26: The Jonestown Massacre: Part One

Hey guys! Welcome to Crime & Spirits Podcast where your hosts, Bree & Suze, teach you all about some true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. This week the girls are bringing you part one of two episodes about The Jonestown Massacre. Jim Jones is notorious for starting the doomsday cult, The Peoples Temple, and was able to manipulate over 900 people to lay down their lives for his cause. What may have started as a response to aid in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and a search for religious freedom quickly spiraled into something much darker. In part one, the girls talk about Jim's upbringing, his religious journey, and how he started The Peoples Temple. 

Suze mixed up a purple punch for the occasion, a sweet treat that will help us navigate this crazy case. So buckle up buttercups, sip tight, and let's talk about some true crime!

Sources:

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PGfwvrSEn0 (mass murder jim jones’ son speaks out-the oprah Winfrey show)

· https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/jonestown-13-things-you-should-know-about-cult-massacre-121974/

· https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/red-scare

· https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/communism

· https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Methodism/443427

· https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/subdivisions/pentecostal_1.shtml#:~:text=Pentecostalism%20is%20a%20form%20of,Pentecostalism%20is%20energetic%20and%20dynamic.

· http://www.voiceofhealing.info/02_1947-1958/overview.html

· https://www.revival-library.org/revival_histories/neo_pentecostal/latter_rain/latter_rain_intro.shtml

· https://www.distractify.com/p/jim-jones-children

· https://www.history.com/news/jonestown-massacre-radio-recordings-jim-jones#:~:text=Using%20code%2C%20Jones%20told%20Amos,nothing%20to%20commit%20suicide%20with.

· Jonestown.sdsu.edu

· Murderpedia.com

· FBI.gov

· Britannica.com

· Wikipedia.com