What Happened To The Bodies At Jonestown?

[@GrungeHQ]

What was your reaction upon hearing this news?

[@regantorot7917]

Brainwashing Cool aid and you see your kids drinking

[@petergianakopoulos4926]

TRUMP 2024 MAGA

[@claudettes9697]

I think looking for the right thing to do for so many ppl is difficult, and it is a biohazard that need to be dealt w, and time heals. It’s really all one can ask for after all that. That stone w his name on it made me mad and sad. 😢 Excellent info.

[@jasondauenbaugh9060]

​@@petergianakopoulos4926had they lived they would have rooted for lil Donnie T.

[@NiecieSavo]

​@@petergianakopoulos4926speaking of cults..

[@dfuher968]

Let us remember, that it was not only Congressman Leo Ryan, who was murdered on that airstrip. The victims were: Leo Ryan, U.S. Congressman Don Harris, NBC reporter Bob Brown, NBC camera operator (whose rolling camera caught the first few seconds of the ambush, b4 he was shot) Greg Robinson, San Francisco Examiner photographer Patricia Parks, Jonestown defector R.I.P.

[@GrandmaLoves2Scuba]

Thank you for naming them.

[@Jones-w5i]

That jonestown death killed future generations. These kids could've been future mechanics, teachers etc

[@theamericanopry]

Would you look at that. Who was Leo Ryan? Leo Ryan became famous for his vocal criticism of the lack of Congressional oversight of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), authoring the Hughes-Ryan Amendment,[17][18] which would have required extensive CIA notification of Congress about covert operations.[19][20] Ryan once told Dick Cheney that leaking a state secret was an appropriate way for a member of Congress to block an "ill-conceived operation".[21] SEEYA!

[@faiththrower7951]

Cults the worst of all. Trump followers should pay special attention

[@Doris9664]

Patricia parks was shot however the family’s decision to defect when they did saved the lives of her husband and two daughters - they were very lucky to get out

[@sheilaf5732]

I met a man who lost 16 members of his family at Jonestown. 16! Cannot wrap my mind around that.

[@craigg5410]

That's absolutely horrific

[@carolyndamico2924]

😢

[@sherrisiegel5787]

So sad 😢. My heart goes out to that man.

[@swilliams1759]

I met a woman who lost her adult son and daughter at Jonestown.

[@zeldahooks3255]

😢😢

[@jahempress26]

It was not a mass suicide, it was a mass murder.!!!

[@GrandChessboard]

Uhh, OK but people were gunned down that tried to run away and the forced injections. So, maybe let's just say it is both...

[@1956Caddy]

The Soviet intelligence agency published a photo-documented study in the early 1980s establishing that the CIA had thus prevented a request for collective political asylum, already filed for exile to the USSR) from succeeding.

[@Rambam1776]

Who cares?

[@jjw1072]

It was both.

[@Norah56s]

​@@GrandChessboard Given how heavily armed they were, it wouldn't be surprising that some of the members died from gunshot wounds--(in addition to Jones and the woman who shot him, and then herself, which i learned in another documentary).

[@ofrabjousday1]

I was 14 years old and living in Dover, Delaware when these bodies arrived. I clearly remember to this day, how rancid the air smelled almost right up until Christmas Day. As the smell was dissipating, I can also remember thinking that the smell must have embedded itself into my nostrils, and that I'd never stop smelling it, but it was only the stench weakening until it was gone. That was an eerie time.

[@jamierupert7563]

That's a smell that you just can't even wash off. There's nothing else like it. I'm so sorry you had to go through that even if it was long ago. I'm sure it doesn't seem like it.

[@wondergranny2299]

At the age of 12 I smelled a dead rotted human. The stench is horrifi and unique. Will never forget it.

[@brianpinion5844]

one comment I wish I hadn't read, man that death smell , and how many times somebody say hey smell this , and that's the only thing your going to think off , ptsd ,

[@ofrabjousday1]

@@brianpinion5844 PTSD is a good way to put it. I haven't quite smelled that odor ever again, yet I remember exactly how it smelled. Sweet and putrid.

[@rucianapollard7098]

Wow! It's crazy that you say that, because my cousin was found dead in her apartment 3 days after dying. My family members that found her talked about the smell. One of my cousins said she couldn't get the smell out of her nostrils for days! She said she couldn't eat because she could still smell that odor!

[@xxelmoth]

One of the stories from Jonestown is so infuriating. Tom Partak was having doubts, long before the massacre, and would cry because he wanted to go home because he missed his family. I believe he wrote in his diary about missing them, and I also believe he went to Jim Jones asking if he could go home. One of the man’s roommates found his diary, and at one of their nightly gatherings, Jim read it out loud, and the temple made fun of him. He was one of the 900+ to perish.

[@Off-Brand_Devin]

Struggle sessions were common for The People's Temple.

[@93seronica]

That’s heartbreaking

[@Zarastro54]

@@Off-Brand_DevinMore like shame sessions.

[@PatrickHardison-bk4mh]

It has always bothered me that this is referred to as a mass suicide. Jones caused the murder of over 900 people, his victims may have picked up the cups and drank but it's more than a bit difficult to say no to armed guards with assault rifles (some of whom had just executed a relatively large group of people, including a US Congressman). Jim Jones preyed on vulnerable people, took them to a place where he was in complete control, abused many of them, and then killed them.

[@Reverend_Kane]

Exactly. And who shot Jones and the nurse and why didn't they drink? And why did Jones have plans to escape to Venezuela if he planned to get shot? We're not being told everything about this crime.

[@FaithandNova]

What I will never understand was them following him there knowing he was crazy beforehand.

[@ThePurple1-m2o]

I agree!

[@brianal7143]

I don't understand the guards. How can someone forced you to kill children and babies ? I don't understand why people wouldn't refuse to do this

[@meatavoreNana]

There were a few trial runs beforehand, where people were told to take the poison, when it wasn't actually poison and everyone was ok ..Many wouldn't have realized that this time was for real , not until people stared dropping ... Then, the panic would have set in .😢

[@NH-ow8dy]

Many forced, screaming to go but guards with guns stopped them. The audio recording is one of the most haunting things I have ever heard in my life.

[@Lexxusc]

I listed to 2 minute of it and had to cut it off I couldn’t !

[@NH-ow8dy]

@@Lexxusc that was smart, it has never left my head :/

[@tessaducek5601]

I never understood the need for firearms to worship God! Shows just how these cults have nothing to do with religion but control. Another form of hitlerisem.

[@cindirose3390]

Sure was an awful experience

[@pixiemaddison3111]

True true

[@sherrisiegel5787]

Also feel bad for the people that had to deal with the bodies afterwards. They deserve a medal for what they endured

[@solomongrim982]

This would make an absolutely fascinating documentary interviewing the workers and servicemen that had to perform this horrifying task

[@sherrisiegel5787]

@@solomongrim982 I agree

[@mike03a3]

@@solomongrim982 I seriously doubt they would appreciate having to relive those days.

[@JerryOrbachFan]

It would be much like a war zone, in the sense there were many dead bodies.

[@Reneelwaring]

True, but imagine the trucks in Europe after WWII that went around collecting the bodies of soldiers and interring them? My Uncle was one of those truck drivers.

[@ronfrank09]

My great grandma died here. I was born 6 months later. My dad showed me letters from her.

[@susanspaller61]

So sorry, I lost an Auntie, Uncle and a baby cousin. ❤️‍🩹

[@ronfrank09]

@susanspaller61 wow. I'm sorry also.

[@annafarr582]

I remember when this horrible nightmare happened, and I'm so very sorry to all family members.

[@susanspaller61]

@@annafarr582 thank you for that.

[@bforman1300]

Friend of mine was one of the 'advisors' sent to ensure the cooperation of the locals. He spent 2 tours in Vietnam and enough time in Central America to be haunted, but he said Jonestown was the most horrific thing he had ever seen.

[@Caravroomvroom]

Hitler's association was living there underground in 1978. The last one seen was 1986 he drowned trying to escape. Those yellow trucks on the airstrip were for moving the dirt from underground caves. They are still doing digging in this Pitt there nowadays.

[@bforman1300]

@@Caravroomvroom no

[@Caravroomvroom]

The Germans responsible for the halocaust were living in the Georgetown caves in 1978 yup... And we're last caught in 1986. The town was called lindburgh German owned.

[@bforman1300]

@Caravroomvroom there were many nazi war criminals 'hiding' in South America, but Brazil is a huge country with many isolated populations that speak no European language and the official language for the country is Portuguese. Saying half the population of Brazil speaks German is a gross exaggeration. Also, FYI, Jonestown wasn't located in Brazil.

[@debbierobbins360]

@@Caravroomvroom WTH. What a random, irrelevant comment. Guyana is not Brazil, no they don't speak German, most of the Germans went to Argentina, Paraguay and Chili.

[@garymathena2125]

I served in the 498th Medevac, which was stationed at Fort Benning Georgia. They were one of the units which cleaned up the site. 942 remains (approximately) were sent to Dover AFB. There was a large amount of valuables, titles of vehicle, money, deeds to land and homes. The FBI was also there to search service members to ensure no theft occurred. It was a horrific scene, not all of the people found had committed suicide, some father's were forced to make their family member's drink the poisoned drinks and then shot by members of Jones inner circle. This incident should prove to people that one deranged person can sway gullible and desperate people, even to their death's.

[@Reverend_Kane]

This video says only Jones and the nurse were shot. It might have been a miscommunication early on. There were GIVEN shots but not shot. So I can see how shot with poison became shot with bullets. The details are important as this was a crime scene, not a mass suicide.

[@retriever19golden55]

And it's going on today. People want so badly to think things can get better for them, they're seeking a better life...and unscrupulous people take advantage of that. RIP, everyone.

[@charlesjwin]

​@@Reverend_KaneThat's not correct. Leader JIm Jones & his "nurse" assistant were found shot by bullets.

[@lizh1988]

He also individually traumatized the church members, gave them personal attention of all sorts. A horribly clever and knowing man who knew how to accomplish what he wanted. It was not just that he made promises of a better life to black people who had been abused, he also abused and confused them. It was a cult.

[@updownstate]

I knew a few combat vets and they told me nothing they saw or did in Nam could have prepared them for Jonestown, that nothing could have prepared them.

[@tootieq6527]

I was raised in an Evangelical household, and when I was born, I had a large tumor on my eye, which ended with me being blind in that eye. Both my mother and grandmother were forever taking me to healing revivals attempting to heal the blindness in that eye. I especially remember a particular tent revival that my grandmother took me to when I was about 4 or 5. It wasn’t until the Jonestown tragedy that my mother told me that the preacher of that particular revival was Jim Jones. 😳 BTW, I’m still blind in that eye.

[@pamelaclark6694]

WOW.

[@aprilgosa5779]

Jesus heals Jim Jones does not

[@sid2112]

Wow you actually saw Jim Jones. Man I would give my right eye oh wait...

[@kmgreves]

lol @@sid2112

[@jagmarc]

all so believeable, surrounded by true believers so believeable that if something had occured spontaneously it was a result of that belief

[@101soldiergurl44]

My buddy in the airforce went down to bag&tag and when james came back he was hot mess. They gave him 100% disability rating at the VA. Stories were horrible!

[@Cream_CurdlR]

you mean James Jones?

[@dmreddragon6]

@@Cream_CurdlR -The commentors buddy!!!

[@airons1895]

My heart and prayers go out to your friend James. It's been years but, PTSD never really goes away. THANK YOU James for your service and I pray that you find "peace" Much love and respect to you. 😊😊😊🙏🙏🙏

[@Coco-xw3wp]

Those poor people were all ward's of the states and Jonestown was a mind control experiment, those people were starved beaten and made to work all day... The Bodies were left to rot so no Therile Aptopsy could be done.... These people and babies were experiments and Jonestowns real secrets could not get out that's why those people were murdered they DID NOT drink the Kool aid.... 😮

[@randymillhouse791]

@@airons1895 PTSD does go away.

[@Littlekidlover22]

Even though they were in a cult, not all of them wanted to die and they still deserve the respect as other dead people. In my opinion

[@janschild]

I agree. I read that The children were killed first to make the parents more cooperative . Smh.

[@zackfair6791]

Just found out Jones was a communist. The cult behavior all makes sense now.

[@ntbored7727]

@@janschild they were. In the tape you can hear it. Jim mocks the children’s cry and then says to the adults they should join their children soon .

[@evarodriguezalequin5705]

I was a teenager when this happened. It impacted me a lot. He really wasn’t a man of God. He was the devil Himself. He used people, had various children with different women and lured people to belief his lies. I was so scared with all the news.

[@d_c_C]

I’ve heard of the Jonestown massacre but I actually never thought about the clean up events that took place after the fact. I can’t even imagine what it was like for those first responders to arrive at a place of so much death 😢

[@cindirose3390]

Our military handling of PTSD was largely improved from what was experienced and learned from this cleanup

[@PinkJoy143]

I always think about it.

[@Derek-no8fu]

It was probably nice and quiet.

[@paulhenson4434]

​@@Derek-no8fuTrue, but imagine the bloated bodies?

[@FaithandNova]

@@Derek-no8fusmh

[@alleahsasseville]

The hold that he had on these people is frightening.

[@katemaloney4296]

They allowed him to take hold of their lives.

[@buckshot6481]

Everybody is looking for an escape or a shortcut to heaven.

[@rosierambo144]

Very true. And we are living something so similar in THIS country at this moment in time.

[@NiecieSavo]

​@@rosierambo144 how?

[@shay5839]

@@rosierambo144No we aren’t! 🙄

[@dmreddragon6]

Thank you for this. I had thought that most of them were buried on site, due to cost of shipping them back to the US. Everything about recovering 900+ decomposing bodies is horrific!

[@robertabray-enhus3198]

I remember hearing about this on the news,I was 18 then. Most people knew nothing about this cult. We learned more about this,over the next few days on the news,as the horrific story unfolded. So sad about the children😢

[@cheshirecat6518]

I worked with a man who was in the military at that time, and was one of the men that had to clean up. He said the smell stayed in their skin and sinuses for weeks even though they wore protective clothing and masks. He said the bodies were goo.🤢

[@garybregel4606]

They should have buried everyone right there, in a mass grave.

[@ericgaskins571]

Man i couldn't imagine having to clean that god awful crisis up. Talk about the dirty work. What a nightmare

[@brooketummons8564]

It's absolutely disgusting that they put jones on the memorial he was a mass murder

[@dmreddragon6]

The only good thing with that is his name was last/on the bottom.

[@gabriellew.4847]

Considering the history of USA, I understand how this can happen...

[@anthonywilliams9852]

It was Jones' son who was buried there, Jones' ashes were scattered over the Atlantic Ocean.

[@oliviapearson7856]

Yes, froggyvet68. As a black woman, I can definitely see how it happened. We’re talking over 400 years of psychological warfare from that colonizer.

[@bresams2917]

Right that pissed me off 😠

[@lucretciaseven4873]

It's quite telling that Jones and his evil nurse accomplice chose to be shot because both of them knew what a hellish death that concoction would visit on anyone who drank it, the agony would have been indescribable.

[@Wailwulf]

What likely happened is the guards that were forcing everyone to drink shot him, otherwise Jones would be wanting them to partake in the cyanide also.

[@rucianapollard7098]

Right! Jones saw those people writhing in pain and convulsing and he wanted the easy way out! Freaking coward!!

[@Niibaah]

How did those armed security guards die ? Did they also take the concoction or they shot themselves ?

[@lucretciaseven4873]

@@Niibaah Some took poison some shot themselves and some escaped into the jungle and dragged themselves into villages half dead from hiding in the bush

[@anonymisspatriot]

I know a man who worked on the airstrip on Dover AFB and he was one of the people who saw the bodies on the planes. He's had PTSD since.

[@vickieadams6648]

I was stationed at Dover between 1981-85. I am so glad I wasn't there when they brought them in. But I saw the hangars and heard that it was bad. There had to be a lot of quick decomposition in that heat.

[@MarkSentMe]

@@vickieadams6648 I remember the news stories when I was a kid and the bloated bodies laying in piles.

[@anonymisspatriot]

@vickieadams6648 I couldn't even imagine...he I definitely didn't want to press him about it He said it was the worst thing he'd even seen and smelt

[@minks1968]

I was a kid at the time. I remember seeing it on NBC news then. They were showing aerial views of the bodies. I remember one of the victims had on red clothes, I think it was pants. I have never forgotten the horror of seeing that. Its been frozen in my mind over 50 years now. That man was pure evil !

[@deannaivetic7935]

I was nine years old when this happened saw footage of bodies on news feel more compassion for the children and babies they were innocent

[@krislatoya7556]

Never even thought about body transportation. That entire thing was crazy.

[@sophiaisabelle027]

We will always support this channel. They're incredible at what they do.

[@ElectronicsPeddler]

0:56 that's survivor Stanley Clayton, not Odell Rhodes. I knew Stanley when I was stage managing plays in Berkeley in the late 90s and early 2000s. He worked stage crew and ran the lights and sound for many plays. He was quiet, unassuming, and never missed a cue. I never thought he was drunk or compromised in any way and he was very reliable. When I found out he was a survivor of Jonestown, his quiet introspective demeanor made a lot more sense. This is a man who has seen some horrible atrocities and yet doesn't seem to harbor any outward animosity to the world; just doing the best he can to make things for the people around him better.

[@r5t6y7u8]

Wow, that poor man. He was brought back the scene and made to identify 100+ dead people that he knew personally. Even if he wasn't actually *friends* with the cult members, they all lived, worked, and ate together under 24-hour surveillance of a madman. I'd be scarred for life having to identify one dead body, never mind a hundred.

[@debbierobbins360]

Why would he have animosity toward the world?

[@ElectronicsPeddler]

@@debbierobbins360 Research has shown that traumatic experiences are associated with both behavioral health and chronic physical health conditions, especially with traumatic events such as this. It sometimes results in tendency to view the world as inherently evil and with it a strong dislike and hatred for it. I saw no such ill will in Stanley; his reaction was the diametric opposite with his words and actions. His only desire is to leave the world better than he found it; which for Stanley is a bigger burden than most of us will ever face.

[@mattlawrence1932]

That death audio of this incident is by far the second most disturbing thing ive ever heard in my entire life!!!! U can literally hear everyones voices & bodies winding down as they all slowly stop screaming & then the quietness & then the silence which is they're death & that creepy music in the background just keeps playing afterwards untill the record finally starts skipping & then it literally just sounds like actually demons talking & coming out of the ground to take all of they're souls to hell for killing themselves & commiting suicide 😬 I really don't recommend listening to it & this is coming from a person thats always had a very dark sense of humor & a very morbid fascination with death💯 Some things are just best to not know about 👍

[@Traderjoe]

I can’t imagine the stench and flies that must have been endless. Wearing a hazmat suit in that heat would have been absolutely torture and I am sure the odor was detectable for miles away. I bet people vomited in their suits. It would drive anyone to madness

[@caseyj779]

I can tell you what happened. My uncle was in the military. He did body recovery at jonestown. The bodies were in terrible states of decomp where they weren't really intact bodies anymore. They litteraly had to scrape them up with scoop shovels.

[@garybregel4606]

That would be hell on earth.

[@leeparks15]

Omg 🙏🏽

[@samfisher2306]

​@@garybregel4606no sh1t. I'll probably be on therapy for the rest of my days if I'd been there

[@Steve-m8s]

Why did it take so long for the government to get out there? There's a lot more to this story that we don't know.

[@kittycat5972]

@@Steve-m8stravel and resources for 900 bodies. It’s pretty simple buddy how complicated of an operation this was.

[@jamesavery3559]

thank you...this is tough for me i met this mad man in san francisco and knew a lot of these kids from high school.

[@Dwightaroundyolips]

Wow. My wife's grandmother went to school with Jones in the day

[@BeEnNLGaming]

​@@Dwightaroundyolips Did she say how he was? Just curious.

[@kahalak8171]

Shame on those remaining family members who got angry at the governement at how this whole tragedy cleanup was handled. My gosh, they probably did the best they could during an event that they had no prior experience on how to handle. Those ungrateful people need to back off, and place their anger where it properly belongs - at Jim Jones, period.

[@everettalexander5990]

I think Jim Jones should have been dealt with in the days before leaving for Jonestown by simply calling the Police and using 38 snugnose, 380 semiautomatic pistol, this on United States soil because I personally think that the United States Authorities could have intervened and have prevent Jonestown, I have watched the. docudrama and read about it, if the real Leo Ryan was like the fictional Leo Ryan, the best thing to do is to get the police involved because some of the members Jones conrogation were acting like model citizens or members when Jones was extorting poor people out of their social security or welfare benefits, the one seem where one of Jones female henchman slapped a black guy for falling asleep during one of his slurred sermons; this was on American soil in fact in San Francisco, I think he should have been like Christian McCafferty, Roger Craig, and Ken Willard getting to an San Franscisco Police Officer being in the custody of Police would have been ɓetter.

[@michaelsix9684]

the military is well trained to deal with casualties, in this case they had no idea it would be so many and that the remains were in such terrible shape, they did a great job given the task they faced

[@lindafinch1520]

If the Federal Government had listened to the people in Mendocino County, California, who were begging them for help, this would not have happened. Jim Jones got away with murder, financial crimes and crimes against children years BEFORE the massacre. It helps when the District Attorney Tim Stoen is the Peoples Temple second in command and hitman.

[@sookie4195]

@@lindafinch1520 we have freedom to choose our religion in this country. The people chose the children didn’t.

[@debbierobbins360]

@@lindafinch1520 The adults made their choices, as is everyone's right. Nobody could have legally stopped them from doing what they wanted. The children are a different matter. They were willing participants in the beginning and once they changed their minds it was too late.

[@sigguy1361]

The crazy part was the whole final incident was captured on audio. You can hear Jones on a microphone system and all sorts of voices, children and babies crying. Heartwrenching.

[@angieallen9129]

I was 10 yrs old and visiting with my Aunt. We were driving from French Lick Indiana to her home, near Indianapolis. When she pulled the car over,turned up the radio and began sobbing hystericall and praying. That is how i heard about it. She had been a member of Jones's Indiana church and knew many of the ppl that followed him to California

[@br4524]

God bless tour poor Aunt

[@Caravroomvroom]

this is illegal psychological experiments. They were poisoned in San Francisco. Jim Jones owned the buildings they lived in. I was born in Geary and Steiner PEOPLES temple and Jehovah witnesses building 1978. I am Caribbean and Filipino. Two of my nephews 19yr olds died in one day in 2 different countries. One was chased all night and then shot on Geary st San Francisco. The other was in south America by the US army friendly fire they called it. He was a gay ex jehovah witness. My grandparents were anointed and died mysteriously in their sleep. The last 5yrs 9 family members died from poison even my kitten named Zen was DX by vets when she died. I'ma survivor of child trafficking by the German Brian Timothy maupin family who speak Khmer. I been homeless away from my family since I was 12.

[@nanasewdear]

A sad story becomes even more tragic. Medals are due to the people that had to clean up this mess.

[@rosemarieblossoms]

I AGREE❗️ A CLOSE❤ FRIEND❤ OF❤ MINE❤ I CONSIDER❤ FAMILY❤ WAS ONE OF THE CLEAN UP MILITARY PEOPLE OF THE BODIES. HE SAID THEY GAVE THEM COUNSELING WHEN THEY GOT BACK TO THE STATES. HE IS 67 YEARS OLD AND NEVER GOT OVER IT💔…HE HAS PTSD💔

[@nanasewdear]

How could anyone get over something like that? Blessings to that man.@@rosemarieblossoms

[@rosemarieblossoms]

@@nanasewdear YES❤️💔 ❗️I AGREE❤️💔 WITH❤️💔 YOU❤️💔❗️ AMEN❤️❤️❤️ BLESSINGS❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ TO❤️ H❤️I❤️M❤️❣️❗️

[@Caravroomvroom]

Locals spoke about bodies tied together like rafts to float down the river to be burried

[@SecretSquirrelDunDun]

I live in Oakland, California where Evergreen Cemetery is. It is my understanding that no funeral homes wanted to take them for fear of being associated. I know people who knew many of these people. People are still very traumatized.

[@Caravroomvroom]

Buck kamphuesan took them in solano county CA home of the zodiac killers association.

[@DonkeyHotey-l2e]

Family members complained that the US Gov didn't do enough when the US Govt didn't need to do anything at all. If the family members cared that much, they could have flown there to Jonestown and done the cleanup themselves.

[@nereidatorres7613]

AGREE 1000% UNGRATFUL FAMILY😠 USA TAKES CARE OF IT'S CITIZENS.

[@elephantapede]

It’s crazy how animals can sense poison. I just witnessed it a week ago. Dog didn’t like the shovel that ended a rattlesnake at all. I thought there was another snake for a second until I realized it was the murder weapon she was reacting to.

[@alvaroq2024]

Yeah, their sense of smell is hundreds of times better than humans!

[@nereidatorres7613]

ANIMALES ARE MUCH MORE INTELIGENT THEN SOME HUMAN BEENS. YOU WOULD BE SURPRISE.🐎🐴🐱🐐🐅🐵🦓🦁🦙🐫🐰🐻🐿🐄

[@saltrock9642]

The poor children were victims of weak minded parents who were senseless enough to follow the devil into their graves.

[@jackieedmondson8422]

Sounds like MAGA

[@greenidguy9292]

That is why we all need to pay attention to the liberal socialists aka Democrats in this country…

[@jjtrucker5950]

@@jackieedmondson8422 MAGA, MAKE AMERICA GAY ALWAYS, THE DEMOCRAT VERSION WE ARE FORCED TO ENDURE TODAY.

[@saltrock9642]

And, @@jackieedmondson8422 , it sure seems those type of weak minded parents, professors and other public figures still exist. The “woke” suffer greatly from a serious mental disorder and are willing to take children way down to a bottom feeder level of sickening disarray. A door to a loony dimension has been opened and that door needs to be slammed shut. Then and only then can we MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN 🇺🇸

[@jackieedmondson8422]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣 There is a reason why you are a homophobe. Just look in the closet!!

[@juliemccannon2908]

I was born in 1969 but I remember seeing this on TV before my Mom quickly guided me away from the TV to play outside. She eventually explained it to me because it was all over TV and newspaper. I still do not attend church.

[@lauranowak3632]

I was born in 1969 as well. However, I was raised / forced into a Catholic upbringing. Neither my brother, nor I have any religious beliefs / faith, or attend church. We both believe that had we been indoctrinated into any other religion things may have turned out differently. Catholicism is quite cultish, and way too secretive / mysterious for my liking.

[@TheOnlyLadyBella]

What Jim Jones did has nothing to do with Christianity or Jesus or the church. Please don't associate what he did to these people with the true and living God.

[@edgarpoinsot5502]

@@TheOnlyLadyBella So sad some people seek twisted pretexts to become atheists.

[@tweetygirl818]

@@TheOnlyLadyBellathank u for saying this. I really hate that he and ppl like him always use God to get ppl to join them and unfortunately those ppl don't know the danger they have put themselves in until it's too late.

[@juliemccannon2908]

I've figured out as I've gotten older, I can read, study my Bible if I choose anywhere. I can pray on my toilet. I can read and study on my couch. I really don't need to go to church. If you're saved, you know it. Why would I go to church to hear gossip about other people and spend money?

[@TheConcertCruizer]

My uncle was part of the recovery team that brought the bodies back.

[@caw7007]

I can’t imagine being there. Hope he has a good life and isn’t haunted by the trauma. Such a crazy event in history.

[@sandrashevel2137]

Man Bless his soul. What a horrible job to do

[@TheConcertCruizer]

@@caw7007 Oh Very! He got married, has kids, grand kids, he’s a car enthusiast, so yeah. He’s been living a good life.

[@caseyhoefler7959]

Omg I can't imagine what that did to him

[@epep50]

I deployed to Haiti in 2010 after the earthquake devastated the country. The smell of death is nothing I ever got used to.

[@robertjames6640]

During the time of this hideous tragedy I was working on the Tapakuma project in the Essequibo Coast of Guyana. My company had a contract involving drainage and other land projects. We heard of Jonestown and the ensuing tragedy whilst in Georgetown. Jones was a mass murderer and cult leader who fooled many Americans with his so called church. I did not see the results but felt the effects it had on our Guyanese workers and all we Europeans and Americans working on the project. Cults are very dangerous to society. As we are finding in our own nation during these times of unrest.

[@jamessalomon9343]

I was a Mental Health Specialist during my time in the Army. Two of the people I worked with were members of the cleanup team from Jonestown. Both of these individuals had severe PTSD as a result of their experience.

[@TheEbonyMystique]

It's horrible what they went through. I can imagine what they must have been dealing with to end up trusting Jim Jones.

[@nicolasrose3064]

Seriously, are you for real, what they "were dealing with" was the Religious zealotry of a group of people being exploited by the twisted ideals of a megalomaniac vainglorious cretin posing as a "man of God"...! The age of religious dogma is over, the age of being subjugated by an ultimatum based superstition through the conceit and self serving fear mongering control of the "Church" is over, the age of ignorance is over.

[@robertjames6640]

The result of falling for a charlatan with a glib tongue. Familiar?

[@1954Stevied]

The Graves Registration Unit from the XVIII Airborne Corps Quartermaster Battalion was deployed from Ft. Bragg to clean up the mess. I was stationed there at the time and I heard it was disgusting. The bodies had already decomposed significantly by the time they got there.

[@michaelsix9684]

the bodies were in tropical heat for at least 4 days, heat, bacteria, and insects in the tropics turns bodies into a mess very fast

[@margolangley4472]

I was stationed in 12th Combat Aviation Group, XVIII Airborne Corps at that time, too! A female LT, D Goode, was assigned to assist in final IDs and attempts at family notifications! She couldn't speak of the horrors, either!

[@dewitthobson2279]

I had an uncle who served in WWII. He was among the first American soldiers to enter a Nazi concentration camp. For the rest of his life, he suffered from devastating PTSD, and would frequently wake up screaming in the middle of the night, but at least he didn’t have handle any of the corpses. The camp guards were forced at gunpoint to bury the bodies. I have no doubt that the men and women who had to clean up Jonestown had it way worse.

[@gabriellew.4847]

My uncle, mother's brother, also was sent to Germany and was digging up skeletal bodies or putting in ditches! My uncle was also PTSD as well...RIP Arcelius Franklin

[@cassandra5752]

@@gabriellew.4847 rip to your uncle side note: Arcelius is a powerful name!! I hope this is okay, but its now at the top 3 of baby names for me. Its such a cool name

[@Coco-xw3wp]

​@@gabriellew.4847The powers that be made sure no kinda real autopsies could be done on them... These people were already ward's of the state that included foster children & babies... The good old C👁‍🗨A thought it would be a good idea to experiment a Mind Control experiment by trying to see if the could modern day slavery with mind control.

[@Coco-xw3wp]

​@@cassandra5752Don't believe the mainstream narrative! This situation was all around evil thanks to the 3 letter agency that purposely put drugs in our community's!! These people are demon's in the flesh!! 😮

[@DopeBoyDreamz]

@@cassandra5752adolf is a pretty cool name too

[@davea8346]

That last woman complaining about how the government/military handled 900+ rotting bodies thousands of miles away is ridiculous. She should have gone down there herself to identify the remains of her relatives, make arrangements for transportation and burial and pay for it all herself.

[@sharonroller8849]

She would never do that, just wants to bitch.

[@chrisb7198]

All the bodies not claimed were treated the same but for some reason it was racist? Looking for some money from the government.

[@7spiritualcompass706]

They may have drank the potion willingly, as mentioned on here, but the children didn't have a voice! I remember this so well. I cried for the children.

[@d.g.n9392]

I do remember this , I was 25 years old at the time. Also in 1978 I was a recent graduate of Mortuary college and licensed embalmer and funeral director. It’s such a tragedy. And a shame the recovery of bodies couldn’t be managed better. Interesting video.

[@peggyclause8847]

How exactly would you handle things better?

[@sherrita80548]

Some of my friends family members died there her and her parents would have gone there too if it wasn't for her grandmother convincing them that she was too young to go she was six months at the time her granny saved her life

[@mercedesvelasquez8781]

May I ask what their names were and may your family members rest in peace but in all honesty I wish grown adults wouldn't take their children because it's bad enough their choosing what their choosing but they shouldn't take their children with them on their path...

[@churchofpos2279]

I had 2 classmates that disappeared from school, when I was 12 years old. No one knew where they had gone. Found out later that their mother had joined the cult and taken them to the Temple in Guyana Both of them had died.😥😥

[@melodymacken9788]

If it was up to me, I would have left Jones where he was. Cremation for Jones and scattering the ashes was far to good for him. Mentioning him on a memorial... what were they thinking.

[@sugarplum5824]

I was taking a sociology class in college when this happened. The revelation of the mass suicide in Jonestown was certainly analyzed in great detail.

[@evientually]

My college girlfriend's Dad was part of the recovery. He's a pilot and was one of the people flying the bodies home. He was _deeply_ affected by it, of course. Would NOT talk about it for a very long time. Eventually he would open up enough to tell people he was part of that effort, but as far as I know that's all he would say. I always wondered if not working on that kind of trauma, not going to therapy (or discussing it at all) was relevant to his being such a total douche.

[@davidmaraman855]

Go easy on the guy dude, after what he probably saw and went through it would be considered normal to be silent and to try to process that kind of grief.

[@commonsense571]

Maybe. But my dad had horrible Vietnam experiences that I know nothing about. He wouldn’t ever have any of us know that horror. He was a an absolutely wonderful man. The poison he was exposed to killed him. I miss him everyday and always will.

[@evientually]

@@commonsense571Oh my, that's just heartbreaking, I am so sorry you and your family had to experience that! Poor guy. My partner is a disabled vet, he was in Afghanistan and was the only survivor of a helicopter that was shot down. He doesn't talk about it unless he's drunk, and then he doesn't get into details, he just cries and says it was his fault, he should have been killed too or instead...massive survivor's guilt. Some issues that made my girlfriend's dad, in my mind, a total douche: • He abused and raped his oldest daughter. However he didn't, as far as they remembered, assault my girlfriend. But my girlfriend was "excellent" at dissociation & blocking out trauma so it's possible (likely) he continued the abuse & she just blocked it out. She couldn't stand him, so she always suspected that was part of her hostile emotional reactions to him. • When the youngest child (her brother) turned 18 & graduated high school, he revealed that he had a WHOLE OTHER FAMILY that lived in the next town over, and now that GF's brother was 18 & out of school it was, he said, time for him to be with them full time. He had another group of kids, a house with a mortgage, a dog, the works. Now did the trauma of the Jonestown cleanup create some flaw in who he is, that he needed love & security so much he needed two families? Maybe. I don't think it had anything to do with the SA, that's probably just because he was a horrible predatory man.

[@CarolineEccleston-q9c]

The content of his character had NOTHING to do with his experience in the military. He was simply a POS as many people are. Why speculate about the simply obvious? It won't help you or anybody else.@@evientually

[@TahtahmesDiary]

Thank you for accurately noting the majority didn’t consent to “drinking the kool aid”. It’s so disrespectful how people act like most were eager, like dudes with guns didn’t suddenly appear when many hadn’t even known guns were in Jonestown.

[@crose7412]

@TahtahmesDiary If "dudes with guns" suddenly appeared and were the last to die, they presumably still turned the guns on themselves or drank the Flavor-Aid after whoever they shot/threatened.

[@El-wc5hl]

@@crose7412 Dudes with guns were present in Jones Town long before the "mass suicide" I'm presuming they melted back into the jungle like most cia mercinaries.

[@thexannyphantom5532]

@@crose7412what was the other option? What could the unarmed do? The only choice was die or die

[@user-oc1qo5dk4b]

*Flavor Aid

[@crose7412]

@@thexannyphantom5532 Nope, when you're the last ones alive, you also have the chance to leave and go somewhere else - no one to stop you.

[@heatherkettel7746]

I think it was more of a mass-murder than a mass-suicide

[@sandybruce9092]

Absolutely!!!

[@marshamarsha5204]

I agree

[@Deborahtunes]

I'll never understand how someone, especially an adult, can follow another person so blindly. I can remember going to a church at 11 years old, and the preacher telling the teenagers to bring in their rock records, so they could break them, (I saw a lot of KISS Lps up there). As young as I was, I knew there was something wrong with it. So how is it adults can't tell who's an evil, power-hungry control freak?

[@alvaroq2024]

Brainwashing, look it up. You’ll find some interesting articles on the subject!

[@Deborahtunes]

@@alvaroq2024 ~ I get that. But my point is, you would think adults would be wise to this. Unfortunately many of them are just as gullible as most children...

[@TheOnlyLadyBella]

When society has you beaten down and somebody offers you something better you take it. Now imagine if that person takes you away from your homeland and you realize that something's not quite right However you can't make it back home because you don't have the resources to go back home. What do you do? I don't like victim blaming. Many of Jim Jones victims the adults where African American people that were poor and were seeking a better life.

[@Deborahtunes]

@@TheOnlyLadyBella ~ Society has beaten me down too. But I still am not so gullible as to believe a phony such as Jim Jones. Maybe if people would stop being so willing to play a victim, they wouldn't become one. The only true victims here were the children. The parents made their fate when they chose to leave the US to go to that barbaric place, for something that didn't exist. There is no such thing as utopia. If someone is promising this, they have ulterior motives. That's just common sense...

[@NavyBlueSky17]

​@@TheOnlyLadyBellaSome wasn't .Leslie said it was some who were middle class working people.

[@SpeiderSchneider]

I remember an aerial shot on the cover of the NY Daily News. Bodies lying with their arms around each other. They estimated 400 dead, but it doubled when they found layers of bodies.

[@philyeary8809]

It doubled due to the five days needed to mop it up via military. This was a killing field, brought to you by the CIA.

[@Know_Your_Enemy42]

@@philyeary8809you need help. Seek a qualified medical professional immediately

[@beverlybalius9303]

Unclaimed bodies always are buried in Potters Fields across the nation… they get no markers unless the family buys one.

[@zyaneric1]

There are many cults , among us, One individual, usually male, attains and holds that role. Adults, if they so choose to follow , fine. As an adult, you’ve grown and learned through your life experiences …but never, ever, submit your child. Don’t deny their right to grow and learn and make their own choices.

[@taxidude]

And the most obvious are so ingrained and established that they are not seen as cults. Roman Catholicism is a cult!

[@jagmarc]

not just single leader, can also be a committee, board or governing body

[@ToudaHell]

It's really hard to identify mental manipulation if a person hasn't experienced it before. That's why cults are so dangerous. To gain that experience to be able to identify the dangers requires lots of pain, anxiety, depression, and self-hatred at a scale I don't want anyone else to go through. There, we have come to the crux of the problem.

[@jagmarc]

@@ToudaHellagree plus to obscure even more there's the 'stockholm syndrome' and that curious effect when a victim of a scam sometimes keeps it secret or even supports the scammer and justifies

[@normancook2870]

The democrats are a cult

[@danstrayer111]

The AFB Dover was chose not because of its distance form California but because there is a large morgue there for handling remains of Americans who have died overseas...mostly from military ops.

[@thomasgirty6397]

military graves registration teams do not get the recognition they deserve !! They do a horrible, thankless job that mostly goes unnoticed. To those doing this necessary job, THANK YOU !!!!!

[@Horror_N_M3tal]

Cults & psychologically abusive relationships have a lot in common.

[@toriladybird511]

Same play book

[@Reverend_Kane]

GASLIGHTING

[@joellafrazier1224]

This was a situation where there wasn’t going to be perfect resolution. The shear number of dead in that climate made that impossible. A relative of mine died in Her apartment In New York City In August. She was not found for several days. Multiply that By nine hundred. This. Amos was unavoidable. Fault is irrelevant in this case. And the family members who didn’t or couldn’t claim Their loved ones should not lay blame on the people who did what they could having never encountered a situation like this. All of these people were cared for the best that could be done with so many dead.

[@GenXamerica]

Over 900. Wow. Very sad.

[@charleskiplinger9904]

Having been at Dover as an SP and working to guard the bodies it is definitely a smell you will never forget. They stored bodies in refrigerator trucks outside the morgue.

[@Lelffy]

I was about 12 when this happened. I remember a Time magazine cover that showed all of the bodies. It changed my life. I researched cults once in junior high and again in high school and have been both horrified and fascinated by human behavior and how people get brainwashed into cults ever since. I wish that more of the general public understood the tactics so that people could keep themselves and their loved ones safe.

[@user-oc1qo5dk4b]

Exactly! The saying should be *"Don't drink the Flavor Aid"* . I don't know why so many people keep insisting on saying it wrong. Just like they say "D.B. Cooper", it's *Dan Cooper* . Both of these are because of newspaper reporter error.

[@chyl0ve]

wtf is the difference between flavor-aid and kool-aid

[@BrendaBaBoom]

Jim Jones mostly wore sunglasses 😎 during services and while indoors …. the dude looked dodgy and creepy asf.

[@Reverend_Kane]

To hide that he was on drugs no doubt

[@lisabranch2800]

If i had went to his service the first time i would have never gone back...you can tell a person's character by just looking at their eyes

[@MattyNelson-rs3ik]

Anyone wearing sunglasses indoors are suspect. From what psychologist say,😮. Incl I wear them due to extreme light sensitivity, because of my eye illness.

[@MattyNelson-rs3ik]

​@@lisabranch2800PEOPLE FAIL TO LOOK AT PEOPLE'S EYES...BIG MISTAKE..

[@mal1465]

I remember this all too well, I was 20y/o. Very shocking

[@sandrajordan3802]

Back in the 70’s there was a group of people traveling through our area living the life of “freedom “ my husband and I were young and thought the hippie lifestyle was cool,but we were parents and not about to join this group. We did however take some food to the group. As we left we passed a you man leaving the group. He was kind of escaping. We gave him a lift to the highway and wished him well. I have often wondered about him,was he one who would have been part of the group who died? Don’t know anything about him but if he’s still out there, I hope his life turned out well.

[@MegaCassie83]

This is what happens when people do not question everything. This monster took advantage of people who didn't question, were poor, were not educated/couldn't read.

[@lindafinch1520]

There were highly educated and prominent people who followed Jim Jones also. Before Guyana the Peoples Temple was in Mendocino County, California. Jone's was able to infiltrate and control the District Attorney's office, law enforcement, schools, social services etc. The DA Tim Stoen was Jim Jones's second in command and his hitman. Jones and this DA got away with many crimes against children, financial crimes and murder, way before the Guyana massacre.

[@ITIsFunnyDamnIT]

I had just turned 8 on Nov, 18th when this happened. back then I couldn't understand why so many people took their own lives, but they didn't most were murdered.

[@DavidKen878]

Nov 18th is my birthday too. Isn’t that crazy?

[@Cream_CurdlR]

lol @@DavidKen878

[@Jasmine-lj8qw]

And as far as force , when it came to making people swallowing the poison, there would have been tiny tiny tears on the inside of the top lip because holding someone’s mouth close forcibly pressing, is going to leave that impression from their teeth, or their gums or force. There was one picture that really stood out for me and it still does when I think about it, of a little one , still “hip carrying ” age . he had on a matching set green overalls shorts with a little shirt that matched to it, and he was with the adults who were dead together in arms, but the baby was for some reason in between the adults, like they laid him right there after he died, and then they took that poison, because he wasn’t under the adults like a lot of the other babies was , but he face up, and because he had been out there in the sun, his face had turned like this deep bruised purple and shiny from oil or something , and that just really-I don’t have no words but i was bothered by that.

[@rridderbusch518]

I saw stacked and boxed victims on a plot of land that wasn't a cemetery while driving the so-called "Paris Pike", a road between Lexington Kentucky and Paris Kentucky. They were there for two years in a row. We were visiting relatives for Thanksgiving both times. I wish I'd have never seen them. So sad.

[@catherinesyme901]

🙏❤️🕯🕊

[@sandrasmith8365]

Victims of Jonestown in Kentucky?

[@rridderbusch518]

@@sandrasmith8365 Yes. Burials cost money. Many Jonestown victims were entire families. There was nobody left to pay for burial plots, so the government asked the public to donate land. Then it took a lot more time for the Gov't to allot the money to get them all interred. This area of Kentucky is the horse-breeding area. Very fancy. The place I saw the stacked boxes of coffins wasn't fit for horses to run on, so I figure that some compassionate landowner donated it.

[@ubb262s]

My Father knew Bob Brown from his days as Mr Brown's union rep , my father told him due to love of going to dangerous places to film that one day he would get killed , sad that it came to be RIP to all except Jones , hope he's roasting

[@johnking6252]

Following one man too far is always a danger. We should take note that history does not repeat, again. 🙏✌️

[@MattyNelson-rs3ik]

Following anyone too far,sure sign of a total narcissists,,their goal to isolate you from anyone

[@marcm8406]

I remember this.....still gives me the creeps these many years later😵

[@Mrs.Jennatic]

Thank you for being respectful. I didn't know so many were murdered.

[@lindafinch1520]

There were more victims than the Jonestown Massacre. Look up Jim Jones Apologist and Jim Jones in Mendocino County. He committed financial crimes, crimes against children and murder. Jone's got away with it all because the District Attorney of Mendocino County, California was the Peoples Temple second in command and hitman.

[@brickcitybrownchick]

America treated the family members of this tragedy horribly. And the way people have made fun of the victims over the insuring years has also been truly awful. The people who went to Guyana thought they were going to build a wonderful community: they had no idea that they had followed a madman to their ultimate death.

[@naelyneurkopfen9741]

They were admitted communists. Communism has a long history of mass murder, I have no sympathy for the adults who chose this. The children on the other hand, had no choice. They were the only true tragedy.

[@alexstokowsky6360]

I disagree. Those people went to Jonestown willingly. The US did those families a huge favor at taxpayer expense to deal with those decaying bodies. Even $500 would not begin to cover it. They found a resting place for everyone, when no cemetery wanted them. The relatives should be THANKING the US Government for what they did. I have never heard of anyone making fun of those in the massacre. If people did, that is on them.

[@josephbeaman9191]

How was it their problem to have to deal with

[@alexstokowsky6360]

@@josephbeaman9191 Because the disposal of remains is always the families' responsibility. If your loved one committed suicide in the US, say blew their brains out, the area becomes what is known as a "Biological Hazard" and you have to not only pay for a hazmat to come and clean it up, but to gather together pieces of your loved ones body. Who do you think pays for burials? If no relative comes forward, the bodies' are cremated and remain unclaimed. I have an associate whose family never claimed her and her ashes still sit at the crematorium. If the crematorium gets the money they will release her ashes.

[@brickcitybrownchick]

@@josephbeaman9191 Are you kidding me?? The people who went to Guyana were American citizens and America had EVERY OBLIGATION to bring their bodies home to their loved ones. I guarantee you that if the majority of the people who died were WHITE. there would have been no problem in bringing the bodies home.

[@Thathandytiger17]

Yep, the bodies were brought back to Dover AFB. We had the biggest outbreak of head lice! I was in high school at the time. All the local pharmacies had barren shelves of the stuff used to kill the lice. The poor GI’s that had to open those body bags. 😢

[@Pllm30]

Wow. How far did you live from Dover when this happened?

[@Thathandytiger17]

@@Pllm30 I attended a small Christian school in Dover not far from the base. We knew friends from base housing. So it didn’t take much to get infected.

[@Pllm30]

@@Thathandytiger17 Wow, you know I bet they all had lice when they were still living in Jonestown. It was probably that dirty down there.

[@caroldavis5877]

I remember seeing that on the news when it happened. It's a terrible tragedy.

[@J0einOK]

Different than the story I saw on TV. I had not heard about the syringes or the guy who hid, then ran. Humans are capable of anything.

[@fayknox2138]

I had a friend here in Ontario Canada who was one of the people bagging up the bodies....he told me he never forgot the smell.

[@Ruddz01]

Doubtful.

[@hlowrylong]

I wonder how Odell has dealt with those images and the loss of his loved ones.

[@farleymusclewhite411]

I can't answer that but Odell died in 2019 of cancer at age 72.

[@scoldeddogproduction]

In 1993 I met one of the Air Force members who took part in the clean up. He didn't elaborate on his experience but he said it was a horrific nightmare of a mission.

[@edmundgonzalez8731]

In 1981 I took Basic Training at Fort McClellan Alabama which was, at the time, the Army's MP center. So most all of our drill sergeants were MPs. The sergeant in charge of my platoon 'claimed' he and his partner were the first US military personal on site. He said they were told to sign out a jeep, go to their armory to draw weapons and ammunition then report to the airfield. They were loaded on a C130 and took off. Said they were given very little information as what to expect or what happened as nobody really knew at first, but had to secure the airfield. When they "landed" the plane didn't stop so they had to drive off the moving plane, a pallet of C-rations/supplies were also shoved off (breaking up in the process) and the plane took off leaving them there. He painted a very grim picture. Of course we had to take his word for it but of all the places to be or things to have done, that would be a pretty odd story to make up.

[@richardbedard1245]

I remember when that happened, and was in the news. This is the first time I've heard the actual details of murder, and the massive effort to clean up the site.

[@devengrant433]

I found out 25 years ago, I had distants relatives, whom were victims of this cult. Its crazy to realize ppl were so desperate to belong, they were willing to give up everything and disown family over 1 MAN. I feel we are NOW dealing with a person whom has alot of CONTROL over many ppl. I wonder if ppl would drink a solution and move to an island, if this person told them to do so...hmm🤔

[@brianpinion5844]

times have changed if he said no cell phones this wouldnt happen today they been gone on day 1

[@TeddyLovesAxl]

This never occurred to me! I remember when this happened but n ver thought past them dying…💔

[@marilynh.]

Respectfully I say, my mom was so surprised to see so many African Americans in that cult. That's usually not the makeup of cults especially when it comes to dying for a preacher or ANYONE.

[@zoeytrapper]

They were murdered. I believe many did not want to drink that stuff nor give it to their children. It is surprising to see so many Blacks that went with him over there. They were mostly elderly.

[@kevintaylor5079]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@zoeytrapperJones preyed on the poor black communities initially , he pRovided services gave aid in these areas . People gave over property and deeds to the Temple. Ego and heavy drug use turned Jones into a delusional monster .He used to sell monkeys door to door in Frisco.

[@ladya3302]

In a documentary I watched a ling time ago, it mentioned when he started the group that his whole thing was about togetherness and race should not matter and how everyone should be able to live a good life. He seemed to play that up and that’s why so many black people joined.

[@Nctracklife]

@@zoeytrapperHe specifically targeted the AA community as well as college aged students, especially women, who at that time were fighting for their equality and against the war in Vietnam & the conflict with Soviet Union & Cuba. He went as far as being the 1st white person in his home state to adopt a black baby, as a way to try & show his “colorblindness” to gain trust from the AA community. He started doing “fake healings” during his sermons to attract more elderly and sick people because he needed their financial support, and would convinced them to sign over their homes and valuables to him. As much as he sought out these marginalized groups, and preached equality, he put white followers, most of which were women, in the leadership roles/his inner circle, which goes to show how he really felt. He was a horrible person who abused so many people that had trusted him, especially his own family. The two sisters who helped force the deaths on everyone were just as guilty as him. His wife & kids victim as much as the rest. She saved the lives of those she could by convincing him to allow their basketball team play at the out of town tournament when she knew his tension was going to be extremely high due to the visit from the congressman & family members during that time. I’ve always felt bad for his 2 sons who survived for t

[@angelacooper8973]

Please black folks love that fake Hebrew Jesus. I don’t get it. Why not worship gods who look like you? Like Oshun, Obatala? Jesus wouldn’t even speak English if he were to come back

[@annielanham-vn2ov]

It's very sad every time I see clips of the crowd in Jonestown, all the men, women and children, it's really sad to think that they're all gone...rest in peace people!!!

[@caseystrange]

This was well researched. Nice work.

[@jagmarc]

nearly all familes already suffered deep rifts before the tragedy, cut off and divided from one another

[@cherylschalks1486]

How sad and tragic for everyone.

[@tammyrankins5166]

The man that you are identifying as Odell Rhodes is actually Stanley Clayton!

[@jennanail]

I notice this channel makes simple and obvious mistakes like that all the time.

[@robingibson6561]

I was 21 yo the year Jonestown happened and just assumed that the bodies were buried in a mass grave in Guyana. To witness the horrific sights left behind by this insane monster would be horrible to try to live with for the rest of someone's life. I just hope whoever these heroes are that they got the help they needed and were able to go on to live as happy a life as possible.

[@wezite1983]

I read Jeff Bailey's book online about the clean up of Jonestown. The operation was horrendous! The bodies were decomposing so fast that people who were recognizable the day before, looked unrecognizable the next day. Soldiers were picking up bodies and they were just falling apart. Body fluids permeated into the ground, making the mud a disgusting sludge. He said that it took him weeks to get the smell of death off him.

[@kepckatherinec805]

It boggles my mind that people ever fall under the spell of narcissistic, controlling, evil people like Jim Jones. No matter what struggles you endure in your own live, never seek relief by jumping on the bandwagon of a charismatic cult leader. The risk to you is real, and it’s too high. You won’t be saved. Instead you will be used, until you are used up and no longer serve a purpose.