Jonestown Massacre & Jim Jones
Jim Jones & Peoples Temple
Born May 13, 1931 in Lynn, Indiana, James Warren Jones began to realize his talents early charismatic leader. According to his biographers he has, already in school drew his teammates with his histrionics, and controlled. With a high IQ, the time to face his studies Jones was particularly interested in characters like Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. He respected the new order that would implement the first in the USSR and the Machiavellian and oral skills in the second, whose objectives are not shared.
Jones began to show off his oratorical preaching on the streets of Lynn racial equality. As there no one was listening, he decided to move to Richmond, an industrial city where a fifth of the population was black and more permeable to his sermons. In 1952, after marrying Marceline Baldwin, also died in the masacre- and studying at a Methodist church in Indianapolis, Jones became reverend.
But his real goal was to form their own congregation, which, at the expense of studying the best evangelical preachers from the country by street vendor monkeys to obtain funds, achieved in April 1955 when he founded his organization, the Peoples Temple.
The group began helping poor and marginalized through a social center with free meals and an orphanage-the same Jones had adopted Marceline with children of different races and cultures and, ten years later, he moved to California The “promised land” for alternative religions.
Gradually, and after establishing in 1974 the headquarters of the Peoples Temple in San Francisco abandoned synagogue, Jones was gathering a congregation of thousands of followers. With his powers of persuasion and suggestion, he convinced them that he was a “savior”, come to Earth to fight racism, class differences and the nuclear holocaust. An incarnation of Jesus and Lenin.
Then ran conducive to the emergence of a charismatic personage of power, as winds Jones. The civil rights movement was still alive in the US and the emerging progressive politics extolled the pursuit of justice and equality.
In this effervescent climate, it is not surprising that Jones began to feel that his organization suffered the harassment of the media and conspiracies by the US government. Thus, in 1977, the Reverend decided to emigrate with a thousand-the most loyal blacks to Guyana, its new “promised land”. There, after rent 3582 acres in the Orinoco River basin, founded Jonestown, an agricultural commune then compared with some paradise. The members of the Peoples Temple grew fruit and vegetables, raised cattle and believed to live at last in a fair, multiracial and free place.
It was not like that. Over the months Jonestown became a virtual concentration camp residents could not get out and suffered abuse, mistreatment and even rape. As all this was becoming public thanks to the members who managed to “defect” to his family and to the press, Jim Jones concocted for himself and his flock, an apocalyptic end.
Now, The Catholic Church reopened last December 2015 in Guyana Temple of the Sacred Heart, where the cult leader Jim Jones US killed about 900 people in the 70s.
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