Rachel is discussing Jonestown Massacre

[CatWoman]

Oh


My


God!!!


I had forgotten just how awful those murders were!! :cry:

[davidinalameda]

1. I'm so glad that I don't really remember them

but living in the SF area, stories will be all over the place this weekend

[RollWithIt]

2. Jim Jones was one sick murderous fucker....

May he lie in eternal damnation.

[onehandle]

5. He was a "survivalist."

Not so much.

[onehandle]

3. I just saw that too.

I remember that time well. Think I'll give that special a pass.

Sad.

[CatWoman]

6. I talked to this guy who was an airborne ranger

he was one of a team who parachutted in to help tag and collect the bodies.

he said all you could smell was death for miles and miles around........

[devilgrrl]

4. One of those events where you remember where you were when you heard the news.

I remember thinking that the body count (900+) must have been a typo until I saw the pictures... :scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared:

[CatWoman]

7. like a blanket of bodies

:scared:

[mitchum]

12. NBC broke into "Soul Train" on Saturday afternoon to give a report...

about the initial shooting at the airstrip

[proud patriot]

8. that was one of the earliest news memories I have

probably one of the reasons I've shunned church in my
life .

[Starry Messenger]

11. Me too. I was 8.

Weird huh? It really affected me.

[mitchum]

9. Well, I certainly hope she is emphasizing the RELIGIOUS lunacy

[leftyclimber]

10. Apocryphal Jonestown story re: reporters

I used to work with one of Jack Perkins's sons. His dad was supposed to be one of the reporters sent down to Guyana to cover Jonestown at the time of what ended up being the massacre. For a reason that I can't recall, Mr. Perkins backed out and the reporter sent in his stead was one of the ones murdered.

Whenever someone brings up Jonestown I always think of the guy I worked with and how his dad came *that close* to being killed. I can't imagine how many people it affected directly. It gives me shivers.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

13. I remember that vividly

I was 22 and it totally engrossed me for quite a while. The how and why of it all seemed so utterly inexplicable to me. I read everything I found about it for years attempting to understand that particular kind of madness and still have an engaged interest in the subject. When I was diagnosed Asperger's I got a grip on why it seemed so foreign. We tend not to identify as members of groups, much less cults.

Jonestown was the single creepiest thing I can remember happening in my lifetime. 30-40 percent of those poor people were murdered or coerced at gunpoint into committing suicide.

Those were the most horrifying pictures I have ever seen.

[Touchdown]

14. I was only 13 when that happened.

Burt I remember it was all over the news constantly. I grew up in Southern California.

[Lex]

15. where the phrase "drinking the kool aid" came from

nt

[Catherine Vincent]

16. Yes.

Which is why I try not to use those words....out of respect for the ones that did drink the kool-aid. :-(

[ogneopasno]

17. You're right, it makes sense to not use that phrase.