Annie Dawid

And then for many decades after that, if you said Guyana, the next thing was, oh, isn't where all those crazy Americans killed themselves. So this brand new independent country comes to be known for this horrible tragedy.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes, it is a very depressing story. I'm a realist and I like looking at reality. parts of American history that are forgotten and to bring to light what has been left in the shadows. And what has been left in the shadows is 917 people who died that day who were not Jim Jones. Almost all of the attention has been on the man, you know, more feeding his eagle after his death.

Yes, it is a very depressing story. I'm a realist and I like looking at reality. parts of American history that are forgotten and to bring to light what has been left in the shadows. And what has been left in the shadows is 917 people who died that day who were not Jim Jones. Almost all of the attention has been on the man, you know, more feeding his eagle after his death.

Yes, it is a very depressing story. I'm a realist and I like looking at reality. parts of American history that are forgotten and to bring to light what has been left in the shadows. And what has been left in the shadows is 917 people who died that day who were not Jim Jones. Almost all of the attention has been on the man, you know, more feeding his eagle after his death.

And I wanted to study the other people

And I wanted to study the other people

And I wanted to study the other people

Okay. Jim Jones was born to a kind of poor white family in Indiana and grew up in as a kind of outcast in a small town. He was an only child. His father was a World War I veteran who had been damaged by mustard gas and didn't work and drank too much. His mother, unusually for the times, worked and she was a union woman. And while I find that very admirable, it was a point of

Okay. Jim Jones was born to a kind of poor white family in Indiana and grew up in as a kind of outcast in a small town. He was an only child. His father was a World War I veteran who had been damaged by mustard gas and didn't work and drank too much. His mother, unusually for the times, worked and she was a union woman. And while I find that very admirable, it was a point of

Okay. Jim Jones was born to a kind of poor white family in Indiana and grew up in as a kind of outcast in a small town. He was an only child. His father was a World War I veteran who had been damaged by mustard gas and didn't work and drank too much. His mother, unusually for the times, worked and she was a union woman. And while I find that very admirable, it was a point of

ridicule for classmates of Jim Jones. So he was kind of a weirdo. His father was not looking after him. So he was on his own most of the time. His family was not religious, but in his loneliness, he ended up catching the attention of a neighbor woman who started taking him to her church, which was Pentecostal. So that was the beginning of his life, kind of finding a home in churches.

ridicule for classmates of Jim Jones. So he was kind of a weirdo. His father was not looking after him. So he was on his own most of the time. His family was not religious, but in his loneliness, he ended up catching the attention of a neighbor woman who started taking him to her church, which was Pentecostal. So that was the beginning of his life, kind of finding a home in churches.

ridicule for classmates of Jim Jones. So he was kind of a weirdo. His father was not looking after him. So he was on his own most of the time. His family was not religious, but in his loneliness, he ended up catching the attention of a neighbor woman who started taking him to her church, which was Pentecostal. So that was the beginning of his life, kind of finding a home in churches.

He did this growing up. And at a certain point, he ended up still a teenager working as a hospital aide at a hospital in Richmond, Indiana. which was a very segregated city. So we're talking the 1940s here. And as a kind of outcast himself, I think he felt a kind of resonance with African-American citizens who were constantly kicked to the curb. And and he saw that in the hospital as well.

He did this growing up. And at a certain point, he ended up still a teenager working as a hospital aide at a hospital in Richmond, Indiana. which was a very segregated city. So we're talking the 1940s here. And as a kind of outcast himself, I think he felt a kind of resonance with African-American citizens who were constantly kicked to the curb. And and he saw that in the hospital as well.

He did this growing up. And at a certain point, he ended up still a teenager working as a hospital aide at a hospital in Richmond, Indiana. which was a very segregated city. So we're talking the 1940s here. And as a kind of outcast himself, I think he felt a kind of resonance with African-American citizens who were constantly kicked to the curb. And and he saw that in the hospital as well.

So there he met the nurse, Marceline Baldwin, who was a minister's daughter. I think they were both very inexperienced in the ways of love and romance, and they got married very quickly. Marceline was very altruistic, and Jim Jones was very altruistic. And so He was going to school and also deciding that a minister was what he needed to be.