Episode 118: Jim Jones and Jonestown Part 1:

We are back with my least favorite topic this week, a cult. And this is not just any cult, but I'd say one of the top five worse/most infamous cults, The People's Temple.

Jim was a lonely child starved of attention and affection. This caused him to act out in bizare, and later dangerous ways. As Jim grew his interest went to radical political beliefs like communism, but he also championed for integration and Civil Rights.

But it wouldn't take long before Jones began to speak about his own divinity and the nuclear war that would end the country. Of course he was the savior that would led them through it, in California for now.

TPL EP 118 Source Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_seed