November 18, 1978

Hear Again said:
Yep. In fact, CNN and MSNBC aired two documentaries about Jonestown yesterday, so you may want to watch both of these cable news channels during primetime tonight or tomorrow.
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Uh...I think I'm going to avoid the news. :(
 
I've heard of the Jonestown Massacre. Indeed, it's a saddening piece of history with all the deaths of the children.

By the way, On that date, I was only 1 year old too.
 
I was 41 days old. I don't think I remember what happened on that day.

What a tragic day it was, though. Sucks.
 
yea i heard that before.. but i didnt know that happen when i was kids ...

but it is pretty interesting who made this happen and end up killing them without volient or something.. yes it is very sad they think he is a real prient (spl).. i am sure they are angry when they find out just a second before they died..
 
Yup, I remember that day. It was a couple years after Patty Hearst was convicted for her "role" in the Symbionese Liberation Army, mainly because the jury didn't believe brainwashing was possible. The Jonestown folk were brainwashed into mass suicide, though. Go figure.
 
Jolie77 said:
I've heard of the Jonestown Massacre. Indeed, it's a saddening piece of history with all the deaths of the children.

By the way, On that date, I was only 1 year old too.
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Gee now I feel old! :ty: Jolie! :lol:

As I was saying, we were in Caracas when the news was announced and my parents and grandma was huddled around the radio deciphering what was going on.

And I remember looking out the window into the alley seeing a girl going through the trash can when our parents mentioned Jonestown....
 
yes, I remembered about Jonestown massarce. I watched TV news. I was shocked about this horror story.
 
Hear Again said:
I was only 8 years old at the time and far too young to understand what happened at Jonestown.

However, I did watch two very interesting shows on CNN and MSNBC about Jonestown the other day. One of them (on CNN) was called, "Escape to Jonestown."

Whenever I think of what happened to all of those followers (especially their innocent children), it makes me sad. :( What saddens me most though is how all of the followers sang, danced and celebrated the night before not even realizing that they had less than 24 hours to live. :(
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I, too, was very young. I was about 10 or 11 years old when the massacre happened. I didn't know that much about it at the time, but learned more as I grew older.

It's very sad and tragic that something like that can happen. Even sadder, something like that could STILL happen. All it takes is one radical lunatic leading a group of people and promising better things for something tragic to happen. :(
 
Oceanbreeze said:
I, too, was very young. I was about 10 or 11 years old when the massacre happened. I didn't know that much about it at the time, but learned more as I grew older.

It's very sad and tragic that something like that can happen. Even sadder, something like that could STILL happen. All it takes is one radical lunatic leading a group of people and promising better things for something tragic to happen. :(
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It's really sad that I see people vunerable to this type of influence all the time.
 
Byrdie714 said:
The sad thing about it was the loss of so many children.
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Yes, indeed. Children that had been born and sustained life. Where are the anti-abortionists now? I don't see a lot of protest going on about the tragedy of these children killed at the hands of their parents under the direction of a religious leader. Nor of the ones that survived Jonestown, but were beaten and starved before the People's Temple ever relocated to Guyana. All in the name of God. All it takes is one man's desire to prey on the most vunerable. Take a look at David Koresh, Tony Alamo, and more.
 
I was 27 years old, so I remember it well. I was at home, and saw the reports on TV. It was awful how with each passing hour and day, the body count increased. The pictures were grusome.
 
Oceanbreeze said:
I, too, was very young. I was about 10 or 11 years old when the massacre happened. I didn't know that much about it at the time, but learned more as I grew older.

It's very sad and tragic that something like that can happen. Even sadder, something like that could STILL happen. All it takes is one radical lunatic leading a group of people and promising better things for something tragic to happen. :(
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I agree.

I'm so glad I was too young to understand what happened at Jonestown because if I were older, there's no doubt in my mind that it would have given me nightmares for weeks.

It's scary to think about how controlling someone like Jim Jones can be. And worse yet, Jim Jones took the easy way out by dying as the result of a gunshot wound to the head. What a chicken...he couldn't even die of cyanide poisoning like the rest of his victims did. :mad:
 
Reba said:
I was 27 years old, so I remember it well. I was at home, and saw the reports on TV. It was awful how with each passing hour and day, the body count increased. The pictures were grusome.
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But we're still the Kool-Aid Kids, right? ;)
 
Reba said:
I was 27 years old, so I remember it well. I was at home, and saw the reports on TV. It was awful how with each passing hour and day, the body count increased. The pictures were grusome.
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1951 eh? :)
 
jillio said:
... Where are the anti-abortionists now? I don't see a lot of protest going on about the tragedy of these children killed at the hands of their parents under the direction of a religious leader. ...
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How are present day anti-abortionists supposed to protest against 1978 Jonestown? :confused:

People did complain about the group back in the 70's. That's why they left the USA, and why Congressman Leo Ryan went to investigate.
 
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