JONES DISCIPLE RECOVERS FROM, RECALLS PAINFUL PAST

Seattle Post-Intelligencer via rickross.com ^ | 19 November 2003 | Mike Lewis

[DannyTN]

Your post #13 is probably relevant to my #19. Things may not have been as rosy as the MSM made it out. Then again, it's still possible to create that illusion temporarily on a bad foundation.

[Route66]

Yes. In the end, these people really were not given given any choice except the manner of their death. It was either poison or a bullet.

Some here regularly post the pictures of these dead men, women, and children, along with "Kool Aid" quips. While the term "drinking the Kool Aid" has certainly become part of our vernacular, I really think the photos are in very bad taste.

[Sybeck1]

New revelations on Jonestown tragedy
Recordings indicate Jim Jones may have died
the day after the massacre

Oakland Tribune/October 31, 2004
By William Brand
Oakland -- One day after the Jonestown mass suicides in 1978 in the jungle of Guyana, Jim Jones and leaders of the ill-fated settlement were still alive and calmly discussed the suicides and the murder of Rep. Leo Ryan, a historian said Saturday. The tape found in Jonestown that the FBI labeled Q-875 appears to have been made many hours later, possibly on Nov. 19... The tape is one of 900...obtained from the FBI under a Freedom of Information Act request.

It was made later because the people on the tape -- apparently including Jones -- talked about what had happened, about the murder of Rep. Ryan and the mass deaths in Jonestown.

http://www.rickross.com/reference/jonestown/jonestown31.html

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Interesting to say the least. This is vindication of the scripture:

1 Timothy 5:25 Likewise also, deeds that are good are quite evident, and those which are otherwise cannot be concealed.