81. Jonestown - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia jonestown mass suicide. On November 18, 1978, 914 (or 911) members of the People sTemple (including 276 children), led by the Reverend Jim Jones, committed http://www.phatnav.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Jonestown_mass_suicide

82. EPALS Classroom Exchange The cultists reportedly had long considered mass suicide if they The People s Templein San Francisco was quiet Monday Lane said the jonestown meeting began at http://www.epals.com/20thcentury/78jimjones.tpl

ePALS Essentials Home Join ePALS Find Classrooms Check Email ... Products and Services Channels Teachers Higher Education Parents Students Cultists Commit Mass Suicide in Guyana GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Guyanese soldiers searched through a steaming jungle Monday for hundreds of American religious zealots who fled their remote compound after the suicide-murder deaths of at least 409 fellow cultists. November 20, 1978 By MARTIN MERZER Associated Press Writer Some were shot, but most apparently lined up and took doses of cyanide poison mixed in a tub with flavored water. A witness said poison was spoon-fed to babies. Several hundreds bodies were sprawled around a communal meeting hall, packed so closely together that many had fallen across others who had died minutes earlier. Some had embraced as they died. By dark, police and soldiers had fond only 12 survivors from among the estimated 500-900 who had fled into the bush. All of the settlers were believed to be Americans, most from California. Those who were killed or took their own lives perished at about the same time Saturday that enraged members of the sect attacked an investigative group led by Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif. at a dirt airstrip. They killed Ryan, three U.S. newsmen and a woman from the settlement. By midafternoon, soldiers reported counting the bodies of 163 women, 138 men and 82 children. A police spokesman said later the toll was 409 as the terrible task continued at the settlement in this small South American country tucked beside Venezuela. He said bodies still were being found.

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. 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?

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86. THE PEOPLE'S TEMPLE (JIM JONES) Some people believe that the People s temple was an experimental hopes of eventuallymoving the temple to the is often claimed that the jonestown disaster was http://www.religioustolerance.org/dc_jones.htm

THE PEOPLE'S TEMPLE, LED BY JAMES WARREN (JIM) JONES Click below to visit our sponsors. This was a Christian destructive, doomsday cult founded and led by James Warren Jones (1931-1978). Jim Jones held degrees from Indiana University and Butler University. He was not a Fundamentalist pastor as many reports in the media and the anti-cult movement claim. He belonged to a mainline Christian denomination, having been ordained in the Christian Church/Disciples of Christ . (At the time of his ordination, the DoC allowed a local congregation to select and ordain a minister on their own. However, ordinations conducted without denominational endorsement were not considered valid within the rest of the church.) The Peoples Temple was initially structured as an inter-racial mission for the sick, homeless and jobless. He assembled a large following of over 900 members in Indianapolis IN during the 1950's. " He preached a 'social gospel' of human freedom, equality, and love, which required helping the least and the lowliest of society's members. Later on, however, this gospel became explicitly socialistic, or communistic in Jones' own view, and the hypocrisy of white Christianity was ridiculed while 'apostolic socialism' was preached. "

87. The Jonestown Massacre which included claims that the community at “jonestown” had, on a number of concernedrelatives, Ryan’s interest in the People’s temple became widely http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial4/jonestown/

var openThis = 9; document.write(''); document.write ("") Most Notorious Sexual Predators Unsolved Cases Partners in Crime ... Complete Story List For best viewing experience, please enable Javascripts! You are in: NOTORIOUS MURDERS/ JONESTOWN MASSACRE By Fiona Steel The Official Story The first reports out of Guyana on November 18, 1978 were that Congressman Leo J. Ryan and four other members of his party were shot and killed as they attempted to board a plane at Port Kaituma airstrip. Within hours, came the shocking announcement that 408 American citizens had committed suicide at a communal village they had built in the jungle in Northwest Guyana. The community had come to be known as “Jonestown.” The dead were all members of a group known as “The People’s Temple” which was led by the Reverend Jim Jones. It would soon be learned that 913 of the 1100 people believed to have been at “Jonestown” at the time, had died in a mass suicide. According to the official report submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives on May 15, 1979, the chain of events leading to Leo Ryan’s death in Guyana began a year earlier, after he read an article in the

88. Religion News Blog : In Guyana, Jonestown Massacre Distant U.S. Tragedy site would serve as a reminder to people about the a veil of secrecy tight aroundJonestown and allowed was preparing to return home with 18 temple members, he http://www.religionnewsblog.com/5114-In_Guyana,_Jonestown_massacre_distant_U.S._

Religion News Blog religionnewsblog.com News about religious cults, sects, alternative religions and related issues Home Archives Categories News Tracker ... Apologetics Index Search: Exact Match [Peoples Temple] In Guyana, Jonestown massacre distant U.S. tragedy Item ReligionNewsBlog.com Associated Press (USA), Nov. 19, 2003 http://www.azcentral.com By Bert Wilkinson GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Market vendors sold plantains and secondhand clothing Tuesday as children skipped home from school, business as usual in Guyana where the deaths of more than 900 U.S. cult members a quarter of a century ago are a distant American tragedy. No memorials were held for victims of the Jonestown massacre, a horror that is barely known to half of the population, which hadn't yet been born on Nov. 18, 1978. "I've never heard about Jonestown," said Naresh Bhiro, a 21-year-old coconut vendor. "I think I heard my parents, the older people, talking about Jonestown, but I don't know what it is." Others remember only the vague outlines of what happened at the remote jungle compound. The story of American cult leader Jim Jones began with talk of interracial harmony and caring for the poor and ended at his commune that night, when he exhorted his followers to drink cyanide-laced grape punch.

89. Jonestown Massacre allegedly passed between Jones and People s temple lawyer Mark pondering the relocationof Grace Walden to jonestown. Walden.) Most of the People s Tempe rank http://www.carpenoctem.tv/cons/jones.html

Jonestown Massacre On November 18, 1978, in a cleared-out patch of Guyanese jungle, the Reverend Jim Jones ordered the 913 members of his flock to kill themselves by drinking a cyanide potion, and they did. The cultists were brainwashed by the megalomaniac Jones, who had named their jungle village after himself and held them as virtual slaves, if not living zombies. Jones himself was found dead. He'd shot himself in the head, or someone else had shot him. Square-jaw, jet black hair and sunglasses, looking like a secret service agent on antipsychotic drugs, Jones takes his place alongside Charles Manson in America's iconography of evil. But was Jones really a lone madman as Americans are so often advised about their villains? Is it plausible that more that nine hundred people took their own lives willingly, simply because he told them to? Or is there another explanation? Not long after the slaughter in Jonestown, whispers began, strange hints of human experiments in mind control, even genocide, and the lurking presence of the CIA. At the very least, these stories maintained, the U.S. government could have prevented the Jonestown massacre, but instead it did nothing. At worst, Jonestown was a CIA-run concentration camp set up as a dry tun for the secret government's attempt to reprogram the American psyche. There are suggestions of parallel "Jonestowns" and that the conspiracy did not end with the deaths in Guyana.

90. Jonestown Survivor Speaks At Fresno State Layton is the author of the book, “Seductive Poison A jonestown Whistle Blower’sStory of Life and Death in the People’s temple.”. http://www.fresnostatenews.com/2003/April/Jonestown.html

Click the FresnoStateNews logo to return to the home page University Relations Office 5241 N. Maple Fresno, CA 93740-8027 (559) 278-2795 Breaking News: Smittcamp Honors Save Mart Center Search Maps: Heading to a campus event? Use our online maps EDITORS and NEWS/PUBLIC AFFAIRS DIRECTORS : Press releases can be downloaded at www.fresnostatenews.com University Relations also provides releases for news media companies via e-mail. To be added to the distribution list, send your e-mail address to tomu@csufresno.edu FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Shirley Melikian Armbruster April 15, 2003 (559) 278-2795 or (559) 269-5261 Jonestown Mass Suicide Survivor to Speak at Fresno State Wednesday Deborah Layton, one of the few survivors of the 1978 cult mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, will speak at California State University, Fresno at noon on Wednesday (April 16) in University Center room 200. Admission is free and open to the public. Her appearance is sponsored by the Department of Psychology, Psi Chi and the Psychology Student Union.

91. 1978 Massacre step was the gathering at central pavilion in jonestown. The choice that peoples Templemembers saw on that final In the end, people believed they had nothing http://camel2.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/relstudies/290/newage/1978.html

Jonestown On Saturday, November 18, 1978, the communal settlement of the Peoples Temple church in Guyana, South America, became the paradigmatic "destructive cult." A total of 918 persons died on that day as aresult of the activities of the memebers. Some argue that Jonestown was a CIA mind-control experiment, and that Jim Jones was a rogue CIA agent. Ohters claim that the U.S. government could not tolerate an inter-racial and socialist group of Americans to survive and hence, murdered them. Still others believe that repeated suicide rehearsals had prepared the group to die. Temple members had practiced suicide drills for years. That is, they pretended to drink poison and then fall down "dead" as a part of a loyalty test to Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. The mental preparation and physical enactment required to accept the idea of suicide was step one in this scenario. Step Two was a hostile visit by U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan, which Temple members saw as an "attack" by their enemies. Step Three was the defection of 16 members which Jones saw as disloyal and a betrayal. This led to step four, which was an attack on the congressman and the group of defectors.

92. ABCNEWS.com : Losses Linger 25 Years After Jonestown jonestown survivors say the years since the Nov. 18, 1978, massacre have donelittle to ease the senselessness of the tragedy. People’s temple. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/US/Jonestown_Jones_Anniversary_031118-1.html

var SectionID="GMA"; var SubsectionID="US"; var NameID="Jonestown_Jones_Anniversary_031118-1"; document.write(''); Search the Web and ABCNEWS.com November 18, 2003 HOMEPAGE NEWS SUMMARY US INTERNATIONAL ... TRAVEL FEATURED SERVICES RELATIONSHIPS SHOPPING WIRELESS EMAIL CENTER ... See Most Sent Stephen Jones said he escaped from his cult-leading father, the Rev. Jim Jones, when he was just 19 years old. Remembering Jonestown Jonestown Survivors Recall Cult Suicide-Murder 25 Years Later O A K L A N D, Calif., Nov. 18 An annual memorial service will be held today at a mass grave in Oakland, Calif., where more than 400 of the victims are buried. Jonestown survivors say the years since the Nov. 18, 1978, massacre have done little to ease the senselessness of the tragedy. "We were as diverse a group of people as you'll ever encounter," said survivor Stephen Jones, son of former cult leader the Rev. Jim Jones. "We were loving, passionate people. And those people shouldn't have died." The leader of the Jonestown cult, the Rev. Jim Jones, preached racial equality and integration, and led programs to help drug addicts and the elderly after moving his People's Temple Full Gospel Church from Indianapolis, Ind., to San Francisco, Calif., in 1970. Grace Stoen, a former member of the People's Temple, said she and others who had separated from the group tried to get involved in what they suspected was happening in Jonestown, Guyana.

93. ABCNEWS.com warnings and Ryan s trip didn t help most members of the People s temple. about thepower a single hypnotic leader can have over his people. jonestown Memorial. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/US/Jonestown_Jones_Anniversary_031118.html

Stephen Jones said he escaped from his cult-leading father, the Rev. Jim Jones, when he was just 19 years old. ABCNEWS.com Remembering Jonestown Jonestown Survivors Recall Cult Suicide-Murder 25 Years Later ABCNEWS.com O A K L A N D, Calif., Nov. 18 An annual memorial service will be held today at a mass grave in Oakland, Calif., where more than 400 of the victims are buried. Jonestown survivors say the years since the Nov. 18, 1978, massacre have done little to ease the senselessness of the tragedy. "We were as diverse a group of people as you'll ever encounter," said survivor Stephen Jones, son of former cult leader the Rev. Jim Jones. "We were loving, passionate people. And those people shouldn't have died." The leader of the Jonestown cult, the Rev. Jim Jones, preached racial equality and integration, and led programs to help drug addicts and the elderly after moving his People's Temple Full Gospel Church from Indianapolis, Ind., to San Francisco, Calif., in 1970. Grace Stoen, a former member of the People's Temple, said she and others who had separated from the group tried to get involved in what they suspected was happening in Jonestown, Guyana. "We were trying to let the government know that people were being held against their will," Stoen said

94. 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.

95. Chapter 7 that the killers had been planted in the People s temple. the beliefs are, the majorityof people want to is true 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?

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