Forty-three years ago this week, over 900 people lost their lives in the Jonestown Massacre. The mass-murder-suicide took place just a year and a half after Jim Jones moved hundreds of his followers from California to a large plot of land outside Georgetown, Guyana.
Aurora and Angelina retrace the history of the dangerous cult, from the founding of The People's Temple in 1954, to its devastating end in 1978, and straighten out some common misconceptions.
Writing and research by Angelina Villeseche.
Original music and audio production by Louis Levesque.
For inquiries: louis14levesque@gmail.com
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LINKS + SOURCES:
Cult Resources - Are you or someone you know involved with a potentially dangerous cult?
Take the anonymous quiz at:
https://cult-escape.com/
Get support:
https://www.familiesagainstcultteachings.org/
https://www.daretodoubt.org/cults
https://culteducation.com/
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/06/the-seven-signs-youre-in-a-cult/361400/
Podcast episodes:
You're Wrong About - The Jonestown Massacre
Conspiracy Theories - The Jonestown Massacre
The Sacrament (2013)
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle | Sundance TV
https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/
https://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/2018/07/13/jonestowns-massacre-survivor-she-woke-up-and-everyone-dead-jim-jones/778750002/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Ryan
https://www.distractify.com/p/jim-jones-children
https://abcnews.go.com/International/peoples-temple-members-describe-horrors-jonestown-massacre-day/story?id=57887375
https://www.theravive.com/therapedia/deprogramming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Patrick
https://www.standleague.org/hate-monitor/exposed/ted-patrick.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seductive_Poison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/drinking-the-kool-aid-remember-when-jim-jones-was-a-hero-to-democrats/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/12/18/cult-leader-earmarked-7-million-for-soviets/87cff75b-5dfe-4d7b-952f-008b7cc88e2e/
Death Tape Audio + Transcripts:
https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=68558
https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=29084