The Terrible End of the 918 Sect Members: The Jonestown Massacre

Photos taken after the massacre, the horror of the event with all its realities was documenting. Hundreds of human corpses of all ages lying face down on the grass…

Even after 45 years, it is still about Written books, articles and documentaries Let’s take a look at the grisly details of the Jonestown Massacre.

Jonestown’s story begins with Jones, a white pastor preaching unconventional socialist and progressive ideas to a predominantly African-American congregation called the “People’s Town.”

The “People’s Temple” is often dedicated to a man and a cause at the expense of its members’ selves and livelihoods. blindly dedicating their allegiance known as a cult.

But a closer look at the followers of Jim Jones reveals that the church’s progressive and activist ideals A wide and diverse mix of racial backgrounds and age groups are emerging.

These selfless and hardworking people did selfless work for the community during their time in the temple, and some of them getting rid of drugs and crime they changed their lives. One of the members, Kohl, “We all felt we were more of a ‘family’ than a church.” says.

The sect is estimated to have thousands of members at the height of its popularity in the 1970s.

In 1977, Jones becomes paranoid over the media scrutiny of the temple’s suspicious activities, and together with his many followers, lives in Guyana, a remote country in eastern Venezuela. agricultural settlement, So he’s moving to Jonestown.

Members at this place; their religious, economic and social lives are under control. Members now turn to Jones become dependent they are coming. The leader is a married man who adopts children of different races and has sexual relations with both male and female followers.

Those who knew the cult leader Jones describe the strange facts about him as follows:

Joyce Houston, a former follower of the cult, in the documentary Jonestown: “Jim said we’re all gay. Everyone but him. The only heterosexual on the planet It was him, and the women were all lesbians, the men were all gay.” says.

According to Jeff Guinn’s book “The Road to Jonestown,” Jones also credited Adolf Hitler. an early interest heard. “When Hitler thwarted his enemies trying to capture and humiliate him by committing suicide in April 1945, Jimmy was impressed.” he writes.

Jones’s childhood friend Chuck Wilmore in the 2006 documentary “Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple”: “I thought Jimmy was a really weird kid. He was obsessed with religion, obsessed with death. A friend told me he saw Jimmy kill a cat with a knife.” says.

On November 18, 1978, the US delegation sets out to study the sect.

On the day of the Jonestown Massacre, a delegation from the US Congress arrives in Jonestown to study the cult. The allegations were serious; it looked more like a slave camp than a religious centre.

Beatings, forced labor, prison sentences, drug use to control behavior, There was talk of suspicious deaths and even mass suicide rehearsals.

Congressman Ryan talks to Jones and many other members when he travels to Jolestown. Some families and a few people While she wants to go with Ryan, the others leave on their own. Jones is not happy about this.

Ryan and other congressmen are gunned down.

ryan, to those left behind Fearing retaliation, he needs a second plane because he wants the whole group to fly together, and takeoff is delayed. Group; On the 18th, it gathers on an airstrip in the afternoon.

As Ryan’s plane was getting ready to take off, he and several gunmen from Jonestown dump truck is coming. While firing on one plane, a cultist named Larry Layton, who boarded the other plane, takes out his gun and starts shooting. Ryan and several others die and many are injured.

After these murders, Jones orders his followers to drink a cyanide-infused beverage, starting with children first.

The leader had hired armed guards to ensure that no one came out alive. start in Jonestown as a result of a gunshot wound A total of 918 people died, including Jim Jones, who was found dead, of whom 304 were children.

The general view of what happened was a mass suicide as people lined up to drink the poisoned beverage, although witnesses and former members of the temple were part of it. about mass murder There are claims.

Long before the massacre, Jones; to his followers, to give himself a loyalty test He had drunk something they believed was poison. It looked like a rehearsal for what was to come.

This event is a subject of investigation for many areas.

The Jonestown Massacre is engraved as one of the largest mass suicides and murders in modern history. Also, the cults leadership abuse and manipulation became one of the most realistic and terrifying examples.