How Did Jones Commit Suicide

In 1977 Jones Jimes fled the United States, and nearly a thousand of his people’s temples cult. Deep in the South American jungle him and his cult built a new community to find a new way of life and called it “JonesTown”. Having a great image of a “home sweet home” and a get away “paradise” is soon died on November 18, 1978. More than 900 people were killed or others committed suicide by drinking laced Kool-Aid. Jones did have a dark side to this all as you can tell he killed nearly a thousand people. Reports say he was an abusive and sexual and also a thief. Many reports did come out into the news and a man from congress came out to see if this was actually true and he did bring journalist as well.
Later that same day, 909 inhabitants of Jonestown,304 of them children, died of apparent cyanide poisoning, mostly in and around the settlement's main pavilion. This resulted in the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act until the September 11 attacks.The FBI later recovered a 45-minute audio recording of the suicide in progress. On that tape, Jones tells Temple members …show more content…
at the Soviet Union, with whom the Temple had been negotiating a potential exodus for months, would not take them after the airstrip murders.The reason given by Jones to commit suicide was consistent with his previously stated conspiracy theories of intelligence organizations allegedly conspiring against the Temple, that men would "parachute in here on us", "shoot some of our innocent babies" and "they'll torture our children, they'll torture some of our people here, they'll torture our seniors".Parroting Jones' prior statements that hostile forces would convert captured children to fascism, one Temple member states "the ones that they take captured, they're