Escaping from Jonestown

Did anyone see this documentary with the CNN… all I can say I was shocked .. mass murder/suicude of 900 people because one Idiot thought that he had the right too.

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(CNN) – On November 18, 1978, more than 900 people died in a mass murder-suicide at Jonestown, a cult commune in Guyana.

Its leader, the Rev. Jim Jones, called himself God. He persuaded followers to kill their children first and then drink fruit punch laced with cyanide. Of the nearly 1,000 church members who were present at the start of that day, only 33 survived.

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yes omg i read all about this last year for sociology class, and i was soo shocked! it was bizzarre how he was able to persuade them all to leave their homes and move away and then the power he exercised over them..nuts. absolutely nuts.

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I have seen the movie, many years ago. It was horrible, horrible.

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That was part of California's "liberal" ideas... sad indeed.