This is the story about a town called Jonestown. Created by a man by the name of Jim Jones. He was an American Religious leader of the People’s Temple in Northwestern Guyana in South America. He had the mind of an inhumane crazy person, he compared himself to Jesus Christ, and held 1,000 people hostage in his, ‘utopian community’, AKA his cult. Where he took control of them, had armed guards watching them, and even killed anybody who trespassed his fantasy world, his dream. But what caused this craziness? What was Jim’s psychological mindset and physical condition in 1978 of November when this Massacre occurred? And why did he force a mass suicide murder upon these people? Three hundred of them, being children.
Here’s the story of Jim Jones - who he was, who he became, who found out about him, and why everything first started.
Episode by Juliana Salamone