Case 60: Jonestown (Part 1)

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🗓️ 16 September 2017

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

[Part 1 of 3]

During childbirth, Lynetta Jones’ deceased mother appeared to her in a vision and prophesied that the baby would one day become a great man. Lynetta’s son was Jim Warren Jones, who grew up to become the leader of a new religious movement he named ‘The Peoples Temple’.

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0:00.0	Our episodes deal with serious and often distressing incidents. If you feel at any time you need support, please contact your local crisis centre.
0:21.0	For suggested phone numbers for confidential support, please see the show notes for this episode on your app or on our website.
0:31.0	This series on Jane's Town deals with horrific events. The series deals with mass murder and suicide of men, women and children, as well as other abuses.
0:41.0	The episodes are graphic and distressing, especially episode 3. It will not be suitable for all listeners. Please use your discretion.
0:53.0	How very much I've loved you. How very much I've tried my best to give you.
1:00.0	The good life.
1:04.0	I've tried my best to give you.
1:10.0	But in spite of all of my pride, I have been able to handle people with their lives, with my life impossible.
1:22.0	There is no way to detach yourself from what has happened today.
1:27.0	Not only we're in a compound situation, not only are there those who have left and committed the betrayal of the censor.
1:38.0	I was stolen from others and they're in pursuit right now to kill them because they stole their children.
1:45.0	And we are sitting here waiting on a powder cake.
1:49.0	I don't think this is what we want to do with our babies.
1:53.0	It was dead by the greatest of profits. From time immemorial, no man late takes my life for me. I lay my life down.
2:23.0	During the Labor Day of her first and only child on May 13, 1931, Lena de Jones experienced a near death mystic vision.
2:32.0	The spirit of Lena de's deceased mother appeared before her. The spirit prophesies that Lena de's newborn baby would one day become a great man.
2:41.0	Lena de never wanted to be a mother, but she did believe in destiny.
2:46.0	The vision convinced her she had just given birth to almost all.
2:50.0	When I had a black-haired baby was named James Warren Jones after his father, but everyone called him Jim.
2:57.0	Jim Jones was born in Crete, a small country town in the state of Indiana.
3:02.0	Crete consisted of half a dozen farms, with a population of only 28 people.
3:08.0	Approximately 80 miles away from the city of Indianapolis, Crete was less a village and more a stop place.
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