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17 Best Podcasts About Jonestown

The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement in Guyana, established by the Peoples Temple, a San Francisco–based cult under the leadership of Jim Jones.Here are the best podcasts about Jonestown

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  1. Best Jonestown Podcasts

  2. Who’s to blame for the Jonestown Cult Massacre?This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) welcomes friend and filmmaker Lance Edmands to help decide who’s to blame for the Jonestown Massacre. Jim Jones is definitely on the board. But, was
  3. On this, our 300th episode, we begin our full-treatment journey into the life and mind of Jim Jones, the cult leader who, in 1978, was responsible for the deaths of over 900 people. So how did they get to that point? Tune in to our series to fi
  4. ​On the second part of our Jonestown series we cover the early days of the People's Temple from Jim Jones' hightailing it out of Indianapolis because of nuclear anxiety to their very first compound outside of Ukiah, CA and all of the bizarre th
  5. On the third part of our series on Jim Jones, we cover the blossoming of Peoples Temple including the creation of the sex-obsessed Planning Commission and the harsh punishments that came along with it as well as the introduction of everyone's f
  6. On the fourth part to our series, we cover the improbable political career of Jim Jones, the beginnings of Jonestown, and just how awful things got once Peoples Temple arrived in full force along with their exiled leader. ​ Thatched Huts Kevin
  7. In this, the end of our Jonestown series, we cover the last year of Jonestown, from the myriad stressors that led Jim Jones to do what he did to November 18th, 1978 itself. 
  8. In this first episode of Oversight: Jonestown, we take you deep into the Guyanese jungle, behind the harrowing scenes of the last 24 hours of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Collective. We have new information and a new understanding of how one
  9. The paranormal healing ministry drew new members into the movement with Jim Jones’ promises of supernatural support for the cause. The divine gifts physically drained him, he could feel people’s sickness and pain as he healed them. He began usi
  10. Welcome to the Sunday Service, a 3-part immersive experience exploring Jim Jones’ paranormal ministry and the mystery of the nine gifts of the holy spirit. Your first visit to Peoples Temple will involve a profound, life changing, spiritual exp
  11. Timo talks with one of the survivors of the Jonestown massacre Laura Johnston Kohl, author of "Jonestown Survivor"
  12. While many remember the 1978 Jonestown massacre as a dark monument to the power of a single man’s paranoia and fanaticism, the tale of Jim Jones’ lover, Carolyn Layton, reveals a more complicated narrative—and a more frightening truth. Carolyn
  13. Jim Jones controlled the most notorious American cult of all time — the Peoples Temple. In 1978, Jones’ leadership brought on the largest mass suicide and cult murder in modern history, where over 900 people died. We investigate how Jones and h
  14. Jim Jones was a farm boy who later turned into America’s deadliest cult leader. We take a deeper look into the cult’s followers as we try to comprehend why they allowed Jones to have complete control over their lives — control and power that ul
  15. In November of 1978, 918 Americans died in the middle of the Guyanese jungle. It would be “the largest single incident of civilian death in American history” until September 11th, 2001. But who were these people? How did they really die? And wh
  16. [Part 1 of 3]During childbirth, Lynetta Jones’ deceased mother appeared to her in a vision and prophesied that the baby would one day become a great man. Lynetta’s son was Jim Warren Jones, who grew up to become the leader of a new religiou
  17. [Part 2 of 3]In the late 1970s, Jim Jones and hundreds of his followers relocated to The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project in the South American country of Guyana – more commonly known as ‘Jonestown’.---Episode narrated by the Anony
  18. [Part 3 of 3]On November 17 1978, Congressman Leo Ryan travelled to Guyana to inspect Jonestown for himself. When a number of Peoples Temple members expressed a desire to leave with him, Jim Jones was furious. What followed next would go do

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