1960/1970 hippie movement question?

Question

what was that incident called where this famous guy and his cult following took like 100s of people to some city and then like drugged them and killed them...it happened in the 60s and 70s....i think it was in the US

i heard my dad talk about it over the phone but I wasn't sure what we was talkin about...can anybody give me the link of the story?

thanks

Answer 1

it sounds like it was the jonestown massacre and it didn't happen in the us, it happened in Guyana.

Answer 2

No, nothing to do with hippies. It was a religious cult called "The Peoples Temple" led by a character called Jim Jones. It was established in the 1950s, long before there were hippies and culminated in a massacre/suicide in Guyana in 1978, long after hippies had gone out of fashion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Temple

Answer 3

I believe you are feferring to the Jim Jones cult insident. Here it is.........James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was the American founder of the Peoples Temple group, which became synonymous with group suicide after the November 18, 1978 mass murder - suicide by poison in their isolated agricultural intentional community called Jonestown, located in the country of Guyana. Nine hundred thirteen (913) people drank cyanide after Jones ordered his men to kill visiting Congressman Leo Ryan and numerous members of his entourage.
The whole about why they went to that country is on Wikipedia. Hope it helps....

Answer 4

I think you're talking about Jonestown, and that happened in Guyana. It was a cult of people called the "People's Temple" and they started in California. Their leader, Jim Jones, moved them all to Guyana, and made a town named after himself. He isolated them from their family members. Then a senator, who had received many letters from family members went there, and took family members with him. He was shot and killed, as were many of the family members too. Jim Jones knew they would come looking for him after killing a senator, so he had them all drink poison, and a little over 900 people died. It was terrible.

Actually, they were living there as a religious cult, but he was responsible for moving the cult to Guyana in the first place. There he had the cult members build the encampment.

Answer 5

It was Novemeber 18th,1978, in a free love and hippie commune idealistic cult made village called jonestown in guiana, south America, several hundred, mostly Americans, many with spouses and children, went to set up what they thought was a utopia society, away fro goverments, stories f kidnapping, abuse and such prompted a US Congressman and other aides went down to investigate on urging from family memebers who believed there relatives where brain washed by the self called reverend, Jim Jones, who had been kicked out of Christian church Ministry, andwas not really a reverend, He through constant preaching, some times over 24 hrs with no rest for the listeners, he worked his twisted version of Bible teachings, to fit his egotistical and self important view of himself,which wa dilusional as one can get, beleiving himself, and promoting himself as a profet of God, and used armed henchmen to enforce his will. the Congressman and newsmen landed in a small plane, threy toured the place, and where leaving, when several of Jones men opened up and killed the Congressman and the newsman and the pilot, an some memebers that wanted to leave,a few ran into the bushes wounded and escaped. then Jim Jones had huge vats of Red Coolaid made up laced with cionide, convince his people that the establishment was coming to wreck there heaven on earth, and it wa the only way out, over 900 drank the poisoned Coolaid, and forced there children to do so also, it wa a horrible siight according to the few survivors, they all soon died,, Jim jones died with a bullet to the head, only about a dozen refused, and took off in hiding, they survive now and continue to warn people of the danger of new age cults, and false leaders and there utopian dreams, like what happened with david Koresh in the early 90s in wacko texas, similar, but about 15% of the scale of deaths at Jonestown.

Answer 6

November 1978, rev. jim jones killed over 900 people of his cult, I believe the peoples temple was what they called themselves. It took place in Jonestown, Guyana. I believe that is in south america.

Answer 7

~Assuming you are attempting to refer to James Jones and the Jonestown massacre in Guyana, it happened in 1978. Jones was not a hippy. He was a neo-con fundamentalist "christian" megalomaniac. There are any number of stories. Search James Jones, Jonestown, or Jonestown massacre.

Answer 8

He didn't take them there. They were already there living in a religious cult. Jim Jones, their leader, had a cult in Jonestown Guyana. Over 900 people died when they were forced to drink Cyanide laced grape kool aid. Pax - C

Answer 9

Jim Jones was not a part of the hippie movement. He was a Christian religious fanatic and madman, supported by the opposite side of the spectrum that hippies were on. He was supported by Conservative far-right in funding and membership who believed in "purity" and superiority of "chosen" people. Hippies promoted mutual respect and tolerance.

Answer 10

I know what you are feeling and going through. I was a part of the original flower child. I was fifteen when the Beatles started the British invasion. From there to the Stones Zombies Kinks Creme Jefferson Airplane and on and on. There will never again be the same feeling as the free love days within the decade of the sixties. Thanks for the memories. michaels. Surprise Az...........Gotcha beat! I moved here in 1997!