Jonestown Part 2: How Jim Jones rose to power within his Peoples Temple
Jones promoted social justice, racial and class equality and desegregation. But some of his former followers said he paid lip service to those ideas to lure people in.
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The more I read and learn about the 60s, the more thankful I am that I wasn't alive then.
@caligirl00
4 жыл бұрын
Really?? All this bigotry going on, Trump/Repub/Manson murders, what community is hit the worst with AUNT RONA! Hmmm
@superduck6456
4 жыл бұрын
Cali Girl What the heck are you even saying?
@JI-sg5uy
4 жыл бұрын
Cali Girl wow you’re idiot. Wake up fool
@suzanneforgione1018
4 жыл бұрын
Me too
@FriedAudio
4 жыл бұрын
@@caligirl00 "Trump/Repub/Manson murders" ?? YOU are an idiot.
I think People's Temple had the potential to be something big and great, but for some reason, Jones took the other road.
@chrislondo2683
4 жыл бұрын
Leslie Olson that’s a great cautionary quote from the documentary.
@deliriousmysterium8137
4 жыл бұрын
That's how much religion poisons the mind of human beings. Life enough is hard, then add demons and gods peoples to the mix, good luck in 2000 more years.
@yeonjundani
4 жыл бұрын
What Jim Jones stood for however, were satanic. The cult that stemmed from such beliefs is bad influence from the beginning. Those ideas he painted are sugar coated lies.
@yeonjundani
4 жыл бұрын
@@deliriousmysterium8137 You can't generalise religions to be like that. What Jim Jones stood for is a cult, it's not according to the Bible.
@JI-sg5uy
4 жыл бұрын
Socialism never works
This is why first impressions are often correct.
Under the right circumstances this man could have very easily been another Hitler.
@that21yearoldweedsmokingfa85
5 жыл бұрын
In a way he really was
@demekabrooks5758
5 жыл бұрын
True
@metaku397savionburnette6
5 жыл бұрын
He started from being a white version of Martin Luther king
@dillanmccants4642
5 жыл бұрын
Or, since he was communist, Stalin
@coldwarfare1429
5 жыл бұрын
Basically any dictator or psychopath
What a con-man! So much against capitalism, but that never prevented him to steal money from his congregation and to ask them to give him all their assets. What a despicable person
@joyr36
3 жыл бұрын
@CC Jim Jones admitted he was an atheist. It is on the FBI tapes. He said that he infiltrated the church to spread socialism and Marxism. He also used civil rights as a way to attract a crowd.
@joyr36
3 жыл бұрын
@CC Jim Jones stated that he did not have much luck with conservative Christians. A lot of people who knew their Bible figured him out and left the organization early on. You have to know what is in the Bible and not trust what everyone tells you. Some of Jones' followers came from churches, but did not know their Bible or check the Bible to see if Jones was telling the truth. Jones started preaching that God was not real and lost a lot more of his followers. He stated that 90% of his followers in Guyana was atheist and the others were the most liberal Christians that would believe anything he told them. He was actually making fun of them on one of the FBI tapes. I was a teenager when this happened. Our church pastor did a series of classes on cults and what to watch for. Just because something looks good on the outside does not mean that it is not rotten on the inside.
@eviken1982
10 ай бұрын
@@joyr36Except the Catholic Church is also a cult
@shaneabraham8360
9 ай бұрын
Honestly. That's for every socialist. They cry about inequality even though their net worth is millions of dollars. They're hypocrites. Also let's put in mind, that in order to make an egalitarian society or a socialist society possible, extortion needs to happen on, not just the rich, but also the poor and the middle class.
@shaneabraham8360
9 ай бұрын
@@joyr36 Wow. Honestly the moment he said believe in me, I realized that it was all about himself and not God.
I have an awful amount of respect for JIM JONES'S son. In another interview he said that he never mourned his father's death and was disgusted about his father murdering people. Imagine having to go thru all that he did. If i was in that situation is be in a basement injecting heroin into my vains. He also said he knew for a long long time his father was a crazy lunatic
@joyr36
3 жыл бұрын
I do too. His son was only 19 when the deaths happened. He lost his family except for his adopted brother and most of his friends. He wanted to stop his father but his father has guards that would have killed him. He even said that killing his father crossed his mind after the suicide drills started.
@no.1spectator39
2 жыл бұрын
Are you jim Jones son in disguise?? Coz I see you writing this all over the internet!!
@jacobtennyson9213
Жыл бұрын
@@joyr36 .. Jim Jones has a daughter that she quickly left him before He moved to Guyana.
Thinking of all the poor kind hearted people that were fooled by this man sickens me.
@AbeTheSigma007
3 жыл бұрын
They were not kind people. They were selfish Fools...
@wvu05
2 жыл бұрын
@@AbeTheSigma007 Selfish? Trying to feed the hungry and running early daycare centers is hardly the act of selfish people.
@psomichelle2758
2 жыл бұрын
@@AbeTheSigma007 yes, how dare they start college funds, provide clothes and food indiscriminately
@AbeTheSigma007
2 жыл бұрын
@@wvu05 Please. These people were very sick. And that’s that. It was an evil cult. Sickening.,,
@AbeTheSigma007
2 жыл бұрын
@@wvu05 and you may have something in common with that if you are so quick to defend it...
Jim jones was an evil genius , i am utterly fascinated by him and the peoples temple and that time period in the 60s
@joshuadurham1257
2 жыл бұрын
@Akim Smith guy
I live in Orange County, California near the world famous Saddleback Church, who's pastor is Rick Warren. I saw him in Walmart once; he had a smile pasted on his face but somehow creeped me out. I looked him up, and it turns out that he grew up in Ukiah around the time that People's Temple moved in. I could be wrong, but every time I've been invited to attend services, I politely decline.
@probunnysaavy7589
3 жыл бұрын
Yea, there were and are still a lot of cults in California back then: Disciples of Christ was a main line denomination--but went apostate, Charles Manson and other cults were in California then and now.
@Episcopalianacolyte
Жыл бұрын
You are not wrong.
He was sick from beginning and wanted to do it all along . It was in his mind ready to be set
@blaze2001
3 жыл бұрын
I'm starting to come to that conclusion too Garcia, like I think is no accident that he found himself attracted to the underdogs of society I.E. minorities. People no one would really miss. I don't think he geninuely cared for people he wanted to kill them from the very start. It wasn't the drugs!
@DaphneO.
3 жыл бұрын
@@blaze2001 I'm torn about it. It seemed like he had good intentions in the very beginning, he was forward-thinking about race and gender when those were foreign concepts. A switch flipped in him. I don't know if it was the drugs or the money or the crazy coming out.
@wvu05
2 жыл бұрын
@@DaphneO. Indeed. It seemed like there came a point where he cared more about power than about people, probably when he moved to San Francisco.
@bethcrumpton476
2 жыл бұрын
I've seen interviews with defectors who say that things didn't really get bad until they got to Guyana, and I've seen interviews with childhood friends of Jones's who basically say that he was born with a screw loose.
Scientology.
@jacobtennyson9213
Жыл бұрын
If you want to make money, start a religion.
Curse Be The Man That Put His Trust In Man❗
when someone says "people see christ or god in me", they need to be shut down anyway possible
@valentincuc998
4 жыл бұрын
Penelopi:everyone believes in anything ,but Religion is very confuse.
0:03 see the difference between his voice here and his final recording? Much clearer and slurred. Definitely shows he was on something when he told them all to "go to sleep. "
@dillanmccants4642
5 жыл бұрын
*Less slurred
@andrewhoyle1521
4 жыл бұрын
He absolutley was an addict for at least a yr b4 his death. Combine that with having obvious mental health problems is a recipe for disaster
@MrsP474
4 жыл бұрын
@@andrewhoyle1521 His drug addiction actually began in 1971.
@MrsP474
4 жыл бұрын
His voice during the interview on the final day is not even slurred, it's just slurred on the death tape. Must have been taking a combination of drugs throughout.
@andrewhoyle1521
4 жыл бұрын
@@MrsP474 I think u mean his drug taking began in 1971. By 78 he seemed to be a full in addict. And like all users it took time and b4 you know it ur addicted. Drugs certainly didnt help his already demented mind, and probably contributed to his declining health
To think pastors & bishops of mega churches in Africa are doing the "healing gospel" today and they have million of followers is mind bogling
He was demonic!
If this man is really a follower of God, he would point people to Jesus.
@nelsoncruz8191
3 жыл бұрын
Koh Angela - Amen, I agree. He should have been pointing people to Jesus. But he himself was lost.
@mariahyohannes
2 жыл бұрын
You don't have to be a Christian to be a good person 🙄
@yeonjundani
2 жыл бұрын
@@mariahyohannes A Christian would have a heart that is fully transformed inside out
@mariahyohannes
2 жыл бұрын
@@yeonjundani All Christians?🤔
@yeonjundani
2 жыл бұрын
@@mariahyohannesNo one is perfect, and there may always be black sheep in every community. But at least majority of Christians whose hearts are transformed would know what is the truth and real way, if they are truly delivered.
"Even Rosalynn Carter came to meet with him"...Sometimes I almost feel badly for Rosalynn Carter because she got her picture taken and was strongly associated with 2 of the biggest psychos of all time. John Waynn Gacy and Jim Jones. Through no fault of her own!
@probunnysaavy7589
3 жыл бұрын
Do not feel sorry for Roslyn. Her husband, the president told her to befriend Jim--probably for votes. Pres. Carter did not hing to stop the crime of hostage taking in Jonestown. Our gov't. did nothing to get the kids and elderly out.
@Cha-y412
Жыл бұрын
When Jim Jones Socialist terror tactics , stealing, and indrcent public exposure arrest , came to light the Carter administration stepped in to white wash them. No dont feel sorry for Roz.
When he told his followers that the place he chose in San Francisco was safe of radioactive fallout, there is no place on earth that is safe from fallout
There are con men in every side...
So were Charles Manson and Jim Jones in San Francisco at the same time?
@fallguye6011
4 жыл бұрын
They would've been around the same time. Jones was more after Manson, though.
He was a madman, just like those before him and the one's being born right now. They will always prey upon the weak, the unloved and lost.
People were so needy back in the 60’s and 70’s sick! Thank god im living in this time of life!
@deafpanda6061
3 жыл бұрын
Candigirl Morales shut up needy jerk
Very interesting, awesome video.
So not many people are commenting about cults or social justice... but instead mocking religion... makes sense
@borealphoto
5 жыл бұрын
Religion = cult.
@jimlawson7789
4 жыл бұрын
My mom was Catholic and my dad was Mormon, by the age of 10 I could see they both had major flaws. Christianity had no problem with slavery for centuries yet people pray for safe travel or a football game. If Christ or God had no problem with someone selling another human being, do you think Christ or God cares about your trip or the SMU football game on Sunday.
@midnightsun24c7
3 жыл бұрын
When a small number of people go awol its a cult. When its the whole town its a religion
@Yessentuki4
3 жыл бұрын
@@borealphoto oh...so social justice = cult too, so all of the different words, are actually the same to you? 👌
@Yessentuki4
3 жыл бұрын
@@jimlawson7789 Christianity never supported slavery... just like homosexuality. Let me guess, now that some claim to be gay "christians", it's Christianity fault?? The Bible still says what it says despite what you decide to believe...
THIS GUY WAS FAKER THEN A 3 DOLLAR BILL WTF LMFAOO 😭🤣😭👆🏃♂️🏃♂️😅😅😅😅
He’d be huge today.
6:34 min - "He tries to control people in all sorts of bizarre ways". So true.
Powers Boothe gave a incredible performance as Jones...his onscreen charisma was off the charts... showing the power and seduction of evil wrapped in a package of " goodness ".
How in Hell do you get someone to sign a document that reads they molested their own child!!!!
@akemus9788
3 жыл бұрын
They signed blank papers, after that he typed on these papers whatever offense he wants.
@skyjuiceification
3 жыл бұрын
U would be surprised what u can get the simple minded to eat.
So if he got people to follow him to Ukiah because it was safe from nuclear attack how did he get them to go to San Francisco which is one of the Soviets closest targets?
This is what the jezebel spirit looks like in a man... Interestingly, some believe that men who have it, tend to not live very long...
@lovelysosweet8386
4 жыл бұрын
Amen!
Oral Roberts did the same faith healing bull. I remember watching it on TV.
@msrain1235
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, me too! Also he said that he would die if he didn't get a certain amount of money. He had a man give it to him.
@golden8972
3 жыл бұрын
Yep. Read "Ashes To Gold" by Patti Roberts. His first daughter-in-law.
I like to hear from the people who were there and experience it. Not from people like authors who weren't there and writing books basically profiting off the peoples tragedies and sufferings 😢 #NotCool
@eamonsherris-watt6118
4 жыл бұрын
By that logic any book about war is profiting off of people's tragedies and sufferings. The people who made this documentary are "profiting off of their tragedies" because they'll be paid for their work. What you're saying makes absolutely no sense. People who study an event closely and write about it should be paid for their work because they spent the time to do all of that, that's how our economy works. And maybe some of the people who experienced the cult don't want to relive some of the worst moments of their lives. Does that make sense?
Where do I find darkness demons' light eyes caught on video at Jim Jones church? Thanks.
They used the same intro clip for their Charles Manson family segment.
@joemartin1253
5 жыл бұрын
Gillian Broadway Jim Jones made Charles Manson look like a choir boy.
@johnzeszutko5661
3 жыл бұрын
What if that Manson hooked up with Jim Jones! It would be the Devil's Duo!
omg I live 5 minutes away from redwood valley
@MrSteveo114
4 жыл бұрын
So does lots of people, your point?
What if someone really was severely ill? How would Jones heal them?
@user-sr7tn5vd4d
2 ай бұрын
He couldn't even heal himself it was bull
I can see similarities between Jim Jones and the Church of Scientology.
Jim Jones was was a physio !!!!!!
It seems so gross to me that one human being would have more than the other, but he stole millions from his people i.e houses welfare payments from the state for foster children in his care, social security checks.
@chrismelton165
4 жыл бұрын
That was what he preached about capitalism, but he sure lived off of capitalism. He was a hypocrite, plain and simple.
Before Donald Trump there was Jim Jones.
Jim Jones reappeared in the House right now.
@mrrobot8973
5 жыл бұрын
longho c’mon he’s not that bad
@gandolfgrey4928
3 жыл бұрын
Trump is not a jim jones. Grow the heck up
@Anarcho-SyndicalisticSaboteur
3 жыл бұрын
Aged not very well, huh ? Trump is the same bs.
"a real con man instead of a religious leader" Oh the irony of that statement. 5:21
@edwardbattle4456
2 жыл бұрын
You know what thank you these mfker are really insane
Damn I guess Heaven's Gate wasn't so bad lol
@c.costanza1145
2 жыл бұрын
Lmao
People are still falloing for this kind of stuff,, NO MAN CAN LEAD YOU TO GOD! YOU must get closer to GOD yourself... people please stop falling for this non-sense.. especially black people.. stop letting people make a fool out of you in the name of GOD..
@apriljones1145
4 жыл бұрын
Rob Whiteleo...please. White folks are huge cult followers...don't kid yourself. EVERYONE need to use common sense!
@mind_control_really_sucks_
4 жыл бұрын
Recently saw a video of a preacher having people throw money at his body while he was “dying” on the floor so he could be saved
1:46 is a beauty
@yowaddup5649
4 жыл бұрын
Well,she ded now
"He had a message of social inclusion that jived with the politics of the hour." Literally girls are being forced to change in front of boys who are confused by their sexuality to be more "inclusive." What a chilling documentary.
@midnightsun24c7
3 жыл бұрын
Don't confuse hyper religious psychopathic nonsense for intellectual secular democratic socialism. He was a tyrant to his own people. They had no choices over the rules. He was deranged
@Wh40kFinatic
7 ай бұрын
Those who follow Trump are literally in a cult. A cult of personality.
@laptinek5753
6 ай бұрын
@@midnightsun24c7 lol he was a communist and all communist countries have a history of oppression and murder of their own people by the millions just as he imulated
They well be many of them well come in my name.... Jesus quote🙏
Great place in California and raise from the golden sunshine of a sun.
looks like prophet owour in kenya borrowed some ideas from this guy
Peter pop off is Jim jones protege
@shannonsmith1522
5 жыл бұрын
Yes! with the miiiiiracle spring water that is suppost to heal you.. pfft... sounds like him too..
3:50 THIS is what happens to New People when they 1st attend an MLM Conventions & Events. They're ''SOLD'' by the LEADERS that they've found the BEST THING since sliced bread!!!
I char heard about it, it was so sad.
Documented proof that organized religion in the wrong hands leads to nothing but tragedy
1:50 don’t forget about acid
A Must Watch 👉 KZread video > "Rome Never Forgot The Hebrews" Q&A Jonestown👆
This guy looks like Phil swift from flex tape
5:31-5:33 (1971) Around that same year , he started doing heavy drugs when before he wasn't
Reason he left .. no one can be a prophet in his own lands
Can anybody tell me the name of the secretary who "stood up out of the wheelchair and walked."
@David_R922
3 жыл бұрын
She looked chunky. I thought Jim Jones had hot young women as his secretaries.
Whats with serial killers and cult leaders and Rosalynn Carter
@andrewhoyle1521
4 жыл бұрын
JOHN WAYNE GACY. right??
It succeeded in a nation where thousand denominations flourished.
Feels the the inspiration for far cry 5 lol
When some one is in power that person will do anything you will like it or not never trust no one believed me always look at your back
Looks as if all the folks at Jonestown liked to work. Reckon Brother Jones knew that an idle mind is the Devil's workshop - seems like anyway.
2:22 not to mention radically militant
His son very great man..
Jim Jong Il
Video full of talk, talk, talk. Please, you keep it.
He said he had cavern in the mountains did anyone check that place
Pawn to a queen
I wonder how his tavern deep into the mountains is doing?
@mwilliamshs
2 жыл бұрын
Cavern
Sick
Yes he use control, and play with there mind . Wgat you belive id what you get .
He sound like the mormon youtuber the icethcometh.
Where Jim Jones failed is where a real church could succeed The people hit Jonestown anticipation paradise. But in fact they should anticipation hard work faith and discipline.
And this shit continues today wtf!!!
This dude used to beg for money by ... the CHURCH !!
this was just like israyl hawkins from the house of yahweh in abilene texas
The house of yahweh in abilene texas is the same way
THE MANDINKMAN !!!!
jones was an atheist who thought religious people were fools
David koresh
Men and power-Uff!
If Jim Jones were still alive people would probably want him to be president in America
@ElizaWebbg
Жыл бұрын
He had more charisma than falling asleep at the podium and talking about roaches, so why not
Happy I'm not naive and dumb enough to ever be apart of a cult of any kind.
Isaiah 53:5, But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes, we are healed.For salvation, people just need to follow the way they did it in Acts? They were baptized in the water and of the spirit. Here's why! The gospel is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. If we are to follow him, we must do the same thing. Death= repentance, Burial = baptism, and resurrection = being filled with the Holy Ghost and rising again from the dead. That's what Acts 2:38 is.We must obey the gospel, 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL of our Lord Jesus Christ... Matthew 7:21-23, Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that DOETH THE WILL OF MY FATHER which is in Heaven. St John 3:3-5, EXCEPT a man be born of WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, he cannot enter into the kingdom of GOD.We can't come up with our own gospel. Galatians 1:8-9, But though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Don't be cursed. One way for all people. Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritan. Our salvation has to match-up with the scriptures and no scriptures on the subject can be taken away.Eternity is TOOO long to be WRONG! st, John 5:39, Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.God told Noah exactly how to be saved, how he must build the ark. Noah didn't come up with his own plan like people are doing today. A sinner's prayer, you just have to believe, etc which is not in the bible.The gospels show what Christ has done on the cross for us. The book of Acts shows us the beginning of Christ's Church and how to enter the Church, obeying Acts 2:38. The letters were written to the Church to show us how to behave now that we are born again into the Church.It's better to walk alone than to walk with a crowd going in the wrong direction. Are we supposed to follow the teachings of the apostles? Acts 2:42, They continued steadfastly in the apostle's doctrines. Ephesians 2:20, We are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. If you believe in this message, help spread it in the name of Jesus Christ. God bless.
how did jim jones die?
@jacobtennyson9213
Жыл бұрын
He killed himself.
the Manson murders and Alamont Rolling Stones concert killed the 60s,hippie movement.
@IsmailofeRegime
5 жыл бұрын
Jones didn't really have anything to do with the hippie movement. He got his start in rural Indiana, most of his followers were working-class or impoverished Blacks, and being caught taking drugs (or even smoking and drinking) could get you severely punished.
He was a free mason that's how tell truth
Freaky he has 666 likes
Yes, and it will continue to be "terribly" social. Get over it. How is Trump different from that? He also tries to appeal to the masses.
When you have a problem... FACE it... ACCEPT it... REASON it....and MANAGE it... if you blindly just rely on those who you believe have magical power to SAVE you.... well...you DUMB wrong !!!
Badass False prophets 😤☹️😈
This sounds like the jehovahs jehovahs witnesses and masonic elks, moose, lyons and elon musk and tesla fidelity insurance .
A Igreja Universal apresenta as mesmas características que este culto. Doutrina e extorque dinheiro de seus fiéis, enquanto o Pastor Edir Macedo fica cada vez mais rico!
A charlatan
Same ol mess just pressure cooked
I'm spiderman