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Article: Even hindsight isn't 20/20; Reflections on Jonestown: the Life and Death of Peoples Temple.
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- Colorlines Magazine
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- September 1, 2006
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"JIM JONES WASN'T WHITE," asserts one of the Black members of Peoples Temple interviewed in a new film making headlines on the 2006 festival circuit. Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple is a gripping, and at times devastating recounting of the story of hundreds of Black idealists who inexplicably followed the order of a white charismatic faith healer to kill themselves and murder their children in 1978. Although the film's dialogue contains few references to race, the pictures tell more truth than words alone could contain. Indeed, part of director Stanley Nelson's genius--he was recognized as such with a MacArthur Award a few years ago--is in letting the ...
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Dictionary definition: Peoples' Temple
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions;
317 words
...Peoples' Temple. Movement founded by the Reverend Jim Jones, a Christian socialist, in Indianapolis during the early 1950s. Having moved to California in 1965, Jones then established ...
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