Jim Jones went to lengths to hide the fact that his Guyana experiment was an abject failure.
In this series, Newsweek reconstructs the events leading to the Jonestown Massacre as it happened in 1978, day by day.There were many things about his eponymous settlement that Jim Jones wanted to hide. First on the list: it was an abject failure.
But although the Guyanese government touted Jonestown as a"model of cooperative agriculture," the community couldn't produce enough food to feed itself—much less hungry Guyanans. He also kept them tired. In the evenings, he summoned them to the pavilion, where they sat for hours listening to him rant about conspiracies to destroy the Temple. He made up fake news, telling them black children were being castrated in the streets of Chicago, and that eighty cities had been destroyed by race riots.
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