Jonestown mass suicide

billzhao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HTtLHgU9tY
+ r' D; H; n3 @

4 B4 G- z6 T( g. uCNN documentary

" P7 b; R& g! Z5 ~5 a/ M6 C# RNew documentary explores Jonestown mass suicide
1 Q# ], E$ h6 A1 I' k4 v8 |! n
  ?0 S2 O9 F% X' l* qTwenty-eight years later, what's left to say about Jonestown? Nine hundred members of a religious cult followed their fanatical leader to Guyana and willingly committed suicide by drinking a Kool-Aid-like mixture laced with cyanide.
2 P2 Z( k) {! m: ^4 Z6 E
What more could there be to the story? Plenty, it turns out.
# S' w0 B9 \9 u8 w. u& GI watched an advance copy of the new documentary, "Jonestown," by filmmaker Stanley Nelson on Sunday, and found myself drawn deeply into a macabre tale that I had little prior knowledge of.

( ]1 r5 `  x: k% x' d  ENelson interviewed more than two dozen former members of Jim Jones' controversial Peoples Temple, including some who survived the Jonestown mass suicide -- which, by the way, looks more like mass murder now. And Nelson has unearthed dramatic video and sound recordings -- never seen or heard before that shed new light on the establishment, development and downfall of the Peoples Temple, right up until the moment Jim Jones passes out the cups.
' a* U/ \" D$ Y5 h
The most chilling part of the film is the audio tape of Jones urging his followers to choose death over persecution. I heard, for the first time, the emotionally-pitched debate between Jones and parishioners who would rather live than die in the South American jungle. It was like a scene out of Apocalypse Now, only this time, the killing was real.

* e7 U1 j3 p& u3 u" KI also learned that Jim Jones didn't suddenly take a hard left onto the highway of darkness. He was deeply disturbed from childhood, and is even suspected of abusing animals, something many experts believe is a hallmark of an emerging psychopath.

4 w2 |6 W3 K1 X$ ^. X' I) e- Y& K3 NWhat's most tragic though is that Jones' followers don't come off as a cult of religious deviants. They were -- for the most part -- earnest people, attracted to the Peoples Temple for the sense of community they couldn't find in their own lives. It gave them a feeling of belonging, though as the years wore on and Jones' insanity escalated, membership came at an ever-increasing, and in the end, ultimate price.
7 ]- Q/ c8 x. Y/ @