White Night at Jonestown - Berating Stanley Clayton (12 April 1978)

[@henrybemis8913]

I feel I should mention that these original cassette and reel to reel recordings were reused over and over when the need arose by the people of Jonestown. They had a hard time getting the supplies they needed from Georgetown. The voice(s) you hear in the background while Jones is talking is a previous recording of Jonestown residents having a conversation over the short wave radio with outside parties. These conversations were taped at Jones orders because of his increasing paranoia. The tape machine did not always erase the previous content and and sometimes you get a "ghost" voice or music in the background. The infamous "Death Tape" contains some eerie background music that was recorded previously from a radio station and not properly erased - thereby adding to the creepiness to the final tape recording that ever came out of Jonestown.

[@davestewart_tab]

Thanks. I never knew what that music in the background on the Death Tape was.

[@henrybemis8913]

@@davestewart_tab It added a surreal creepiness to the whole scene don't you think?

[@davestewart_tab]

@@henrybemis8913 It was bizarre.

[@dewaynedarmanie2375]

yes i remember the dubbing over the death tape

[@dewaynedarmanie2375]

@@henrybemis8913 veryyy creepy

[@DrewMIATL]

What a disgusting and toxic environment. Absolutely despicable.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

They chose to go there!

[@rickazca774]

I couldn't imagine living in these conditions...minimal food, working the fields, in the heat all day, no communication from the outside world, sleep deprived in third world bunkhouses (jones promised the people their own cottages BTW) and listening to this mad man swear and threaten people to control them is beyond belief especially when you think of the children who had to listen to this too. Pure, unadulterated hell.

[@msrain1235]

That's why I don't understand why some say that it's the happiest time in their lives. This sounds terrible!

[@sjdrifter72]

@@msrain1235 They were forced to say that when it was the exact opposite. Jonestown was Hell On Earth.

[@ActiveAussie2024]

Jones had air conditioning and a fridge in his cabin. Nobody else did.

[@Kylefassbinderful]

everything you described is why some of them willingly killed themselves. after immense psychological torture in the hot, humid jungle with barely any food you'd prob be ready to die as well. but no matter what most of them were forced into taking their lives.

[@CaramelWafers]

@@msrain1235 It was the people who made it wonderful and joyous. They lived like brothers and sisters and would sing and dance. It was Jim Jones who put a damper on everything. Many said they liked the work and felt like part of something, but they couldn't stand Jim Jones incoherent ramblings in the middle of the night.

[@eej1983able]

So grateful to have these recordings so we can be aware people like this mad man Jones do exist. It's terrifying and I almost ended up in a "church" like this. I followed my gut, left and they shut down 2 months later

[@MeeMee-gz5vp]

Couldn’t have said it better. Glad you didn’t get involved with another cult. Cults are so sneaky with how they use brainwashing techniques. Stay strong!

[@romonarussum4032]

I was involved in a church like that. I eventually left after 3 years. I couldn't take it anymore. Jim Jones and the People's Temple were their role model, from everything I've seen. They are now floundering on barely but I haven't been back nor will I.

[@ramblinsteven2554]

I’m watching MAGA - the current cult.

[@jake8855]

At least they didn't shut down People's Temple-style

[@susancox3550]

Wolf In Sheep’s Clothes

[@Matins1200]

Thanks for posting this. This recording really demonstrates the chokehold that Jim Jones had on his followers.

[@louisfriend6924]

Crazy wasn't it?

[@bowlingmaster168]

What you gonn do about that

[@tigerlioness1]

You can find all these recordings (over 900 hours) on SDSU.Jonestown.edu.

[@dakingltroyproductofdade3579]

Yea gun point strong 💪 but lot of them were blind witness and some down right stupid smh. Poor kids I feel sorry for

[@rca6576]

This man has the word salad way of talking that a lot of toxic narcissists and sociopaths have.

[@pauljones8801]

Charisma

[@TonyMichaels166]

Jim Jones was consuming lethal amounts of pentobarbital on a daily basis, as well as massive doses of five other powerful pharmaceuticals. He was basically floating around Jonestown at the end, and it really showed through his speech, like how it’s sometimes apparent in his earlier rants that’s he’s on a stack of amphetamines.

[@doriangray5750]

Yeah but mix that with his socialist rhetoric, it's very very effective to brainwash ignorant people

[@austinbevis4266]

@@TonyMichaels166e must have had quite a way with words to have convinced as many people as he did to drink the kool aid. I know a lot didn’t drink it, but many did

[@hchchc948]

Trump lol

[@robertdipaola3447]

Jim Jones was a looney hot mess!!!

[@scarlettbutler2873]

We cannot imagine...not having enough to eat, working sunup to sundown, extreme heat and humidity, no privacy, nasty outhouse bathroom, cant trust a soul, no sleep, all night meetings of yelling, abuse and fear with a "leader" who is obsessed with death. A miserable hell.

[@JudasBenPesach]

They wanted Communism and they got it.

[@romonarussum4032]

What were they supposed to do? They couldn't leave, nowhere to go to, no one to call.

[@MichaelJohnson-dw7so]

Facts

[@susancox3550]

He is definitely in hell with Hitler !,

[@modickens1272]

Sounds like just a regular day working at Amazon

[@MeeMee-gz5vp]

Never realized how scary this preacher was until I listened to these recordings. Thank you for sharing 🙏

[@midwestguy1983]

as disturbing as Jones is, there are all sorts of sociology case studies about crowd dynamics that can be written from these tapes alone

[@rickimhotep1236]

It's being practiced by maga!

[@Buckshot9796]

There is something fundamentally wrong with people who let a mere man control their lives to the point where they lose the will to survive. Even the smallest, simplest worm in the ground will fight with all its might to live.

[@kellymoses8566]

Just look at how popular a idiot grifter from New York has become

[@smokeytaboo1756]

There is fundamentally something wrong with 900+ people? and you're the only smarty who wouldn't have fallen for it? Most of them were sedated by the nurses putting sedatives in their food. Have some respect

[@kevmichael2064]

Jim Jones was SICK!!!!...he should of been stopped in San Francisco!!!!!

[@Janice360]

Amen to that!

[@mastersamurai7683]

Ok Kev ..take it easy on the exclamation points please...your getting me wound up

[@FrankJohn]

I'm glad Stanley made it out alive. It would have been even better if more survived.

[@henrybemis8913]

Stanley is interviewed in several of the Jonestown documentaries posted on my account.

[@malvaparker6618]

@@henrybemis8913 I saw one where the newsman was interviewing Stanley Clayton. He had a red bandana scarf tied on his head. Smoking and looking so stiff. I believe he was in shock. He said a child bumped into him and he picked him up and the child died in his arms. Also he saw his wife drink the poison. She told him before she drank it she wanted him to place her next to her grandmother. She died in his arms too. You can tell during the interview he was so numb and nervous. I know he suffered from PTSD after this tragedy. He was an eyewitness to the death of members. May they all rest in heavenly peace. ❤️💙🙏🏾✝️🕊

[@ActiveAussie2024]

@@malvaparker6618 yeah, just an horrific experience for him. Imagine having actually experienced life in that hell hole? Those survivors are scarred for life.

[@malvaparker6618]

@@ActiveAussie2024 yes they are. I wonder if any of them seemed professional help. They are traumatized. Emotionally, mentally, physically , psychologically etc. They were trapped in that place. Like a plantation and/or concentration camp. How do you treat other human beings like that? Terrible and inhumane .

[@kimson305]

@@malvaparker6618 he wasn't even loyal to his wife. He want to act like he cared at the end?

[@lifepath_7]

Thank you for posting this. These are important for historical records. I've heard a lot of the tapes but never heard this one. I was just looking at the video of the concert when the councilman visited. It gave me goosebumps when I thought about all those faces not knowing the next day would be their last. They tried to build a utopian society but it failed miserably. It was amazing what they built and how innovative they were as a society to build something new. I'm sad that Jones forces them to drink the Kool-aid when in all his previous tapes he told people they would have a choice. Tragic story in American history.

[@henrybemis8913]

I am glad you like them....Thank you for watching my videos.

[@spb7883]

“Not knowing the next day would be their last”. Please examine the historical record. There were rehearsals for this. AT BEST, these were naive people. More accurately, many were capable of brutal conformity in the manner of Maoist struggle sessions. Let’s not sugarcoat these folks. Just because they left a messed up society doesn’t mean they created a paradise.

[@DS-hy6ld]

@@spb7883 said: > _"Just because they left a messed up society doesn’t mean they created a paradise."_ TRUE! And though it's genuinely admirable and impressive that they managed to really establish a functioning society in the middle of an inhospitable jungle, replete with housing, schooling, agricultural projects and the like, it's all destined for inevitable failure, when based on the foundation of an insane ideology pushed by an egomaniacal petty tyrant. The part I struggle to wrap my mind around is this: Jones was _so obviously_ using the "Christian preacher" angle as the paper-thinnest of veneers in order to promote his philosophy and get his way. He was _so obviously_ engaged in the cynical and completely insincere use of that which people normally count as sacred, as a mere act, or cover, or vehicle in order to accomplish his vision of how a society _should_ function. How someone can bear witness to that on a day-to-day basis... this blindingly obvious and insincere charade... and _still_ think that he was a candidate for someone to actually trust with your entire being, is simply beyond me. A man who would do _that,_ in my opinion, is self-evidently the lowest of the low. "Hindsight," nothin'!! They _should_ have seen this coming! I'm angry that they didn't -- because hundreds of people, who deserved far better than to have their corpses rot in piles on the jungle floor, ended up paying for that oversight with their lives.

[@spb7883]

@@DS-hy6ld I think Jones’ manipulation was so successful because he presented himself to others by comparing himself to what he was *not* . He pointed to the racists of the world and said he wasn’t them. He pointed to the imperialists of the world and said he wasn’t them. And he convinced his followers that because he wasn’t that way, he was the only person they could trust and would need in their lives. Trump has done the same thing with many of his followers (if not his voters: some people voted against Trump’s opponents rather than for him). But this is a very significant component, I’d argue: every god needs a devil. A demagogue convinces people of what should be feared in order to manipulate them into what should be praised. For Jones, what was ultimately fearful was life itself. That’s how he convinced followers that death was preferable.

[@spb7883]

Jones even says on the so-called “death tape”: “Death is not a fearful thing. To me, it’s living that’s treacherous.”

[@forbiddenvalley]

I feel so bad especially for all those kids!

[@paulvoorhies8821]

Malignant narcissism on serious speed.

[@dRuMPrOdIgY09]

he's literally just rambling

[@deja9462]

All of them are 🙄

[@marryIsfake964]

@@deja9462 no one can’t listen to James is maniacal rambling every night at those meetings

[@pencilpen8838]

He more or less would ramble on each and every white night

[@borkboxtv8167]

He was on drugs heavy so that was where most of the rambling came from

[@TonyMichaels166]

Drug-fueled free association. He’s bombed on like 5 or 6 different pharmaceuticals.

[@jonnyfavors7585]

This is like a church service taking place in hell....

[@goremall]

Ironically Stanly survived. Good for him, hope he ia happy and well.

[@ambermchugh9381]

He had to know hit men didn't come all the way to Guyana because he sold on someone's corner. They all must've known that, it's ridiculous. Hrs just yeah yeahing, it saved his life

[@freel201]

@@ambermchugh9381 Jones was just making up shit.

[@ambermchugh9381]

@@freel201 big time, what a nightmare

[@freel201]

@@ambermchugh9381 Did you see the latest documentary that came out on the 17th of this month on Hulu?

[@juanredman9882]

Damn he said cotton picking relatives.

[@caseystrange]

This recording is a lot longer than just this. They used at least 4 tapes that night.

[@mindymixon3102]

Love your content! Please keep posting! These are hard to come by

[@henrybemis8913]

I have more coming and new photos of Jonestown.

[@louisfriend6924]

My wife thinks I am crazy for listening to these but I don't care....it is addictive...

[@dewaynedarmanie2375]

@@louisfriend6924 ive been watching life n death of pls temple since 2014

[@louisfriend6924]

@@dewaynedarmanie2375 I know...you cannot get enough...

[@dewaynedarmanie2375]

@@louisfriend6924 tell me about it bro one of the most exciting cults in history

[@kasspriscilla9350]

Jim Jones is completely insane he was on a drugs and he's talking crazy he sure did abuse his power to the end and people died and it was murder😢

[@cshaw9083]

Who was the main d bag ragging on Stanley? He's equally culpable. So were the members of the so called ' Red Brigade' who enabled this lunatic. And hunted down Rep Ryan. There are many many villains in this horrible story who have been forgotten by history. But they are ALL equally responsible for what happened. And they deserve to be remembered for being responsible for this tragedy.

[@patronmargarita2849]

Johnny Moss Brown Jones

[@cshaw9083]

@@patronmargarita2849 related to Jim Jones?

[@c.costanza1145]

@@cshaw9083 no, adopted as a youth.

[@dorianvedrashko9172]

That's why I don't call it the Jonestown massacre. using the word massacre is a lie. If you listen to the tapes, the people were in it as much jimbo was. The only innocents were the kids that got forced to drink the valium cyanide jungle juice that day in november. All those adults? Fuck them, they chose that. It is not a massacre, it is a mass suicide, the vast majority of deaths there were suicides, only the young kids got murdered. Even the death tape shows you that Jimmy wasn't alone. Even the lady that voiced her opposition to drinking the koolaid was seen in the second row right after her little weak defense against the mass suicide. She even said he was right, after she got bored and quit her opposition to the suicide. She conceded. She is not a victim, Christine miller is not a victim. She was in the second row of that line heading up to the vat of that guyana koolaid. It is the Jonestown mass suicide or just suicide. RIP the murderd kids but let's be serious, those 6-700 adults deserved their fate.

[@angeliahines4323]

agree

[@RaeBattleRapsMood]

These people are horrible, I didn’t know they were this messed up. The power and control is MASSIVE! Woah!

[@HoosierCRO]

As for studying all tapes accessible, I am elated that Stanley Clayton survived. At the end, he won....but had to pay, then. All I want to know is this: What made Tom Kice Sr., who attempted an escape with his son roughly 6-7 months before the melee, transform into a cold-blooded airstrip shooter....on his birthday of all things?

[@luisb.5590]

He probably was severely punished, and drugged on that day. Survivors spoke of cheese sandwiches, which were served on the last day even as the Congressman and company was there, were laced with sedatives. Those who attempted escape were heavily drugged with Thorazine, which is supposedly akin to being lobotomized. It is no wonder then how he went from wanting to escape to participate in cold blood murder.

[@klawlor3659]

Possibly "Stockholm syndrome". I do know that many of the people at Jonestown were given a cocktail of barbiturates and other drugs in order to make them more pliable and vulnerable. I guess when you're in a jungle concentration camp, miles from anywhere with no outside news and nobody you can trust, this exacerbates this horrendous situation.

[@christinamitchell6796]

good question id like to know the answer myself, id guess that he probably got worn down, they say jones and his hench men were good at that. they would drug them, starve them so theyd comply.

[@cory-v5u]

He was crazy..,.

[@slimpaco]

The airstrip shooters should really be examined deeper. So many of them were considered good people in their rememberances, and two of them were under 18. What a mystery

[@rydz656]

What "holy man" swears like that? That would've been a huge red flag.

[@msrain1235]

Exactly!

[@TriciaC99]

Yep. A Christian reverend who says "Goddamn", big red flag.

[@NBKVamp]

Well see, that’s the thing, everyone in Jonestown at that point couldn’t see no red flag, cause they had no where to go.

[@robertb1999]

By this time he'd dropped the whole Christian act and was an open communist.

[@marryIsfake964]

This should be broadcasted on TV. This sounds like a court judge show to me. They have to broadcast this on a television channel where they played Judge Shows. Judge Jim Jones. I like this. God bless you and Jim Jones. We’re going to broadcast your courtroom show on TV. Jim Jones reminds me of Judge Judy. Good job Jim Jones. You are the best.

[@shannonwatkins1398]

Damn Stanley that had it in for you but you're still standing💯

[@Maynard-il1yj]

Well he is dead now… but I get your point

[@rob_cd]

​​@@Maynard-il1yj When did he pass? Google isn't returning any info on his death.

[@franklinmoorehartjr]

He sure did cuss a lot for somebody that called himself a preacher that in itself should have been a red flag to his people that he was just a cult leader someone should have caught on to this way sooner than they did

[@retromoviefan944]

hate to say it, but they probably liked it because they might have thought, oh look, he's one of the people, he's like us, he cusses, etc. etc.

[@EllaJay]

Bunch of gossiping drama queens. Poor Stanley..

[@meas2212]

Damn! Stanley was a Mack Daddy. Lol

[@HeyYo8]

No doubt Lol

[@amanda1500]

It's so disheartening to read through the comments and see people supporting or making excuses for Jones.

[@adycee2915]

Haha good man, Stanley, outwitted them all 👊

[@DonnyLusk]

Jim Jones was absolutely insane.

[@massimochiacchia3261]

Rambling nonsense. That is the freaky part.

[@asturiasceltic3183]

22:35-22:40..😯 Jim Jones gets an applause for saying "twat" and "dick" and how they get "going" and "itchy" in the middle of a sermon?

[@frankpontone2139]

If Huey Newton knew they did this to a member of his family he would've been angry with them

[@woomychin8264]

@RED PILL PORTAL not necessarily..

[@c.costanza1145]

@@woomychin8264 what makes you believe otherwise?

[@dorianvedrashko9172]

he'd shoot up and get high.

[@LethalBubbles]

he also stole the title of Huey Newton's book and twisted it into his the name of his massacre. I bet Newton despised him.

[@moonrunrs]

@@LethalBubbles i read "Revolutionary Suicide". That term was actually coined by Mao and other communists. Newton didn't make it up and he explains that in his memoirs. Newton and the BPP used the little red book as the basis for everything they did.

[@annn75na]

Most of us "thank God"!!!!! would never put ourselves in that situation but my heart goes out to those in that mob who had to sit there and listen and in fear for their lives being to afraid to speak up. At the end Jim Jones untited people through hate, not love and I wish these people would have realised it. It reminds me of the woke community today.

[@moonrunrs]

Pretty much. Jones' philosophy and BLM/Antifa/PLA etc. are cut from the same cloth and share the same ideological tenets.

[@rob_cd]

😂😂😂

[@brucey1497]

A narcissism technique - family mobbing

[@M.M.P.]

Although it all turned out to be a cult in the end, this is the Jerry Springer show of the 70's

[@paige2911]

Watching Stanley’s account of the 18th made me want to hand him another cigarette through the phone, especially after hearing these specific tapes. May God give him peace after all he battled

[@Lashid4u]

@@bryancferguson-pt6bu Jim Jones WAS NOT a Bible follower - in fact, he would do acts like burning and drop-kicking Bibles

[@yrghudrgu7dgjf339]

this shit is so disturbing god bless Stanley

[@DS-hy6ld]

Stanley had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day! (But he's _ALIVE!)_

[@coryzachariasen7023]

They were beaten on poor Stanley.

[@henrybemis8913]

Yes. But he survived and outlived his tormentors. He still gives interviews on what happened.

[@dewaynedarmanie2375]

he deserved it they saved him from contract killers

[@dewaynedarmanie2375]

@@henrybemis8913 father jones laid down his life for him lolllllllll

[@kag5381]

@@dewaynedarmanie2375 Wow! You believe that?

[@dewaynedarmanie2375]

@@kag5381 no i was being sarcastic

[@chanelpatrick6832]

Lmao did he say he was black too??? 😭😭😭😂😂😂😂

[@moonrunrs]

Jones said that many times.In the death tape he said it too. he equated black with Communism/marx/socialism.

[@jonwayne70]

Janice Johnson was actually Stanley Clayton's wife. She speaks on the 'Death Tape' giving thanks to "Dad". She didn't even hesitate drinking the poison. She even asked Stanley to lay her down with her family.

[@Cha-y412]

After listening to this does anyone think Socialism / Communist are a good idea. Jones and his followers were devout Socialist Communist.

[@jake8855]

Stupid way to choose what economic system you think is preferable, looking at a community of 1000 people living in the jungle. You probably don't own any property anyone wants, anyway, so no need to be one of those nobody losers ranting about communism on the internet.

[@korbendallas7181]

It was a peoples church before any of that played a part. "I decided, how can I demonstrate my Marxism? The thought was, infiltrate the church. So I consciously made a decision to look into that prospect." - Jim Jones in Indiana

[@kymfjohnson1]

Sure wasn't a dam bit of privacy there at all. Sad. Poor mind fkd ppl.

[@cristianm7097]

16:23 "What is love ? If love isn't big, I am ready to die, I am ready to die. Shit, I'm ready to die."

[@Billiejeanmichelle]

What paradise? This doesn’t sound like utopia at all before or after 11/18/1978 so what Paradise are they referring to?

[@AlyxCoe]

The same Paradise that the Donner Party was seeking in 1846.

[@rosalaurice89]

His madness was like a virus spreading to all the people. They all sound crazed. All the cussing and vulgar way of speaking. He was gaslighting them, and they were gaslighting each other. It's all so bizarre.

[@Boris_Greca]

imagine the stink... 10 people per cabin.. .armpits stink, azzholes stink and 90 degree humid heat at all times

[@SBGNatureandCoffeeChannel]

Just horrendous!

[@lynnkayee1015]

Imagine when they were all dead! I remember reading an account where they said they could smell it in the helicopter, in the air, long before they saw it...even from up there. Those poor people who had to bag those bodies. My god. 👀

[@retromoviefan944]

and they didn't even have any evil capitalist perfume to cover it up with

[@Canyon2023]

What a loving group of people.

[@SBGNatureandCoffeeChannel]

lmfao 😂

[@AlyxCoe]

They actually were loving at one time, but went insane along with Jones after being sleep deprived, starving, beaten, paranoiac and shamed.

[@NewsHistorian]

So this is where Jerry Springer got the idea for his show.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

He’s telling these women to stand on their own two feet living in a commune. 😂🤣

[@SBGNatureandCoffeeChannel]

This is sort of a micro version of what the Khmer Rouge were doing in Cambodia at the same time.

[@libralove3573]

They telling all Stanley business 😮

[@JudasBenPesach]

Yeah, so what?

[@Beatles0223]

Jim Jones is one of the many reasons why abortion should always be legal.

[@LeahsMoods]

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't leave. Be smart and creative about you do it, but do it.

[@andreahales8525]

I’ve been listening and watching things on this commune nearly all day, the whole thing is so sad. And nearly 1,000 people died at the hands of this “reverend”. From what I have learned, he actually started out with a good idea, trying to bring people together in a time that segregation was still strong, but he got power hungry and drugged up or something. My God, I just couldn’t imagine the hell they blindly went through... I’m happy for the ones that were able to escape and I am so sorry to the children that never did nothing to nobody and were forced to die a very painful death! And I’m so sorry to the ones who were being tricked. And to the mother who turned on her own son, shame on you for that! I understand that they were brainwashed, but, I thought a mothers love had no bounds. But apparently not in her case, I’m sorry if anyone disagrees, but that put a bad taste in my mouth

[@henrybemis8913]

Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting. I hope you like these videos. I have stopped for a while because I was thinking no one cares what happened at Jonestown.

[@andreahales8525]

@@henrybemis8913 I care, here lately I have been listening to some of the recordings, I guess trying to understand exactly, like, what it was like and kinda, trying to learn more on serial murderers and what not. Yesterday, I learned that my grandmother had saw on tv about Guyana and stuff, like, back before the mass murder and she thought it would be nice to go there. I can’t tell you how glad I am that she didn’t go! My uncle was sitting in the back seat when she said that. His response “your mom and me wouldn’t be here.” Crazy how things go...

[@andreahales8525]

@@henrybemis8913 also, if you don’t mind my asking, how did you get the recordings? Just curious

[@henrybemis8913]

@@andreahales8525 They are from original cassette and reel to reel tape recordings digitized into mp3 files.

[@MartyrLoserKing]

@@henrybemis8913 i’ve been loosely aware of it my whole life but only started researching it 3-4 days ago and haven’t been able to stop, please post more if you can.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Quit tearing up the clothes??! I guess someone was getting beat up. 😂🤣

[@diamond_h0us]

Sounds like such a utopia…

[@deja9462]

What the heck is going on?!!? Who tf is Stanley 😂😂😂

[@yungbro50]

one of the survivors. he's in some of the documentaries being interviewed

[@rickimhotep1236]

@49:40 What the h3!!🥜🥜🥜🥜This dude was a perverse nut!

[@marryIsfake964]

Why is Jim Jones ignoring that radio that’s playing. Based on someone even turn it down?

[@rafaelasabchucalovato9439]

The transmission wasn't properly wiped out of the tape. Tapes were widely reused during the Peoples Temple history.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

This Doctor left an internship to go down there??! 😂🤣

[@johnrobinson8354]

When I hear Jim talk he reminds me of Trump how he has so many people following him

[@naysayer1238]

That's because you have been programmed by your ridiculous media. Trump has a lot of problems, but he is not remotely as bad as this loon. And of course he has a lot of followers when your cult hates regular people so much.

[@mattw7780]

He warns about America being taken over by Facist and he preaches social justice. That may be confusing Trump with democrats, they are using the same playbook as jones.

[@kellysmith7242]

He is babbling all over the place not making sense. His mouth is foul too. Did he always curse like this from the pulplit...that's the first red flag

[@AlyxCoe]

No, he didn't.

[@Mr.Majestic77]

If there was time machine or of we had the technology on time distortion, there would be absolutely essential to travel back in time to probably have the "Reverend" Jim Jones "dissappear" when he first step foot in San Francisco.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

The Doctor is messing with one of these people??! 😂🤣

[@jandy4604]

Jim's son Jeffery said Jim was completely nuts.

[@adrianlyord5300]

Wow I can’t 😮believe I’m actually listening 👂 to this?! Jim Jones was crazy as a bedbug!

[@johnnysunday402]

What is commonly forgotten is that early on Jones litterally saved many of his most ardent and loyal members from drug addiction, alcoholism, and many of those people believed they owed him their lives in servitude. There was a very twisted Master-Servant relationship that would later develop as Jones became more amd more controlling. He had been very involved early in his career in directly helping people. That is where he built up his 'loyalty brigade', those that would later convince & browbeat others that they owed Jones their lives, as their lives were forfeit before Jones 'saved them'.

[@cromptonenator]

26:14 - Marceline, Jim Jones's wife and the Peoples Temple 'Mother', saying she'll die with Jim.

[@AlyxCoe]

Thanks for that time stamp. Marceline is a real enigma. I'm researching her character for a script I'm writing. Everyone said how loving and caring she was. At some point in time she lost it. It had something to do with his narcissism and how it eventually corrupted her empathic qualities. She's very calm as she directs people to stand in line and take the cyanide. What happened?

[@cashboi6258]

49:40 bro talking about he clapped dudes cheeks

[@gblademan]

Right he fucked stanley

[@YaYa313YaYa]

All he talked about was being ready to die smh.. he stole there money bought guns and paid the guards to protect his agends

[@chanelpatrick6832]

Lmao this shit is fuckin hilarious 😂😂😂🤷🏾‍♀️ they cussin and shit and using vulgar language 😭😭😭😭

[@Janice360]

Right? LOL 🤣 It's absolutely tragic and heartbreaking how things ended, but I can't help finding some of these recordings hilarious.

[@gblademan]

He was talking about fucking stanley for a minute

[@Khanflomah-co1rg]

there is bias ALL OVER this... calling him "paranoid" is YOUR word. never once

[@Califresh21]

Jerry springer show b4 Jerry 😂

[@alilameda]

reminds me of the jerry springer show...

[@marryIsfake964]

Jim Jones was the king of daytime talk shows, but RIP Jerry

[@SBGNatureandCoffeeChannel]

This is quite funny in parts tbh, although what happened a few months later was horrific and disturbing af.

[@davidlibline1757]

Jerry Jerry jerry🤣

[@marcodevries4481]

The level of conversation here is about grade 2-3. I guess that’s what it takes to follow blindly. Like people who vote Biden.

[@Humblemogger]

Well most of the victims were black. Edit: I hate Biden as much as the next day but to bring false dichotomy politics into this is cringe and low IQ

[@girlanonymous]

Sure MAGA-t

[@lynnkayee1015]

Ironic you say that when Jones' son and Rep Jackie Speier (who was mentored by Leo Ryan & was shot and left for dead by the cult on the tarmac) both called Trump a political cult leader with similar traits to Jones.

[@korbendallas7181]

*LOL!!* Awwww, poor marco. . . recognized his grade level of speech real quick.

[@naysayer1238]

@@girlanonymous You don't even know that you are every bit as hateful.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Don’t tear up the clothes because he must replace it. 😂🤣

[@Ferreal92]

These forced meetings and berating happened late at night. Sleep deprivation is a way to break people down.

[@rickimhotep1236]

If only they'd read their bibles. Nobody should follow a supposed man of God who continues using curse words like that.

[@Natedawg38]

So what did stanley do

[@keirra69]

Listening at this was awkward 😳 😯😯

[@cshaw9083]

For a person who preached ' new world, socialism, utopia' Jones really got caught up in petty bullshit.

[@amanda1500]

Helps to demoralize.

[@cshaw9083]

@amanda1500 good point. And Jones was definitely good at demoralizing his followers.

[@retromoviefan944]

If this tape was done more than six months before the suicides, and hearing how crazy it all is, you would have thought that at least a few of the seniors might have decided to get out of there and could have easily said they were sick or ill and needed to go back to the U.S. and maybe Jones would have let them leave. Or maybe it was already too late, but it would have been worth a try. Unfortunately he needed them for their Social Security checks to fund the place. But maybe one or two of them could have gotten out by claiming medical needs.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

He’s training people on what to say for the news interview. 😂🤣

[@chicagogyrl4846]

I guess everyone’s business is out in the open! I guess this what a commune is! 😂🤣

[@smokeytaboo1756]

Around 14 minutes in he's telling people they better memorize the right things to say to the reporters

[@Toracube]

How the hell they didn’t just run away after this weirdo talks like that, I’ll never understand.

[@AlyxCoe]

Run away how? It was an armed encampment surrounded by jungle.

[@lynnkayee1015]

They were in the middle of the jungle.

[@reneemcafee7341]

Damn Stanley was puttn n work!!!

[@dorianvedrashko9172]

he beat the pussy and he beat the mass suicide. Word to a real nigga Stan man, word to a real boss Stanley.

[@eugenesant9015]

Were the Jefferson family and Karen Bundy made up for the movie? I didn't see their names in the death list.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

How can he say that companionship is trouble when he’s married??! 🤣😂

[@NewsHistorian]

Considering the colossal catastrophe that was coming his exchanges with the congregation is bizarrely entertaining and even funny. “Better not get your nose up because I’m sick of your ass too”

[@sp9138]

He was mad at Stanley because he had an affair with a white member of the curch

[@Maynard-il1yj]

And….

[@Maynard-il1yj]

Give me your spouses number so I can tell em they are allowed to bang a white person lol

[@danschreffler1280]

I would like to see a reading of this by Samuel L Jackson.

[@oc2108]

Like Major Marquis Warren's speech to General Smithers at Minnie's haberdashery?

[@jarrodwilson141]

Who was the Grey haired white lady that always dressed very neatly and was actually in a people's temple meeting that followed the cult to Jonestown? She looked like a sweet old grandmother...I'm just curious to know if she died or got out in time..

[@jarrodwilson141]

She was in one of the videos when they had the church in San Francisco..

[@marryIsfake964]

@@jarrodwilson141 I think it’s Yvonne James, or sister ever, the 97-year-old that Jones mentioned during a San Francisco sermon in 1973. I think she died in the chaos. I am not sure, but I think it’s two of those people.

[@KorbutFan]

Edith Cordell?

[@dewaynedarmanie2375]

they gave stanley clayton too much chances

[@wilhelmbeaston8003]

What the hell??

[@dewaynedarmanie2375]

@@wilhelmbeaston8003 dont worry im just playin they said that on the tape at the 15:00 mark. Jones was so crazy

[@wilhelmbeaston8003]

@@dewaynedarmanie2375 got it. Yeah man, this shit is wild!

[@dree2295]

And in the end, guess who had the last laugh? Stanley.

[@dewaynedarmanie2375]

@@dree2295 lmao facts💯💯💯💯💯

[@chicagogyrl4846]

The way Jim Jones speaks! 😂🤣