Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple “If we can’t live in peace, we’ll die in peace. Die with respect, die with a degree of dignity,” -Jim Jones [6]. These were the very last words 909 people heard on November 18th, 1978 as they slowly came to their last day of life. Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, left his followers with many unfilled promises after many years of nothing but complete loyalty and dedication to this man that they idealized and respected every word he preached

In the historical documentary of the film “Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples’ temple”. It featured the footage of the group named peoples’ temple. They were lead by a preacher named Jim Jones. He led a group of 900 members and had a mass suicide of the peoples’ temple. When watching the film they will be interviews with former temple members . Being the Jonestown survivors and people who knew Jones. The preacher Jim Jones had a vision of changing their world. He would tell them about the promise

In the PBS film, “Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples’ Temple”, it illustrates an extreme example of one radical religious leader's control over hundreds of people to the extent of convincing them to voluntarily commit a "revolutionary suicide" in their attempted utopian settlement in Guyana. In the 1970's various changes were being made and through social and cultural movements, including political and religious, people wanted something to believe in. They wanted to fight for a cause that

Stanley Nelson’s documentary Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple reviews the actions of this religious group and analyzes its rise to popularity, then eventually its downfall. The Peoples temple was a religious, and later political, movement started by Jim Jones in 1955. It was an interracial congregation. Jones preached socialist and communist beliefs and took Christianity teachings to a radical level. The Peoples Temple had utopian ideals which led them to establish a community separate

The Peoples Temple began as a church that supported social equality and justice, but slowly changed into a prophetic movement; a network of individuals, tightly organized in a communal group that attaches its identity to charismatic leadership and the teachings of that leader. The movement’s leader Jim Jones claimed to be the “God-sent prophet” . In order to expand, he later moved his congregation to California and eventually Guyana where he created the closed community of Jonestown. However, in

was the leader of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project also known as Jonestown. This American religious organization is most known internationally for the events that happened on November 18, 1978. In the 1950s, the group was founded, but the Temple moved their following to San Fransisco in the mid 1970s. But even there they received critical claims and had several newspaper articles written about the group. The course of those events plus the defection of eight temple leaders made Jones prepare

A Look at Jonestown and the Peoples Temple Many people have heard the phrase “drinking the Kool-aid” but few actually know where the term comes from. The story of Jonestown and the Peoples Temple is a complex one with many different causes and can sometimes be a tough topic to learn about. Nonetheless, there is much to be learned from it, as it shows the dangers of putting too much blind loyalty into a person or cause. The story of Jonestown began in 1955 when a man named Jim Jones Started a Religion

flame of the Holocaust and the KKK. It is what that killed seventy-nine people in the Wacco Siege and it is what that killed 909 men, women, and children in Jonestown. The Jonestown Massacre has played a very big part in the history of cults and radical belief. People wonder how these people were manipulated to do terrible things. But perhaps it is not belief itself that is terrible, but how people use it. The Peoples Temple was started by Jim Jones

Jonestown Mass-Murder Suicide “Prior to the 9/11 attack, the tragedy at Jonestown marked the single largest loss of U.S. civilian lives in a non-natural disaster”(Jonestown Massacre 2). Jim Jones, a cult leader of the Peoples Temple, was responsible for the loss of the 900+ people that died in Guyana on November 18, 1978. Before all of this Jim Jones was a normal man living a life as a preacher who preached against racism. Throughout his life he was very popular by “currying favor with public officials

Jonestown Massacre Everyone has heard the saying, “Drinking the Kool-Aid.” Its simple meaning is to blindly accept something, without any questioning (“Definition Of Drinking The Kool-Aid”). This saying comes from the world famous, Jonestown Massacre (“Definition Of Drinking The Kool-Aid”). The Jonestown Massacre resulted in 909 people dead, from cyanide poisoning ("The Jonestown Massacre”). Jim Jones, leader of the religious cult The People’s Temple, convinced his followers to participate in “revolutionary