From Archive.org, one of the more disturbing historical artifacts of the late 20th Century: “An audio recording made on November 18, 1978, at the Peoples Temple compound in Jonestown, Guyana immediately preceding and during the mass suicide or murder of over 900 members of the cult.”
A good deal more on Jonestown, including transcripts of various tapes such as this one, can be found here: http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/.
I remember when this happened. I was 11—too young to wrap my head around the insanity of a mass suicide of 900 people.
Actually, I’m still too young.
Listening to this… chills the blood.
And you wonder what courage it must have taken for Christine Miller — whose rebellious voice you hear on the first half of the recording — to take the microphone and speak against Jim Jones.
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I wasn’t going to reblog this until I saw Foul Mouthed Liberty’s commentary on Jackie Speier. WOW. I wrote about her...
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For a long time I studied a great deal about cults; Jonestown was definitely one of them. It’s fascinating and...
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This is the single most terrifying thing I have ever heard. This is what happens when you lack skepticism.
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I was so shaken by this recording. I knew about Jonestown and the mass suicide, but to hear the way in which people...
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I can’t believe there’s a tape of this. I kind of can’t believe I listened to it all. I read through some of the source...
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I’ve read about this of course, but listening to it is chilling. You hear him say “…without me life has no meaning” and...
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this is sobering.
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