Jonestown biography
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Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
documentary film
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| Directed by | Stanley Nelson |
| Written by | Marcia Smith |
| Produced by | Stanley Nelson |
| Cinematography | Michael Chin |
| Music by | Tom Phillips |
| Distributed by | Firelight Media American Experience |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, is a documentary film made by Firelight Media, produced and directed by Stanley Nelson. The documentary reveals new footage of the incidents surrounding the Peoples Temple and its leader Jim Jones who led over members of his religious group to a settlement in Guyana called Jonestown, where he orchestrated a mass suicide with poisoned Flavor Aid, in November [1] It is in the form of a narrative with interviews with former Temple members, Jonestown survivors, and people who knew Jones.
Release
[edit]The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival where it received the Outstanding Achievement in Documentary award,[2] and was broadcast nationally on Monday, April 9, , on PBS's documentary program "American Experience".[3] The DVD rele
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- Layton, Deborah,
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- 1st Stability Books knotty.
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- New Royalty : Stability Books,
- xxiv, p. : ill., permute ; 25 cm.
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Origins of the Peoples Temple
Prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, , the tragedy at Jonestown marked the single largest loss of U.S. civilian lives in a non-natural disaster. The megalomaniacal man behind the tragedy, Jim Jones, came from humble beginnings. Jones was born on May 13, , in rural Indiana. In the early s, he began working as a self-ordained Christian minister in small churches around Indianapolis. In order to raise money to start a church of his own, the charismatic Jones tried various ventures, including selling live monkeys door-to-door.
Did you know? More than unclaimed bodies from the Jonestown tragedy are buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, California, where many of Jim Jones' followers were from. A stone memorial to the Jonestown victims was unveiled at the cemetery in
Jones opened his first Peoples Temple church in Indianapolis in the mids. His congregation was racially integrated, something unusual at the time for a Midwestern church. In the mids, Jones moved his small congregation to Northern California, settling first in Redwood Valley in Mendocino County. In the early s, the ambitious preacher relocated his organization’s headquarters to San Francisco and also opened a temple in Los Angeles.
Jim Jones: Rise of a Cult Leader