James Warren's Temple Agricultural Project: The Jonestown Massacre

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The sign read “GREETINGS Peoples Temple Agricultural Project” It was white with black text, hanging at the entrance to Jonestown, the infamous location of the mass suicide of over 900 people, orchestrated by Jim Jones, their leader, father, and god. There is a lot of gray area when it comes to Jonestown, was it as it seems; A cult that ended tragically, or could it have been more? A CIA brainwashing experiment, or a way to smuggle Heroin into the the United States? Was the assassination of congressman Leo Ryan done by the Peoples Temple or by the CIA? Hopefuly this will shed some light on fact and fiction, and what I believe is the truth of the Jonestown massacre. James Warren “Jim” Jones was the leader of the Peoples Temple cult and was the …show more content…

HE feared that people would look into the temple and threaten it. So nearly overnight he moved his entire movement, over a thousand people, overnight to Jonestown. Once there he played his voice on loudspeakers 24/7 and would convince everyone to give him everything they own, houses, savings, all of it. By This time he had always worn sunglasses in public, presumably to hide the fact he was perpetually high. He would also rape is subjects both after and before moving to Jonestown. Eventually Congressman Leo Ryan went to Jonestown to see what was happening and was shown a wonderful place but got notes that people wanted to leave but couldn’t. Some people decided to leave with him as he went to the US. A team of gunmen shot down everyone who was headed to the plane, soon after the mass suicide happened, Jones knew that there was no way out after killing a congressman, so he decided to end his project under his own terms. The known and indisputable facts of this incident are that 909 people died in Jonestown. Congressman Leo Ryan and a few others were killed as they were boarding an airplane to travel back to the United states from visiting Jonestown in Guyana. Jim Jones was the leader of the Peoples Temple and was in charge of Jonestown. Some people were saying they wanted to leave but were not allowed to. However with these facts comes a lot of gray area, and thus lots of theories

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