Transmissions From Jonestown
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Transmissions From Jonestown
On November 18, 1978, in Jonestown, Guyana, over 900 people died in one of the largest mass murder-suicides in modern history. Locked deep within an FBI vault, the audio tapes documenting the rise and fall of Peoples Temple were sealed away until they were finally made public more than 20 years late...
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Episode 21 Sunday Service Liar's Communion
Jim Jones had a gift for recognizing and cultivating a person’s capacity for magical thinking or the belief that unrelated events are connected by inv...
Episode 20 Sunday Service Leave Room for the Holy Ghost
The paranormal healing ministry drew new members to Peoples Temple with Jim Jones’ promises of supernatural support for the cause. The divine gifts ph...
Episode 19 Sunday Service Hands Clasped
Welcome to the Sunday Service, a 3-part immersive experience exploring Jim Jones’ paranormal ministry and the mystery of the nine gifts of the Holy Sp...
Episode 18 Where there's smoke
Denise was three years old when her family joined Peoples Temple. Like so many early childhood memories, obscured by the lenses of time, Denise’s rec...
Episode 17 He's Able
Music was often peoples first, and last impression of Peoples Temple. From the moment you walked into a temple service, the music created a certain at...
Episode 16 MK United
In the charged atmosphere of the mid-1960s, Jim Jones moved Peoples Temple westward, seeking a new beginning in California’s radical counter cultural...
Episode 15 The Nuclear Family
Long before Jonestown, Jim Jones was preaching a prophecy of nuclear annihilation down to the exact minute it would begin. In this episode, we trace h...
Episode 14 Evangelical Profit
I believe in Jim Jones. Many of you have seen the photograph. An elderly woman dressed in her Sunday best with a resolute, if not revolutionary sparkl...
Episode 13 God's Highway
True crime history is full of shadows, but none darker than those cast by Jim Jones. In this episode of Transmissions from Jonestown, we revisit Calif...
Episode 12 Hill Of Dreamers
41 years ago today, the Jonestown massacre claimed the lives of 918 Americans. When the people of Jonestown died, their bodies remained where they fel...
Episode 11 Ockham's Razor, Solving The Mystery Of Q875
In the chaotic aftermath of the Jonestown massacre, one artifact continues to defy explanation: Tape Q875, the so-called “November 19 mystery tape.” D...
Episode 10 Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself
40 years ago, 918 Americans died in the largest mass murder/suicide in modern history. Defined by the last day of their lives, the people of Jonestown...
Episode 9 Q875, Is It Too Late For Russia?
In the aftermath of Jonestown, details emerged of the Temple’s deepening relationship with the Soviet Union, a secret petition to emigrate, and the po...
Episode 8 The Psychodelic Elephant
Truth often demands we accept coincidence as a force of nature. But what if the connections aren’t coincidences at all? On this episode we follow the...
Episode 7 The Electric Koolaid Acid Tests
Out of the ruins of postwar Germany, hundreds of ex-Nazi scientists were quietly recruited by the U.S. government under Operation Paperclip bringing w...
Episode 6 Apostolic Socialism
Beneath Guyana’s lush canopy lies a complicated history. A land where historically, dreams of paradise spiral into madness and ruin. In this episode,...
Episode 5 The Consequences Of Apathy
What happened to the survivors of Jonestown? In the wake of the mass suicide, the killing did not stop. This episode investigates the devastating afte...
Episode 4 The Death Tape
Of all the evidence recovered in the aftermath of the Jonestown massacre, one artifact confirmed the unthinkable: an audio tape found in the pavilion,...
Episode 3 Revolutionary Suicide
Jonestown prepared for its final reckoning. Unable to postpone Congressman Leo Ryan’s inquiry any longer, Jim Jones orchestrated an elaborate facade....
Episode 2 Life In The Promised Land
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. Jones...
Episode 1 Peoples Temple
On November 18, 1978, an entire community of United States Citizens died deep in the jungle of Guyana. At the command of their charismatic leader Reve...