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Enbrel, the number one rheumatologist-prescribed biologic. as soon as gerry parks arrived at the entrance to jonestown in the spring of 1978 with his wife and youngest daughter, he saw guards with guns. >> i seen those armed guards. that's when my heart fell. i knew then -- i didn't have to wait until i got to jonestown. i knew then that i had made the biggest mistake of my life. >> reverend jim jones' home movies helped lure parks and his family to guyana. >> it was going to be a city

Right in the middle of a jungle, made it sound like really a paradise. >> instead, he found -- >> hell on earth. >> gerry parks complained about the heat, the food, the confinement. >> life don't get any worse than that. that was literally a jungle prison. >> in front of the congregation, jim jones told parks -- >> the only other thing you can do is either adjust or walk through the jungle and it's meet snakes and panthers and all that [ expletive ] and one wants to do that and guns. can be arrested by police and be put in a federal penitentiary. >> jones would punish parks. >> he called me up...

>> now the leg was broken yesterday? now run! >> jones asks if she feels any pain. >> jump up and down real quick. no pain whatsoever. that's it. >> they traveled around the country and held these meetings, pulled these fake healings and fake miracles, and people, man, would shell out money like you wouldn't believe. >> this is gerry parks as he looked back then. he was fooled for years. >> but it was all through lies, fake healings and all that stuff. the man was fake. i know now that he was fake from the beginning. >> by his own account, jim jones was born on the wrong side of the tracks in ...

>> jones built this church and offered sanctuary there, a safety net to the elderly and poor, usually blacks from the inner city. they signed over their social security checks, and the peoples temple cared for them for the rest of their lives. >> he built this whole thing on the premise of brotherhood, economic equality, and a world where no babies go to bed hungry. >> gerry parks and his family followed jones from the midwest out to ukiah in 1966. gerry got a job in a supermarket. >> he started talking about everybody giving 25% of their income. i sat down one time and figured after i got bac...

Shot to death in their home a year later in what police think was a family dispute. in 1984, in los angeles, one child was killed and 11 others wounded when a sniper, a young man whose parents died at jonestown, sprayed this schoolyard with gunfire. when police closed in, he shot himself to death. for survivors who lived through that last day in jonestown, ghosts return in different ways. for tim carter, it's a smell. >> i can't smell almonds to this day. it will make me physically nauseous because cyanide smells like almonds and that's what it smelled like there that day was almond. >> for tr...