Jonestown

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Mass murderMass murderPort Kaituma, Guyana

 "suicide, mind control"
Jonestown link(murder, poisoning)

File:Jonestown massacre.jpg
Date	November 18, 1978
Location	Port Kaituma, Guyana
Type	Mass murder
Deaths	918
Injured (non-fatal)	11
Description	The People's Temple cult, in Jonestown, lead by Jim Jones. In 1978 hundreds of members were poisoned by drinking a cyanide laced drink.
Blamed on	Larry Layton

Jonestown was the site the death of almost all the members of the People's Temple cult lead by Jim Jones. Members were poisoned by drinking cyanide laced drink.

Origins

A 1978 issue of EIR notes that "As reported in the New York Times of Nov. 20, Jones's entry into Guyana was paved by numerous leading figures in the Democratic Party, including Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph Califano, California Governor Jerry Brown, Sen. Henry Jackson (D­ Wash.), and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone. All of these individuals issued letters of glowing praise for Jones's "charitable acts" and services to the Democratic Party."

"The articles According to federal records and on-the-scene observation, Jones was running drugs, illegal automatic and semi-automatic weapons, and other contraband on a sufficiently large scale to warrant his operation of a private fleet of pirate ships and a sophisticated pirate radio network."

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“One of the persistent problems in researching Jonestown is that it seems to lead to so many other criminal activities, each with its own complex history and cast of characters. Perhaps the most disturbing of these is the connection that appears repeatedly between the characters in the Jonestown story and the key people involved in the murder and investigating of Martin Luther King.”
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Legacy

The event lead to the phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid", although the drink may have been either Kool-Aid or Flavor-Aid. The name "Jonestown" is used to refer to disastrous mass psychosis events such as in stock markets.

Watch on YouTube

"The Truth About Jonestown", TheSOTTReport, which reviews connections between the CIA and the events at Jonestown.

Victims

Victims included Leo Ryan, a US congressman critical of the lack of oversight congress has on the Central Intelligence Agency.

Survivors

Mark Lane managed to escape the killing.

References