Real Images And Recordings Of The Jonestown Massacre

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The Jonestown massacre has been one of the most chilling news in recent memory before 9/11 occurred. The fateful fact, returns from the past in a report that will be broadcast on the Reelz television channel as one of the episodes of the docuserie, Murder Made me Famous.

Forty years later, the events that occurred in the tragedy on November 18, 1978 are recounted in great detail. In it, Jim Jones orchestrated a collective suicide of 918 members of a remote commune in Guyana, South America. Women, men and children, members of The Temple of the People, killed themselves by drinking cyanide.

A member of the sect, Jordan Vilchez, managed to escape death because he was at the group's headquarters, 150 miles away. In statements for this documentary, he assures that probably if he had been at the scene, he would also have committed suicide.

"She would have been so shocked to see babies and children dying that she surely would have done it without knowing what she was doing, just because of the impact," explains the protagonist and witness, who also admits that it is difficult for her to have felt excited about die like this. "I don't think anyone wants to die, who wants to die, right?"

There are recordings of the terrible moment that the FBI withdrew and that are known under the name of 'the death tape'. For the first time, they will be shown to viewers in this space and they will reveal the way in which these so-called leaders manipulate their followers.

As something special, the program broadcasts real recordings of the events without re-enactments, as it usually does. This time it will be the harsh reality and the images captured at that time will be made public without cheating or cardboard.

Since then the case has been studied numerous times by criminologists and historians. The question now is, could something similar occur in these times. "I hope not," says Patrick O'Reilly Ph. D, a clinical psychologist who specializes in cults who has published several books on this massacre and notes that followers generally seek meaning in life, structure, and why..

With this documentary, the new generations will be able to see through real interviews, images and first-hand data what can happen and discover the signs to pay attention to to avoid something like this.