34 - Jonestown Massacre: Cult leader Jim Jones and his mass suicide in South America

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2017

⏱️ 87 minutes

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The most insane suck yet, Timesuckers. How did a pastor and political activist convince nearly 1,000 people to move from California to a communist jungle compound in Guyana and then kill themselves by drinking poisoned Flavor Aid? Listen, find out, and take advantage of some great deals from this episode's sponsors! *** Turn your commute into something more with a free trial at Audible. Go to Audible.com/timesuck to start sucking their many audiobooks right now. *** Timesuckers can also join the Dollar Shave Club and get their 1st month of the Executive Razor with a tube of Dr. Carver’s Shave Butter for ONLY $5 with FREE shipping. You can only get this offer exclusively at DollarShaveClub.com/timesuck.

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0:00.0	At 520 local time, Saturday, November 18, 1978, on the port, Kaituma, Airstrip, and Guyana,
0:08.9	members of the People's Temple, a religious and communist cult founded by American preacher
0:13.8	and political activist Jim Jones, gunned down, former mayor of San Francisco, and California
0:20.1	Congressman Leo Ryan.
0:22.0	Four other members of Ryan's mission to investigate the cult's compound and save anyone who was
0:26.3	trapped there were also shot dead.
0:29.1	Another 11 were wounded.
0:30.8	Within a few hours, over 900 more Americans would die in the jungle of South America, including
0:36.5	nearly 300 children.
0:39.0	Jim Jones had given his followers the order to commit revolutionary suicide.
0:44.0	In order some, except willingly, and those who didn't were forced to accept.
0:48.9	And everyone got a death cup of grape, flavorade, laced with valium, chlorohydrate, cyanide,
0:55.0	and finergan.
0:56.4	Only a handful of the residents of Jonestown there that day would make it out alive.
1:01.3	Why did Jim Jones order the deaths of his own followers?
1:04.6	Why did he have the congressman killed?
1:07.4	Why did nearly a thousand people follow Jim Jones the jungles of South America in the
1:11.1	first place?
1:12.6	Find out all you ever wanted to know and more about the event that launched the phrase,
1:17.4	don't drink kool-aid, and quite possibly the most insane episode yet of TimeSuck.
1:26.4	Happy Monday, everybody.
1:35.7	I'm Dan Cummins, and thanks for listening to TimeSuck.
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