Guyana settlement Jonestown

What do you think?

That is uncertain, Aquagirl.
It depends upon the results of the profiling,
who BELIEVED them, and how well thay were disseminated.





Yes



Jones' demagogery and Jones' police, who shot anyone who chose not to drink.



None



Yes





David

This is the subject of a recently published book:
"Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People details the life and ultimate demise of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. Written by journalist Tim Reiterman, the book reviews the history of the Peoples Temple. The book includes numerous interviews, audio tapes and documents among its hundreds of sources. The book received generally positive reception."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_(book)

First, very few took the poison willingly. Most (the majority) were either held down and injected, and killed that way. The tiny few that took it willingly either had to watch their children die, were threatened or felt no way out. Armed guards lined the pavilion.

This was in no way a mass suicide. People did not line up and drink the poison to die in a "revolutionary" suicidal way. People were screaming, frothing at the mouth, holding their stomachs doubled over in pain after they were either forced to drink or were injected.

There were at least two people that probably (we don't know for sure) drank without question, due to their previous problems with suicidal tendencies before Jonestown. We figure they probably in fact drank it first.

It seems there probably would have been an incident, whether Leo Ryan was killed or not. The facts show that Dr. Larry Schaact wanted to test the poison on pigs in the Jonestown piggery months before it all happened. There was another memo that asked "what do we do with those that don't wish to die?" This was also dated months before any of the murders took place. This was planned long before any of the killing of people began.

Mr. Reiterman published this book a long time ago. He has since rewritten many areas and has republished it. He apologized to the survivors (at least a few) for the first book.