jungle. while you are running they are still shooting? they had identified people they wanted to kill. it is almost impossible to fathom, even now, more than 900 americans dead in the jungle at jonestown. you are telling me this man says drink this poison and they drink it? that s right. we take you inside the mission that observed the dangerous truth. the only video camera there to capture it all belonged to nbc news. he said i can never put this camera down. rare pictures and powerful details. my whole shirt was dripping with red blood. all of a sudden i was hit. a riveting look at the story that still haunts the whole world. whole world. and welcome to dateline. jim jones led nearly 1,000 americans hello and jim jones led nearly 1000 americans to a remote area in south america, promising a religious paradise. what followed was more like hell on earth. the horror almost too horrible to believe. you are about to hear from some eyewitnesses who lived t
That is tracy again staying close to her older brother. As the group was leaving, another family was being torn apart. You brings those kids back here you bring them back one second, one second. Dont you take my kids this mother resisted when others in her family wanted to go. In the end, the family would stay, and all would die. Emotions were starting to just become very tense, and i recognized that we were in a powder keg. This is vern gosney dragging his belongings toward the departing truck. He tried to warn the congressman they were all in danger. He told me i had the congressional shield of protection over me and that i had nothing to worry about. I thought he was totally out of his mind. Congressman leo ryan, carrying the briefcase, had planned to stay the night to help get more families out. Then a Church Member came up behind him. And all of a sudden he puts a knife up to his throat and he says, all right, mf, youre going to die. We all jumped on him. We all got the knife away
The rain stopped. The parks family walked toward a waiting truck. That is tracy again staying close to her older brother. As the group was leaving, another family was being torn apart. You brings those kids back here you bring them back one second, one second. Dont you take my kids this mother resisted when others in her family wanted to go. In the end, the family would stay, and all would die. Emotions were starting to just become very tense, and i recognized that we were in a powder keg. This is vern gosney dragging his belongings toward the departing truck. He tried to warn the congressman they were all in danger. He told me i had the congressional shield of protection over me and that i had nothing to worry about. I thought he was totally out of his mind. Congressman leo ryan, carrying the briefcase, had planned to stay the night to help get more families out. Then a Church Member came up behind him. And all of a sudden he puts a knife up to his throat and he says, all right, mf, y
To give you the good life. Who convinced his followers to kill their children and then kill themselves. Lets just be done with it. Lets be done with the agony of it. Drinking a koolaidtype fruit punch laced with deadly cyanide. This is something to put you to rest. Oh, god. 30 years later in a place where words could kill and did, there is silence. An empty field, the people gone. Almost no trace of their lives or dreams. This is the site of jonestowns openair meeting hall where im standing right now, where the reverend jim jones led his followers into the worst mass murder and suicide pact in americas history. Only small golden flowers grow where bodies once lay. On that fateful morning there were 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 trage
How very much ive loved you. How very much ive tried my best to give you the good life. Who convinced his followers to kill their children and then kill themselves. Let us be done with it. Lets be done with the agony of it. Drinking a koolaidtype fruit punch laced with deadly cyanide. Something to put you to rest. 30 years later, in a place where words could kill, and did, there is silence, an empty field, the people gone. Almost no trace of their lives or dreams. This is the site of jonestowns openair meeting hall where im standing right now, where the reverend jim jones led his followers into the worst mass murder and suicide pact in americas 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