabeth Fraines, Anna Gutierrez, and Daniella Sahagun THST 398: "Revelation and Apocalyptic" Fall 1998 – Prof. Felix Just, S.J. Timeline Jim Jones becomes a Student Pastor at a Methodist Church. He preaches racial equality. The People’s Temple is founded in Indianapolis as an integrated church combining evangelical, enthusiastic religion and loosely socialist politics. Jim Jones, the founder and pastor of the church, performs healings that attract many members. The congregation is predominately black. Jim Jones is appointed director of the Indianapolis human rights commission The People’s Temple Full Gospel Church, as it came to be called, becomes a part of the Disciples of Christ. Jones is ordained by that denomination in 1964. Jones moves the Temple's headquarters to Ukiah, California, a city near San Francisco which he thought would be a safe haven in case of a nuclear war. The People’s Temple attracts more members and much favorable coverage in the press and from the political establishment as the Temple and Jones himself become more active in the community. Jones is even appointed to the San Francisco Housing Authority. Jones and his staff start planning a migration to their "promised land."

83. Prehistoric: Jonestown `diary Of The Dead' Resurfaces [09-18-88] boxes of records deposited in the peoples temple archives at two NBC reporters anda temple defector were killed during a factfinding visit to jonestown. http://www.subgenius.com/subg-digest/ancient/0505.html

Jonestown `diary of the dead' resurfaces [09-18-88] Douglas James Trainor ( trainor@CS.UCLA.EDU Fri, 23 Sep 88 19:46:39 PDT Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: Douglas James Trainor: "ALBERT HOFMANN IN AMERICA" Previous message: Douglas James Trainor: "Heartbreak, controversy, demonstrations [9-19-88]" 900 people died a decade ago in a mass murder-suicide at a Guyana cult commune have resurfaced among boxes of records unsealed this month. Many of the notes were written by Mike Prokes, a lieutenant of Peoples Temple leader the Rev. Jim Jones, and a survivor of the cyanide killings of 913 people in November 1978. The letters by Prokes and other dissatisfied Jones followers indicated the commune in South America was falling apart in its final days. "I don't know how much longer I can take it," Prokes wrote. "I mean the witchcraft. I feel like I'm being programmed. I enjoy the violence when I do it, but sometimes like right now I feel sorry I did it. "I think I'm going to end it all with my .38; I only wish I could see my brains blown out."

84. Apologetics Research Resources On Religious Cults And Sects - Pensacola Outpouri Saying peoples temple became a cult overnight is like suggesting 912 members of thePeople's temple sect founded to the killings a group of jonestown men shot http://www.gospelcom.net/apologeticsindex/p00.html

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85. Book Review The American Historical Review, 104.5 The written as an apologetic for jonestown, Maaga's work to our understanding of the PeoplesTemple community and reading, led inexorably toward mass suicide/murder http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/104.5/br_105.html

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to the AHR online. About 268 words from this article are provided below; about 628 words remain. If you are a individual member of the American Historical Association, you may: login here if you have already registered for online access. Set up your online account for the first time. If you are not a member of the American Historical Association, you can: Join the AHA and receive many member benefits including print and electronic issues of the American Historical Review. Purchase a research pass to gain two hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the American Historical Review (104.3-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the American Historical Review. Instititutions can: Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues. Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges. Book Review Caribbean and Latin America Mary McCormick Maaga Hearing the Voices of Jonestown Foreword by Catherine Wessinger . (Religion and Politics.) Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. 1998. Pp. xx, 187. $29.95.

86. CJ Online National News: Twenty Years Later, A Survivor Takes A Look Back At Jon of events leading up to the mass murdersuicide that was a scary side to the PeoplesTemple beatings of and her mother, Lisa, arrived at jonestown, a jungle http://www.cjonline.com/stories/111598/new_jonestown.shtml

[an error occurred while processing this directive] Not in Oz... Updated Sunday, 15-Nov-98 02:13:52 Twenty years later, a survivor takes a look back at Jonestown By MICHELLE LOCKE The Associated Press P IEDMONT, Calif. Jonestown survivor Deborah Layton grew up in a house of secrets. She was 16 before she found out she was Jewish, 24 before she learned her grandmother had committed suicide. As a trusted financial lieutenant for cult leader Jim Jones, she kept secrets for him and later from him as she plotted her escape months before he ordered 912 of his followers to drink cyanide-poisoned punch in the Guyana jungle. But when her own child started asking questions, Layton broke family tradition. First, she told her daughter. Then, she wrote "Seductive Poison," her account of events leading up to the mass murder-suicide that shocked the world 20 years ago this month. Along the way, she exorcised the family ghosts. "I understand what these well-meaning secrets were for," Layton says. "But at the same time, it's because of those secrets that I think my mother and my brother and I were sort of pushed onto the path of looking for answers and that Jim Jones seemed to have them for us." The beginning Layton was 17 when her already converted brother, Larry, introduced her to Jones at the first Peoples Temple in far Northern California, where he believed he could best survive the atomic apocalypse he expected. It was 1970, and she was on summer vacation from the British boarding school where her worried parents had sent her to curb adolescent rebellion.

87. Father Cares: The Last Of Jonestown Father Cares The Last of jonestown recaptures the final months for the People’stemple cult. three American journalists and a peoples temple defector were http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/jonestown.html

Select a Program Tapes and Transcripts All Things Considered® Anthem At the Opera Billy Taylor's Jazz The Diane Rehm Show Jazz from Lincoln Center Jazz Profiles JazzSet with Branford Marsalis Latino USA Living on Earth Lost and Found Sound Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz Morning Edition® NPR Playhouse NPR World of Opera Only a Game Public Interest Radio Expeditions Rewind Says You! St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Selected Shorts Sounds Like Science Sunday Baroque Talk of the Nation Todd Mundt Show Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me Weekend All Things Considered Weekend Edition - Saturday Weekend Edition - Sunday Weekly Edition - The Best of NPR News World Radio Network from NPR NPR Worldwide Jim Jones Courtesy: Laurie Efrein Kahalas, author, Snake Dance: Unraveling the Mysteries of Jonestown (Trafford Publishing, 1998) 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. In the months preceding the tragedy, Jim Jones and his People’s Temple followers recorded their tho ughts, their problems and their aspirations. The hundreds of hours of audio tape form the basis of the NPR documentary Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown Airing in 1981, the documentary was written by James Reston, Jr and Noah Adams, and produced by Deborah Amos. It was based on the tapes Reston acquired under the Freedom of Information Act, and won most major broadcast awards including the Dupont Col umbia Award, the National Headliner Award and the Prix Italia.

88. Cult Suicide - Wikipedia After jonestown, many claims surfaced in the media the members of the UnificationChurch In a related way, mass suicide can occur as a means of escape when a http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_suicides

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89. Untitled nine hundred residents of the peoples' temple Christian colony the killers had beenplanted in the People's temple. however, is that the jonestown massacre was http://www.cultawarenessnetwork.org/AUM/SECTION_2/07.html

Chapter 7 JONESTOWN IN GUYANA- THE TRUE STORY No discussion of brainwashing or mind-control could truly be complete without the true data on Jonestown being reviewed and the fabricated, yet publicly held false data corrected. In November 1978 the tragedy of Jonestown occurred where over nine hundred residents of the Peoples' Temple Christian colony in Guyana died from murder, and not the supposed suicide as promoted by the anti religious movement after the fact. Under a 1993 Freedom Of Information request by Freedom But what is also of interest that night is that as Ryan was preparing to leave Jonestown he was assaulted by an alleged member of the People's Temple, Don Sly, with a knife. The attack failed. Then later, the following day, at the Port Kaituma airstrip the drama unfolded further as the delegation were attacked by a squad of gunmen. One source told Freedom that the killers had been planted in the People's Temple. They killed those not dead from the first raid, and the principal target, Leo Ryan was finished off with a point-blank shot gun blast to the head. He was later reported to have had twelve gunshot wounds. Of note was that an alleged CIA operative, William Dwyer, deputy chief of the United States embassy in Guyana, lay nearby and survived unscathed. He soon returned to Jonestown. What is also not dealt with in the official scenario of Jonestown, is that there were also troops and a military plane on the airstrip at the same time as Leo Ryan was there. Why were they there?

90. Remembering Jonestown time to return to the jungles of jonestown to try led more than 900 of his PeoplesTemple followers—including their son—in a mass murder–suicide http://www.connectionmagazine.org/archives_old/archives/1999/may/Remembering_Jon

Remembering Jonestown By Christine J. Gardner in Chicago. The horror lingers, yet the number of aberrant groups keeps growing as people seek community. CULTS ON THE RISE The horror lingers 20 years later, but the tragedy served as a catalyst for research on the growth of aberrant groups and improved rehabilitation for ex-members. Academics and ex-members gathered November 13 - 15 in Chicago to discuss lessons learned since Jonestown. Experts agree that cultic activity has increased since Jonestown, with anywhere between 2,000 and 10,000 groups existing today. An estimated 100,000 to 300,000 people move in and out of aberrant groups each year, and the total continues to grow. The number of groups varies based on the definition of cult. Evangelicals identify groups outside orthodox Christianity as cults because of their aberrant religious beliefs. Secular researchers define cults by their abusive behavior; they can include political or paramilitary groups, or even Protestant churches. LOST HOPE?

91. NEWS: Remembering Jonestown - Christianity Today Magazine time to return to the jungles of jonestown to try led more than 900 of his PeoplesTemple followers—including their son—in a mass murdersuicide. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/9t1/9t1031.html

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92. On November 18 was conducting drills for a mass murder suicide friends and family in the PeoplesTemple, that he lead an investigation of reporters and relatives to jonestown. http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/schools/RossvilleGrade/g_marney/archived_projects

93. Catalyst Archive - Articles Archive - J Cult Deaths Recall jonestown Ugandan sect's similarities to peoples temple disputedby nearly a thousand cult followers at the People's temple in jonestown. http://www.catalyst-uk.freeserve.co.uk/art_j1.htm

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94. Jim Jones And The Peoples Temple temple Jim Jones and the peoples temple Effects Jim the CIA and that the Jonestownmassacre was Oakland, California, where 260 People's temple children are http://www.humboldt1.com/~history/Jansen/JimJones.html

Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple Effects Jim Jones Timeline Tired of waiting for the third world war, he moved his church to San Francisco where he received numerous humanitarian awards and became the Chairman of the city's Housing Authority. It was there that he first practiced a ritual called "White Nights" in which he prepared his followers for an act of revolutionary suicide to protest racism and fascism. By 1977, as things started getting weirder, he was forced to move his church to Guyana, South America. There, in the isolation of the jungle, Jimmy created his dream community, Jonestown, and lost his mind. Jim's nirvana rapidly deteriorated into a nightmare which he knew of only one way to end. On November 18, 1978, Congressman Leo Ryan from San Francisco went on a fact-finding mission investigating alleged human rights abuses at Jonestown. After only a day at the jungle compound, a member tried to stab Ryan. The injury was minor, but Ryan decided to leave with his party and 18 temple members who wanted to to return to the United States. Other members of the cult followed the group to the airstrip and opened fire, killing Ryan, three journalists, and one of the departing members. Eleven others were injured. Hours later, the good reverend ordered his followers to drink from a tub of grape-flavored Fla-Vor-Aid laced with potassium cyanide and tranquilizers. All 900+ did. Children died first; babies were killed by poison squirted into their mouths with a syringe. Then the adults. Most were poisoned, some forcibly. Some were shot by security guards. As the ritual suicide progressed, it is unclear whether Jim put a bullet through his brain, or someone did it for him.

95. WashingtonPost.com: Overview: The 1970s Ryan had been investigating the strange group called People's temple. The massdeaths in jonestown, Guyana, helped stigmatize cults by dramatizing the http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/overview70s.htm

OVERVIEW: The 1970s Go to Chronology Overview Werner Erhard est Werner Erhard, a former car salesman, founded the Erhard Seminars Training program in 1971, offering long, intense courses designed to "rewire" people's consciousness. Erhard attended the controversial Mind Dynamics Institute training before he developed his own mass-therapy program of self-improvement. Faced with financial difficulties, Erhard sold est during the 1980s. Post archive articles Lifespring Lifespring has proved to be one of the more enduring commercial self-help programs started in the '70s. John Hanley, who went through the same Mind Dynamics program as Erhard, founded it in 1974. Lifespring teaches that a person's "core" can be "actualized" through interpersonal exercises. Hundreds of thousands of people have paid money to take the courses, including the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Post article about Virginia Thomas Patricia Hearst Symbionese Liberation Army The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped publishing heiress Patricia Hearst in 1974 in a case that raised issues similar to the Manson murders: How can seemingly intelligent people be persuaded to change so dramatically and commit acts of violence? After the leftist terrorist organization kidnapped Hearst and held her captive in a closet for nearly two months, she participated in a San Francisco bank robbery with her abductors. Her trial was a landmark in the debate over mind control. Defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey was the first to introduce psychiatric testimony in an American courtroom that a defendant had been influenced by pressures that some people considered "brainwashing." Hearst served nearly two years in prison.

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97. Electronic Portfolio - Final Draft http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~burniske/utopia99/student/evaluation/lair/final.html

Dana Lair's Final Draft - A Tragic End to a Utopian Dream 1. Jim Jones is famous for the massive suicide that left 914 members of his group of followers in Guyana dead (Jonestown- Examining the People's Temple), but few people realize that he began Jonestown with a utopian vision. His vision was one of racial and economic equality as well as the creation of a society of communalism and faith for the individuals of the Peoples Temple Christian Church. Jones' integration of religious beliefs, a classless social structure, and communal programs formed the basis of a utopian society, which failed only as a result of Jones' character flaws and selfish intentions. 5. Jones' ultimate utopian vision was a society based on racial and economic equality. He created his utopian ideal by emphasizing religious beliefs that united the members of his community, by utilizing a classless social structure, and by implementing communal programs. In the end, Jones' perfect society failed concluding with the mass suicide of all 914 members, 276 of which were children. As disheartening as this fact is, the shocking ending to the People's Temple Christian Church was brought about as a result of the imperfection of its own leader, Jim Jones. His arrogance as a leader, his selfishness as a society member, as well as his use of illegal drugs led to the morbid conclusion of the utopian society at Jonestown. My Front Page Topic Proposal References Process Journal ... Final Draft Return to the

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