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[♪ ominous music playing]
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[inaudible dialogue]
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[Jim Jones]
And all these are our youngsters,
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you know, they're all happy,
look at, uh, Tommy.
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You wanna go back to the States?
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-No. Mm-mm.
-[Jim Jones] No way?
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I can't get you to go back to the States?
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-[Tommy] No.
-[Jim Jones laughs]
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[Jim Jones] He says he won't go back.
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Obviously, that's the general attitude.
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I don't wanna go back either.
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-Nobody wants to go.
-I'm happy down here.
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Everybody's happy down here.
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You can see that that's an obvious fact.
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♪♪
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[Thom Bogue]
I had actually been part of this
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since I was, like,
five years old and I hated it,
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I was angry all the time,
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I had no childhood to speak of...
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and wanted nothing more...
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than to escape that place and...
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get back to the United States,
get back home.
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That's all I really wanted,
that's all I could think about.
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[♪ ominous music playing]
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[inaudible dialogue]
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I just remember it's like,
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just this massive relief
just washed over me
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'cause we were leaving.
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And then Jones, of course,
wanted to talk to my mom.
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He was deeply hurt
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'cause our family
had been part of that church
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for many, many, many years.
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I understand.
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I understand the love of your family.
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It's not that I don't think what
you're doing here is wonderful,
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because I do.
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Just know that there's always
a place for you here with us.
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[mouths] Yeah.
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Always a place.
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♪♪
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[Charles Krause]
It was pretty shocking.
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It's not every day that
somebody tries to kill a congressman.
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[inaudible dialogue]
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[Bogue]
And it was like total confusion.
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Does that mean all hell's
gonna break loose now?
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Are we gonna be attacked?
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[♪ ominous music playing]
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What does this mean?
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That's all you had...
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what does this mean?
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[♪ symphonic theme music playing]
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[inaudible dialogue]
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[♪ music continues]
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[inaudible dialogue]
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[inaudible dialogue]
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[♪ music continues]
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[inaudible dialogue]
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[inaudible chanting]
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[♪ music continues]
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[inaudible dialogue]
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[♪ ominous music playing]
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[birds chirping]
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[Bogue] There was around 30 of us
who were all trying to get out of there.
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Uh, the congressman,
the news crew, the journalists,
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and us families.
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We just needed to get on those planes.
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You're standing right there
at that airstrip
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just a few miles from Jonestown,
anything could still happen.
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[Jackie Speier]
Congressman Ryan,
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he had this shirt
that was now blood stained.
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I was thinking, "My God, we just,
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we just got out of here
in the nick of time."
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[Steve Sung]
We arrived at the airstrip.
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By that time, we all wanted to
get out of the place real fast.
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It was the first time we got a chance
to speak to Congressman Ryan
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since someone tried to stab him.
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NBC reporter Don Harris wanted
to interview him about it.
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[Don Harris] What happened?
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I stood up and was,
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uh, had been talking with, uh,
the two attorneys for the Temple, uh,
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and, uh, suddenly
the knife was around my neck
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and, uh, I, I was in danger,
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and I pushed the hand away,
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uh, fell back against him,
others grabbed him
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and, uh...
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uh, pulled him off me and I...
that's where we are.
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[Harris] Did he say anything
when he came up?
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Yeah, he said, uh, something about,
uh, rob and choke and kill
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and, uh, or knife, I don't know.
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[stammers] What he said was
he intended to kill me.
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Uh, he was tough and...
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I mean, in a good way,
I mean, he was not a crybaby,
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and he just says,
"Let's just get out of here."
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[Bogue]
I remember being excited,
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excited about the fact
I'm getting away from this place.
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The mixed feeling, I remember that one,
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between relief
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and fear at the same time.
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Relief you're out of there,
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but fearful...
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in knowing what could happen still.
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I was thinking to myself,
"What Jim Jones was going to do next?"
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[♪ dramatic music buildup]
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[Stephan Jones] I imagine people
in Jonestown were wondering,
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"Would Dad really let them leave?"
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I wasn't there that day, um,
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but I know that his following
was his whole life.
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People talk about that
Jim Jones was a good man
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who got lost in power and drugs,
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and whatever, and, you know,
he became sick later on,
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but I had a very different
perspective on my father,
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and I saw behind the curtain.
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A lot of my father's craziness
was well hidden for years, um,
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but he was as nuts as anybody gets.
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[inaudible dialogue]
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He really just was constantly trying
to feel better about himself.
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And I think he was tortured
because the more he acted on his impulses,
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because he was an addict and he didn't,
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it wasn't just substances that he used
to feel better in the moment.
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He had no boundaries around what he could,
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should or shouldn't do.
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[inaudible dialogue]
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One of the first things
Dad did when he got to Jonestown
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was to take people's
passports away from them.
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If you wanted to go back Stateside,
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you had to ask his permission.
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[Jim Jones speaking]
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[Peoples Temple Member speaking]
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♪♪
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[airplane blades whirring]
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[Bogue] At Port Kaituma airstrip,
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there was one plane there already,
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realized that there weren't
enough seats in one plane
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and so they had to order another plane.
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You're on pins and needles
for the entire time
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where you're waiting
for that plane to arrive.
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You could tell everybody's
kinda feeling the same thing.
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And then finally you hear
the plane coming.
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[plane engine rumbling]
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[Speier]
I had this huge sense of relief
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that finally we were
going to get out of here.
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Many of the defectors were anxious.
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They were fearful,
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and they just wanted out
and they wanted out fast.
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They were becoming increasingly worried
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that Jim Jones would be plotting
revenge back in Jonestown.
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♪♪
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[announcer] [on PA]
Simons, Bobby Simons.
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Please come to the radio room.
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Bobby Simons.
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[♪ eerie music playing]
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Jones was just, um, absolutely furious
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and it scared the crap out of me,
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you know, my intuition
was telling me something.
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[announcer] Bobby Simons,
please come to the radio room.
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[Carter] After the congressman
left to go to the airstrip,
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the atmosphere in Jonestown
was somber, sadness.
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I was in complete and total
and utter shock.
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I mean, really, just,
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it was like a,
a completely different level,
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it went from, um, people leaving to
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somebody tried to
just murder a congressman.
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And it was horrible.
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[inaudible dialogue]
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Um, but Jones is, he's going...
[smacking lips]
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..."I've never felt
Jonestown so peaceful."
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Just gave me chills throughout my body
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and I wanted to scream at him, "Peaceful?"
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I'm in agony here,
there's people in agony here
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and you say Jonestown is the most peaceful
you've ever felt it?
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I mean, it was lunacy.
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It was the way he said it
and the look on his face,
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it was creepy and then he said,
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he goes, "I think somebody
might do something."
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[inaudible dialogue]
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♪♪
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We accelerated, uh, the,
the boarding of the large plane.
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[Bogue] My family,
we ended up on the bigger plane.
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Outside still was Ryan,
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photography crew, reporters,
the aide, Jackie Speier.
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[Tim Reiterman] Meantime,
members of Peoples Temple
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on a dump truck and a tractor trailer
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became a cause for concern,
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especially the ex-members, they said,
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"I think we've got trouble,"
you know, "Watch yourself."
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[Krause] A tractor and a trailer,
it started coming towards us
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across the airstrip.
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[Speier] I never saw it
come on to the airstrip
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'cause my back was to them,
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and I was busy placing people
on the two planes.
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People said, "Let's get on the plane,
let's get out of here."
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We didn't really have any idea
what was about to happen.
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And then, when the tractor trailer
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pulls up near us,
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suddenly I saw the gunmen.
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[♪ ominous music playing]
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-[gunshots]
-[man groans]
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[static]
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[Sung] When I seen
my partner Bob Brown get killed,
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that's when I got really scared.
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I saw them get off the truck,
climbing out of the truck with rifles,
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I know they're gonna
get to me before long,
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I thought for sure I'm goner.
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There's no place to hide,
there's no protection.
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At that moment, we know we are dead.
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They were firing all over the place.
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I mean, I don't think I've ever
heard a gun fired before,
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I mean, pop, pop, pop,
and people started screaming.
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Everyone started to scatter, who could,
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some people were yelling.
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The gunshots rang out
and at first, I didn't know what it was
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and then I saw Congressman Ryan got hit
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and I thought, "Oh, my God."
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I was horrified.
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I raced around to the side of the plane
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and, and was trying to hide
behind the wheel.
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So, right away, I put my face
flat on the ground,
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covered my head with my arms,
tried to hide.
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And I just waited
for the shooting to end.
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Um...
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[clicks tongue]
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and then, um...
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and then I was shot,
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and I realized that, um,
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this was gonna be it,
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that I was going to die.
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I said the Act of Contrition
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because I was, um, raised
as a good Catholic girl, um...
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and I just waited
for the lights to go out.
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-[gunshots]
-[man groans]
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♪♪
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[Bogue] When the shooting started,
we're already in the plane.
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They start going around
shooting around people outside.
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You know, it's true what they say,
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that seems, seem like they're
happening in slow motion
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but everything is moving really fast.
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They went ahead and started shooting
into our plane through the door
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and the lady in front of me,
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the back of her head got shot off
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and her brain literally fell at my feet
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which kinda, like,
set in, this is for real.
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You know, my father
had told me previously,
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"If anything happens here,
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grab your sisters and run to the jungle."
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So, I did.
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[Reiterman] I tried to take shelter
behind, um, a wheel,
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just about as I hit the ground,
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uh, I got, I got shot
in the left arm and wrist.
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I jumped up and ran for the jungle,
252
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clawed my way in some brush
253
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where I was safe for the moment on my own
254
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and I could cinch my wounds with my belt.
255
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The mind was just running a mile a minute.
256
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We were deep into the jungle.
257
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We're thinking they're tracking us.
258
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What nobody knew
is I'd actually been shot.
259
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It was like, "Oh, crap,
half my leg's missing."
260
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[♪ dark music playing]
261
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[Krause] On the airstrip,
262
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there was no place for me to hide.
263
00:18:20,224 --> 00:18:22,017
They were firing all over the place.
264
00:18:22,101 --> 00:18:23,685
Dirt would spray up.
265
00:18:23,769 --> 00:18:25,646
Every time one would come near me,
266
00:18:25,729 --> 00:18:27,564
you know, the dirt would spray.
267
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Uh, a bullet hit my side,
it was powerful, boom!
268
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It really... it's just very powerful.
269
00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,495
and I thought, I'm gonna die.
270
00:18:42,621 --> 00:18:44,998
They kept firing, and then it stopped.
271
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Somebody got off the tractor trailer truck
272
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and fired three shots, as I remember,
273
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very close to where I was.
274
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As they came, uh, around
275
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and, and actually shot us
at point-blank range,
276
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they had targeted who they wanted to kill.
277
00:19:06,436 --> 00:19:08,188
And I think what they were doing was...
278
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making sure that
the congressman had been killed
279
00:19:12,526 --> 00:19:15,445
and whoever else they shot.
280
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The only thing I could think of
to do was to play dead
281
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and think that,
well, if they think I'm dead
282
00:19:20,951 --> 00:19:22,953
maybe they're not gonna shoot me again.
283
00:19:23,328 --> 00:19:25,372
I... I, I thought that moment that...
284
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[clears throat] ...just a matter of time
285
00:19:27,166 --> 00:19:28,876
they will get to me for sure,
286
00:19:28,959 --> 00:19:30,586
I know it's coming.
287
00:19:30,669 --> 00:19:33,755
It's, it's instinct tells you
that's the end.
288
00:19:37,217 --> 00:19:39,720
All of a sudden, I looked around
and I saw what had happened.
289
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Five people had been killed.
290
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♪♪
291
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Congressman Ryan...
292
00:19:56,945 --> 00:19:59,156
Don Harris, the NBC correspondent...
293
00:20:03,493 --> 00:20:06,288
Patricia Parks, one of the defectors...
294
00:20:10,542 --> 00:20:12,502
Greg Robinson, a photographer
295
00:20:12,586 --> 00:20:14,504
with the San Francisco Examiner...
296
00:20:18,592 --> 00:20:21,178
and Bob Brown, the NBC cameraman.
297
00:20:23,555 --> 00:20:27,809
Another dozen or so had been
really very badly wounded.
298
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It was a question of how could,
what could we do with the wounded,
299
00:20:30,479 --> 00:20:31,605
the really badly wounded people?
300
00:20:31,688 --> 00:20:34,900
So, we dragged them over into the grass
301
00:20:34,983 --> 00:20:37,444
because we thought
maybe that the assassins
302
00:20:37,527 --> 00:20:39,947
were gonna come back,
so we tried to hide them.
303
00:20:43,533 --> 00:20:45,410
[Reiterman] There was an ongoing threat
304
00:20:45,494 --> 00:20:49,748
that the Peoples Temple gunmen
could return.
305
00:20:50,290 --> 00:20:52,751
We needed a safe place to get people
306
00:20:52,834 --> 00:20:55,087
and so the most severely wounded
307
00:20:55,170 --> 00:20:58,090
were taken to a tent
at the end of the airstrip.
308
00:20:58,674 --> 00:21:00,550
The rest of us were afforded shelter
309
00:21:00,634 --> 00:21:03,971
in, um, in a small rum shop.
310
00:21:09,768 --> 00:21:14,773
[Krause] As all of this was going on,
one of the planes suddenly,
311
00:21:14,856 --> 00:21:17,651
the propellor starts and it takes off.
312
00:21:20,862 --> 00:21:23,991
♪♪
313
00:21:24,074 --> 00:21:25,075
It was the pilots,
314
00:21:25,158 --> 00:21:26,576
they didn't tell us they were going,
315
00:21:26,660 --> 00:21:28,412
they didn't take the wounded
people with them.
316
00:21:29,913 --> 00:21:31,081
I remember saying
317
00:21:31,164 --> 00:21:33,417
"Those bastards,"
you know, "Those cowards."
318
00:21:39,589 --> 00:21:42,384
You just realize that something
terrible's just happened
319
00:21:43,135 --> 00:21:45,012
and there's no way out,
320
00:21:45,095 --> 00:21:46,763
there's no way out, you are there,
321
00:21:46,847 --> 00:21:48,598
and you don't know
what's gonna happen next.
322
00:21:48,682 --> 00:21:51,685
♪♪
323
00:21:56,982 --> 00:21:58,984
[helicopter blades whirring]
324
00:21:59,067 --> 00:22:03,530
♪♪
325
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,250
[Carter] The loudspeakers came on
326
00:22:15,334 --> 00:22:17,836
and it said everybody report
to the pavilion or a meeting.
327
00:22:19,588 --> 00:22:21,340
[Jim Jones speaking]
328
00:22:26,386 --> 00:22:28,805
[Carter] So, we walked
up to the pavilion...
329
00:22:30,265 --> 00:22:32,392
it was a very quiet walk.
330
00:22:34,561 --> 00:22:37,230
The tractor trailer
came back from the airstrip.
331
00:22:37,647 --> 00:22:39,524
There was this huge commotion.
332
00:22:40,192 --> 00:22:43,236
Jones, he looked manic, you know, crazy,
333
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,531
and it scared... the crap out of me.
334
00:22:51,536 --> 00:22:53,413
[Jim Jones speaking]
335
00:23:22,651 --> 00:23:23,902
[Carter] When I heard
336
00:23:23,985 --> 00:23:25,946
that the congressman had been shot,
337
00:23:26,530 --> 00:23:30,075
I was horrified.
338
00:23:30,158 --> 00:23:32,160
I felt like breaking down,
339
00:23:32,244 --> 00:23:35,956
I mean, uh, it felt like
the temple had disintegrated,
340
00:23:36,039 --> 00:23:37,749
I didn't see any way we were gonna go on.
341
00:23:37,833 --> 00:23:42,587
I genuinely believed
in what we were supposed to be building.
342
00:23:52,222 --> 00:23:53,682
[cameraman]
How do you like it here?
343
00:23:53,765 --> 00:23:55,267
It's beautiful, I can't, I--
344
00:23:55,350 --> 00:23:58,270
I've never been so totally happy
345
00:23:58,353 --> 00:24:00,522
or fulfilled in my life,
I can't begin to describe it.
346
00:24:00,605 --> 00:24:02,190
You could sit here and talk all day long
347
00:24:02,274 --> 00:24:04,568
and no words could describe
the peace, the beauty,
348
00:24:04,651 --> 00:24:06,945
the sense of accomplishment
and responsibility
349
00:24:07,028 --> 00:24:09,698
and, and camaraderie that's here, it's uh,
350
00:24:09,781 --> 00:24:12,200
it's overwhelming, it really is,
you can't describe it.
351
00:24:15,787 --> 00:24:18,039
[present day]
I thought of it as a community
352
00:24:18,123 --> 00:24:20,834
that was being built
that had the opportunity
353
00:24:20,917 --> 00:24:25,422
to become something that actually would,
might be the equivalent to a Utopia.
354
00:24:30,927 --> 00:24:34,389
Built with good people.
We had a lot of skill.
355
00:24:34,931 --> 00:24:37,893
You know, we had people
that were carpenters, mechanics,
356
00:24:38,268 --> 00:24:39,978
college professors.
357
00:24:40,979 --> 00:24:44,357
It was a place where
sexism, ageism, racism,
358
00:24:44,441 --> 00:24:47,777
all of those different forms
of elitism had been eliminated.
359
00:24:49,237 --> 00:24:52,240
I had some pride in what we had built
360
00:24:53,658 --> 00:24:55,327
and it was beautiful.
361
00:24:59,998 --> 00:25:02,125
I loved it, I loved the wildness of it.
362
00:25:02,459 --> 00:25:04,836
While we were building the town
for our community
363
00:25:06,004 --> 00:25:07,964
we did incredibly hard work
364
00:25:08,048 --> 00:25:09,341
and the camaraderie,
365
00:25:09,424 --> 00:25:11,468
it was just, it was just beautiful to me.
366
00:25:14,554 --> 00:25:16,097
[indistinct chatter]
367
00:25:18,517 --> 00:25:19,768
We had fun together.
368
00:25:20,852 --> 00:25:24,147
When we were there
we were free, we felt free.
369
00:25:26,525 --> 00:25:27,859
[Jim Jones]
Three and a half miles
370
00:25:27,943 --> 00:25:30,195
back into the bush,
we will be in Jonestown.
371
00:25:30,278 --> 00:25:32,155
This is the road leading us to there.
372
00:25:35,325 --> 00:25:37,452
[inaudible dialogue]
373
00:25:39,371 --> 00:25:40,872
[Stephan Jones]
But when Dad got there
374
00:25:40,956 --> 00:25:42,249
it was a very different environment,
375
00:25:42,332 --> 00:25:44,000
very different, uh, feel.
376
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,920
[Jim Jones] And they're happy
and in good health, aren't you?
377
00:25:47,003 --> 00:25:48,713
[Temple member] Never felt
better in my life, father.
378
00:25:48,797 --> 00:25:50,632
[Jim Jones] You look,
actually, younger than you did
379
00:25:50,715 --> 00:25:52,467
when you came down here by ten years.
380
00:25:52,551 --> 00:25:53,802
It's amazing.
381
00:25:55,178 --> 00:25:58,265
[Stephan Jones] Uh, when dad got there,
your time was his time,
382
00:25:58,348 --> 00:26:00,767
making himself the center of attention.
383
00:26:00,850 --> 00:26:02,852
[Jim Jones] There was a,
this is a walking stick...
384
00:26:02,936 --> 00:26:04,271
[Stephan Jones]
First it started with meetings
385
00:26:04,354 --> 00:26:05,522
almost every night
386
00:26:05,605 --> 00:26:07,107
[Jim Jones] ...insects and, uh,
387
00:26:07,190 --> 00:26:10,777
all kinds of birds and animals
who don't harm at all...
388
00:26:10,860 --> 00:26:13,655
[Stephan Jones] He would talk
for a really long time sometimes,
389
00:26:13,738 --> 00:26:15,574
just, they were pretty freewheeling.
390
00:26:15,657 --> 00:26:17,450
[Jim Jones] It's just
tremendous what the power
391
00:26:17,534 --> 00:26:20,620
of father's socialism can do for all.
392
00:26:21,997 --> 00:26:23,540
[Stephan Jones]
We were beholden to him.
393
00:26:24,833 --> 00:26:26,918
The next thing, his voice, you know,
394
00:26:27,002 --> 00:26:28,587
he was constantly coming
on the loudspeaker,
395
00:26:28,670 --> 00:26:30,505
constantly you had to hear him.
396
00:26:31,965 --> 00:26:33,425
[Jim Jones]
Ku Klux Klan marching in
397
00:26:33,508 --> 00:26:36,845
Cicero, Illinois, and in Detroit...
398
00:26:36,928 --> 00:26:38,305
[Stephan Jones]
It had been hammered into us
399
00:26:38,388 --> 00:26:40,807
how selfish it is
to want anything for yourself.
400
00:26:43,393 --> 00:26:45,437
You could only think of the greater good,
401
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,105
that's all that mattered.
402
00:26:47,188 --> 00:26:49,232
♪♪
403
00:26:49,316 --> 00:26:52,527
Then the next thing,
relationships were not okay.
404
00:26:53,194 --> 00:26:54,362
He was threatened by family,
405
00:26:54,446 --> 00:26:56,698
he was threatened
by romantic relationships
406
00:26:56,781 --> 00:26:58,950
because there were places
where people could commiserate
407
00:26:59,034 --> 00:27:02,162
and, uh, conspire against him.
408
00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:07,042
So, Dad was always
working people against each other.
409
00:27:08,627 --> 00:27:13,381
Jim Jones worked diligently to,
to break apart the family unit.
410
00:27:13,465 --> 00:27:16,760
Everything you did was monitored
411
00:27:17,427 --> 00:27:20,138
and if you don't act right...
412
00:27:21,473 --> 00:27:23,516
everything can change on a dime.
413
00:27:25,018 --> 00:27:26,561
[Jim Jones speaking]
414
00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:31,524
[Temple members clamoring]
415
00:27:47,916 --> 00:27:49,584
[Stephan Jones]
Dad became cruel
416
00:27:49,668 --> 00:27:52,337
and we became numb to it.
417
00:27:56,091 --> 00:27:57,384
There were beatings.
418
00:27:58,218 --> 00:28:01,513
People were abused and belittled and,
419
00:28:01,596 --> 00:28:03,890
um, and many were drugged toward the end.
420
00:28:08,019 --> 00:28:10,772
You'd be put in this room,
421
00:28:11,815 --> 00:28:17,278
inside of one of the dorms
and injected with drugs
422
00:28:18,863 --> 00:28:21,324
for what could be weeks
or a month at a time.
423
00:28:22,325 --> 00:28:24,619
Those almost seemed like experiments to me
424
00:28:25,453 --> 00:28:28,373
because when people
came out of that dorm...
425
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,421
they were far from normal.
426
00:28:35,338 --> 00:28:38,883
When you woke up in the morning,
you were like...
427
00:28:38,967 --> 00:28:40,051
[sighs]
428
00:28:40,969 --> 00:28:42,512
..."I woke up again to this,"
429
00:28:44,013 --> 00:28:46,182
where you actually
kinda wondered, you know,
430
00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:49,561
it would've been nice if I
could've just died in my sleep.
431
00:28:50,353 --> 00:28:52,355
These are potato chips made from plantain
432
00:28:52,439 --> 00:28:54,065
and they're more delicious,
they're a combination
433
00:28:54,149 --> 00:28:55,942
of potato chip and a French fry.
434
00:28:56,025 --> 00:28:58,737
And radishes, mm, mm, mm.
435
00:28:58,820 --> 00:29:00,363
You don't know
what you're missing down here.
436
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,409
[Bogue] Jim Jones kept selling Jonestown
437
00:29:05,243 --> 00:29:07,162
as a wonderful place
438
00:29:07,245 --> 00:29:08,621
and you felt totally trapped
439
00:29:09,581 --> 00:29:11,916
because there was no end to it in sight.
440
00:29:13,793 --> 00:29:15,754
Sugar, sealed.
441
00:29:15,837 --> 00:29:18,423
We have much more of this in [indistinct].
442
00:29:18,882 --> 00:29:23,219
Flour, flour, rice,
443
00:29:23,303 --> 00:29:26,556
black eyed peas, more peas.
444
00:29:27,223 --> 00:29:28,725
We have different containers
around the place,
445
00:29:28,808 --> 00:29:30,518
we couldn't go through
all the tremendous inventory
446
00:29:30,602 --> 00:29:31,895
they've built up. Kool-Aid.
447
00:29:40,945 --> 00:29:42,947
[♪ ominous music playing]
448
00:29:44,491 --> 00:29:46,701
[Bogue] It's been probably
about a couple of hours
449
00:29:46,785 --> 00:29:48,369
since the shooting stopped.
450
00:29:48,453 --> 00:29:52,040
We ended up going over a mile
deep into the jungle.
451
00:29:52,123 --> 00:29:56,002
And it had gotten so dark
that we could no longer move around
452
00:29:56,085 --> 00:30:00,089
because you literally cannot see
your hand in front of your face.
453
00:30:00,507 --> 00:30:02,550
Total darkness.
454
00:30:04,344 --> 00:30:06,346
I was starting to get a little delirious.
455
00:30:06,429 --> 00:30:08,264
At that point, I could barely walk.
456
00:30:09,891 --> 00:30:12,101
One thing I remember is,
is thinking to myself,
457
00:30:12,602 --> 00:30:14,312
I don't know what way to go
458
00:30:14,395 --> 00:30:18,149
and I know if we go
the wrong direction, we're dead.
459
00:30:20,151 --> 00:30:21,820
And it was frightening.
460
00:30:21,903 --> 00:30:24,072
We didn't know where
the rest of the group were.
461
00:30:26,282 --> 00:30:29,285
♪♪
462
00:30:31,913 --> 00:30:34,582
[Krause]
Night fell, it was very tense
463
00:30:35,375 --> 00:30:36,960
it was frightening,
you know, it was scary.
464
00:30:37,961 --> 00:30:41,673
Some people had run into the jungle
and were still hiding.
465
00:30:43,007 --> 00:30:46,427
But about 15 of us took shelter
in the rum shop.
466
00:30:47,136 --> 00:30:48,805
For the very badly wounded,
467
00:30:48,888 --> 00:30:50,849
there was no medicine, there was nothing.
468
00:30:50,932 --> 00:30:53,226
Someone had the idea
of giving them some rum
469
00:30:53,309 --> 00:30:56,604
to maybe numb them in a way, which we did.
470
00:30:56,688 --> 00:30:58,565
Poured this thing on my wound, tried to...
471
00:30:58,648 --> 00:31:00,483
Thought maybe that would help stop the,
472
00:31:00,567 --> 00:31:02,902
stop the pain,
well, that's what I thought,
473
00:31:02,986 --> 00:31:05,071
I didn't think about anything else.
474
00:31:05,154 --> 00:31:06,823
They said, the guy said,
"Oh, you drink that,
475
00:31:06,906 --> 00:31:09,325
you don't, you don't waste
the whiskey like that."
476
00:31:09,409 --> 00:31:10,827
[laughs]
477
00:31:10,910 --> 00:31:13,746
That's why I drank the whole,
the rest down my throat,
478
00:31:14,455 --> 00:31:16,666
that's why I pass out because I got drunk.
479
00:31:17,292 --> 00:31:18,918
[laughs]
480
00:31:19,002 --> 00:31:21,004
We were trying to stay quiet
481
00:31:21,462 --> 00:31:24,132
and not, not attract attention.
482
00:31:26,134 --> 00:31:27,802
Some of the temple defectors
483
00:31:27,886 --> 00:31:32,140
basically believed that horrible things
were going to happen in Jonestown.
484
00:31:32,223 --> 00:31:34,017
They were talking about a white night,
485
00:31:34,100 --> 00:31:38,229
and I said, "You know, what is
this white night business?"
486
00:31:39,230 --> 00:31:42,066
And whoever it was said to me, "Oh, yeah,
487
00:31:42,150 --> 00:31:45,570
that's when they practice
drinking the poison."
488
00:31:46,237 --> 00:31:48,615
I said, "They practice
drinking the poison?
489
00:31:48,698 --> 00:31:50,867
Is that what you're saying?"
"Yes."
490
00:31:50,950 --> 00:31:54,871
We were told about these,
what they called white night trials.
491
00:31:55,121 --> 00:31:56,664
[inaudible chanting]
492
00:31:56,748 --> 00:31:59,208
The defectors, they said
they were being tested
493
00:31:59,292 --> 00:32:02,879
as to whether or not they were
truly committed to Jim Jones
494
00:32:02,962 --> 00:32:04,631
and his teachings.
495
00:32:05,590 --> 00:32:08,927
They said Jim Jones forced them
to come into the pavilion
496
00:32:09,010 --> 00:32:11,846
and drink, uh, a drink that
497
00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:14,349
they were told it was gonna be poison.
498
00:32:16,059 --> 00:32:19,062
And only afterwards were told
499
00:32:19,145 --> 00:32:22,523
that it wasn't real,
that it was just a rehearsal.
500
00:32:23,483 --> 00:32:26,903
But those that didn't go through
with it were punished.
501
00:32:30,406 --> 00:32:34,869
They were forced to show their commitment.
502
00:32:37,413 --> 00:32:39,248
[Krause]
He called it a white night.
503
00:32:39,332 --> 00:32:40,917
Revolutionary suicide.
504
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,961
[inaudible chanting]
505
00:32:43,711 --> 00:32:46,798
[Stephan Jones] The white nights,
when that first happened,
506
00:32:47,215 --> 00:32:48,758
we didn't know what he was capable of.
507
00:32:48,841 --> 00:32:50,802
We were afraid of what he might do,
508
00:32:50,885 --> 00:32:52,762
and I thought he was too much of a coward
509
00:32:52,845 --> 00:32:57,684
ever to truly go through with,
with killing himself and others
510
00:32:58,267 --> 00:33:00,728
but there was always a fear that
something horrible might happen.
511
00:33:13,658 --> 00:33:15,785
[Carter]
There was a deathly quiet.
512
00:33:16,285 --> 00:33:18,913
All the life had left Jonestown
is what it felt like to me.
513
00:33:21,457 --> 00:33:23,292
I was with my wife Gloria
514
00:33:23,376 --> 00:33:25,044
and my son Malcolm.
515
00:33:26,921 --> 00:33:29,298
The pavilion, at this point in time,
516
00:33:29,382 --> 00:33:32,093
was surrounded by security guards.
517
00:33:32,927 --> 00:33:34,470
[Carter] I saw Jones in this
518
00:33:34,554 --> 00:33:38,016
really heated discussion and argument,
519
00:33:38,099 --> 00:33:39,809
one of them was going,
"There's gotta be a way,
520
00:33:39,892 --> 00:33:41,602
"this is ridiculous, we don't just...
521
00:33:41,686 --> 00:33:43,187
There's gotta be a way."
522
00:33:45,189 --> 00:33:47,442
Even though I'm hearing this,
there's still a part of me
523
00:33:47,525 --> 00:33:49,652
that's refusing to accept it,
524
00:33:49,736 --> 00:33:51,654
like he, you know,
he can't be talking about
525
00:33:51,738 --> 00:33:53,322
what he's actually talking about.
526
00:33:53,406 --> 00:33:56,451
I had this real schizophrenia going on
527
00:33:56,993 --> 00:33:59,787
that, "Oh, my God,
he's gonna kill everybody,"
528
00:33:59,871 --> 00:34:02,415
and the other part's saying,
"That's not gonna happen,
529
00:34:02,498 --> 00:34:05,126
"you don't just do that,
there's got to be a way,
530
00:34:05,209 --> 00:34:06,794
you just don't kill everybody."
531
00:34:09,964 --> 00:34:11,883
[Jim Jones speaking]
532
00:34:59,806 --> 00:35:02,642
[Carter]
I was horrified, I was shocked.
533
00:35:04,102 --> 00:35:07,230
I just wanted like a second
to breathe, just... [exhales]
534
00:35:07,313 --> 00:35:08,773
"Let me figure this out."
535
00:35:08,856 --> 00:35:11,651
All of a sudden, I became very calm,
it was very intellectual,
536
00:35:11,734 --> 00:35:13,903
like, "What is this gonna be like to die?"
537
00:35:13,986 --> 00:35:16,072
Or, "How many is it gonna take me," or...
538
00:35:16,155 --> 00:35:17,532
Like, you think a thousand thoughts
539
00:35:17,615 --> 00:35:19,659
but, you know, it was like, "I'm dead.
540
00:35:20,284 --> 00:35:21,619
"This is where I'm going to die,
541
00:35:21,702 --> 00:35:26,124
"um, but I'll fight to live
but this is where I'm gonna die."
542
00:35:28,543 --> 00:35:30,586
♪♪
543
00:35:30,670 --> 00:35:33,798
One of Jones' mistresses came up
and tapped me on the shoulder and said,
544
00:35:33,881 --> 00:35:36,634
"Come here, I think I have
something for you to do.
545
00:35:37,385 --> 00:35:41,013
She said, "Jim Jones
needs some help with the mission."
546
00:35:41,639 --> 00:35:44,433
[Jim Jones]
I've lived for all and I'll die for all.
547
00:35:44,517 --> 00:35:46,519
♪♪
548
00:35:59,407 --> 00:36:02,577
She said, "He's supposed to deliver
some suitcases of money
549
00:36:02,660 --> 00:36:04,662
"to the Soviet Embassy in Georgetown.
550
00:36:04,745 --> 00:36:06,497
Would you be willing to help?"
551
00:36:06,581 --> 00:36:09,667
So, in my mind, I'm trying to buy time
552
00:36:09,750 --> 00:36:11,919
because I'm still not processing this,
553
00:36:12,003 --> 00:36:14,005
and while we're being asked to do this,
554
00:36:14,088 --> 00:36:16,549
there's a woman standing up
in the pavilion,
555
00:36:17,091 --> 00:36:19,510
um, who was saying, basically,
and I'm paraphrasing,
556
00:36:19,594 --> 00:36:22,346
that "I don't wanna die.
Isn't there another way?"
557
00:36:24,599 --> 00:36:26,100
[Temple member speaking]
558
00:36:26,184 --> 00:36:28,311
[Jim Jones speaking]
559
00:36:39,155 --> 00:36:42,283
[Temple members clamoring]
560
00:36:45,244 --> 00:36:47,622
[Carter] I walked back to the pavilion,
561
00:36:47,705 --> 00:36:50,124
and I saw Gloria and Malcolm.
562
00:36:50,791 --> 00:36:54,128
And I wasn't counting
but this was very early on,
563
00:36:54,837 --> 00:36:57,465
uh, there were maybe 20 bodies,
I mean, there were...
564
00:36:57,548 --> 00:37:00,259
I didn't count, I was just shocked
565
00:37:00,343 --> 00:37:01,552
by what I was seeing.
566
00:37:02,011 --> 00:37:03,012
Um...
567
00:37:05,223 --> 00:37:06,557
[inhales and exhales]
568
00:37:07,558 --> 00:37:09,852
Gloria was holding Malcolm in her arms
569
00:37:09,936 --> 00:37:13,397
and agony on her face, and I mean, agony,
570
00:37:13,481 --> 00:37:16,984
tears just pouring down
her face and agony...
571
00:37:20,947 --> 00:37:23,449
[crying] And Gloria was dying
and I took her in my arms
572
00:37:23,532 --> 00:37:25,368
and I just kept on saying,
"I love you so much,
573
00:37:25,451 --> 00:37:26,452
I love you so much,"
574
00:37:26,535 --> 00:37:29,664
like somehow me saying that
575
00:37:30,706 --> 00:37:32,500
could make things better somehow,
576
00:37:33,459 --> 00:37:35,753
that she could feel it, uh...
577
00:37:36,879 --> 00:37:38,965
and, uh, she died in my arms.
578
00:37:56,065 --> 00:37:57,233
The pain was just too much.
579
00:37:57,316 --> 00:37:59,318
It was just darkness.
580
00:38:01,404 --> 00:38:03,155
And after that, I, I...
581
00:38:04,031 --> 00:38:05,992
was beyond even thinking.
582
00:38:06,075 --> 00:38:08,953
All I heard in my brain is,
"You cannot die, you cannot die,
583
00:38:09,036 --> 00:38:11,747
you cannot die, you must live,
you must live, you must live."
584
00:38:12,623 --> 00:38:14,834
And I left the pavilion, uh,
585
00:38:16,127 --> 00:38:18,921
and I still feel guilt
about that, you know,
586
00:38:19,005 --> 00:38:21,716
um, but I was,
587
00:38:21,799 --> 00:38:24,885
you know, I was broken,
I was completely broken.
588
00:38:27,179 --> 00:38:29,765
[Jim Jones speaking]
589
00:38:47,575 --> 00:38:49,076
[Temple members clamoring]
590
00:39:04,550 --> 00:39:09,180
I am the last person left alive
who was in Jonestown
591
00:39:09,263 --> 00:39:13,392
while people were
beginning to be murdered.
592
00:39:13,476 --> 00:39:15,478
[♪ somber music playing]
593
00:39:36,290 --> 00:39:40,169
♪♪
594
00:39:40,252 --> 00:39:43,172
[Speier]
We waited all night on that airstrip.
595
00:39:43,255 --> 00:39:46,675
The pain was so excruciating,
I couldn't stand it anymore.
596
00:39:46,759 --> 00:39:48,886
I had a bullet wound in my arm,
597
00:39:48,969 --> 00:39:52,807
a bullet wound in my, um, lower arm.
598
00:39:54,183 --> 00:39:57,436
I, my right leg was, was blown up,
599
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,731
I mean, from the knee, um, to the hip.
600
00:40:00,815 --> 00:40:03,317
So, I was pretty resigned to...
601
00:40:04,485 --> 00:40:06,570
whatever was gonna happen
was gonna happen.
602
00:40:07,113 --> 00:40:09,740
I know Steve Sung was calling out,
603
00:40:09,824 --> 00:40:13,160
um, calling for his wife.
604
00:40:13,244 --> 00:40:15,871
I just keep... nightmares, up,
605
00:40:15,955 --> 00:40:19,166
wake up and, you know,
and try to talk to, uh,
606
00:40:19,250 --> 00:40:22,336
Jackie Speier or talk to anybody
willing to listen to me
607
00:40:22,420 --> 00:40:24,839
because I couldn't sleep
and I just keep waking up
608
00:40:24,922 --> 00:40:26,549
from the fear, from the pain,
609
00:40:26,632 --> 00:40:28,801
and I said, "What, how do they go,
610
00:40:28,884 --> 00:40:30,177
how do we get out of this place?"
611
00:40:30,261 --> 00:40:32,513
I went through the, the various phases
612
00:40:32,596 --> 00:40:33,931
that they say that people go through.
613
00:40:34,014 --> 00:40:35,891
I mean, resentment and fear
614
00:40:35,975 --> 00:40:39,061
and, and finally accepting the idea that,
615
00:40:39,145 --> 00:40:41,814
yeah, I was gonna die in,
616
00:40:41,897 --> 00:40:45,818
in this jungle of Guyana, you know,
617
00:40:45,901 --> 00:40:48,195
and thinking to myself,
"What am I doing here?"
618
00:40:48,279 --> 00:40:50,698
You know, "Why? Why? Why?"
619
00:40:52,491 --> 00:40:55,286
[helicopter blades whirring in distance]
620
00:40:55,369 --> 00:40:58,622
♪♪
621
00:41:07,756 --> 00:41:11,719
[Speier] The Guyanese army
came secure the airstrip,
622
00:41:11,802 --> 00:41:14,805
and the relief was unbelievable.
623
00:41:20,895 --> 00:41:24,023
Finally, we're going to
get out of here alive.
624
00:41:26,358 --> 00:41:28,110
[Krause] We were gonna survive.
625
00:41:28,194 --> 00:41:29,737
Everybody was like, "Oh, my God."
626
00:41:29,820 --> 00:41:32,156
I mean, I, you know, the adrenaline,
627
00:41:33,073 --> 00:41:36,243
uh, the rush, the, the...
I mean, it was amazing.
628
00:41:39,538 --> 00:41:42,541
We were evacuated by helicopter
back to Georgetown.
629
00:41:59,475 --> 00:42:03,270
[Speier] In Georgetown,
there was a US medevac plane
630
00:42:03,354 --> 00:42:04,688
waiting for us.
631
00:42:04,772 --> 00:42:09,610
This bright, white,
shiny plane with the words
632
00:42:09,693 --> 00:42:11,695
"The United States of America" on it.
633
00:42:11,779 --> 00:42:16,534
And even today, it sends
chills up and down my back.
634
00:42:19,870 --> 00:42:21,330
[Reiterman] I was going home.
635
00:42:21,413 --> 00:42:25,960
There was, I think,
a tremendous amount of spontaneous relief.
636
00:42:26,043 --> 00:42:28,504
Oh, it's a big relief. I was so surprised.
637
00:42:29,547 --> 00:42:31,131
Smiling and happy.
638
00:42:33,592 --> 00:42:34,760
I got on the plane.
639
00:42:40,099 --> 00:42:42,142
Lots of thoughts
were going through my head.
640
00:42:43,269 --> 00:42:45,437
"Why, why did this happen to us?"
641
00:42:45,521 --> 00:42:47,648
I mean, I didn't know
if anybody in the world
642
00:42:47,731 --> 00:42:48,899
knew what had happened.
643
00:42:52,903 --> 00:42:55,322
And I thought, "Hmm, I don't wanna..."
644
00:42:55,406 --> 00:42:57,199
I think I'm gonna get off this thing.
645
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:06,083
I was very curious to know
what had happened in Jonestown.
646
00:43:07,001 --> 00:43:09,211
The story wasn't over.
647
00:43:09,295 --> 00:43:14,174
And I was right in the middle of it
and my job was to keep writing, and I did.
648
00:43:19,054 --> 00:43:21,849
[newscaster] The wounded are being flown
to Washington tonight
649
00:43:21,932 --> 00:43:24,226
aboard an Air Force
medical evacuation plane.
650
00:43:25,978 --> 00:43:28,355
I don't think anyone
could've really imagined it
651
00:43:28,439 --> 00:43:30,524
because it was a shocking story.
652
00:43:30,608 --> 00:43:34,862
It was something that had
never quite happened like this before.
653
00:43:39,116 --> 00:43:41,619
[♪ dramatic closing theme music playing]
654
00:43:49,710 --> 00:43:51,378
[newscaster]
A congressman on a fact-finding trip
655
00:43:51,462 --> 00:43:53,297
to the South American nation of Guyana
656
00:43:53,380 --> 00:43:55,090
was ambushed, shot, and killed,
657
00:43:55,174 --> 00:43:57,301
along with about 20 members of his party.
658
00:43:57,676 --> 00:44:00,512
Guyana military units have been
dispatched to restore order
659
00:44:00,596 --> 00:44:02,014
and to investigate.
660
00:44:04,350 --> 00:44:06,352
[♪ music continues]
661
00:44:06,435 --> 00:44:08,437
♪♪
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