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Serial Killing : A Podcast

Jim Jones | Jonestown Pt.2

Serial Killing : A Podcast

Elissa Kerrill

True Crime

4.3 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Here is part two of my Jim Jones and the Jonestown Massacre.  

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0:00.0

From about 15 years on and

0:05.0

15 years on and up, a great deal of my thoughts were basically unshareable.

0:16.1

We are all eager in some form or another.

0:19.8

Oh yeah.

0:21.2

Yes, I am not 100 hundred percent, but I am you.

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

0:49.2

serial killer path to delve into other topics within our beloved true crime community.

0:57.0

This is part two of the Jim Jones and the Jones Town massacre.

1:03.0

Without further ado, let's just dive right in.

1:06.0

Jim's church called The People's Temple

1:09.0

was officially named that in 1956

1:12.0

when Jim was 25 years old.

1:15.0

Two years prior, he and his wife Marceline had adopted a little Native American girl named Agnes.

1:24.3

Then after they adopted three more Korean American children named Lou,

1:29.8

Stephanie, and Suzanne by 1969.

1:35.0

Jim stated that his family was a quote rainbow family and said quote integration is

1:41.9

a more personal thing with me now.

1:44.6

It's a question of my son's future.

1:47.7

Unquote.

1:49.5

Now this was a smart maneuver on Jim's part, and it was just that. Don't mistake it.

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