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Three news men. parks ordered his daughter tracy, her older sister and three other youths to run for safety into the jungle. we ran too far, and, of course, it s so thick that, like, once you get so far you can t you get lost in your direction. before night came, we went back to the jungle and started hollering for the kids and no response. and i thought oh, my god, don t tell me they re lost. i was the organizer, and anything that needed organizing they gave to carter. tim carter, seen here in 78, was a trusted aide to jim jones. he saw jonestown through different eyes. it was beautiful. i mean, something about nature, being in the jungle. ....
as a young mother leslie wilson went to guyana because her husband had taken their son there. in jonestown, she found not enough food, not enough sleep, too much fear. for me to think i was going to see the age of 21 was a miracle. i didn t think i was going to see 21. she recoiled the first time jim jones called together peoples temple members for a suicide drill. and i remember him looking at me and me looking, please, don t ask me to do this because we really didn t know if it was real or not. on the last morning she said she wanted to take her child on a picnic and started on a day-long trek to a town 30 miles away. everyone can look up and see us walking, and i was just shaking. i was so, so frightened. for years, leslie wilson would not let anyone know she was a jonestown survivor. because i would sit at the ....
As she was holding malcolm and just kept on sobbing i love you so much. i love you so much. carter lived only because he was sent away on a final errand. he came close to shooting himself that night. and i knew that i would never get the sounds and the smells and the sights of jonestown out of my mind ever again. so few survived jonestown. for most only by determination borne of desperation. for others by a twist of circumstance. over the next two hours we will follow the lives of these survivors, then and now. escape from jonestown continues. for lower back pain sufferers, ....
An empty field, the people gone. almost no trace of their lives or dreams. this is the site of jonestown s open-air meeting hall where i m standing right now, where the reverend jim jones led his followers into the worst mass murder and suicide pact in america s history. only small golden flowers grow where bodies once lay. on that fateful morning there are more than 940 people living in jonestown. by nightfall only 33 would still be alive. for most of the few who did survive, it took incredible courage to defy jim jones and step away. this is their story. one of desperation and daring and in the end a story of human triumph amid horrible tragedy. it was a slave camp ran by a mad man with a huge ego. ....
Table sometimes at work, whatever, and they would talk about jonestown. i didn t say a word. i mean, i lived under a veil of secrecy for 20-something years. vernon gosney, now a policeman in hawaii, remembers jonestown as an armed camp supposedly to guard against outsiders. but many of the times the guns were pointed towards us. gosney wanted to leave as soon as he arrived but couldn t until a california congressman, leo ryan, came to guyana in the fall of 78 on a one-man investigative mission. i had decided i was going to pass a note asking for help to escape. by that next afternoon, as gosney dragged his trunk towards a departing truck, more than a dozen others had decided to go. i thought i was going to die at any moment. i never thought that i would ever be permitted to leave. when the group reached the ....