Mendocino County Stories: Jim Jones & The Peoples Temple
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Infamous cult leader Jim Jones told his congregation in Indiana that the world would be engulfed by nuclear war on July 15, 1967, leading to a new socialist Eden on Earth, and that the Peoples Temple must move to Northern California for safety. During 1964, Jones made multiple trips to California to find a suitable location to relocate. In July 1965, Jones and his followers began moving to their new location in Redwood Valley, California near the city of Ukiah.
Jones and his followers were aggressively recruiting new members and many people in the Ukiah area, including our parents, were approached about coming to a "meeting" or a "service" at some point in the late 1960's and early 1970's.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:02.9 | Welcome to the Syc Legal Pop podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm Brooke Brigham. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm the attorney. |
| 0:12.7 | And I'm Tess Brigham. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm the therapist. |
| 0:15.3 | And today is our second installment in what we're calling what Mendocino County stories yes stories of our childhood yes so we're we're doing episodes on things that happened in or around you know the town of Yucaya Mendocino County in general in northern California, where we are from. And this is a big one. |
| 0:42.9 | Today we're talking about Jim Jones and the People's Temple. Yes. And I think most people know about |
| 0:51.0 | this. This is one of the biggest cults in American history. |
| 0:56.7 | And, you know, actually when the followers, like almost a thousand followers died in |
| 1:05.4 | Jonestown, Guyana in 1978. |
| 1:14.9 | And it was at that time the largest casualty of American citizens. |
| 1:15.6 | Yes. |
| 1:18.6 | I read that, which is crazy. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.6 | It was a lot. |
| 1:21.8 | And it was a crazy time. |
| 1:23.4 | And there was a lot going on. |
| 1:26.5 | And we're going to talk about it all. |
| 1:28.7 | But also we're going to talk about our personal connection that we have to this because both of our parents or, you know, people attempted to recruit them. |
| 1:36.1 | Yes, people wanted our parents. That could have been us. That could have been us. And our father has an |
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