Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
This is an amazing documentary. I show it in my Psych class when we cover Social Psych.
posted by Mr. Carlisle at 5:10 PM
Friday, November 16, 2007
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- Name: Mr. Carlisle
- Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
I'm a native South Carolinian and I attained my undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of South Carolina. I taught fourth grade for two years in the Mississippi Delta and two years at an alternative high school in Western North Carolina. I have been at Tigard High School since the fall of 2003, where I teach U.S. History and Psychology.
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12 Comments:
yeah I remember that video, its really creepy that somebody would ask people to kill themselves and that they would actually do it. Jim Jones was one messed up person. its so sad, especially when people were killing their children. I totally cannot understand why anyone would do that. =(
6:36 PM
soooo creepy....jonestown looked like a perfect community...everyone looked happy...i still dont get why jim jone would do that...the last picture in the video with the dead people lying on the ground, is really haunting me
10:04 PM
I know John. Depressing stuff.
10:26 PM
I listened to the enitre audio clip of Jones when he was trying to get people to kill themselves. He actually said "life is pointless" and you could hear eveyone in the background praising him.
10:45 PM
Jason,
That clip really shows how far gone Jones really was. 904 people chose death over life that day.
10:47 PM
SO many black people..thats so wrong..I can beleive they believed that anti-christ..lol..anti-christ..
3:10 PM
the last comment was mine but it posted without me finishing
3:10 PM
CGH,
Good. I was about to delete it.
3:11 PM
So it's 11/18 and on youtube peeps hav remembrance vids..I feel really sick when I think about this subjects and agnostic..thanks a lot carlisle.
actually I had no idea this happened . so actually thanks..
7:45 PM
CAT,
I know this stuff is disturbing but you need to know about it. Wait until we get lynching in the South following the Civil War. That's incredibly disturbing.
7:50 PM
yea it is but I do find it interesting..do you have reasons why jim was like that? pschy wise? do you ever explain that? I listen to the recording and he talks to the Afro-am like he's one of them and says "most that left were white..they take away our homes.."
I don't get it..did they bu8ild up to trusting him so much?
7:58 PM
Jim Jones was a very interesting man. He grew up in Indiana and had a very strange upbrining to say the least. Long story short, he was a psychopath and narcissist. Look those terms up.
Yes, he does sound like a preacher in an all-black church. He was incredibly charismatic and a great speaker. He had a magnetic personality that drew people into him.
If you don't get sick of me or my teaching you should take my Psych class. It's offered next semester fourth period only and it's an A/B class. It's good to get a taste of Psych if you aren't sure about IB Psych. That class takes no prisoners and can kick your butt if you let it.
9:06 PM
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