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Jonestown mass suicide

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HTtLHgU9tY
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! K; y/ `  d: dNew documentary explores Jonestown mass suicide6 I2 r8 G( v5 b

" Y; g5 |3 A( M8 T" m, pTwenty-eight years later, what's left to say about Jonestown? Nine hundred members of a religious cult followed their fanatical leader to Guyana and willingly committed suicide by drinking a Kool-Aid-like mixture laced with cyanide. " @. A' a7 N$ ~

! M) a6 l1 [7 B8 E( C, r: n! v, lWhat more could there be to the story? Plenty, it turns out. " o2 J; {! V8 C" m& C
I watched an advance copy of the new documentary, "Jonestown," by filmmaker Stanley Nelson on Sunday, and found myself drawn deeply into a macabre tale that I had little prior knowledge of.
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Nelson interviewed more than two dozen former members of Jim Jones' controversial Peoples Temple, including some who survived the Jonestown mass suicide -- which, by the way, looks more like mass murder now. And Nelson has unearthed dramatic video and sound recordings -- never seen or heard before that shed new light on the establishment, development and downfall of the Peoples Temple, right up until the moment Jim Jones passes out the cups.5 _) |2 h+ v, K* A  q) G
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The most chilling part of the film is the audio tape of Jones urging his followers to choose death over persecution. I heard, for the first time, the emotionally-pitched debate between Jones and parishioners who would rather live than die in the South American jungle. It was like a scene out of Apocalypse Now, only this time, the killing was real. / v. T3 ?% j' p% |

" z1 A" s' X3 _. aI also learned that Jim Jones didn't suddenly take a hard left onto the highway of darkness. He was deeply disturbed from childhood, and is even suspected of abusing animals, something many experts believe is a hallmark of an emerging psychopath., i1 J+ T: l$ G9 C

5 }- z8 Z6 m) }- t7 B9 Y1 CWhat's most tragic though is that Jones' followers don't come off as a cult of religious deviants. They were -- for the most part -- earnest people, attracted to the Peoples Temple for the sense of community they couldn't find in their own lives. It gave them a feeling of belonging, though as the years wore on and Jones' insanity escalated, membership came at an ever-increasing, and in the end, ultimate price.7 m, t9 x0 h' @5 r/ f
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