An idyllic society in which people of all races and classes would live together in harmony. That was the dream of Jim Jones, founder of the People’s Temple sect. Only that dream turned into a nightmare when 900 people took their own lives simultaneously. The story of a charismatic but paranoid leader, beatings and rehearsals for collective suicide. “Once he put his hands around my neck and said he wanted to die while strangling me.”
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“They made us believe we were drinking cyanide. To practice”: 900 members of the People’s Temple died in 1 day
