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* AmbiguousDisorder: To say Jim Jones wasn't right in the head is putting it mildly. His anti-social and manipulate tendencies are off the chart, and he has no problem wanting to kill his followers so they'll follow him in death.
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** Carter's story comes at the same time we hear the actual audio recording of the beginning of the massacre, in which children were forced to take the poisoned punch first. Young kids can be heard screaming in the background while Jones tells his followers to keep going. The entire sequence is a 10-minute installment of NightmareFuel.
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** Carter's story comes at the same time we hear the actual audio recording of the beginning of the massacre, in which children were forced to take the poisoned punch first. Young kids can be heard screaming in the background while Jones tells his followers to keep going. The entire sequence is a 10-minute installment of NightmareFuel.
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* DownerEnding: A ForegoneConclusion.
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* DrivenToSuicide: For almost the entire Jonestown settlement, on an enormous scale. Although some of the survivors would call it a [[PopCultureOsmosis mass murder instead of]] a [[BeamMeUpScotty mass suicide]], since they were tricked or forced into doing it. [[note]](Jones couldn't have done what he did alone. He had plenty of true believers/henchmen who were happy to help, including but not limited to Annie Moore, Sharon Amos, Carolyn Layton, Maria Katsaris, Larry Schacht, and all those who assisted him with giving/injecting the cyanide; Larry Layton and the other airstrip assassins; the guards with guns and crossbows that ringed the pavilion that prevented people from leaving; and Jones' wife Marceline, who helped coax people into drinking the poisoned punch. These were Jones' co-conspirators, not his victims.)[[/note]] Jones is widely considered to be the only person who ''really'' committed suicide, as he [[DirtyCoward shot himself in the head rather than drink the poison]] like his followers.
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* DrivenToSuicide: For almost the entire Jonestown settlement, on an enormous scale. Although some of the survivors would call it a [[PopCultureOsmosis mass murder instead of]] a [[BeamMeUpScotty mass suicide]], suicide, since they were tricked or forced into doing it. [[note]](Jones couldn't have done what he did alone. He had plenty of true believers/henchmen who were happy to help, including but not limited to Annie Moore, Sharon Amos, Carolyn Layton, Maria Katsaris, Larry Schacht, and all those who assisted him with giving/injecting the cyanide; Larry Layton and the other airstrip assassins; the guards with guns and crossbows that ringed the pavilion that prevented people from leaving; and Jones' wife Marceline, who helped coax people into drinking the poisoned punch. These were Jones' co-conspirators, not his victims.)[[/note]] Jones is widely considered to be the only person who ''really'' committed suicide, as he [[DirtyCoward shot himself in the head rather than drink the poison]] like his followers.
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** Then Carter himself: "[[KillEmAll It was fucking slaughter. Total fucking slaughter.]]"
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** Then Carter himself: "[[KillEmAll It "It was fucking slaughter. Total fucking slaughter.]]""
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* EyeBeams: Jones claimed that this was the reason for his SinisterShades.
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: Due to his excessive drug abuse, Jim Jones' eyes were noticeably bloodshot pretty much all the time (which is the reason he wore his trademark SinisterShades)
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* ReligionOfEvil: While it didn't start out this way, Jim Jones' cause degenerated from egalitarianism to blind worship of its increasingly maddened leader.
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* DirtyCommies: Jim Jones' movement was a weird combination of religious fervor and utopian socialism. By the time of the mass suicide, Jonestown had the worst aspects of a socialist society; beatings, torture, and a population subjected to the mad whims of an absolute ruler.
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* MurderBySuicide: A large-scale example. Jones manipulated his followers into being largely willing to kill themselves for him, with his goons shooting anyone who refused, all in order to spite the people coming to break up Jonestown and potentially save its denizens.
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* TheHorseshoeEffect: Jones' vision of the future was a socialist paradise, but Jonestown had many attributes of facsism: extreme surveillance of the residents, forced labor with little pay, and isolation from the outside world.
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* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The Peoples Temple and how it was run, with a message of social tolerance undermined by its being incredibly authoritarian. Jonestown was functionally a mini-totalitarian state, complete with armed guards, propaganda about how evil the outside world is, and brutal punishments for dissent.
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* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The Peoples Temple and how it was run, with a message of social tolerance undermined by its being incredibly authoritarian.authoritarian leader. Jonestown was functionally a mini-totalitarian state, complete with armed guards, propaganda about how evil the outside world is, and brutal punishments for dissent.
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* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The Peoples Temple and how it was run.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: To say Jim Jones wasn't right in the head is putting it mildly. His anti-social and manipulate tendencies are off the chart, and he has no problem wanting to kill his followers so they'll follow him in death.
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* AdultFear: Your children (and all of your family and friends) can be compelled to let themselves die based on the word of someone who is supposed to be their spiritual leader.
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* TruthInTelevision: Your children (and all of your family and friends) can be compelled to let themselves die based on the word of someone who is supposed to be their spiritual leader.
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''Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple'' is a 2006 documentary by Stanley Nelson, which aired in 2007 on Creator/{{PBS}}' ''American Experience''. It charts the story of UsefulNotes/JimJones and his Peoples Temple from their noble beginning in TheFifties, to their controversial history in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco in TheSeventies, to the notorious mass suicide at their Guyana compound on November 18, 1978. The film lacks any narration, instead allowing the story to be told by former Temple members themselves and archive footage of Jones.
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''Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple'' is a 2006 documentary by Stanley Nelson, which aired in 2007 on Creator/{{PBS}}' ''American Experience''. It charts the story of UsefulNotes/JimJones and his Peoples Temple from their noble beginning in TheFifties, to their controversial history in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco in most of TheSeventies, to the notorious mass suicide at their Guyana compound on November 18, 1978. The film lacks any narration, instead allowing the story to be told by former Temple members themselves and archive footage of Jones.
