The new docuseries “Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown” takes an unsparing look at the cult leader who led 900 of his followers to their deaths in a jungle commune in 1978.
On a remote airstrip in the South American country of Guyana, Jackie Speier lay gravely wounded behind the wheel of a small plane. The 28-year-old legal adviser to a California congressman had been shot five times. Near her lay the bullet-riddled bodies of her boss, Rep. Leo Ryan, three journalists and a woman fleeing a cult commune known as Jonestown.
Jones and his followers advocated for the redistribution of wealth, free social services and racial harmony. Although Jones was white, theof the members of the Peoples Temple, which relocated to San Francisco in the 1970s, were Black. Jones even deprived them of food, which Speier realized when the delegation was having breakfast in the commune the morning of the massacre.
Rep. Leo J. Ryan sits with consultant James Schollart and aide Jackie Speier in a plane headed to Jonestown, Guyana, on a fact-finding mission to investigate alleged human rights by Jim Jones.When the fact-finders were allowed to visit Jonestown, the followers’ smiles, enthusiasm and praise of their leader at first seemed to persuade Ryan that all was well.
Then someone in the pavilion tried to stab Ryan. Others intervened and he wasn’t injured, but the delegation knew they were in peril. Jones said any followers who wanted to join them were free to leave — but then sent his armed guards to ambush them on the runway.A table piled with cups of fruit punch and hypodermic syringes containing cyanide that were used to kill members of the Peoples Temple at Jonestown.Meanwhile, Jones was ordering his followers to poison themselves and their children.
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