Jim Jones | Jonestown Pt. 1
Serial Killing : A Podcast
Elissa Kerrill
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Jim Jones and The People's Temple
This is the first half of the story of Jim Jones and his church, The People's Temple.
Lynetta's Writings: https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=65435
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| 0:00.0 | From about 15 years on and up a great deal of my thoughts were basically unshareable. |
| 0:16.1 | We are all evil in some form |
| 0:18.6 | or another. |
| 0:19.6 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:21.1 | Yes, I am not a hundred percent, but I am. |
| 0:25.0 | My mother was a sick, angry, hungry, and very sad woman. I hated her but I wanted to love my mother. |
| 0:37.0 | This is serial killing a podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | Hello and welcome to Serial Killing a Podcast where we also veer off the serial |
| 0:48.3 | killer path to delve into other topics within our beloved true crime community. |
| 0:55.1 | Also a quick note, a Spotify slash anchor has added a kind of question and answer section |
| 1:01.0 | in the podcast. So if you want to go into certain |
| 1:04.4 | podcasts that I've selected to answer questions I've left or leave feedback you are |
| 1:09.1 | free to do so. You can do that on Spotify. Now listen guys, I get it. |
| 1:15.0 | This story has been done time and time again. |
| 1:19.0 | Most of us could probably actually recite this story in our sleep. I have gotten so many requests for |
| 1:25.6 | Jim Jones and the Jonestown massacre for the past two years really since I've |
| 1:30.7 | been podcasting that I decided now is the time. |
| 1:34.3 | And I really was hesitant to do this one because we've heard the story so many times, but it's |
| 1:40.0 | important to remember that we veterans of the true crime community have a whole |
| 1:46.1 | generation or two behind us that are just beginning to kind of land on these stories, |
| 1:51.4 | find them, and they're very curious and they want to know. |
| 1:54.5 | And not only that, but I do think it's important to remember these stories so that we don't |
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