Jonestown Massacre
On the tragic day of November 18, 1978, Jim Jones told his people to lay down their own lives. “We’ve had as much of this world as you’re going to get. Let’s just be done with it. Let’s be done with the agony of it”(Kim). Jim Jones, founder of Jonestown, leader of The Peoples Temple and the reason over nine-hundred people died on November 18. Was Jim Jones obsession with power and fame or was the CIA involvement behind the catastrophe of the Jonestown Massacre.
To begin with, As soon as Jim entered a church he was mesmerized by the respect and power preachers had on people. Jim Jones was born in 1931, Indianapolis, in a highly segregated community. And often seen as an outsider with other black children (Steiger).
First of all, Church rituals and sermons fascinated Jim, he led his own small congregations, “baptizing” friends and holding funerals for pets he killed (Streissguth). By 1955 Jones got enough money to start his own church called The Peoples Temple. With his message about one equal human race (Streissguth). After, getting his church he only got backlash from people who disagree with integration. In the early 1960s, Jones became nervous about …show more content…
Jones from the beginning was never in the right mind state and established a cult. Where he lied, raped and stole over nine-hundred people lives for his own derange circumstances. Jonestown was never a “safe haven” it was a planned massacre with the help of outside sources. Jim Jones never wanted the best for his church, he forced men, women, and children to take their own lives either with the help of former CIA member. And because of that Jones became the leader of total destruction. “Don't drink the kool-aid” a common phrase used after this tragedy meaning don't go into something blindly as so did all the lost lives in
On the tragic day of November 18, 1978, Jim Jones told his people to lay down their own lives. “We’ve had as much of this world as you’re going to get. Let’s just be done with it. Let’s be done with the agony of it”(Kim). Jim Jones, founder of Jonestown, leader of The Peoples Temple and the reason over nine-hundred people died on November 18. Was Jim Jones obsession with power and fame or was the CIA involvement behind the catastrophe of the Jonestown Massacre.
To begin with, As soon as Jim entered a church he was mesmerized by the respect and power preachers had on people. Jim Jones was born in 1931, Indianapolis, in a highly segregated community. And often seen as an outsider with other black children (Steiger).
First of all, Church rituals and sermons fascinated Jim, he led his own small congregations, “baptizing” friends and holding funerals for pets he killed (Streissguth). By 1955 Jones got enough money to start his own church called The Peoples Temple. With his message about one equal human race (Streissguth). After, getting his church he only got backlash from people who disagree with integration. In the early 1960s, Jones became nervous about …show more content…
Jones from the beginning was never in the right mind state and established a cult. Where he lied, raped and stole over nine-hundred people lives for his own derange circumstances. Jonestown was never a “safe haven” it was a planned massacre with the help of outside sources. Jim Jones never wanted the best for his church, he forced men, women, and children to take their own lives either with the help of former CIA member. And because of that Jones became the leader of total destruction. “Don't drink the kool-aid” a common phrase used after this tragedy meaning don't go into something blindly as so did all the lost lives in