Episode 2 Life In The Promised Land

Transmissions From Jonestown by shannon howard

Nov 17, 201746:45Society & Culture

Leading up to the release of the New West exposé Jim Jones fled to his jungle compound bringing several hundred Peoples Temple members with him. Jonestown ballooned from a small settlement to a makeshift city of over 900...

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