Peoples Temple members in Guyana, South America, in 1978. She said that Jones became increasingly paranoid. "He begins to lose perception of reality, bit by bit,” Guinn said. "He's convinced himself that he is some sort of superhuman martyr." RELATED: The Patty Hearst saga: How an American heiress went from kidnap victim to outlaw Jones became obsessed with “revolutionary suicide,” and insisted his followers be prepared to die for their cause. He had them unknowingly rehearse for death by having them drink a Kool-Aid-like fruit punch he claimed had been poisoned. Only after most of the people drank did he tell them it was not poison.
The Rev. Jim Jones and his wife, Marceline, taken from a photo album left behind in Jonestown, Guyana. Leslie Wagner-Wilson was 19 when she moved to Guyana with her family. “We all are looking for a place to fit in to the world. We're looking for love. We're looking for acceptance. And Jim Jones provided that,” she said. RELATED: The eerie connection between the Patty Hearst saga and the Jonestown tragedy It didn’t take long for some followers to grow disenchanted. They worked long days in the fields and failed to get enough food. "Jonestown was described as this paradise, and it was not,” Wagner-Wilson said. "As some time wore on, I realized there was no future in Jonestown.”
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The Rev. Jim Jones and his wife, Marceline, taken from a photo album left behind in Jonestown, Guyana.
Leslie Wagner-Wilson was 19 when she moved to Guyana with her family.
“We all are looking for a place to fit in to the world. We're looking for love. We're looking for acceptance. And Jim Jones provided that,” she said.
It didn’t take long for some followers to grow disenchanted. They worked long days in the fields and failed to get enough food.
"Jonestown was described as this paradise, and it was not,” Wagner-Wilson said. "As some time wore on, I realized there was no future in Jonestown.”
As part of a weeklong series examining some of the biggest crimes and cults of the 20th century, TODAY revisits the religious movement responsible for the forced suicide of more than 900 people.
Jones called it the Peoples Temple. He formed the congregation in his native Indiana but moved it to California in the 1960s. He opened branches throughout the state, but made his home and headquarters in San Francisco. He became known as a charismatic minister with a multiracial family. Many also viewed him as a civil rights leader.
The Rev. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of the movement known as Peoples Temple.
"What you would get in Jim Jones' church, no matter who you were, no matter what you'd done, was respect,” said Jeff Guinn, author of “The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple.”
In the 1970s, Jones persuaded nearly one thousand followers to move with him to a remote jungle in Guyana, an English-speaking nation along the northern Atlantic coast of South America.
“The concept was to build a new world,” said Jim Jones, Jr., one of several children adopted by the Peoples Temple leader.The Rev. Jim Jones and his wife, Marceline, taken from a photo album left behind in Jonestown, Guyana. Leslie Wagner-Wilson was 19 when she moved to Guyana with her family. “We all are looking for a place to fit in to the world. We're looking for love. We're looking for acceptance. And Jim Jones provided that,” she said. RELATED: The eerie connection between the Patty Hearst saga and the Jonestown tragedy It didn’t take long for some followers to grow disenchanted. They worked long days in the fields and failed to get enough food. "Jonestown was described as this paradise, and it was not,” Wagner-Wilson said. "As some time wore on, I realized there was no future in Jonestown.”
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"He begins to lose perception of reality, bit by bit,” Guinn said. "He's convinced himself that he is some sort of superhuman martyr."
Jones became obsessed with “revolutionary suicide,” and insisted his followers be prepared to die for their cause. He had them unknowingly rehearse for death by having them drink a Kool-Aid-like fruit punch he claimed had been poisoned.
Only after most of the people drank did he tell them it was not poison.
The Rev. Jim Jones and his wife, Marceline, taken from a photo album left behind in Jonestown, Guyana. Leslie Wagner-Wilson was 19 when she moved to Guyana with her family. “We all are looking for a place to fit in to the world. We're looking for love. We're looking for acceptance. And Jim Jones provided that,” she said.
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RELATED: The eerie connection between the Patty Hearst saga and the Jonestown tragedy It didn’t take long for some followers to grow disenchanted. They worked long days in the fields and failed to get enough food. "Jonestown was described as this paradise, and it was not,” Wagner-Wilson said. "As some time wore on, I realized there was no future in Jonestown.”
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