据报道,1978年11月18日,美国邪教头目吉姆·琼斯(JimJones)命令他的追随者饮用掺有氰化物的调味饮料自杀,造成包括吉姆·琼斯在内的918人丧生,这是20多年后的2001年9·11袭击之前,美国最大的一次非战争人员生命损失。 900多人在圭亚那的Jonestown大院自杀 是什么原因让吉姆琼斯选择自杀,又是什么原因让这么多人愿意听...
Jim Jones, American cult leader who proclaimed himself messiah of an evangelist group named the Peoples Temple. He led his followers to the South American country of Guyana and eventually ordered them to drink a cyanide-laced beverage as part of a mass m
Jonestown, location of the mass murder-suicide of the California-based Peoples Temple cult at the behest of their charismatic but paranoid leader, Jim Jones, in Jonestown agricultural commune, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. The death toll exceeded 900, ma
We had heard a remarkably similar story from the dissenting survivors. Jim Jones had promised that anyone who left Jonestown would be tracked down and killed. And yet, leaders of the organization had left in the midst of the suicides. They had with them a suitcase containing...
This was the first allegation of CIA involvement in the Jonestown incident. According to Anderson, both Richard Dwyer and Jim Jones had ties to the CIA, with Dwyer's ties dating to at least 1959; when quizzed directly about this alleged CIA involvement, Dwyer responded "no comment." At one...
Jones also claimed to be the father of Grace Stoen's son John Victor. Jones also sought to disrupt familial bonds, positioning himself as the "father of all." Trouble at Jonestown In 1974, Jones bought land in Guyana, a state in northern South America, to develop into a new home for ...
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This was the first allegation of CIA involvement in the Jonestown incident. According to Anderson, both Richard Dwyer and Jim Jones had ties to the CIA, with Dwyer's ties dating to at least 1959; when quizzed directly about this alleged CIA involvement, Dwyer responded "no comment." ...
Jim Jones Net Worth After the collapse of the Jonestown cult in 1978, Jones and his followers fled to Indiana. By 1991, he and several of his followers were placed in mental hospitals. As of 2011, Jim Jones was worth $1.1 billion, and hisnet worthhas gone up to an estimated $1.47 ...
Jones eventually relocated to Guyana in July 1977. In December 1977, his mother Lynetta Jones died at Jonestown.In 1978, a group of ex-members calling themselves the Committee of Concerned Relatives published literature that likened Jonestown to a concentration camp, complete with torture. Jones ...