Annie Dawid
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147 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Annie Dawid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Other people were threatened by the men with the guns. And so that's how they ended up taking it. So it takes a long time if it takes 45 minutes to die from this for an adult from this mixture. And there's 900 plus people. It's going on and on and getting dark.
Yeah, he says, mother, don't do this. So he could have been saying that to Marceline, or he could have been talking to all of the mothers who were saying, I don't want to kill my child. So we don't know. We'll never know if that was Marceline herself. Marceline does die of the poison, however. So she took it eventually or was injected.
Some of the people who escaped, there's a couple of people who escaped while it was happening. And eventually they hear some gunshots. And it turns out somebody has shot. There were some dogs there. who were pets, shot the dogs. And they also had Mr. Mug, the chimpanzee, who had been, you know, over the years, like the mascot, practically, of Jonestown and the People's Temple.
And he gets shot, too. When the sun rises in the morning and finally the Guyanese Defense Force arrives to investigate what has happened, because they knew about what happened at the airstrip,
but they don't know what happened at Jonestown, so they go from the airstrip where they help all the wounded, because there's a lot of people who were wounded, and then they drive the seven miles out to Jonestown, and it's totally quiet. It's like an incomprehensible sight, all of these bodies. They eventually find two human beings who have been killed by gunshots in the head.
And one of them is Annie Moore, who is like Jones's private nurse. And the other one is Jim Jones himself. At any rate, Jim Jones did not die of the poison. He did not drink this horrible liquid, which made you suffer for 45 minutes. And so we don't know if he said, Annie, will you please kill me? And that she did so and then killed herself. Or they both killed themselves with the same gun.
There was one gun. And eventually all these American military come to get the bodies. And in the beginning, the American State Department's like, we don't want these bodies. You know, can't you just build a mass pet and bury them there? That's what they say. to the president of Guyana. And he says, no, we will not do that. You need to come get your American dead.
These are American people killing Americans. So this is your problem. So for the next several days, these units from the first, they come from a base in Panama and then some other bases. And they're people who are used to dealing with bodies, but not with 900 plus bodies. of civilians, you know, they're used to dealing with the war dead.
And so it's a horrible, horrible few days for these airmen in particular.
It was more like a third. A lot of these bodies could not be identified. They didn't do enough examinations. There was a Guyanese coroner who wanted to do them. But he's not going to be able to do 900 bodies. I think he looked at approximately 100 of them, which is already a lot of bodies. The identification issue is a total mess.
I'm not saying there was some fantastic way they could have fixed it, given the circumstances. But that's a whole other element of the Jonestown story is what happens to those bodies.
Yeah. But so all the bodies are shipped back to Dover Air Force Base. And, you know, eventually some are claimed by families. But you have to remember, a lot of the people were poor and getting a body shipped to you from Delaware to California is beyond the means of a lot of people. And they did some, you know, there was a whole nother thing about kind of the jurisdiction over these bodies.
So they're all Americans and they come back to Delaware. But first, like the Delaware people don't want anything to do with it. And they already know that this is going to have the worst history of like anything that happens ever. up till that moment in American history. It's the largest death of American civilians in the 20th century. The count of the bodies has also been
very unclear because the GDF goes in there and they see 400 bodies approximately. So where's the other half of the Jonestown population? And everything is being reported like Guyana's flooded with international media and they're sending these reports everywhere and sending the pictures of all the bodies. But only 400 people apparently are lying there.
And so back in the States, everybody with family there is like, are my people among that 400? Are mine among the people who escaped into the jungle? Well, that actually never happened. There were bodies who were piled on other bodies. And that's why they got it so wrong, sadly.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah, you can't take away that element. So Stephen and two or three of his adopted brothers are playing basketball and they're staying at the compound in Georgetown. And that message comes in. And Stephen, who's been speaking since then, you know, almost 50 years talking about it, You know, he was furious and there was no way he was going to kill anybody or kill himself.
And sadly, this one woman who kind of ran the compound, she decides, yes, we have to die. And she kills her three children and herself in Georgetown.
Yes. Her name is Hyacinth Thrush, and there's an autobiography that you can read about her experience in the People's Temple. So they had these bunk beds that were stacked really high, which is crazy for old people, but nevertheless... There were old people. So she's in this top bed, the third tier.
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