Jonestown Documentary

[petop]

BBC I Player has a really good documentary about the Jonestown mass suicide from 1978.

For those not in the know, basically mass cult by a guy called Jim Jones who after a few years of being the crack pot leader in the States upped shop to Guyana and set up a commune with a 900 or so followers.
Concerned relatives and people who escaped previously start making noises and a US Congressman decided to investigate......the rest is in the documentary.

2 Part with the first setting the scene but the 2nd is where it get surreal with actual video of what happened.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000d27r/sto...

[Eric Mc]

I remember when this was news. The mad thing is, cultism in the US is higher now than it ever was.

[Topbuzz]

It’s where the saying Keep drinking the Kool Aid comes from.
Even though it was Flavour Aid.

I fancied a trip to visit when I was in the area but timings didn’t work out.
I’ll see if I can watch it over here, cheers.

[sgtBerbatov]

Eric Mc said:

I remember when this was news. The mad thing is, cultism in the US is higher now than it ever was.

They count a pizza as one of your five a day and a vegetable. That shows you the level of intellect in the US.