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Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown - Hulu
Posted on 6/23/24 at 9:37 pm
Posted on 6/23/24 at 9:37 pm
Damn. I almost didn’t watch this because I thought I’d seen, read and heard everything about the Jim Jones massacre (the commie socialist mass murderer), but this is a ton of footage and audio from the events. Very well laid out. 3 part mini.
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Posted on 6/23/24 at 10:52 pm to Havoc
I like the old lady who was like frick that and hid under the bed.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 8:29 am to sqerty
As sad as this was, I did chuckle at the final FU to the US by giving the Soviet Embassy all his cash
Posted on 6/24/24 at 3:01 pm to Havoc
I'll have to take a look at this. I worked with a guy whose aunt was one of the ones who drank the flavor aide. He never went into much detail about the whole thing, but he said the reality of it was more fricked up than anyone could imagine. I don't know if he meant there was a lot that wasn't generally known to the public or what; I didn't dig. I suspect, though, that as a family member he knew more about things that happened in the cult than what is generally known.
This post was edited on 6/24/24 at 3:03 pm
Posted on 6/25/24 at 1:40 am to TheFonz
Just finished watching it. Fantastic documentary and very creepy. I still think one of the strangest things about all of it that most people don’t realize was that like 80-90% of the cult members were black. A weird cult in the jungle with suicide rehearsals led by a crazy arse white dude is just so against everything that most African Americans would want to be a part of that I can’t believe people didn’t revolt against Jones when he started getting more abusive. I understand the time period and his work in the Civil Rights Movement was what roped a lot of people in but I just can’t wrap my head around the whole thing.
This post was edited on 6/25/24 at 1:51 am
Posted on 6/25/24 at 10:08 am to lsudave1
Jim Jones' political connections interest me. I didn't know his level of connection. Meetings with Mondale and Rosalynn Carter. Praise from Harvey Milk. Appointed Chair of SF Housing Authority Commission by George Moscone. Jim Jones wasn't just some low level random psycho.
And hearing the children crying in the background of the audio recording just fricks me up for awhile. I just can't even fathom murdering a child.
And hearing the children crying in the background of the audio recording just fricks me up for awhile. I just can't even fathom murdering a child.
Posted on 6/25/24 at 1:44 pm to Havoc
Seeing footage of all of those bodies sprawled out on the ground shook me up as a kid. The whole thing was creepy as hell.
Posted on 6/25/24 at 9:21 pm to Havoc
Just finished part 2, still need to watch the finale. I always thought that it was some kind of celebration and the people didn't realize what they were drinking until it was too late.
I never knew that he was very transparent about what he was telling them to do, and they drank it (relatively) willingly.
I never knew that he was very transparent about what he was telling them to do, and they drank it (relatively) willingly.
Posted on 6/25/24 at 11:24 pm to TigerFanatic99
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I never knew that he was very transparent about what he was telling them to do, and they drank it (relatively) willingly.
This is the part that blows my mind. It just defies logic and the basic human will of survival. I can see where there may be a handful of people that are mentally unstable and would kill themselves because they truly believed all the wacky paranoid shite that Jim Jones was saying about the US government coming to punish them but the fact that it was nine fricking hundred people is just unfathomable. Even in the audio that one lady said that she disagrees and believes that the children at the compound deserve to live and she gets shouted down by the congregation.
This post was edited on 6/25/24 at 11:27 pm
Posted on 6/26/24 at 5:59 am to lsudave1
This craziness happened less than 50 years ago. Think how insane and fanatical people were millennia ago when the figures associated with the major world religions supposedly lived.
Yeah, Jesus walked on water and rose from the dead. No doubt.
Yeah, Jesus walked on water and rose from the dead. No doubt.
Posted on 6/26/24 at 8:31 am to Globetrotter747
Is there any other way to watch this without Hulu?
Posted on 6/26/24 at 9:44 am to genuineLSUtiger
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Seeing footage of all of those bodies sprawled out on the ground shook me up as a kid. The whole thing was creepy as hell.
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And hearing the children crying in the background of the audio recording just fricks me up for awhile. I just can't even fathom murdering a child.
This 100%. And the dead dogs...WTF
Posted on 6/26/24 at 1:56 pm to GetCocky11
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I like the old lady who was like frick that and hid under the bed.
Hyacinth Thrash. There's a book narrated by her called The Onliest One Alive
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Jim Jones' political connections interest me. I didn't know his level of connection. Meetings with Mondale and Rosalynn Carter. Praise from Harvey Milk. Appointed Chair of SF Housing Authority Commission by George Moscone. Jim Jones wasn't just some low level random psycho.
Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco discusses all of this. Harvey Milk was a sick depraved piece of shite, contrary to what a lot of people would lead you to believe.
I've read quite a few books about Peoples Temple and Seductive Poison by Deborah Layton is the best first person account of living in Jonestown that I've read.
Posted on 6/26/24 at 3:50 pm to GetCocky11
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Jim Jones' political connections interest me. I didn't know his level of connection. Meetings with Mondale and Rosalynn Carter. Praise from Harvey Milk. Appointed Chair of SF Housing Authority Commission by George Moscone. Jim Jones wasn't just some low level random psycho.
Someone correct me if I am off base, but cults weren't viewed in the 60s and 70s like they are today. There wasn't as much of a stigma, and it was much more mainstream. All kinds of cults popped up in those decades, and in some cases government supported them.
Posted on 6/26/24 at 5:19 pm to Funky Tide 8
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Someone correct me if I am off base, but cults weren't viewed in the 60s and 70s like they are today. There wasn't as much of a stigma, and it was much more mainstream. All kinds of cults popped up in those decades, and in some cases government supported them.
Seems like it. But that people then didn’t know what to make of them and just considered them harmless weirdos. Then Manson did his thing and people started freaking out.
As a kid in the 80s I remember there was growing discussions about the characteristics of the more dangerous cults.
Posted on 6/26/24 at 9:58 pm to Havoc
Watching and i see a bunch of 1970's white liberal social justice warriors doing what Jim Jones tells them. Nothing has changed acting like they care about black people but hey drink this purple kool-aid. 
Posted on 6/27/24 at 12:19 am to FLBooGoTigs1
But that’s the crazy thing I pointed out earlier in the thread that I still can’t comprehend. Most of his congregation was black. I cannot believe they all listened to him and killed themselves.
This post was edited on 6/27/24 at 12:20 am
Posted on 6/27/24 at 5:30 am to Globetrotter747
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Think how insane and fanatical people were millennia ago when the figures associated with the major world religions supposedly lived.
I don't think that they were very different than we are today.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 5:33 am to lsudave1
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But that’s the crazy thing I pointed out earlier in the thread that I still can’t comprehend. Most of his congregation was black. I cannot believe they all listened to him and killed themselves.
You keep saying this. Are you under the impression that black people don't have wacko religious beliefs?
Posted on 6/27/24 at 8:22 am to Mo Jeaux
the people’s temple was a political party/organization draped in religious curtains for tax purposes. It had very little to do with religion and very much to do with social engineering
the idea of presumed avoidance of political persecution and devotion to a charismatic demagogue is not unique to skin color. Look around you today…
the idea of presumed avoidance of political persecution and devotion to a charismatic demagogue is not unique to skin color. Look around you today…
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