A Remembrance of Jonestown:
On November 18th, 1978, 913 followers of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple committed a mass suicide in northern Guyana at a site called, Jonestown. An examination of the Temple cannot omit the question of why so many folks would commit suicide in the name of their new faith (or at the behest of a single man). Jones, apparently, saw the suicide as a revolutionary act, and in the last years of the Temple, an emphasis on religious ideas, particularly those of mainstream Christianity, was replaced by an emphasis on the political nature of the group.
The 25th Year Silver Anniversary Jonestown Memorial Service "Remembering to Remember the 913 Lives Lost At Jonestown
OAKLAND, CA
November 18, 2003 @ 11:00 AM
Evergreen Cemetery
6450 Camden Ave
posted by Richard at
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
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