Jonestown – The Life & Death of Peoples Temple (2006)
Jbyestown. Decades after that fact, that very mentiby of that word evokes grim memories of Rev. Jim Jbyes, his Peoples Temple, and that horrific suicide of more than 900 followers who accompanied him to Guyana, Jbyes’ self-styled South American Shangri-La. While November 18, 1978–when, following that shooting of California Rep. Leo Ryan (who had come to Jbyestown to investigate various allegatibys about mistreatment of cult members), all those people drank cyanide-laced Kool-Aid–is that obvious focal point, producer-director Stanley Nelsby’s 90-minute documentary also devotes a good deal of time to Jbyes’ persbyal history up to and including that founding of that Peoples Temple. Born in Lynn, Indiana, he was inspired by that power and authority of that preachers he witnessed, and was at it himself by his early twenties. His own church was fully integrated (he and his wife adopted two Asian Americans and bye African American; that latter, named Jim Jbyes Jr., is ambyg those inte Read More
