Short documentaries don't adequately depict how it really was. We were getting news of Jonestown (whatever that was) 🤷♀️ just a little here and a little there over the course of days, starting with the news that American Congressman, Leo Ryan had been murdered in Guyana, South America.
Then gradually, like an unending nightmare that stretched on for days, weeks then years, we gradually started getting the full picture.
This video is footage from American nightly news broadcasts as we all learned together the facts of what happened and why history has named the events, "The Guyana Tragedy of the Jonestown Massacre".
And if you think all those hundreds of people just quietly and happily "drank the Kool-aid" you are WRONG!
Their hundreds of children were killed first by lethal injection or by squirting poisoned grape juice into their mouths with squirt guns. Then the parents willingly followed them into a "death with dignity".
I remember them carrying out of Jonestown dozens of body bags no bigger than a small duffle bag because it housed a baby or small child.
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It is hard to know how many Cults there were in the 1970s, because most were small and hidden. But since Jonestown people have been keeping track.
According to the "International Cultic Studies Association" they have estimated there are about 10,000 "New Religious Movements" (modern word for cult) just in America. Some are completely online, many masquerading as something wonderful, helpful and Divinely inspired, ALL deceptive and dangerous.
The (sometims harsh)
Truth with Love,
Always Laura-Lee
In the end they
discovered Jones had
🔴 Ties to the Soviet Union
🔴 Was Gun Running in South America
🔴 Was using both female and male Church members as "concubines" for authorities in Guyana (even the American Ambassador there) and authorities in America to keep the People's Temple from being investigated.
🔴 The State Department was well aware of Jone's activities but it took just one Congressman concerned that some of his constituents were being held against their will in South America to bring the whole thing to its tragic conclusion.
I can't help but wonder if everyone would still be alive if authorities hadn't been corrupt and had acted sooner.
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For those of you even bolder to know the Truth (and who have a strong constitution), I recommend you listen to "The Jonestown Death Tape". Approximately 44 minutes long, these are the reel to reel audio tapes of what happened during the moments Jim Jones was trying to convince those 906 people to kill themselves.
When it was all over, Jim Jones blew his brains out.
Available everywhere. Spotify. Apple Music. YouTube.
