Jonestown

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, directed by Stanley Nelson, follows the story of the mass suicide, by over 900 people, this is known today as the Jonestown Massacre. Released in 2006, the documentary answers many of the questions and suspicions surrounding the veracity of claims made about the incident. Nelson provides a strong view of Jim Jones as a cult leader, a political power broker, molester and a killer. The documentary does not provide the audience with the opportunity

something that others have told you to do or did yourself. This saying comes from the cult society led by Reverend Jim Jones, named Jonestown. Jonestown was a small community in the jungle of Guyana, South America. After getting word of people coming to investigate the society, Jones had committed a mass suicide by poisoning Kool-Aid and giving it to the people of Jonestown. A cult society is an organization that basically disguises itself as a religion. In a cult, they normally perform rituals. There

The events that occurred on November 18, 1978 has rocked the psychological world on how Jim Jones was able to manage what is now known as the "Jonestown Suicides" or the "Jonestown Massacre". It all started from when Jim Jones created what was known as the Peoples Temple in the middle of Indianapolis in 1955 leading only just 20 followers at the time. After a year had past, the people’s temple started to make a name for itself by serving for the disadvantage and opening an orphanage. This started

move to Jonestown a place that he created for the people that Jim Jones authorized. Jonestown is located on a little island in Guyana. Jim Jones decided to move his socialist group over there so they can be isolated from the authorities. For the reason that he was committing fraud with money. Jim Jones was saying that People's Temple was a Christian group instead of a socialist group, so

person came about promoting that they had the ability to relieve these problems, one would think that any struggling person would desperately take the help despite any circumstances. Well this certain type of situation is vividly present in the film, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples’ Temple. This film gives us insight on how desperate people were for happiness that they decided to follow, obey and allow a single person to dictate and end their life. The 1970s could be described as an uproarious

Jonestown was created because people needed some sort of hope that there could really be a future without color and class. They all had some desire some need to fit in and so, Jim Jones played off their need to belong thus creating Jonestown, “Every single person felt that they had a purpose there and that they were exceptionally special. And that is how he brought so many young college kids in, so many older black women in, so many people from diverse backgrounds who realized that there was something

Cults have existed throughout history since the beginning of time. A cult is defined in Webster’s dictionary as a “system of religious worship with a devoted attachment to a person, principle, etc.” Over the past thirty years numerous religious cults have caused “ tens of thousands to abandon their families, friends, education’s, and careers to follow the teaching of a leader they will never meet”(Beck 78). Opinions vary as to why people are drawn to cults. “Martin Marty, professor of religious

Jonestown Massacre: The Mass Suicide On November 18, 1978, is what soon come to be acknowledged as the “Jonestown Massacre” in modern history of the late 1900s. Where a cult leader names Jim Jones brought his followers to Guyana, South America to commit a mass suicide of 900+ people. He accomplished this by having every one drink a laced Kool-Aid. A few other things that will be discussed about with be how the Peoples Temple (the cult name) grew and got this many members. Also on what was in the

A Look at Jonestown and the Peoples Temple Many people have heard the phrase “drinking the Kool-aid” but few actually know where the term comes from. The story of Jonestown and the Peoples Temple is a complex one with many different causes and can sometimes be a tough topic to learn about. Nonetheless, there is much to be learned from it, as it shows the dangers of putting too much blind loyalty into a person or cause. The story of Jonestown began in 1955 when a man named Jim Jones Started a Religion

Over nine hundred people dead within five minutes and all done by one all-powerful cult leader. Unfortunately, that was the case for the members of Jim Jones's cult of Jonestown. Jonestown is a prime example of how a religious movement can turn into a cult in the matter of time, and how it can be difficult to protect people against. This is due in part to our general acceptance of most religious movements in accordance to the first amendment, but also due in our classification of what a cult is.