PEOPLES TEMPLE

Peoples Temple

and the Jonestown massacre.

first Peoples Temple church (Indianapolis, Indiana)

relocation to San Francisco, California

the arrival of Leo Ryan

group's official move to Jonestown, Guyana

Timeline.

mid-1950s

early 1970s

Nov 17th 1978

the summer of 1977

Nov 18th 1978

the Jonestown Massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple

[...] the Peoples Temple spread a message that combined elements of Christianity with communist and socialist ideology, with an emphasis on racial equality.

expanding Jones' political connections

social and medical programs for the poor and needy

money donations

Jones believed to possess supernatural abilties by revealing personal data

convention meetings with respected speakers

spreading the message of equality

cancer healings

rasing money by various ways including selling live monkeys door-to-door

Creating an image.

JONES' PARANOIA & DRUG ADDICTION

PHYSICAL ABUSE

MEMBERS FORCEDTO GIVE UP THEIR BELONGINGS/HOMES/ CHILD CUSTODY

ACTIVE COMMUNIST"The thought was, infiltrate the church."

HUMILIATION

FAKED

expanding Jones' political connections

social and medical programs for the poor and needy

money donations

Jones believed to possess supernatural abilties by revealing personal data

convention meetings with respected speakers

spreading the message of equality

cancer healings

rasing money by various ways including selling live monkeys door-to-door

Creating an image.

— ESCAPE —

Nearly 1000 residents (stats from 1978)

Peoples Temple Agricultural Project

Self-proclaimed socialist-paradise

Implementing the plan — Jonestown.

Pre-planning of mass suicide

On the November 17th 1978 Leo Ryan, an american representative, together with reporters and photographers, came to Jonestown to investigate the claims of abuse, the treatment of its residents and living conditions. It was also his last day alive. Openly welcomed at first, was gunned down on the airstrip, waiting for his flight back home.

Trigger.

Leo Ryan's investigation

909 people died that day, toddlers, teens and adults, together with Jim Jones himself, found in a chair with a bullet wound, most likely self-inflicted. 33 survived.

symptoms are immediate, cyanide blocks respiration, convulsion, tissue hypoxia, fainting, death in the next minutes

November 18th.

Soldiers will come for you. They will torture you. Don't let them.

over 250 pages

FBI Records

Photographs

Jim Jones' Death tape 1978

Documentation.

sources

https://vault.fbi.gov/jonestown/jonestown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple https://www.history.com/topics/crime/jonestown#origins-of-the-peoples-temple https://www.czytelniamedyczna.pl/3462,rozpoznanie-i-leczenie-zatruc-cyjankami-w-okresie-przedszpitalnym.html https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Peoples_Temple https://www.britannica.com/event/Jonestown