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[dramatic music]

♪♪

[gunfire]

[static]

It does not even register to me
that it's guns going off.

[gunfire]

I see Ryan running.
All of a sudden, I'm hit.

[gunshot]

[shattering glass]

[people screaming in terror]

I looked out the window.

I said they're killing everyone,
they're killing everyone.

And I turned to Larry
and he shot me twice...

[gunshots]

...point blank, one in
each side, once in the leg.

And then Larry shot
Monica twice in the back.

[gunshots]

I think he had
one bullet left,

and he took and pointed it
right into Dale Park's face...

[gun cocks]

...and pulled the trigger
and the gun misfired.

And so, we had
the fight for the gun.

♪♪

I'm lying under the plane,
pretending I'm dead.

[gunfire]

And I look down at
the right side of my body

and my whole right leg
is just blown up.

And I realize
that I'm dying.

[suspenseful music]

[Vernon Gosney]
The adrenaline was running.
I felt no pain.

I was in survival mode and
I overpowered Larry Layton.

I went out through
the pilot's door.

I could still hear
the gunshots,

and I ran to the side of
the runway until I collapsed.

And I just started
calling for help.

♪♪

[Guinn]
There are other people
grievously wounded.

Some younger people

who were part of the group
run into the jungle.

Other people
are slightly wounded,

trying to hide
in the grass.

The gunmen make certain
that Leo Ryan is dead.

♪♪

They could have continued

hunting for the wounded,
finished them off,

but instead they get on the
tractor and return to Jonestown.

[Speier]
Eventually, Guyanese
locals get to the airstrip

and place me on the side
of the airstrip.

Unfortunately, I am placed
on top of an ant hill.

So all of a sudden, I have these
ants crawling over my body,

and I oftentimes say,
you know,

you don't sweat the small
stuff when you're dying.

♪♪

[Gosney]
I don't recall how big
the group of assassins were.

I don't know,
four, five, six.

They were all people
I knew for many years.

All the assassins,

including Larry as well.

I knew everyone.

♪♪

[Guinn]
There are five dead
on the tarmac.

The five dead
include Ryan,

members of the media,
and one woman

who had been at Jonestown
and was trying to escape.

[air siren]

Meanwhile,
back at Jonestown,

a voice
comes on the speaker

saying everyone needs
to come to the pavilion.

Jim Jones realizes it's no
longer a matter of if, but when.

He's not gonna be able
to go back to the States.

What was going to be
left to him

was to tell his followers
that now is the time.

We're committing
a revolutionary act.

[Stephan Jones]
The congressman's dead.
They've killed people.

So, my dad at this point,
he knows he's gone.

So he knows he's going out

and now he-- he doesn't
want to go alone.

[Carter]
As people were walking up
from the cottages,

it was very quiet,
it was very somber.

I see Jones
in this conversation,

and it's very animated,

and it's obvious that
something is going on.

[Stephan Jones]
He's saying that
there are people

coming right now
to attack us.

They're going to take us out.
This is our final stand.

[Guinn]
Maria Katsaris comes up,

whispers something
in Jones' ear.

[Carter]
Maria Katsaris was one of Jones'
true quote unquote lieutenants,

one of the people that
was closest to Jim Jones.

Jim looks at her and he goes,
"Is it supposed to be quick?"

And she goes, "Yes,
it's supposed to be quick."

And he said,
"Does it taste okay?"

She goes, "Yes, it's
supposed to taste good."

♪♪

[Guinn]
Somewhere in Jonestown, human
guinea pigs were testing cyanide

that was mixed
in a vat of Flavor Aid.

♪♪

Flavor Aid was
a cheap Kool-Aid knockoff.

And I'm thinking, oh, my God,
how do I get out of here?

How do I get Gloria and
Malcolm out of here with me?

[suspenseful music]

♪♪

[Guinn]
As people are gathering
in the pavilion,

Jones took the stage,

and we don't have to wonder
what was said that day.

There was a tape running.

It's known now
as the death tape.

[congregants cheering
and applauding]

♪♪

[congregants cheering]

[congregants cheering
and applauding]

[suspenseful music]

♪♪

On November 18th, my brothers
went to go see a movie.

I stayed at the compound.

♪♪

Early evening, I was called to
the radio room by Sharon Amos.

♪♪

I never liked Sharon.
She was a fanatic.

[radio static]

My father was on the radio,
and he said,

"Jimmy, we're visiting
Mr. Frazier," which was a code.

Then he said, the avenging
angels have visited Leo Ryan

and we need you
to avenge our actions.

In code, to break that up,

was we're gonna commit
revolutionary suicide.

The congressman
has been killed.

We need you
to avenge our deaths,

so kill anybody in town
and kill yourself.

♪♪

I know when
I was in Jonestown

and they were having
these white night drills

and long meetings
about dying for the cause,

I never took it serious.

I never thought we were
gonna die for the cause.

I broke out of code.

"Dad, we're not going
to kill ourselves.

The people in
Jonestown can't die."

But, "No, no, no, Jim."

Meanwhile, I'm like,
"Go get my brothers."

So, they went and got them
and Sharon Amos is like,

"Oh, we gotta figure out
how to kill ourselves.

Do we have piano wire? Do we
have, you know, thin wire?"

She's kinda tweaking out.

[Stephan Jones]
We quickly made
our way back

the headquarters in Georgetown.

I knew that things
were far worse

than they had ever
been before

and I'm trying to
manage the situation.

I told someone, do not let
Sharon Amos out of your sight.

I knew
she had to be watched

and that she was volatile
and capable of terrible things.

♪♪

[Jim Jones Jr.]
We ran over to
the U.S. Embassy

and we're talking to
a little squawk box,

and they won't let us in.

We're saying,
"Send us into Jonestown.

"We can stop it. We don't
know what's going on,

but you need to send us
out there right now."

[Guinn]
And they're saying, surely
the embassy, if nothing else,

we can get a helicopter.

If we can get back to Jonestown
before anything happens,

we can stop it.

And they're trying to
call in, you know,

"This is an emergency, it's--"
"No, we're closed."

You know, "It's Saturday."

♪♪

[Jim Jones Jr.]
So, we go back to the house.

Everyone's screaming
and yelling.

Sharon Amos had tooken
her kids...

♪♪

...into the bathroom with a guy
named Chuck Brightman

and he took our niece
inside, Stephanie,

and cut
the children's throats.

♪♪

[Stephan Jones]
What I came upon
is not something

that I want to describe,
but it was horrible.

♪♪

[Jim Jones Jr.]
You could still hear
people gurgling.

Our friend Calvin Douglas
busted into the bathroom

and pulled Stephanie out.

She still has the scar.

We called the police.

And the police came.

By then, the gurgling
had stopped.

[Guinn]
Back in Jonestown,
Jim Jones is on the stage.

[Jim Jones]
I don't know who
fired the shot.

I don't know who killed
the congressman.

But as far as I'm
concerned, I killed him.

You understand
what I'm saying?

I killed him.

He had no business coming.
I told him not to come.

And as soon as
the word gets out,

the army's gonna be
parachuting in,

they're gonna come
for us,

they're gonna
kill us all,

they're gonna get
our kids.

We can't let that happen.

We need to commit
revolutionary suicide.

[Jim Jones]
We can't go back.

They won't leave us alone.

They're now going back
to tell more lies,

which means
more congressmen.

And there's no way, no way
we can survive. Hmm?

[Mary Maaga]
As they are in the pavilion
getting ready to commit suicide,

a woman by the name of Christine
Miller begins to question

what the logic is behind
letting 14 people who defect

cause the deaths
of over 1,000 people.

[congregants responding]

[child wails]

I'm completely
schizophrenic at this time,

because one part of me
is saying,

everybody's gonna die,
you're going to die.

And another part of me
is saying,

this doesn't
make any sense.

You don't kill everybody.

[suspenseful music]

[suspenseful music]

[Jim Jones]
Everybody dies.

[congregants respond]

I haven't seen anybody
yet that didn't die.

And I'd like to choose my own
kind of death for a change.

I'm tired of being tormented to
hell, that's what I'm tired of.

[congregants respond]

Tired of it.

[congregants applaud]

[Carter]
By this time, the pavilion
is filled up with people.

There's armed guards
around the pavilion.

But the energy there
was just...

Um, I don't even know how
to describe it. Defeated?

It was kind of like
people had been crushed.

♪♪

At this point, I'm
kind of intellectual.

It's like, well, how
is this gonna come down?

How am I gonna die?

What's gonna happen?

Because I'm not gonna
go down without a fight...

when there's a tap
on my shoulder.

He's been tapped on the
shoulder by Maria Katsaris.

So is his brother, Mike.

"Jim has a job for you.
Come with us."

And they're taken
to a back cabin

and there are
three suitcases.

She goes, "We have
suitcases of money

"that need to be delivered

"to the Russian Embassy
in Georgetown.

Will you take them?"

She gave us each a gun.

She said,
"If you're successful,

"take what you need to live
on and have a good life,

"but under no circumstances
are you to be taken alive.

You're to kill yourselves
if you're caught."

As to why he wanted it
to go to the Russians,

I don't know if it was
Jim Jones' final "eff you"

to the United States
government.

I don't know.

But I said yes.

And in my mind,
I was buying time,

'cause I couldn't
catch up.

I could not catch up
with what was going on.

[child crying, chatter]

[Jim Jones]
Who wants to go
with their child

has a right to go
with their child.

I think it's humane.

I want to see
you go, though.

I don't want to see you go
through this hell no more.

No more, no more,
no more.

[child wails]

[Mary Maaga]
As the vats of cyanide-laced
Flavor Aid are brought out,

they are instructed to give
the drink to the children first

because, of course, once the
children have been poisoned,

how can any adult live

after having watched
their own children die?

[Jim Jones]
Hurry, my children. Hurry.
All I think...

Let's not fall into
the hands of the enemy.

Hurry, my children.

They have syringes,

and they're gonna
squirt this stuff

in the babies' mouths.

[Jim Jones]
No more pain now.

No more pain.
No more pain.

[suspenseful music]

♪♪

Meanwhile, the adults are
about to have their turn.

People are lining up and some
of them refused to do it,

and they're held down
and forcibly injected.

And we know this because
later with the bodies,

some of them had abscesses
on their neck, on their arms,

on their skull, anywhere
a needle could get jammed.

That's where
the needles went in.

And everybody else
is lined up to die.

♪♪

[Carter]
So while Maria's getting
the gold, I went to get water.

You don't go into
the jungle without water.

As I'm approaching
the back of the pavilion,

it's when people
started dying,

and I cannot go through
the rest of it today,

I just can't,
but needless to say,

my wife and son
were dying.

[somber music]

♪♪

It was just darkness.

There was no light
anywhere in my life.

As I'm walking back
to Jones' cottage,

Carolyn Layton was
coming up and she said,

"What's wrong, Tim?
Why are you crying?"

All I could say is,
"They've murdered my son,

they've murdered my son,
they've murdered my son."

♪♪

[Guinn]
Jones says it's
going to be easy.

But death by cyanide is one of
the worst ways to go possible.

It keeps your body
from absorbing oxygen.

You suffocate slowly.

[congregants screaming
and crying]

The sounds I was
hearing were screaming.

People were screaming
in fear, in pain, in death.

There was nothing
joyous going on.

There was no grand
hallelujah for Jim Jones.

Marceline Jones
was screaming,

"Stop this!
Stop this! Stop this!"

People were being
massacred.

[Jim Jones]
Mother, please,
please, please.

Don't-- Don't do this.
Don't do this.

[Stephan Jones]
People have painted this picture
that my mother was up there

doling out the poison,
but that runs contrary

to what I know
about my mother.

She came from a stand by and
slightly behind your man era,

but she was also
very strong-willed,

and my father
ordered her restrained

and she struggled until
the last child died.

♪♪

At that point in time, I just
wanted the nightmare to stop.

I wanted to die.

And there was a voice in my head
that said, you cannot die,

you cannot die, you must go on,
you cannot die.

[suspenseful music]

We went back to the cottages,
got the suitcases,

and left Jonestown.

♪♪

At this point in time,

I didn't even know
if I wanted to live.

But I knew I wanted nothing
to do with Jim Jones,

I wanted nothing
to do with Russians,

I wanted nothing to do
with money.

So I said,
we can't do this.

We need to dump
the suitcases.

♪♪

And there's a part of me
that doesn't even believe

that I just saw what I saw.

[Jim Jones]
One thousand people say

we don't like
the way the world is.

[congregants respond]

Take our life from us.

We laid it down,
we got tired.

[congregants respond]

We didn't commit suicide,

we committed an act of
revolutionary suicide

protesting the conditions
of an inhumane world.

♪♪

[tape recorder whirs,
clicks off]

[somber music]

♪♪

[Guinn]
There's been a monsoon
the day before.

Steam is rising up off
the ground. It's like fog.

♪♪

And finally, the fog, the mist
is clearing a little bit.

♪♪

And what they see, they find
almost impossible to describe

over the radio to the superiors
waiting back in Georgetown.

They start describing,
there's just heaps of them.

And, of course, in Georgetown,
"Heaps of what?"

♪♪

"Dead people."

[male reporter]
As soon as these pictures
from Jonestown

cleared our newsroom,
everybody,

even a lot of
hardened news people,

reacted in horror
and disbelief.

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

[helicopter flying overhead]

As you can see, bodies are
strewn all over the place.

♪♪

[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.

[female reporter]
The death ritual
was methodical.

Some of the syringes
contained poison,

the rest
had tranquilizers.

Marcia, you have more.Yeah, of course,
there's a lot we don't know,

but this we do know--
the Reverend Jim Jones,

the founder of
Peoples Temple, is
dead,

and he died as a result of
a gunshot wound to the head,

not of poisoning.

[Guinn]
Jim Jones they find
on the pavilion,

bloated, dead,
a gunshot wound to the head.

You can suspect
that Jim Jones,

having seen the terrible deaths
his followers were suffering,

at the last minute
didn't want it for himself.

♪♪

[female reporter]
Police believe that most
of the people went willingly,

but others were forced
by armed guards.

When the poison
was being passed out,

men were around this auditorium
area here with crossbows.

They were acting as guards.

[male reporter]
Clayton, 28, of Oakland, is one
of four known eyewitnesses

to the suicide-murders.

He got away after more
than 700 had died

by slipping past a guard.

A lot of people
didn't want to die.

They was just sitting there.
Frightened. Afraid.

In one case, she
struggled pretty hard,

'cause she
didn't want to die.

[male reporter]
And how did they kill her?

They injected her
in the arm.

[somber music]

♪♪

[Guinn]
The soldiers, they're asked,
can you count 'em?

And they try.

♪♪

[male reporter]
Four hundred suicides
and killings,

one of the most astonishing
stories of our time,

perhaps of any time.

♪♪

[Guinn]
Well, there's at least

900-something people
in Jonestown.

That must mean that there's
500 people who are still alive.

Maybe they've
run into the jungle.

♪♪

[Leslie Wagner-Wilson]
The morning that we left,
my plan was to escape,

come back and get my sister and
brother and my niece and nephew.

So, once we realized
that the tragedy happened,

I'm just praying that
one of my family members

ran into the jungle,
if not all of them.

♪♪

But the body count was
wrong from the beginning.

♪♪

[male reporter]
Good evening.

The searching
American soldiers

have finished counting the
bodies in Jonestown, Guyana.

Nine-hundred-ten died
in the poison ritual

of the Peoples Temple
last week.

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

agree to kill themselves?

What kind of a leader

could order mass suicide
and be obeyed?

[male reporter]
The mass suicides happened

in this
heavily forested area,

down there,
in the compound.

[Carter]
The narrative
is mass suicide.

Sheep.
Drinking the Kool-Aid.

Voluntarily drinking
the Kool-Aid.

And yet, a lot of
people were murdered.

And if you've just seen
your child murdered,

besides wanting to kill the
mother[bleep] that did it,

would you want to live?

The answer is probably no.

If you believe that
the only choice you have

is dying by drinking
a poison or getting shot,

are you committing suicide

or are you taking
the easiest way out

'cause you know that
you're gonna die anyway?

The bottom line is,
what happened

in Jonestown, Guyana,
was murder.

[somber music]

[Leslie Wagner-Wilson]
I lost my entire immediate
family in Jonestown.

I lost my mother, Inez,
who was 50.

I lost my brother,
Mark, who was 16.

I lost my sister,
Michelle, who was 24.

I lost Joe, who was 24.

Yeah, I lost them all
at-- in one moment.

♪♪

[Grace Stoen]
They didn't want me to keep my
hopes up for-- for John Victor,

but finally
one of the survivors said

that they had personally seen
John and that he had evidently

been taken to--
he was in Jim's cabin

and he had been injected
and they actually saw.

So I knew, for sure...

♪♪

...that he was deceased,
so...

♪♪

I was shot once in each side,
my diaphragm, my stomach.

My liver.
My pancreas was removed.

When I came out of ICU,

I found out what had
happened in Jonestown,

'cause I did not know.

The psychiatrist
just came into my room

and opened the paper
like this,

to show me the pictures
of the dead bodies.

[camera shutter clicking]

♪♪

I think at the moment when
I knew that my son was dead

and being asked
to describe his clothing,

I think my mind
just snapped.

I just think I just had
a mental breakdown.

I, uh, I didn't function really
well for a very long time.

♪♪

[male reporter]
How are you gonna
handle this nightmare?

♪♪

I don't know.

I don't know.

It's a nightmare.

♪♪

[Guinn]
For the survivors, things
were only gonna get worse.

[male reporter]
The cultists try to forget,

but all know
they can never escape

the stigma of what
happened at Jonestown.

♪♪

[camera shutter clicking]

My name is Tim Carter,
but I-- I really don't
want to talk right now.

[male reporter]
Tim, please,
this is very important.

I lost two
friends here, too.

I lost my wife and my son.

I don't want to talk
right now.

We get to the airport,
and all of a sudden,

there's just reporters
everywhere.

[camera shutter clicking]

So that was the beginning

of 36 hours straight
of media interviews.

[Carter]
But the very
first reporter said,

this is going on
the evening national news

saying that
you guys are hitmen.

You can respond
if you want or not.

♪♪

There was no place
for us to go or hide.

This is private.

After everyone died,
the media was everywhere.

It wasn't mass suicide,
you know?

It was mass murder.

I wanted to stop it.

All of those people
are my life.

All my 19 years, I've
known no one else, right?

What am I gonna do?

You see what's happened when
a few people tried to leave.

I didn't know
what could happen.

I'm doing the best I can.

There were many people within
the community that I loved.

We had just lost everything.
We were devastated.

I know I felt complicit.
I felt terrified,

horrified, grief stricken,
hopeless, and ashamed.

I can almost say
that I hate this man

for doing what he's done,

because he has destroyed
everything I've lived for.

[male reporter]
Moments after the
latest 17 survivors

arrived at Kennedy
Airport last night,

FBI agents escorted
them onto buses

for the most intense questioning
yet of returning survivors.

Included in the group,

the Reverend Jim Jones'
adopted son, Jim.

Um, he...
To me, he was sick.

I'm not no medical person,
but if I was to look at him,

I would look at him
and say, that's a sick man.

♪♪

[Laura Johnston Kohl]
We arrived penniless
and hungry

and, you know, traumatized
by our whole experience,

and then they kept up
the questioning.

[Guinn]
They were suspected of
being part of the plot.

People all think they're nuts,
they might be murderers.

They're all scarred
in that way.

♪♪

[Jim Jones Jr.]
We were followed.

I would go to work,
I'd have a plainclothes car

following me.

I think some of that
was like,

what the hell's going on
with him? What is he gonna do?

[Gosney]
After I escaped Jonestown,

I was still in Jonestown
in my mind.

There was a lot of paranoia.

I saw a man from the back
with black hair,

I thought it was Jim Jones
and I would start running.

♪♪

One of the hardest things to
deal with, among many,

were Kool-Aid jokes,
Jonestown jokes.

I was treated by people that
thought I was very stupid.

We all felt like we had been
made fools of, in a way,

because we had believed
so totally

in what Jim Jones
was saying.

♪♪

[Speier]
Jim Jones was a cult
leader who was maniacal

and who was allowed to
pursue this horrific cause

for his personal
aggrandizement.

♪♪

He had used
the word "church"

in sanitizing
his grotesque behavior.

♪♪

Absolute power
corrupts absolutely.

Jim went into the deep,
dark recesses of his mind

and what came back out
was scary. It was terrible.

♪♪

[Guinn]
Jones put himself
in the position

where no one
could tell him no.

He was enabled.

This is what
demagogues do.

And so, gradually,

the worst part of
his nature took over

until finally it
consumed him and, sadly,

it consumed all the people
who had believed in him.

♪♪

[Jim Jones Jr.]
I felt it was
my responsibility

to attend as many
funerals as possible.

Especially for my friends,
friends of mine.

♪♪

One of my friends,
I went to her funeral,

and I remember the mother
coming out of the hallway

with a .38 caliber pistol
and pointing it at me

and saying why are you alive
when my daughter's not?

And then everyone
grabbing her,

and-- and me kind of sitting
there going,

pull the trigger.

You know? It was...

At that-- At that point,
I didn't want to live.

[hammering]

[male reporter]
Little has changed in
the settlement itself.

There are police
guards patrolling

to keep visitors away.

The chair in which
Jim Jones sat

when he called on his people
to die is still there,

along with the benches
where they sat

and listened and obeyed.

[somber music]

♪♪

My name is Larry Layton.

[shutter clicking]

♪♪

[male reporter]
Most of the Temple
survivors and defectors

who returned from Guyana have
settled in San Francisco.

The Peoples Temple
building was sold.

It is now a Korean
Presbyterian Church.

Doctors say that almost all
the former Temple members

live with anxiety,
fear, and guilt.

I think that they will be able
to build a life for themselves.

The fears, the memories,
and some of the scars,

for many of them, it'll--
it'll be a lifelong process

trying to deal with that.

[Stephan Jones]
For many years,
I wasn't healing.

I was battling demons
on a daily basis,

using everything I could
to quiet the noise inside me.

And around that time,
my daughter was born.

That little baby
cracked my heart open

in a way that
pushed me toward life

instead of choosing
the easy way out.

♪♪

[Jim Jones Jr.]
I went by James
for a long time,

and it wasn't until
many years after

that I even went
by Jim Jones again.

♪♪

After 40 years,

I've lived two lifetimes
outside Peoples Temple.

I'm grateful that,
um, I survived.

♪♪

[Speier]
I was hospitalized
for two months.

I had a lot of time
to think.

I was so badly wounded
that they thought

they were gonna have to
amputate my arm and/or my leg.

I had gas gangrene
through my body.

♪♪

I just made
a commitment to myself

that I did not want to
spend the rest of my life

as a victim or
survivor of Guyana,

and I made a commitment then
to spend the rest of my life

in public service, to continue
Congressman Ryan's legacy.

♪♪

[Leslie Wagner-Wilson]
When I came back to the
United States, I was shattered.

Came back with survivor's
guilt and I wasn't diagnosed.

Every day I was like,
why did I survive?

Why was I allowed
to survive?

Inside, I was so broken.

I didn't start healing
until 20 years later.

♪♪

My son, Jakari, calls me
his, you know, warrior queen.

He understands
the sacrifice that I made.

He knows every step
of the way, I'm there.

♪♪

I'm just
not going anywhere.

And I know a lot of it
is because of Jonestown.

♪♪

[Gosney]
I call Leslie Wagner
my, uh, my hero

because she left
with her son.

I see her as a person
of great courage,

that she was able to do that,

she was able to
get her son out,

and she was able
to risk death.

♪♪

I've come to peace
with my journey,

except around my son.

That will be something
that's always with me.

I still struggle
to forgive myself.

♪♪

[male reporter]
The former Temple members
try to comfort each other

and their Temple past
is their bond.

Whatever their thoughts
about Jim Jones,

they are all trying
to rebuild shattered lives.

♪♪

[Stephan Jones]
All of us, if we
allow ourselves

to step into that story,

there's something
there we can use.

♪♪

And I pray that
anyone watching this

can take away from it
whatever is valuable to them

as a way of honoring
those we lost.

♪♪

[Wagner-Wilson]
There are many lessons to
be learned from Jonestown.

I look at the world today,

I look at the environment
that we're in,

and I see this--
this parallel.

And I look at how
Peoples Temple began.

It began in a time when there
was a socio-political change,

but it was also
based on fear.

We are in the same type of
environment, if not worse,

that could
generate something

much, much more dangerous
than Jonestown.

It could happen again.

♪♪

[Jim Jones Jr.]
I put the blame for
what happened in Jonestown

on my father.

♪♪

But I don't think
the story is Jim Jones.

I think the story
is the people

who followed Jim Jones
to-- to Jonestown.

♪♪

You know, I always said, I go,
how appropriately named

was Peoples Temple?

Because it was really the
people that made that church.

Some of the best years of my
life were in Peoples Temple.

It wasn't Peoples Temple,
it was a sense of community.

A sense of belonging.

A sense of doing the right
thing when no one was looking.

[Stoen]
It's just really too bad

that we couldn't have
gone down in history

as this great, wonderful
humanitarian group that we were.

We could've been a force
to be reckoned with.

♪♪

[Carter]
I wish that there was
an easy answer

around Peoples Temple
and Jonestown.

But there are
no easy answers.

Anybody that has
taken the time

to get to know the story has--
has discovered that,

oh, my gosh, these were,
like, real folks, you know?

♪♪

Nothing special about us,
nothing unspecial about us.

Maybe even like me.

And I might have actually
joined something like that.

[somber music]

♪♪