The audio is even more terrifying. You can hear the kids/babies screaming in the background for a while until they go silent, while dick head jones rambles on about nonsense.
It was not a cult suicide, most of the people you see here were murdered.
It all began when Congressman Leo Ryan flew in to check up on the people and make sure they were safe. Some asked him to help take them home. He then traveled back to the airstrip with several of the “defectors”, and this is when the Jonestown guards intercepted and assassinated them out of fear of what Ryan would tell people back in the US.
The assassination was immediately seen as a point of no return, and this is when Jones ordered everybody to be rounded up at gun point and forced to drink poison.
It is thought that during lunch earlier that day everyone was served grilled cheese sandwiches laced with sedatives, which apparently was a common practice at the camp. This is why people could not fight back during what happened next.
The initial group of people who drank the poison did not believe it was poison. This is because they were previously asked to drank “fake” poison many times as a show of trust and loyalty, so many thought it was yet another drill. Some of the first to drink the poison were the children.
As the first group of poisoned people began dying, panic gripped the crowd as this is when they finally realized it was for real. Jones’s most loyal armed guards surrounded the pavilion. Many of the parents had already been distraught by then after watching their children die, while the rest were given the choice of either taking the poison by their own hand or being murdered by the guards. Those who took the poison were escorted out of the pavilion, which is why we see bodies piled up outside in the photo. The rest were executed by gunfire.
There is a tape recording of what happened. In the tape, you can hear people pleading for their lives amidst the screaming.
Some were able to flee into the jungle, which is how we have eyewitness testimony.
Apparently, many people were seen walking around in a daze amidst the death around them, partially in shock and partially because they were likely under sedation from lunchtime.
Eventually, the guards themselves committed suicide, and then Jones shot himself.
To call this a mass suicide is not truly representative of what happened. It was a mass murder. Although some absolutely did commit suicide willingly, the vast majority of these people did not want to die.
Buzzlightbeer666 on May 10th, 2024 at 19:28 UTC »
The audio is even more terrifying. You can hear the kids/babies screaming in the background for a while until they go silent, while dick head jones rambles on about nonsense.
CIMARUTA on May 10th, 2024 at 19:28 UTC »
909 people. Insane.
SyrioForel on May 10th, 2024 at 19:36 UTC »
It was not a cult suicide, most of the people you see here were murdered.
It all began when Congressman Leo Ryan flew in to check up on the people and make sure they were safe. Some asked him to help take them home. He then traveled back to the airstrip with several of the “defectors”, and this is when the Jonestown guards intercepted and assassinated them out of fear of what Ryan would tell people back in the US.
The assassination was immediately seen as a point of no return, and this is when Jones ordered everybody to be rounded up at gun point and forced to drink poison.
It is thought that during lunch earlier that day everyone was served grilled cheese sandwiches laced with sedatives, which apparently was a common practice at the camp. This is why people could not fight back during what happened next.
The initial group of people who drank the poison did not believe it was poison. This is because they were previously asked to drank “fake” poison many times as a show of trust and loyalty, so many thought it was yet another drill. Some of the first to drink the poison were the children.
As the first group of poisoned people began dying, panic gripped the crowd as this is when they finally realized it was for real. Jones’s most loyal armed guards surrounded the pavilion. Many of the parents had already been distraught by then after watching their children die, while the rest were given the choice of either taking the poison by their own hand or being murdered by the guards. Those who took the poison were escorted out of the pavilion, which is why we see bodies piled up outside in the photo. The rest were executed by gunfire.
There is a tape recording of what happened. In the tape, you can hear people pleading for their lives amidst the screaming.
Some were able to flee into the jungle, which is how we have eyewitness testimony.
Apparently, many people were seen walking around in a daze amidst the death around them, partially in shock and partially because they were likely under sedation from lunchtime.
Eventually, the guards themselves committed suicide, and then Jones shot himself.
To call this a mass suicide is not truly representative of what happened. It was a mass murder. Although some absolutely did commit suicide willingly, the vast majority of these people did not want to die.