Jim Jones and the People's Temple

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Jim Jones was the Evangelical pastor of the Peoples Temple, a congregation from San Fransico and Los Angeles. More than 900 people followed him to the juggles of Guyana in South America. Jones and his follower went there to create a social utopia where compassion, tolerance, and friendship would rule over materialism and racism. Soon the dreams of a better life in a Southern American utopia diminished as Jones instituted armed guards, force labor, restriction of civil liberties, and a quasi-starvation diet. He also implemented torture to those who would break the rules. 

Family members soon began to worry about their loved ones. They convinced a congressman to go visit the utopian society. After the congressman saw what was happening at the camp Jones arranged for him and his camera crew to be murdered as they were leaving. Soon after, Jones gathered his followers and gave a speech promoting that they should take their lives by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. Those who refused were forced by guards and those who tried to run were shot. However, these actions were usually unnecessary, most obeyed their leader. 

Dead body's blanket the ground a the People's Temple (Source)

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