All language subtitles for Jonestown Terror in the jungle_track3_eng

[birds singing,
somber music playing]

[male reporter]
Good evening.
Here's what's happening.

We're interrupting
our special broadcasting

to bring you
this special report.

[male reporter]
Yesterday afternoon,

five Americans
were shot down

by other Americans

on the airstrip
at Port Kaituma, Guyana.

[gunfire and static]

One of the dead,

Representative Leo Ryan
of California.

[camera clicking]

They'd gone
to investigate a cult

called the Peoples Temple,
headed by a man

known as
the Reverend Jim Jones,

and they were killed
by members of that cult.

Appalling as that was,
it did not prepare us

for what was to follow.

What you're
about to see

almost defies description,

and some of you
may not want to watch it.

♪♪

[male reporter]
Nine hundred ten died

in the poison ritual
of the Peoples Temple.

The word on everybody's lips
was shades of Auschwitz.

[male reporter]
They found tremendous
quantities

of potassium cyanide poison
mixed with Kool-Aid.

[male reporter]
The bodies seemed awful
and orderly,

not flung about like
corpses after a battle,

but neat, hand in hand
sometimes,

arms about
each other's shoulders.

♪♪

[male reporter]
Jones' victims

were our brothers
and sisters.

What was it
that caused them to leave

their Christian churches
and join Jones?

[male reporter]
Why in the world
would so many people

agree to kill themselves?

♪♪

You have never met a man
like Jim Jones before.

[Jim Jones]
I am here!

The spirit of Christ
to set you free!

To deliver you
from your captivity.

[Jordan Vilchez]
Jim was really captivating.

He had this way of really
reaching into your emotions.

[Laura Johnston Kohl]
The community that
he had developed

in Peoples Temple was what
I'd been looking for all along.

[Vernon Gosney]
It was full of life.

There was a message
of equality for all people.

[Jim Jones Jr.]
You're going all over
the country,

taking the message of God

and carrying it out
to the masses.

♪♪

[static hiss]

The more power he got,
the darker the story got.

[Stephan Jones]
What my father was doing
was building

a little kingdom for himself.

Your whole life, it was all
based around the church.

[Leslie Wagner-Wilson]
There was a consequence
to any infraction.

[Jim Jones]
You punk! You damn
gangland punk!

We were gonna be hunted down
and killed if we ever left.

There is something
seriously wrong here.

The leader has lost his mind.

People are being held here
against their will.

You bring those
kids back here!

This dark side...

[Jim Jones]
Let's just be done with it.

Let's be done with
the agony of it.

...will expand
and expand...

[Jim Jones]
Hurry, my children, hurry.

...until finally it explodes
in the Guyanese jungle.

♪♪

[dramatic music]

♪♪

♪♪

[male reporter]
The survivors of the
Jonestown suicide murders

were met by friends,
relatives,

and a handful of Peoples Temple
members from San Francisco.

[woman sobbing]

Oh, no!

♪♪

[male reporter]
One of the biggest mysteries

in the Jonestown story is,

what kind of a leader
could order mass suicide

and be obeyed?

Who was Jim Jones
that grown-ups

would kill themselves
and their children for him?

[overlapping chatter]

[Gosney]
I think there's an opinion

that these people that
went down there were off,

they were a little crazy,

they, um...
they weren't like us...

♪♪

when all they were were people
who wanted a better life

and thought that they
were gonna get it

and worked
damn hard to get it.

♪♪

[Gosney]
Before joining
the Peoples Temple,

I was a teenager.

♪♪

Just kind of a little lost soul
floating around.

♪♪

I was in
an interracial relationship.

My first wife
was African American.

Our relationship was not
embraced by family,

either hers or mine.

♪♪

Sheryl and I were kind of
out in the world by ourself.

We had no support system
whatsoever

and felt very
isolated in the world,

and when we walked
into that temple,

it was full of... life.

♪♪

[congregants singing gospel
music and clapping rhythmically]

♪♪

[congregants singing]

[Gosney]
Everyone was, uh...
was singing.

It was very alive,
it was very up,

and, you know,
people dancing in the spirit.

[singing and rhythmic
clapping continuing]

♪♪

We were embraced
as an interracial couple,

and there was a message
of inclusivity.

There was a message
of equality for all people.

[congregants applauding]

[Wagner-Wilson]
People were passionate,
people were engaged.

They were talking about
that there was

this injustice in the world
and, you know, discrimination,

and so that moved me.

♪♪

I ended up in Peoples Temple

because my sister got involved
in heavy drugs,

and my mother just
not knowing where to turn.

So a friend of hers
told her,

there's this church that has
a drug rehab program for youth.

I felt like I was a-- a part
of this incredible community

that put self aside because
there was a greater good,

and the greater good
was to ensure

that babies didn't
go to bed hungry,

that there was equality
for everyone.

I liked that.
I liked the thought

that I could actually
make a difference.

♪♪

[Tim Carter]
The first time I went
to a Peoples Temple meeting,

as soon as I walked in the door,
I felt like I was home.

♪♪

In the summer of '66,
I volunteered to go to Vietnam.

I was 19 years old

and it really messed
with my head.

When I was discharged
from the Marine Corps,

I didn't really know
what to do with myself.

I was searching
spiritually.

The Peoples Temple was
a perfect kind of synthesis

of what I was feeling
at the time,

spiritually and politically.

♪♪

And I still hadn't
even met Jim Jones yet.

[man]
There is, in fact,
somebody to respond

any time there is a need...

...the man who is, in fact,
the Peoples Temple.

Let me present to you,
Reverend Jim Jones.

[congregants cheering]

♪♪

[congregant]
That's right!

[congregant]
Right!

[congregants]
Amen!

[congregants]
Yes!

[congregants]
Yes!

[congregants cheering]

♪♪

[Vilchez]
Jim was really captivating.

As a child, I just thought,
wow, here's a man

who has this speaking ability
that is dynamic.

♪♪

[Carter]
Think of Martin Luther King
at his best,

in terms of oratory, you know,
and that's who Jones was.

♪♪

[congregants cheering]

[Vilchez]
He had this way of really
reaching your emotions.

He would address each,
kind of, grouping

within Peoples Temple
to get us engaged.

If you wanted him
to be a minister,

he would talk
about the Bible.

If you wanted him
to be political,

he was absolutely
gonna include that.

♪♪

Yes.

And then there was
this other aspect

that we had never seen,
and that was the healings.

♪♪

♪♪

[congregants cheering]

Oh, yes!
It's really true.

[congregants shouting
and cheering]

♪♪

[Vilchez]
The idea that someone could call
someone out of the audience,

know about them,

and then heal them
of some ailment,

that was amazing.

I've never seen
anything like that.

[congregants cheering]

♪♪

During the course of my time
at the Peoples Temple,

I witnessed many,
many, many healings.

Come forth, my dear.

Stand up.

Take that step.
Take that step.

Move forward.
Move forward.

Walk briskly.
Walk, walk.

[congregants cheering]

[man]
Even though I'm a skeptic,
I had to be convinced

because what's real is real,
what I could see, I could see.

He said, "In the name
of Christ, you're healed!"

And my pain was gone.

And now,
a year and a half later,

it's still gone,
and I praise God for that.

[congregants cheering]

♪♪

[Carter]
I'd been waiting all
this time since Vietnam

to contribute my energies
to something that I felt

was actually doing good.

I jumped in with both feet.

♪♪

The one thing that I never
thought, never even dreamed of,

is that our biggest enemy
was the leader.

♪♪

♪♪

[congregants cheering]

Now, will each of you
give a very fond embrace,

a salutary kiss,
a greeting to your neighbor.

Let's fill this atmosphere
with warmth and love.

♪♪

[Johnston Kohl]
It wasn't just Jim Jones
standing there.

It was really the ambiance
that he created around him.

His wife, Marceline, sitting
on stage, seemingly, you know,

mesmerized
by what he was saying.

And he'd always talked about
himself as a family man.

Jim had adopted kids of all
different races so, you know,

I was pretty sold that he was
a good dad and a good leader.

♪♪

[Jeff Guinn]
When the Jones'
decided to adopt,

they came up with the concept
of the rainbow family.

Let's try to vary our family
so we will be

the living embodiment
of how people of all races

come together
and belong together.

♪♪

[Jones Jr.]
As the story goes,
my family went in

to adopt a baby girl,
and I guess,

from what my mother used
to tell me, I started crying.

My mother went over
to pick me up.

My father came over and saw this
black baby in his wife's arms.

They looked at the social worker
at the orphanage

and said, "Why can't
we adopt this child instead?"

And they kind of went,
"No, no, no, no, no.

That's a... That's
an African-American child."

And my father took this
political stance,

"No, I will adopt any child
that-- that-- that we want."

♪♪

So, I probably should say
I never liked the title,

"the Rainbow Family."

We were a mixed bag, for sure,
especially for that time.

Now, in many respects,
that's lovely,

regardless of the motivation,
but what I felt

was that much of
what was created as a family

was done for show.

♪♪

It's hard to know if Dad
really believed anything

or what he believed,
if he did.

♪♪

My father was starved for
attention from a very early age,

and that never let up.

If anything,
it intensified.

♪♪

♪♪

[Guinn]
Jim Jones is born and he's
raised in rural Indiana where,

back then, one of the main
purposes in life is to fit in,

to be like everybody else.

And from the time Jim Jones
is born, that doesn't happen.

♪♪

Part of the problem
are his parents.

♪♪

[Stephan Jones]
His father was destroyed
by World War I.

My Grandma Jones,
she wasn't around a lot.

So, my father wasn't being
nurtured in a way

that I feel
a child is best nurtured,

and I think he compensated
for that.

And so he sought
the approval of others

in a variety of ways.

♪♪

[Phyllis Zimmerman]
In a small town like Lynn,

Jim was a little
on the weird side.

♪♪

Jim had this flair
for the dramatic

and I-- I think he enjoyed
being dramatic.

♪♪

[Guinn]
He would recruit
the other kids

to come to elaborate funerals
he's holding for roadkill.

♪♪

[Zimmerman]
I don't know whether it was
just for its own sake

or whether it was
to freak people out.

[Guinn]
All the boys in Lynn,
during World War II,

started playing war games.

And they all wanted
to be Allied soldiers.

Except one.

Jim Jones was mesmerized
by the way Hitler...

[Hitler shouting in German]

...could have a whole
audience enraptured,

stand up and perform,
and order people to do things,

and they would do it.

[Stephan Jones]
He was eccentric, and that could
be off-putting to some children.

He was very controlling
in his nature.

He did spend a-- a fair amount
of time on his own.

♪♪

He was left
to his own devices,

so where could he find
this community?

♪♪

I think, with my father,

church was where he could
find solace, find peace.

[Guinn]
The other boys want to play
baseball, ride their bikes.

Jim joins
five different churches.

♪♪

[Stephan Jones]
And as a child, he saw
that in those church services,

there was one guy,
the guy that was talking,

that got all the attention.

♪♪

[Jones Jr.]
My father was picking up

different components
of each religion.

But I do think you ought
to stand for the glory of God

if you're that dad-gum smart.

[Jones Jr.]
Baptist preacher

who would, you know,
slam the Bible down.

[woman speaking in tongues]

[Jones Jr.]
The Pentecostal person
talking in tongues,

you know, skipping up
and down the aisle.

[Guinn]
Jim is not just watching the
people rolling on the floor.

He's paying attention
to these preachers.

What did they say?

How do they get people
built up to this point?

How does this minister
keep an audience enthralled?

It was a given.

Of course he's gonna
be a minister.

What else is this weird boy
gonna be?

♪♪

[Stephan Jones]
His mother instilled in him

this concern for,
uh, the-- the downtrodden,

the-- the have-nots, and I think
that he genuinely felt

it was wrong
that people be judged

by the color of their skin
or their background

or what they come from.

♪♪

[Jones Jr.]
His message resonated more
with African Americans.

They were so tired
of the Jim Crow laws.

♪♪

[Guinn]
Jones, in the black
community in Indianapolis,

becomes a hero.

But you could only go
so far in Indianapolis.

♪♪

[Johnston Kohl]
He was not gonna be
just a small town guy.

He wanted to be
more universally known.

He was not somebody committed
to the word of God or the Bible.

He wanted notoriety.
He wanted power.

Where is the power?
That's where I want to go.

♪♪

[Guinn]
California.
That's the place.

That's where you
can make things happen.

But he had to bring as many
of his followers as he could.

What's he gonna tell them
the reason they have to go?

[atomic bomb explosion]

[Jim Jones]
We have to be prepared
to take our flight

in the case of Armageddon

that would spring forth
in a nuclear hell.

[Guinn]
Jones starts prophesizing,
there's gonna be nuclear war.

Everyone living here
is going to die.

It's his excuse to get the hell
out of Indiana...

and it works.

♪♪

[Dr. Mary Maaga]
In terms of a darker side

that would ultimately
end up being

the tragedy at Jonestown,

I think that that started,
actually, in California.

♪♪

[Stephan Jones]
Regardless of what good works
the temple was involved in,

what my father
was doing was building

a little kingdom
for himself.

[congregants cheering]

♪♪

♪♪

[Jones Jr.]
We got to Redwood Valley.

We had some resources and people
moved into the different homes.

And Jim had bought this home

with this big grape field
in front of it.

♪♪

And shortly after, Jim had
the resources to build a church.

♪♪

[Maaga]
When they relocated
to Redwood Valley,

a new group of people
were attracted

to the preaching
of Jim Jones,

and this was this white,
educated elite.

The membership of Peoples Temple
at that point tripled.

♪♪

[Grace Stoen]
My life changed when
I moved up to Redwood Valley.

It was really kind of nice,
having been raised in the city.

We were very busy with church
activities and duties,

and when you went to sleep,
you kind of felt

like you helped people
and accomplished something.

♪♪

But there was something
that wasn't right.

♪♪

[congregants]
Yes!

[congregant]
Oh, yeah! Amen!

[congregants shouting]

[Johnston Kohl]
I think Jim was
a power addict early on.

He was always watchful,
trying to think

how he could control
Peoples Temple members.

[Guinn]
When Peoples Temple
has grown big enough,

Jones can start teaching

the real purpose
of Peoples Temple.

♪♪

[congregants cheering]

[Wagner-Wilson]
We were being introduced
to socialism.

Socialism meant that everybody
would have the same.

There would be
no starvation,

there would be no one going
without any clothes.

All the basic needs that a human
being is supposed to have,

they would have
under socialism.

He starts encouraging
communal living.

And let's say in a house
that might have been designed

for 6 people to live,
he'll put 12, 15, or even 20,

and they'll sleep on
mattresses on the floor.

[Wagner-Wilson]
That was so strange to me,

but it felt good
to sacrifice

because the sacrifice
was for the greater good.

No one realized that Jim
was using socialism

to bring people in
and control people.

[congregants singing]

[Grace Stoen]
This is a church that you're
either all the way in

or all the way out--
there's no in between.

And this church expected you
to give up everything.

[Gosney]
He didn't want people
having sex,

you know, 'cause
you were supposed to

use your sexual energy
for the cause.

We were always asked to
further our commitment.

Are you willing to give up
your little, petty desires

and creature comforts,
or are you just full of hot air?

[Jim Jones]
I don't own a car,
I don't own any new furniture,

I never buy
any new clothes,

I have never bought
a new pair of shoes in my life,

and that's why I am free!

You're not free!
You're a slave!

You're doing just exactly
what "the man" wants you to do.

[congregants cheering]

[Wagner-Wilson]
Everything went
to Peoples Temple.

All the things that my mother
had-- antiques, china,

and this beautiful home
in Ukiah.

My mother gave her house up
for Jim Jones.

[Guinn]
The whole idea
of going communal

is that you start to cut down
on the outside influence.

♪♪

Everybody is working
as much as possible.

♪♪

Jones said
to one of his followers,

the key is, keep 'em poor,
keep 'em tired,

and they'll never leave.

[Gosney]
Jones' spiel was that
family relationships

are the sickest
relationships of all.

So, the families
were separated.

I cared for four children,
myself, that were not mine.

They were someone
else's children.

♪♪

[Guinn]
Now Jones wants his followers
to refer to him

and Marceline
as father and mother.

Marceline loved the idea
they were a team,

they were working together.

♪♪

[Johnston Kohl]
He pretended he was
a family man,

but, you know, really
that was all a façade.

That was all the public persona.

Nothing is as it appears.

♪♪

[Guinn]
Most people had no idea
Jim was not being faithful.

♪♪

He found another
long-term companion.

Her name was Carolyn Layton,

and Carolyn was absolutely
enraptured of Jim Jones.

The things
he was saying and doing

mirrored her beliefs.

As a young child,
I think I first started noticing

when Jim would leave at night
and come home in the morning.

♪♪

His not being faithful...

♪♪

it was just wrong.

[Stephan Jones]
I was mortified,
horrified by it.

That's when my esteem for him
gradually fell apart.

♪♪

[Jones Jr.]
Eventually, I remember
my mother wanting a divorce.

She wanted the kids.

♪♪

And Jim said,

you will die before you
take my kids away from me.

♪♪

[Guinn]
This dark side that appears

really for the first time
in Ukiah...

♪♪

will expand and expand

until finally it explodes
in the Guyanese jungle.

[ululating war cry]

♪♪

[Guinn]
Peoples Temple population
starts to grow,

and as it grows, so does
Jones' need for money.

♪♪

[Johnston Kohl]
Jim was looking
for more membership,

so, in about 1972, we started
bus trips around the country.

♪♪

[Guinn]
Peoples Temple buys a fleet
of Greyhound buses.

Jim Jones is gonna go
to the big cities

and he is going to
attract huge crowds,

get a lot of money,

and then he'll come back,
he can use that in Ukiah.

[Wagner-Wilson]
We would pass out leaflets,
speak to people,

try to get 'em
to the service

and tout the wonders of
Jim Jones and Peoples Temple.

♪♪

As a teenager, wha-- what
better life could you have?

You're hanging out
with all your friends,

you're going
all over the country

and taking the message of God

and carrying it out
to the masses.

♪♪

Along the way,
people always joined.

♪♪

[Guinn]
A couple buses aren't filled.

That's so as people
want to join,

they can just get on the bus
and go with him.

And as his following grows,

they find peripheral ways
to make money.

♪♪

They start selling pictures
that Jones has blessed.

This picture here
would sell for $5.

This is another picture
that he had for protection.

And if you don't have money
for the pictures,

give us your name
and address

and Reverend Jones
will bless a penny

and you'll be
in his prayers.

They market
all kinds of things.

Money comes pouring in.

♪♪

[static]

♪♪

Heavenly spirit! God!

[Guinn]
The man is
a master entertainer.

Everything is planned
to the minute.

♪♪

And then come the healings.

Sister Ingram,
you're concerned

about the losing...

♪♪

the losing of your sight.

♪♪

Take your glasses off.

You concentrate hard.

♪♪

Three.

[congregation cheering]

[Jim Jones]
You've been feeling pain
here in the chest?

Yes.

Look at my face.

Where's your pain?

[congregation cheering]

♪♪

[Guinn]
Everybody is out of their minds
with excitement,

and Jones has never
been more dramatic.

[Jones Jr.]
One time, a person
broke their leg,

so they were tooken to
the hospital and put a cast on.

[congregation singing]

The next service,
their name was called

and asked if they wanted
to walk again.

Hear this?

[tapping cast]

[congregation shouting]

[Jones Jr.]
The cast was cut off
right in front of everybody.

♪♪

[congregation cheering]

♪♪

[Wagner-Wilson]
You're seeing this woman
who's all of a sudden

running through the church,
and everyone's just excited

and, "Father's healed her!"

♪♪

[Guinn]
And then a big thing at the time
was removal of cancers.

You have a cancer!
I can tell!

Come forward!
I'm gonna heal you.

[Jim Jones]
This Christian,
when she was in the church

of God and Christ,
no one could heal her.

Five times operated for cancer,

the doctors
sewed her up to die.

But I...
I said one day a year ago,

your time has come,
and she spit up the cancer.

You're healed.

♪♪

People were jumping and happy
and I thought,

oh, my gosh,
she's healed of cancer.

I'm excited, the whole church
is just in a frenzy.

♪♪

As time wore on,

I started questioning
the healings.

♪♪

I should have known
that it was a lie.

And people died
because of that.

♪♪

♪♪

[Wagner-Wilson]
As time wore on,

I started questioning
the healings.

There was a rumor that there was
something nefarious going on.

♪♪

The healing with the woman that
they cut the cast off

and she's running around...

♪♪

they drugged her,
and they put the cast on her

while she was asleep.

So when she woke up,

they told her that
she had fallen.

They said,
oh, you broke your leg.

♪♪

She had no recollection
of it at all.

♪♪

Her leg was never broken.

The fake healings were a way
to attract people falsely.

Even though they were great
tools to get people to believe,

they were nefarious.

♪♪

[Wagner-Wilson]
I personally know
someone's grandmother,

who Jim apparently
healed of cancer.

And then when cancer came back,
guess what she said?

♪♪

"It must be because
I don't believe enough."

♪♪

She wasn't
gonna get treatment.

She was just gonna
pray harder

and have more faith in Jim.

Well, she died of cancer.

And that's just one of,
I'm sure,

hundreds of stories.

♪♪

[Carter]
This was one of those areas
where that should have been

a red flag
that I just ignored.

[congregation cheering]

I'm not saying it's right,

but I believed the temple
was an opportunity

to create something
that was truly great.

♪♪

And that's why I stayed
as long as I did.

♪♪

The temple was set up so
no one could join the church

without first being checked out
thoroughly by Jones.

Everything required him
to be involved.

And the pressure got to him.

♪♪

And Jones became
an abuser of drugs.

♪♪

[Gosney]
Jim Jones shared
with the congregation

that he had to take
something to keep him up

because he worked 24/7,

24 hours a day for
the cause of socialism.

[Guinn]
He needed amphetamines
to get up and keep going.

His schedule would last

from early in the morning
until 2:00 or 3:00 a.m.

♪♪

So he was sleeping maybe
three or four hours a night.

And then,
when he could rest,

he had to take tranquilizers
to come down.

[congregant]
Yes!

[congregant]
Yeah!

[congregants cheering]

[Wagner-Wilson]
I had no idea that
Jim was on drugs.

No idea at all.

♪♪

Later, I would discover
the sunglasses

was because he was hiding
the way his eyes looked.

[Guinn]
Everybody remembers that Jim
Jones always wore dark glasses.

It was one of his signature
appearance things.

And he told everyone
it was because

the spirit of the Lord
was so powerful in him,

if you looked directly
in his eyes,

you might
be burned on the spot.

♪♪

But the real reason he did
was his eyes were so red

and watery and swollen
from the drug use.

As he was taking
more and more drugs,

you know,
his personality changed.

♪♪

[Johnston Kohl]
Behind the scenes,

Jim's narcissism
was just uncontained.

And he was surrounded
by mistresses.

♪♪

[Guinn]
The women that Jones
was having sex with

almost all considered it
an honor to do this for father.

♪♪

[Gosney]
He portrayed himself
as a martyr,

that he would have to have sex
with these different members

to solidify their alliance,
to solidify their loyalty.

♪♪

He made a lot
of really crude remarks.

"If I need to
get you to socialism

on the tip of my [bleep],
I'll do it."

♪♪

Each time he had sex
with somebody,

he did it as one
more notch in his belt

of how to become yet
more powerful.

♪♪

Jones always said,
the ends justifies the means,

which means you can do
anything you need to do

to get to where
you wanna go

because the goal is
for the greater good.

So, no matter how you get there,
you get there,

which excuses anything,
any behaviors at all.

♪♪

[congregation singing]

♪♪

[Guinn]
To all outward appearances,
Jones and Peoples Temple

had accomplished great things
and there was unlimited future.

♪♪

But the lust for power
continues to grow.

♪♪

[static]

He would create enemies
to bind his followers closer.

♪♪

[Gosney]
The government was out to get us
and it was a conspiracy.

♪♪

Look at all the people
that have been killed,

look at all of our young people
who are in prison.

Actual events were used

to solidify his position,

and it was extremely effective
because there was truth to it.

[Jones]
I've just come in
from Washington,

just flew in on the plane
from the conference

with the top-notch leaders.

I listened to them talk
about planned takeovers.

I listened to them
to talk about it

like it was just an ordinary
Sunday school picnic.

Task force warns nation

to get ready for riots

and to get ready
for martial law.

They're gonna put
all the poor people away,

and they're gonna
come for you,

they're gonna come
for your children.

♪♪

There was so much paranoia
about the ways

that law enforcement
was going to break up

the community
of Peoples Temple.

They looked
at themselves as people

who were being persecuted
from the outside.

We ended up going to church
more and more.

♪♪

Before you knew it,

your whole life was all based
around the church.

♪♪

[Wagner-Wilson]
Now we're in isolationist mode,

where Jim would tell us
that we were...

you know,
that black people

were gonna be put in
concentration camps.

[Jim Jones]
Dictatorships that can come in

like they did
with the Japanese.

It's, "Aw, this country
won't ever do that."

It did it already!

[Wagner-Wilson]
He's tapping
into people's fears,

he's tapping into
people's insecurities.

The paranoia was real
in Peoples Temple.

[Jim Jones]
Get ready for
identification marks

to be put on your body,
an identification number

even necessarily
tattooed on you.

You say, oh, America
wouldn't do that.

Don't talk to me about
what America would not do.

♪♪

We've lived through Martin
being assassinated.

♪♪

We've lived through
Malcolm being assassinated.

We lived through Robert Kennedy
being assassinated.

♪♪

Assassination for leaders

was something
you thought about.

♪♪

[Wagner-Wilson]
Jim would say that he was
getting death threats

because he was making
such a difference

and stirring up so much
controversy in the community

of bringing black people
and white people together

that he was a threat
to the status quo.

♪♪

[overlapping chatter]

[Wagner-Wilson]
One Sunday service,
I was out in the parking lot,

talking to someone.

♪♪

We're all out after church
and we're having festivities

and kids are playing
on the basketball court.

[overlapping chatter]

We got tables out for
the meal in between church.

Bright, sunny, beautiful day.
We were enjoying ourselves.

[overlapping chatter]

♪♪

And then
all hell broke loose.

[gunfire]

♪♪

People were screaming,
father's shot!

There's blood flowing
from his chest.

Father's been shot,
and screams

and a lot of anguish,
people crying out.

♪♪

There's someone trying to
assassinate Jim Jones.