Jonestown: Paradise Lost | Crime Documentary | The Horror of a Cult | True Crime Central
This dramatic documentary drama tracks the final build up to a horrific doomsday: the infamous mass murder and suicides of Jim Jones' cult followers in the jungles of Guyana, where over 900 men, women, and children died on November 18, 1978.
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I had just joined the Navy in 1977. I met this one girl in my boot camp who always talked about Jim Jones... she said she had left her 3 children with her mom, who was in Jonestown... then in 1978 she and I were in San Diego in training class... she was called out of class... a few minutes later, we heard this screaming... I ran out of the class to her... she had just learned her mom and her 3 children were dead... the base clinic sent a corpman and a doctor with an ambulance to take her to the hospital. I stayed in contact with her for a couple of years. But then I heard she had taken her life... 😢 now in 2024, to this day when I hear Jonestown or Jim Jones I see the picture she showed me of her, her mom and her 3 children. The picture had been taken at Jonestown...
That's just heartbreaking
May they all Rest in Peace... except for Jim Jones and his henchmen.
God bless you for putting it out there. And God bless her and her family
This is just awful 😞
This is so heartbreaking. May they rest peacefully. 😞❤️
I was 11 when this happened. I remember my mom crying. Years later my grandma told me that my aunt and her best friend wanted to join. My grandma said she had a really bad feeling about it and managed to put my aunt off on going ...one week at a time. My aunt's best friend went and the plan was my aunt would join her. My grandma would tell my aunt... Can't go, next week is your grandma's birthday and she'll get her feelings hurt if you're not there, can you help me this week paint the living room and help me pick the color? Week by week she got her to put it off.... Until one day she met my Uncle and she never brought it up about going again. They were going to join while the group was still stateside and when they went to guana her best friend went. My aunt's best friend was one of the dead. My aunt was so distraught and grief stricken when this happened. I'm so grateful and thankful my grandma was able by the Grace of God to keep my aunt from going. I have often wondered if today's kids know where the saying "drinking the Kool aid" originates.
Wow, that is quite the story! So thankful that your grandma kept her from going 💕
That is so sad.
No they don't. I watched that movie so many times, and I never got the connection.
Such a wise woman who believed her "feelings." So lucky for your family. Best, best wishes for all of yours from Texas.
Your grandma is a hero, bless her or rest her soul if she is no longer with us ❤
Congressman Ryan was a good man who died trying to rescue as many people as he could. RIP. You did your best.
seriously. that's the kind of congressman we want and need. such a shame. RIP indeed.
@@twamsorryhim and Mrs Jones both, she doesn't get enough credit. She didn't see what was happening until it was too late unfortunately, when it came to the full extent of Jim's endgame/way out. Ryan tried to save every defector he could, while she tried to save the innocent lives of those children who Jim selfishly condemned to death with the rest of them. Both of them are heroes in this tragedy.
The Congressman got in the way of progress. It was his fault this happen. Father Jim was a good man.
@@brockhershey414yea, a good man who told people to get rid of themselves
@@IchabodvanTassel98 ... shhhh . not too loud for daddy
I cannot stop thinking about those children. Those poor, innocent children. And adults who killed them.
When a crime is committed against a child, the culprit is always an adult (except James Bulger)
The children haunt me the most also about this fiasco. Why didn't somebody just push over the vat of poison? The whole story just doesn't make sense. There's a lot we don't know. Bless those poor babies 👶 🙏. I appreciate you remembering them, they are not forgotten, at least there are two people that haven't forgotten them. Bless you too.
@@phoque121Not exactly because of the Columbine high school shooter’s were children to! Coward children but they were still children. Also all of the other school shootings that have occurred in this country & probably the entire Earth as well. The nightclubs that were also innocent people that were murdered by the psychopaths that did things like that! Completely disgusting as heck crazy & cruel & evil incarnate resides in them all.
Back in 1978 when I received my copy of Time mag I was sickened by the pictures I saw that I couldn't even close my eyes to sleep that night thinking about it. It was so unbelievable that one man could do that carnage. Then when I saw the NBC coverage of the congressman there and saw the children singing and laughing and in 24 hours they would be dead it was horrible.
@@user-ek9hg3ip9hthere were more than vat of poison and they would have just been killed anyway, there were men stood there with guns so would have achieved nothing.
The guy who played Jim Jones in this honesty deserves an Oscar
His son grew up to be a very articulate, critical thinker. Nice to see he was strong minded enough to see whats real. Especially since it was his dad.
There's a silver lining to everything. Sometimes you have to look for it.
I think his mother had a lot to do with that. She seemed to keep him grounded. She was a clever woman and she resisted to the bitter end 😢
Going to look up his son now. Thank you. Never thought to do that.
Your parents don’t have to define you
Jim had other children. The surviving four of nine are all remarkably well adjusted.
On the actual recording,their was cursing, yelling , kids crying and many did not want to take their lives. There also was a lady who was trying to save the children and got cussed out by the crowd. If you get a chance listen to the actual tape recordings. This scene is to calm.
It's so very sad 😭😭 I now know exactly how working with fear an how they brain wash folks . I always wonder how anyone could get others to follow this insanity . Now I know people actually believe Trump ugh 😢
I was thinking the same thing... the actual recordings are absolutely haunting.
That’s true
The 44 minute death tape
Her name is Christine Miller. The only sane person in the room
Congressman Ryan was a brave man, and died for his cause. We don't have such statesmen anymore.
Bernie Sanders and AOC are exceptions
Ryan was a self publicist, taking up this case was another was for him to get famous. Ended up very famous... Also, Bernice Sanders is a communist and AOC is a donkey joke that got out of hand.
is it a joke??@@praxisdragon
You mean like Jackie Speier of Ryan’s former district who retired last year? You know, his assistant who was there at Jonestown WITH him and was shot?
DF@@BoringTroublemaker
I was 15 years old when this happened and still remember feeling sick to my stomach watching and listening to the news reports about it right after it happened.
I was 11 when that happened. Turned 12 that December after this. I can still remember it as well.
This documentary was well done. Hard to believe it was released 17 years ago. Some of the survivors of Jonestown have sadly pased away as well. This particular special about Jonestown almost felt like a movie and the commentary from survivors added a nice effect. I can relate to being raised with cult teachings since my mom and some of her siblings attended WCG (Worldwide Church of God) in the early to mid '80s. Even after being kicked out of that cult, mom continued to raise my sister and I as if she was still in the church. I missed out on birthdays most years and other holiday celebrations because of this. One thing my mom emphasized was laodiceans, such as myself, dying for the things of God during the Great Tribulation. It scared me so greatly that I began becoming obsessed with the 1999 Christian movie Revelation when I was 13 going on 14 in 2006. I wondered if I would die like the main character Thorold Stone who was virtually beheaded after refusing to take the mark of the beast. It was a scary thought especially for a young teen girl like myself. I was still a baby and I shouldn't have been thinking about death at my age. 😥 One thing Jonestown and WCG had in common were fear tactics. The fact that some defectors including Congressman Leo Ryan and two journalists were killed for trying to leave showed how powerful this cult was. Jim Jones obviously had a mental illness and took many people down with him. What's still puzzling to me is why did Linda aka Sharon Harris decided to follow Jim Jones' order despite not being at the Jonestown compound? She and her daughter Liane both could've backed out and spared themselves and the children. I believe Sharon was brainwashed. Jim Jones used mind control just like all cult leaders do. Not even his own son wanted to die. I believe his mother Marianne may have saved his life by telling him to go to the basketball game in Georgetown. Stephen could write an autobiography about growing up in a cult. 😓
using and corrupting the epic poem of John Milton doesn't make this defamatory documentary any more credible the catholic church (or indeed any faction) has been even worse in their treatment of individuals and families throughout history humanity will never find the utopia we crave because our instincts are too incredibly basic our intelligence and compassion is always beaten, undermined and mutilated by our anger and hatred we are a species of the lost and a shimmer of listlessness
Whew! That was long but worth reading. Thanks for sharing
Are you inferring that people that don’t celebrate holidays or birthdays are in cults?
Yes if you're connected to an organization or a church and you're being told not to celebrate then it's a cult. If it's you individual choice then that's a different matter. @@dariusdavisobadiyahu6121
My church growing up showed us a film like that (maybe the same one) when I was in middle school. I would obsessively repeat the salvation prayer over and over at night because I was told if you don't really believe you won't be saved. I would wake up each morning terrified that the rapture had happened and i was left behind alone. That church was very fear based and I hated going. As soon as I no longer lived with my father I left Christianity behind.
He essentially put all of his drug fueled paranoia, anger and fear directly on to the people, he was insane, depressed, angry and confused so he felt that his followers had to be. Horrible tragedy and even after it he took the easy way out. It is a tragic look into the twists and chasms that the human mind can create for itself and how it can spread to others. He did get one thing right by having the sign "Those who do not remember history, are condemned to repeat it." Let us never forget this, and let us never repeat it.
So let's not listen to Justin Trudeau and WEF AND FAUCI AND THERESA Tam and other liars
Jones was DEMONIC.
I visited Guyana in 1978.earlier in the year before the muder suicides happened. It was shocking because Guyana is such a backwater. Later my cousin, who lived there, said she saw Jonestown before anything untoward happened. It was located on a road cleared through the jungle where she drove a jeep on her way to Brazil and wondered what this encampment was all about. Most people in Guyana knew nothing about Jonestown before the tradegy erupted. It was kept very secretive.
Wow. Thanks for sharing. That's so interesting to know!
Father Jim was a genius.
It happened in Kenya a couple of weeks ago,some pastor told his followers to starve to death so that they can meet Jesus,among them were women and children,it's so tragic may their soul Rest in perfect peace 😭🕊🌹
We’re all going to the pit
I am struggling with the guy who left his little son there. He left because he was scared, he knew bad things were happening that's why he left. Why on earth would he leave his defenceless small child there??? I dont get it. He was saying he wasn't thinking straight yet he was straight thinking enough to pass a note to get himself out and yet, left his small child there. I know that people are going to come to his defense but how, as a parent, do you remove yourself from a very dangerous environment and then intentionally leave your vulnerable child in that dangerous environment?
I think a lot of us are thinking the same thing.
Dude is a coward. Its infuriating
I don't get it either. His comment about how he was worried about his son being black in the united states also made no sense. Clearly he knew it was a life threatening situation to stay, that is why he wanted to leave.
I so agree. But, I gave much harsher words, and it's not PC. It's obvious what he is, besides a weak cowl weird.
You're not alone in this thought process. We came together.. We leave together or we die together😥
I was glued to my TV during this. So much sorrow.
What are they talking about Paradise Lost on November 18 1978, it was never a paradise, it was run like a southern slave plantation, it was never a paradise from Start to end.
They used the term paradise to what was promised by Jones to the people.
Jonestown was really doomed from the start. Poor soil quality to grow crops for a start, double the population (originally 500 people), but instead nearly 1000 people settled in the jungle, meaning constant food shortages and weaking of the population. The fact that Jonestown was hundreds of miles into the jungle with no escape pretty much should have told people that this place was a prison camp.
This doc is so good. I’ve watched it probably five times and each time it gets more horrific .. I tend to get desensitized by all that we see now on the internet and tv ..but this really takes it to a new level. A different kind of fear altogether
Father Jim had a purpose and Congressman Ryan got in the way of progress.
@@brockhershey414you've got to be kidding dd
@@ariadneschild8460 no kidding here
@@brockhershey414 really? Jeez that cool aid must be powerful.
@@brockhershey414 you are kidding right.
Us versus them is always one of the signs of a cult.
Congressman Ryan was a true hero, sad that he had to die for this cause😢
Ryan got in the way of progress. He had to go.
I can't get 5 people together for an outing, but this dude gets 914 people to end thier lives...unbelievable right. History is utterly fascinating!!
A lot of them were murdered by his guards. They didn't drink the coolaid .
Forced to
Three hundred of them were children who had no choice, and I would venture to say a majority of the adults were forced, too.
He worshipped the 👿
It’s all about giving motivating speeches. He knew what people wanted to hear and just said it. No magic there. Still works today.
These were individuals who lived a life that basically had nothing to offer. So people this impoverished felt like this was an alternative that was better than what they were experiencing stateside. I remember this like it was yesterday. My heart goes out to congressman Ryan. He did his best to bring this to a conclusion. He just didn't expect it to end the way it would eventually.
When you're ALWAYS the Pathetic victim .. Someone will victimize you! .. eventually you're looked down upon as a liability and a drain on society! 😶
Vernon Gosney passed away in 2021 due to Surgical complications. Rest In Peace Mr. Gosney, you are with your son now, your life was not in vain.
I doubt it
This man took advantage of their hopelessness.......thats heartbreaking whether or not anyone believes they were gullible and allowed themselves to be manipulated....they didnt deserve what happened to them, not a single one of them
This man was also hopeless and tormented. There are no good guys here.
There is a fine line between feeling sorry for those people, they had a choice, and they give there children’s lives for it, this man was sleeping with who ever he wanted. He had them believing that you was a chosen one to sleep with him, I saw this coming, he was the news a lot, The most felt this was coming to a bad end, No one could have made a difference.
Interview with the son was fascinating
Such a sad outcome 😢 I feel for the families of the ones who passed. And the fact that its so easy to do this to others is so sad and sickening.😢😢😢
are you even aware enough to realise that governments are manipulating us constantly
If that happened now there is no way a Congressman would visit a suspicious organization without a secret service or military security detachment
That was an excellent episode. Thankyou. Geez that must have been tough for Vernon.
Love Vernon, had a biracial child, even though he was gay. The mother i believe was left brain dead after birth. He then lost their son in Jonestown and then died a few years ago i believe from complications due to heart surgery.Loves ya Vernon, you speak so pashionately and you and Stephen made this so interesting!
As a nurse, or just someone with common sense, watching Jim "heal" a day old broken leg...no way! I'd of ran 🏃♀️ away from these brainwashed brothers and sisters, and fast. It's so sad, especially for the children who had no choice. 😢
Oooh, ' run away '? Ok, now you realize with a broken leg, one is going to be at the mercy of whomever is around , right? Sorry, that choice of words XD im sure one would love to run.
Yep, run through miles of jungle
So ; SO ,sad to think that this type pastoral and humankind worship and brain washing is still happening in the world as we "speak ." Even in the DEMOCRATIC😮 homeland called America. Only God knows best. The extent that people would go to satisfy the cravings of these cravings of their cult leaders leaves me confounded.. DIDn't the commandments admonish us against worshiping other *trumpeting* (gods) ???. I wish I could get an Amen from some critical thinking sheep from some pasture in the American south. Amen.
Although one cant deny the tragedy of this event the guy playing Jim Jones is quite good. Ive never understood how Vernon could leave his son there.
He could he leave Jonestown to become a police officer in Hawaii and care for the child at the same time? lol, yes they let him into the police force.
Me either
I'm here because of what is happening in the Philippines. Praying it will not end like this one.
Same
Same
Now I am curious on what is happening there?
@@Ro6entXSEARCH FOR SBSI ITS LIKE A JONESTOWN BUT AT THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN
Sameeee
Those poor innocent babies!😢
Even in his youth Jim Jones was a sick individual. The things I researched about him were disturbing.
I saw a interview where a guy said when Jim was a teen he shot at him. I read a interview where he stabbed his college roomate through a bunk bed with a pen. He was a weird sick guy but also smart and manipulative and a socipath
Father Jim was just like any average American
@@brockhershey414 whatever that supposed to mean
@@BrianSmith-yq7ys he is crazy
hate to say, well done, or offer too much adulation & appreciation for the quality & outcome of this heart wrenching film. it feels disrespectful to do so. i honestly shed many tears, yet deeply appreciate the quality, work and pains that had to be endured to create this. (to have lived this)i think the timing of the release or at least to my knowledge, holds huge importance both to diligence, introspection and the value of community each simultaneously. thank you to everyone who has contributed to and worked both smart & hard to create this documentary. sincerely 🌙
No great loss🤣
@@trentcruise3084 i assume you to be rather privileged as far as not having many great heartbreak and loss, hopefully you have a community and are blessed with knowing that you & your loved ones are safe and sound… (i really do hope that is your true too!) it’s so much harder to brush off the almost unspeakable losses that the families of those who were taken away and lost from their lives in “Jonestown”… i don’t mean to shut your comment down by any means man… just wanted to try to explain how much i truly relate to that strictly human ‘ability’ to relate with the incredible depths of grief & despair those families and communities had to endure… not least of all because of callous behavior by the masses who would be so happy to indoctrinate that “drunk the coolaid” phrase into the english lexicon all too soon. people can be so crass when they want to be and i am kinda just hip to the idea of slowing that perpetuation and acknowledging those sorrows and learning what ever applicable lessons i can.. regardless of the source… gotta take the best &leave out the rest, right ?!? :) lol! ((& i just lost my own barely 18yr old son, mom and 2 grandmothers, in the past few yrs.. so guess i’m still in the storm of it all) we all have our own tragedies and lessons and can relate with one another so well, when we want to..
@@crystalchurch1810 Ignore him, he's made other such immature comments elsewhere on this thread. He needs a dictionary.... over the head lol
@@crystalchurch1810 Much love & prayers from one grieving mother to another 💔 God Bless 🙌 🙏 💚
@@emerejayet Your god didn't bless them, including 300 children!
Its beyond comprehension that one man can have so much power over so many people. I have never in my life been a “ sheep”.
@coreencasey5109 You are probably just as much of a sheep as those people
You were probably a sheep during Covid.
How can you just leave your son?? That's crazy!
That’s what I said ! Talkin bout he better off in Jonestown cause he’s black ! Like sir your black to.
if you take it out of the context of the suicide, which at this point it was - it’s a whole different decision. he probably thought something would happen on the airstrip which it did, and he was also being told to come back anytime. i doubt the idea of the mass sucide ever becoming more than a rehearsal occurred to him. also bare in mind the evil indoctrination he was subjected to by jim jones
His son is amazing. I feel for him. He must have survivors guilt badly. ❤ He is empathetic to equal his father's callousness.
The more I look into this mass murder the more questions I am left with...
There’s nothing to think about. It’s very simple but you won’t understand it.
This story reminded me of this California San Diego County man who deceive about forty men to commit suicide and get on board to a comet in space travel to obliviannous outerspace.back in 1997
@@davidortega357 Heavens Gate?
This is literally being reimagined in a town here in the Philippines. Its sad
WHERE? do not just say the country what is the location unless it is lies
@@user-cj9yo3qe2l Socorro Bayanihan Services from this settlement they made called "Kapihan" in a remote place in the mountains. They havent done mass suicide but its very similar to Jonestown. Blind obedience, lies and rehearsing festivities when politicians visit to investigate. It was a religious group who helped each other after the matriarch and founder died and a strong earthquake devastated their homes a new leader who was a young adult was proclaimed the new jesus and everyone was made to sell all their belongings including their homes. The money was given to the religious group and they used it to build Kapihan because they were preaching that it would be the end of the world and only those who come to the mountains will survive
@@user-cj9yo3qe2l just Google Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc. or SBSI cult
@@user-cj9yo3qe2llmao it’s not lies. Google is free. It’s SBSI and they are under investigation for trafficking and homicide. It’s a massive mountain cult built JUST like Jonestown. Same white roof cottages and all.
@@user-cj9yo3qe2lgoogle it it’s a fact
All I’m gonna say is this was some good acting and production in general. Good job 👏
My fourth time watching this, depressing yet fascinating.
I have a few core memories of historical note: 9/11, The Oklahoma City Bombing, The Space Shuttle Explosion, and Jonestown. All of them left an indelible mark on me. I was 7 when Jim Jones killed all of those people. I remember watching the news footage with my parents. Very sad day.
My brother wanted to go to Jonestown but since he was not 18 my parents would not let him go.
Wow, have you talked to him about it after they all died?? Thank gosh your parents stopped it
@@007janerussell we did after the news of what happened there was on tv. I was about 15-16 when it happened
thank goodness for protective parents and families that care enough to keep us as safe as possible… it’s heartbreaking just how tempting it can be, how often & easily “we”can be lead to dangerous ends and how often the best of intentions can be useless in the face of fear and people in quest for their own egos/power…
@@crystalchurch1810 So true. My brother did not go to Jonestown and lost interest in Jim Jones .
Did he go to somebody else instead?
This is such a well made documentary
What a coward, made the children suffer from the poison but he takes the easy way out
Indeed, Jim Jones is nothing more than a coward.
Jones was probably murdered.
Dreadful. That so few survived. And so many died for nothing.
The acting is superb!
I personally belive Jonestown was gonna happen one way or another even if Leo Ryan never showed up
Oh for sure. Jim Jones started stockpiling cyanide among other things before his followers actually got to Guyana. There is a paper trail proving that.
Agree 💯. They practiced suicide drills long before November 18th.
I agree
Yes just a matter of time. He constantly talked of death and suicide and had many trial runs. It was an evil movement from day one that was always going to end this way.
Agreed.....it was a sad inevitability. In his drugged state with his inner circle of people enabling him, anybody from outside or within would've set him off at that point. Tragically it was Leo Ryan and relatives but it could've been anyone.
Turmoil if you trust people like his dad. I'll never forget this tragedy 💔
It must’ve felt horrible watching the kids that you raised die in front of you.. being trapped not being able to go back because you were unsure if it was real or just a drill again. Having to not have anymore hope and just accept your fate. The human mind is truly so scary.
How this man just left his son there is baffling. I just can’t understand his way of thinking.
Total.coward and loser
Mr. Gosney stated that he wasn't thinking clearly. I am also glad that you don't understand his thinking, because that tells me you haven't been through anything like this situation. There is NO WAY we know how Mr. Gosney feels.
If that place was traumatic and awful that he had to leave, then why leave a child there? Bad parenting.@@longwhitemane
I understand he was confused but he carried the child there and then when he realized things were wrong sort to get out and left his child. WTH. Either stay with your child or try to leave with your child is all I'm saying. He also didn't mention a mother so I'm assuming it was him and his son
This man has since died.
My heart goes to those that survived this. They lost everything and everyone they knew because of the will of one charismatic man. I pray we learn from this event so we don't experience it in the future.
I was a teenager when this happened, it flooded the newspapers everyday.
This is what happens when you give power to a single entity
I cannot, no matter how extreme this tragic story is, get my head around the fact that people were so easily fooled and influenced by this lunatic and others like it. It's like masses of people did not have a natural instinct long before they were doomed.
We just encountered a similar happening with covid and the vaccines. Look how many people fell right in line. People's livelihoods were threatened and some are still feeling the loss of jobs, homes and families. But you cannot convince them otherwise because they refuse to listen. Yep, I witnessed the acts of people that I never dreamed possible, simply out of manufactured fear driven by the government, media and pharmaceutical companies. We haven't seen anything yet.
People are like that to this day. So sad
He was a industry plant for Mk ultra..
Unfortunately Jim Jones played on their faith in the lord. He spent years learning how to manipulate people. And they loved and worshiped him
There are personality traits which make someone likely to join a cult: high agreeableness and low conscientiousness. Joining a cult is not the same as staying in the cult. Once you had joined, the cult takes away your possessions and separate you from your family and friends to make it difficult to leave. There is also fear, manipulation, black mail, etc.
Sharon was just as crazy as Jones.
The actor playing Leo Ryan really looks like him
Agree
What’s the most sad is that Stephan Jones wanted to try and go back to Jonestown and save everyone after hearing the code phrase but they realized they were outgunned by the red brigade at Jonestown 😢
The Red Brigade did what they had to do. They had no choice.
Really sad story , why people get easily fooled 😢
In 2023, it's still happening in the world. Unfortunately in the Philippines, there are cults like this ugh....
Fellow true crime channel here!! Amazing vid. Subbed! x
I could see myself in Jonestown because I am attracted to those simple communal lifestyles in a community setting. If Jim would not have gone to those violent extremes, it could have functioned.
I remember this on the news when i was in my early teens- i just could not comprehend how so many people would submit to suicide- now i understand more- and in todays world how billions are brainwashed to thinking and acting in ways of those who know how to control the mind- and leverage technology to amplify this power
absolutely! in large groups, or tribal like communities, we as humans are so powerful and yet can so easily be lost in the common hype… it’s so important to keep things in perspective and hold on to our better judgment, keeping a (small d) democratic philosophy and ensuring that we are not jumping on any “bandwagon” for the sake of keeping the chants going, no matter how “mesmerizing” the commonality of finding ‘your people’… i think i said that right, i’ve seen crowds at giant concerts get crazy and almost frightening how much folks, including myself, get caught up in it all… reminds me so much of wwII and how many otherwise good and kind families got so caught up in the furor… they fused their identities, relationships, lives & their families lives into that nazi mentality… knowing that we’re all just as capable of being so grossly corrupted is only redeemed by our ability to wake up from our trances and rethink and dispose of repugnant ideas and stories we have so blindly put our faith, energy & time into… if only we knew now, when we we were younger…🎶 we could all just get along and know how gorgeous & precious we, our youthful strength, energy and time was. :) aloha & thanks!
There was a lot of outright deception involved - like, Jim Jones told his followers that Guyanese soldiers were in the jungle and would shoot people who tried to escape from Jonestown. And he fed them paranoia about nuclear war and what would happen as a result of the murder of Leo Ryan.
First time watching this so sad all those people died being deceived by an evil man
Poor Hyacinth. Coming out to see all the people she knew gone.
So very horrifying words cannot express 😢😢😢
... They wanted a better life, and met their death.😢 God bless these lost souls, hope they are at peace in heaven, especially the poor innocent children. 🚸
🤣😂🤣😂
@@trentcruise3084 if you haven't got anything even half decent to say & seem to find this whole thing extremely amusing.... how about you gtfo. Have the day you deserve.
😂😂😂😂
Tenho certeza que as crianças estão no Céu. Elas eram inocentes, e foram sacrificadas por um lunático... Um abraço fraterno desde o Uruguai. Deus os abençoe.
Seems like Senator just underestimated the craziness of Jim Jones and some fanatics... sad
House rep
Why did Congress people didn't have gun there self???
Can you imagine the federal charges that'd been pressed if alive.
The fed charges were never a factor. There was no way he was going to be alive to be indicted
Manipulated the poor and minority. He was a bully and is in the opposite place where God is. 👎
The American government does it all the time.
@@jehovasinzyep and the minority continie to vote for the very same people who do it to them. The demonrats.
Out of all documentary I ever seen this has to be the worst to watch! No words can describe the hell these poor people went through😢 It’s heartbreaking and scary how he brainwashed so many innocent people. This is not a mass suicide, it’s mass murder, all because of one mentally ill man! Just the thought of how scared the kids must have been when they were forced to drink the flavour-aid makes me cry😢 innocent kids who have to trust that their parents/adult around protect them from danger and pain😢 The survivors must feel they were lucky to survive, but imagine how much pain and horror they have witness😢 I really regret listening to the actual audio from Jones himself, demanding parents give their kids “the medicin” and sound so evil when he said they don’t cry because of pain (when he KNEW that drinking it is extremely painful! So painful the coward didn’t even drink it himself…). Rest in peace all the innocent children and adults who was poisoned to death brutally😢❤ Hope they all is in a better place now❤️❤️ Religion can be a good thing but also very dangerous when “wrong people” is in charge! Please be safe everyone and don’t end up in a deadly religious cult😔❤️
Watching here because of the SBSI controversy here in my country .
This actor looks like Elvis
Pure nightmare!
I heard a recording of Jones final words years ago..and I'm still haunted by his creepy voice.
rip for all victims
He could have provided these people with something really great but with the paranoia, due to drug abuse, he ruined everything. He slid down a dangerous path and took so many innocent people with him. That's the problem with cult leaders. They get power happy and abuse that power in every way
At least he kept them hydrated with Kool-Aid🤣
Jim Jones nor any other man or woman cannot provide anything other than maybe some friendship. Jesus is the only one with something to offer. The least of what Jesus offers is better than the best a man can offer.
@@tugbankert6581 Jesus was a man.
@@toppinzr3743 you are 100% right. He was also God in the flesh and 100% God
@@trentcruise3084 Should've been Fla-Vor-Aid...
Left his own son...that is tough..
Amazing
I'm here because of what's happening here in the Philippines. I hope it's not going to be like this.
whats happening? i wanted to move there
Same here, SSBI is crazy
Kaya nga nakakatakot talaga...Pero wag naman sana😢
Sameee
@@LionProductionsHDdon't you ever dare it the members of the local version of the People's Temple is as deranged as their leader
It really aggravates me when Congresswomen Jackie Speier is referred to as his “assistant”, “aide”, or even worse “secretary”. Jackie Speier was his LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL. She is an ATTORNEY and was serving on his congressional staff in the capacity as his lawyer. She wasn’t the f**king girl that makes the coffee.
1:18:50 This scene always gets me. I wish she had taken the little ones outside with her and made a break for it into the cab. Hopefully it would be too fast for the mother to react, and then she and her siblings would have lived. I'm near her age- I first saw this documentary during the pandemic, and I remembered when I outlived her- and I can't understand why she didn't break for it, why she didn't fight to survive. I understand the power of filial loyalty- I grew up with a mother that had a brain tumor and I followed her into situations where, in hindsight, we could have been killed. But I'd like to think that if I *knew* that my little brother and I were going to die if I didn't fight, especially if this happened now or a few years ago as opposed to when I was little, I would have fought.
Oh my goodness...how absolutely horrific 😢 I couldn't believe the way they were all gunned down and watching those poor children being forced to drink poison. Just horrific. I hope awareness of this kind of cult saves lives in the future 🙏
Truly tragic
Thr seantor was too confident of the importance of his office. He should have had a security detail on standby.
Next time bring in U S Marines
I thought that too, but I think there was another plane with such on board. Didn't frisk that guy properly though.
Yes the same thing I said
"Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." Revelation 12:12!
As a rule, i like to learn all that i can about aspects and key points or events in history, this doc absolutely hit every mark for me. The victims stories DESERVE to be told and this doc handled it beautifully, even if its a tad old now. I'm so deep in my feelings rn 💔
6:37 The fact that they unironically used the term "comrade" tells you everything you needed to know about Jones and the peoples temple.
The lesson: if any mere human claims to be a saviour, run in the opposite direction.
It was sick and horror what this Demon 😮Jones did to mother's and Babies 😮
Yep just like what the evil pres of the u.s. and his admin is doing. Detroying this country and everyone else
Here because of SBSI
from BBC documentary about TB Joshua to this , may God help us .
Ok this is one of my favorite documentaries I've ever seen, but Jones looks like Patrick Wilson playing Elvis.
Very well done documentary of such a terrible event in history.
Just keep telling your self that, you got out, the others did not ❤
So sad so very sad.❤
The dude that left his son behind 😢
I can't understand why he would do that!
@@laurelpowell8536it doesn’t seem as bad considering he probably didnt ever think the suicides would be more than a rehearsal
@@laurelpowell8536 Combination of things: Gosney likely never REALLY thought the leader will actually go through with the mass-suicides/murders, that if it was inevitable that the children would be spared, that somehow the authorities would be able to get involved and make things right before the inevitable, his fear override any sense of logic making him just want to get out by any means trusting remaining adults/parents to keep the kid safe.
RIP Vernon Gosney. I know he always regretted leaving his son there.
Oh my god, I had no idea he died!
@@mintyglamour last year :( after these events, he went on to be one of the first openly gay police officers
@@wigglyennui he literally knew it was too dangerous for him to stay yet he leaves a defenceless 4 year old there, sounds about g4y tbh
As he should have regretted it. What father would leave their son there, in a place where he knew he himself wasn't safe? I would have murdered Jones before I'd have EVER left my son. I'm not having go at the man. He made the choice he made and he and his son had to pay for it. Sadly. How I wish he would have made a better decision.
@@wigglyennuihe was gay?
Growing up,I've heard of that horrible thing that happened there..but I've never thought that it actually happen. Some people are just sick in the head.
That 40 year old man playing Jim's 19 year old son had me laughing so hard...
Me too 😂 I was like.. they seriously couldn't find an actual 19 year old to play him? They had to pick a man in his forties 😂😂
What if you faked drinking it,and faked your death,waiting for someone to help. How would that go?
The guards probably would’ve caught on and force you into drinking it for real