Emily
Editor, Senior Moderator
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Jonestown Recollections Forty Years Later
by Philip G. Zimbardo, Ph.D.
The enigma of Jim Jones remains as puzzling in August 2018, as it was 40 long years ago, on November 18, 1978 when nearly a thousand of his devoted followers were murdered by other members of his “church,” even as some voluntarily committed suicide as a test of their devotion to their Father/God/Devil/Jim Jones.
We will never ever fully know the truth about what really happened on that fateful day.
In these personal recollections, I will add to the Jonestown Family History in the following ways:
Jonestown Recollections Forty Years Later
by Philip G. Zimbardo, Ph.D.
The enigma of Jim Jones remains as puzzling in August 2018, as it was 40 long years ago, on November 18, 1978 when nearly a thousand of his devoted followers were murdered by other members of his “church,” even as some voluntarily committed suicide as a test of their devotion to their Father/God/Devil/Jim Jones.
We will never ever fully know the truth about what really happened on that fateful day.
In these personal recollections, I will add to the Jonestown Family History in the following ways:
- Draw parallels between George Orwell’s 1984 analyses of Systems that can control the minds and behavior of followers, often without their awareness, and Jones’ use of these same principles to dominate his followers...