And — and all these people that were like my age, they were clean. As this documentary doesn't show even half of the stuff that went on in the People's Temple long before they even got to Jonestown. You asked me about Russia. The choir was interracial and they used to sing this song — “Never heard a man speak like this man before. My brothers used to go over to Jimmy’s house and hung around his barn, which was where he played. We lie flat on the tarmac at that moment. Jim Jones (archival, subtitles): Anyone that has any dissenting opinion, please speak. Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member (archival): I have never been so totally happy or fulfilled in my life. He had books. Janet Shular, Peoples Temple Member: The first time I visited Peoples Temple, I drove at the urging of a friend — a co-worker — to Redwood Valley. Here’s what to watch this evening. Eugene and June Cordell lost Edith Cordell and nineteen other relatives. Male Peoples Temple Member (archival): Won’t listen to you, huh? On-screen text: Peoples Temple Children’s Choir — Welcome. And I just broke down and told her. Well, you know, you’re very tired! ©2007 WGBH Educational Foundation 2. You could sit here and talk all day long and no words could describe the peace, the beauty, the sense of accomplishment and responsibility and camaraderie that’s here. Don’t do this! So at that point, we knew that something was very, very wrong. Jim was not celibate. JONESTOWN: TERROR IN THE JUNGLE Trailer Jim Jones forms The Peoples Temple. And so anyone that showed any interest in sex was just compensating. They’ll torture some of our children here. Male Peoples Temple Member (archival): No. Anyone growing up in the 1970s will remember the horrific scenes at Jonestown, Guiana. Jim Jones (archival): We started with about a hundred and forty-one people and from that, we’ve grown to a very thriving congregation. Marshall Kilduff, Journalist: In San Francisco, Jones walked in on a sort of a wild kind of party, where there was a lot of new faces and new sources of power. Joyce Shaw-Houston, Peoples Temple Member: It’s kind of like when you get married and you have this ideal. Everybody had a job. Maurice G. Burnett, Indianapolis Star Female Peoples Temple Member (archival): I wished I could. Not Indianapolis, which seems hopeless, but California, which seems to be the Promised Land. Indianapolis Recorder Collection, Indiana Historical Society Make your decisions — sixty percent of your decisions — based on logic, fact and reason, and allow emotion to be the secondary motivator. Jackie Speier, Aide to Congressman Leo Ryan: It was a vibrant community. They didn’t ask anything. The sky is gray. Claire Janaro, Personal Collection And then Jim Jones started to make pleas to people, saying, “You can’t leave. Doubletree Hotel Berkeley Marina They looked in people’s faces. Eugene Cordell, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: We had some people that disagreed with Jimmy. Jonestown was meant to be a utopia and, for a while, it was. Blending interviews and dramatic reenactments, this film documents the fraught last days of Jim Jones’ cult, before the mass suicide took 918 lives. Now take your other leg and do it.” And so another real slow, shaky step and he says, “Now I want you to walk toward me.”. Take that step. It’s overwhelming, it really is. The government was not taking care of the people. I don’t know what kind of games people like. Vernon Gosney, Peoples Temple Member: There was a lot of preparation for Congressman Ryan’s visit. Four women belonging to cult leader Jim Jones' inner circle help plan the 1978 Jonestown massacre in Guyana, which leaves more than 900 people dead. The Rev. Jim Jones (archival): Now, will each of you give a very fond embrace, a salutary kiss of greeting to your neighbor — and let’s fill this atmosphere with warmth and love. Paradise wasn't lost at Jonestown because they were in hell with Jones years before they even got there. Do you think you could? There is no — nothing at all that I would — that I have any holdings here. Neva Sly Hargrave, Peoples Temple Member: And she starts taking forward steps. Joyce Shaw-Houston, Peoples Temple Member: We were celebrating New Years Eve. He really understood it. When it hit the floor, he stood and he looked back and forth. And you’re seeing in the distance, housing complexes, that are being built. Fielding McGehee, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: There had been pressures on him to leave Indianapolis. Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: Literally, out of nowhere, this storm came blowing in. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: I was one of those kind of guys that — I used drugs. His followers soon realize it's not the utopia their leader promised. There was all these different scenarios that were presented. Vernon Gosney, Peoples Temple Member: A father would turn in a son. The story is told by survivors, Temple defectors, relatives, and journalists. Composed by George M. Cohan Tim Reiterman, journalist “My mother, my grandmother, my sister, my brother, they gone.” You know she said, “Just take me. He took it as a betrayal to the cause, and to him personally. Robert B. Wright, Peoples Temple Collection at California Historical Society, On-camera interview subjects The blurb is outright false - there is nothing supernatural about it and no real threat lurking at the site of the massacre. We must all learn from this so those people did not die in vain. What do you see? With Rebecca Moore, Janet Shular, Tim Carter, Stanley Clayton. From eyewitness and survivor accounts, the program recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978. The lead actress is likeable enough but there's nothing enjoyable about this. Had nothing to do with revolutionary suicide, nothing to do about making a [expletive] statement, it was just senseless waste, senseless waste and death. Former Peoples Temple Member (archival): He was talking integration. Courtesy of Rhino Entertainment Company Susan Sutton, Indiana Historical Society We were going to wait for them to come in and we were going to kill 'em all when they came in. Janet Shular, Peoples Temple Member: People lifted Jim to a level of adoration because many believed that he had healed them of cancer. Stephan Jones and Jim Jones Jr., the surviving son of Jim Jones, tell all in a new documentary about the Jonestown massacre. Watch Jonestown (Season 2018, Episode 180922) of Dateline or get episode details on NBC.com By Christmas, I will be gone.”. The word we were getting was that there was an armed encampment. He had this hands-on approach to legislating. Jim Jones (archival): Come forth, my dear. There’s no heaven up there…We’ll have to make heaven down here! And not only that, but these forces were traveling to Guyana to destroy them there. Dominique A. Delphine (formerly Joyce Shaw), Personal Collection When we came back, something had happened. Jim said, “Darlin’, you know, today is your day. You’re going to walk again.” And the whole auditorium went totally crazy. My sister Carolyn had invited my parents and my younger sister and I to visit her in Potter Valley. But when you live in a dysfunctional family, you think it’s normal. So it was through that that she met Jim Jones, and came back saying that he had invited her to church this next Sunday. MacDonald and Associates Rebecca Moore, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: California is perceived to be a very progressive state. 1 hr 25 mins. They got up in the audience and they said they disagreed with him. On-screen text: Peoples Temple Choir — He’s Able. You can do it. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Published by Embassy Music Corporation on behalf of itself and Eibur Music Co. and EMI April Music, Archival Footage Andrea Robinson Warrior. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: I went home, told mom — “You know what, this is the right church for me.” It was the next week that I became a member of Peoples Temple. As this documentary doesn't show even half of the stuff that went on in the People's Temple long before they even got to Jonestown. John R. Hall, Sociologist: In Lynn, Jim Jones looked for community and couldn’t find community, in Lynn as a town — which had a population of what, a thousand people? or communication with parents or any kind of, you know, update that could show us, really, that there’s a whole other thing going on besides what Jim was interpreting for us. The moment it stopped, they start shooting right away. All the days of my life, ever since I been born, I never heard a man speak like this man before.” After they sang one or two songs, the whole place was lit up. Vanessa Ezersky And pretty soon she’s running. John V Moore But I was at a point where I didn’t know how much more time I was going to be alive. Fulcrum TV George Troy The message of Peoples Temple was, “No, the dream is alive.”. This would be the place to implement the dream of racial equality. If you came in as a stranger and didn’t know anything about the politics, you were thinking you were entering an old-time religion service. Still, fascinating and informative with lots of details I had not heard before. And there was a sort of feeling that smaller groups — neighborhood groups, activist groups — had a bigger chance. Mother, please, please, please don’t…Don’t do this! It’s just stepping over into another plane. Jackie Speier, Aide to Congressman Leo Ryan: Congressman Ryan was unique in the political sphere. They had cabins. Tim Reiterman, Journalist: Jim Jones, I think, realized that ultimately Ukiah was not the sort of climate where Peoples Temple would thrive. Jim Jones (archival, subtitles): The congressman is dead! To a politician, it was like a birthday cake times twelve. With Rebecca Moore, Janet Shular, Tim Carter, Stanley Clayton. Girl’s Mother (archival): Well, I believe it. What happened there in those few moments made it clear that nobody was safe. Yes, we tried it. Shout Geordie Gray a beer $ About this. The story goes that I was crying real loud and it drew attention for Marceline to come over, and once she picked me up, I stopped crying. Well, by this time the whole congregation’s running down these aisles with us — we’re all just running around the aisles, just hoopin’ and hollerin’ up a storm. Woman (archival): You bring those kids back here! 7.69 . Tim Carter, Personal Collection 18 November 2018. It might not never happen. I just kind of took everything in stride. Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: What I saw that creation as being was building a city where we could move and raise our children, outside of the oppression and the racism of the United States of America. Bryan Kravitz, Peoples Temple member Jonestown also includes never-before-seen footage shot inside Peoples Temple, providing a rare glimpse of Jones’s passionate preaching and emotional healing services. UCLA Film and Television Archive, Archival Photographs Not Mississippi, I’m talking about New York State. Want to watch 'Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple' on your TV or mobile device at home? Documentary. Right away, they walked back to the truck. He wasn’t going to be gaining large numbers of members. [Expletive] slaughtered. An evangelical preacher led nearly a 1,000 followers from the United States deep into the jungles of South America. Woman (archival): Before I came here, I was taking LSD, marijuana, every type of dope you can imagine. ... You've never seen Jonestown like this. Jim Jones (archival): Somebody is gonna get on the freedom train in Philadelphia! By Geordie Gray Oct 22, 2018. Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: As soon as I walked into the San Francisco temple, I was home. On the Run. News. The most questionable choice came at the end where it seems the producers have learned little from their own documentary by dedicating it to the 918 people who died at Jonestown without recognizing the individuals involved in that blanket acknowledgement. Marshall Kilduff, Journalist: Well, in 1975 it was a mayoral election in San Francisco. Mike Touchette, Peoples Temple Member: They had their own rooms, they had every need taken care of, they had their food provided. I think the only way he can survive and sustain what he started is to isolate all his followers from this country and from their families. And when he flung it and let it go, the place got dead quiet like. Woman (archival): Don’t you touch my kids! Jim Jones (archival): Some people see a great deal of God in my body. Laura Johnston Kohl, Peoples Temple Member: We had no other radio or T.V. Jim Jones (archival, subtitles): Mother, mother, mother, mother, mother please. Narrator (anonymous letter, archival): “There’s quiet as we leave this world. There were animals to be taken care of. Jackie Speier, Aide to Congressman Leo Ryan: More people wanted to leave. By Christmas, do you want to be gone?!! I told him, “You are in extreme danger. "Jonestown" is a thoroughly conventional documentary -- archival footage, images and voice recordings alternating with talking head interviews. There were many reasons for many people to admire, love, excuse, overlook much of what Jim did. Neva Sly Hargrave, Peoples Temple Member: We turned our paychecks over every time we got paid. Patrick Ramirez. It looked like — like freedom. Jim Jones Jr., Peoples Temple Member: My father used to tell me that people’s lives — sixty percent of people’s lives — were made on emotional decisions. Rebecca Moore, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: The Concerned Relatives promptedFCC investigation of Peoples Temple. Chuck Wilmore, Childhood Friend: From the time I was five years old, I thought Jimmy was a really weird kid, there was something not quite right. Peoples Temple welcomed people of every race and ethnicity. With this documentary, you see the fallout of crimes Michael Travesser admitted to in the first documentary, including the trial and sentencing. Jackie Speier, Aide to Congressman Leo Ryan: On the night of the 17th, it was still a vibrant community. Get the latest on new films and digital content, learn about events in your area, and get your weekly fix of American history. Move forward. The story of this movement, this action, must be examined over and over. Paradise wasn't lost at Jonestown because they were in hell with Jones years before they even got there. Jonestown was the informal name for the “Peoples Temple Agricultural Project”, an intentional community in northwestern Guyana formed by the Peoples Temple, a cult from California, United States, led by Jim Jones. S1-3 streaming until 31 Dec 2022. Now, is the pain gone? Instead of a group that might give you twenty or thirty of these people — or a hundred — you had three or four hundred. I just loved that we created what we ate, that we did all these jobs. Wherever there are people struggling for justice and righteousness, there I am.” A heroic congressman arrives; Temple members plot their escape. They wanted them to feel that there was an outside world — that Jones was wrong about telling people they could never leave the church, and that they would be treated badly in the real world. Travelling or based outside United States? It was loud. They drove this truck all the way across the airstrip and stop on this side of the plane, so literally they cut us off from the jungle. "The Jonestown, Guyana Tragedy: Primary Source Materials from the U.S. Department of State". So we have to be even stronger. The racial integration became self-fulfilling at some point; the congregation itself became the draw. Barbara Peterson Jim Jones (archival): People play games, friend. Rev. His harangues over the loudspeaker were getting more and more frantic, and really just sounding more and more insane. Phyllis Wilmore-Zimmerman, Childhood Friend: My brothers came back with stories of him conducting funerals for small animals that had died. He saw that the preachers were like father figures to their congregations. The USG had chosen to hand-deliver the monthly social security checks to those receiving them there, and required each citizen to leave Jonestown to get their check. 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