Some questions about the Jim Jones incident?

Question

1) what do you think would have happebed had he and his cult not committed mass suicide after his men murdered the congressman? would the US have sent over troops to arrest him and shut him down and arrest him?

2) What was the Gyuanese government reaction to all of this?

3) How did the reporter and several others survive the shootout on the airstrip?

Answer 1

Jim Jones was the founder and leader of Jonestown, Guyana, a community of over 900 members of The People's Temple Full Gospel Church, an offshoot of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Jones had been an untrained preacher in Indiana and California before moving his congregation to Guyana to avoid government scrutiny. In November of 1978, U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan visited Jonestown to investigate allegations of human rights abuses. Ryan and his group were murdered at Jonestown, and on November 18, 1978 Jim Jones and 911 of his followers committed suicide or were murdered. Initial reports said the members drank Kool-Aid laced with cyanide, but a report from the Guyanese coroner said that hundreds of the bodies showed needle marks, indicating foul play. The U.S. government has not released all the documents pertinent to their investigation of the incident, further complicating the long-held conspiracy theory that Jonestown was a mind-control experiment conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency.


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Answer 2

I think it would have been likely that the US would have sent in a limited strike force to arrest Jones and his henchmen, probably with the permission of the Guyana government.

Those who survived the ambush on the airstrip were those who managed to get to the jungle and hide. I think all of them were wounded. Some were further away from the shooters when they started shooting. If I remember right there were two planes, not one, that they were boarding and all those with the congressman at the one plane were killed.

Answer 3

I think that if Jim Jones had not have caused group suicide to cover up his inconsistencies, after the murder, of preaching Love, not hate, to his congregation of men/women/children; a Negotiator would have been brought in to negotiate terms and they probably would have been able to release the hostages (his congregation) without bloodshed- let alone death. I didn't catch everything regarding this incident; especially about shoot-out.