Jim Valvano

On November 19, 1978, the nation and the world woke to the news of the tragedy of Jonestown, learning of the carnage of the suicide and murder of over 900 people in the jungle of Guyana. What happened has been painstakingly studied however the how and the why continue to be the subject of discussion more than thirty years later. The death tapes captured much of what transpired on November 18, 1978. Jones was heard to say,” “Die with a degree of dignity. Lay down your life with dignity; don’t lay…

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you can see. If you see me as your friend, I'll be your friend. If you see me as your father, I'll be your father. If you see me as your savior, I'll be your savior." These are the last words spoken by Jim Jones to his following before all 909 of them joined in on an act of revolutionary suicide. Jim Jones was born in 1931 rural Indiana. He was a megalomaniac that suffered from various mental disorders and drug addiction. In the 1950s he worked as a self ordained Christian minister and aimed to…

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for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision making outcome. Jonestown is a great example of groupthink because everyone believed in Jim Jones. Hundreds of people thought it was a great idea to commit mass suicide in Jonestown, all under the command of their detrimental leader, Jim Jones even though some of them thought it was a preposterous…

person. In Jonestown, when people devoted their whole life to the People’s Temple and Jim Jones, their blind loyalty and allegiance came back to haunt them. A former member of the People’s Temple recalled in an interview “we were demonstrating loyalty all the time. Coming there, being there in the meetings, sitting, listening — you know, supporting, working.” The member believed that in return for their loyalty to Jim Jones and the People’s Church that they would be granted utopian lives they…