The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Founded by Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple was a cult with ideological radical political, religious and racial aims. In an attempt to create a socialist utopia, Jones established a remote agricultural project settlement in Guyana, known as Jonestown. Here, under Jones’...
Annie Dawid on Paradise Undone Annie, why did you want to write about Jonestown? In the 1980s, two friends disappeared into a cult. Later, I met others whose friends also vanished, some dying in their chosen communities, like Heaven’s Gate. Our friends who joined...
Jonestown: Paradise Undone “The first body I saw was off to the side, alone. Five more steps and I saw another and another and another; hundreds of bodies. The Newsweek reporter was walking around saying, “I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it.” Another guy said,...
