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Alison Eldridge
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History.com Editors. “Jonestown.” HISTORY, 13 Jan. 2021, www.history.com/topics/crime/jonestown. Accessed 21 March 2022.

Barker, Marc, director. Jonestown - When Groupthink Becomes a 'Lemmings' Effect. YouTube, YouTube, 29 Dec. 2007, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClVvA466iFg&list=WL&index=55&t=0s.

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I feel as if people left jones in the beginning and had a mind of their own without the manipulation of jones it probably wouldn't have ever happened. I feel the former temple members should have spoken up publically to raise awareness of what Jim Jones was doing to these people.

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The Jonestown massacre will forever be a long term effect. for example 900 people lost their lives after drinking what Jones called "drinking the kool-aid". another example is they have a death tape that has a gruesome image of the people's temple.

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An example of mind guarding Jones controlled everything that went on at jonestown. he was persuasive with his words and was able to keep control of his congression.

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self censorship was a symptom of groupthink in this even. for example Jones used tactics to strike fear into the temple members.people doubted any of their thoughts and this led to them staying quiet and often disagreed with their own thoughts.

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(2) Symptoms of groupthink in Jonestown massacre.

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(2) Symptoms of groupthink in Jonestown massacre.

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Pressure. For example former member from the peoples temple said they were forced to give up their belongings and their homes. another example is people that wanted to leave the temple were either threatened or mistreated.

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Social factors contributed to this event because Jim Jones affected his people temple followers lifestyle.By giving them a false sense of paradise when he worked them like crazy and treated them poorly.the culture at that time that allowed this to happen was the peoples temple. they allowed it to happen because they strongly believed in anything Jones said they were needy. the major issues in society were social justice and civil rights. this contributed to the event because people were seeking a better life and Jones seemed idealistic and people admired that. which led to them becoming apart of the peoples temple.

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Larry Layton was known as a high level member of the peoples temple .He posed as a defector and was determined to prove his loyalty to Jim Jones. and by doing so he shooting the pilot. his role in the event was being one of Jones followers who would do anything to prove loyalty to the people's temple.

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Leo Ryan was a U.S Congressman from California. He got a tip that some of his constituents and their family are being held against their will at Jonestown.so he visits Jonestown with reporters. as Ryan and he reporter went through with the visit people from the temple called out to ryan for help. and the day Ryan and people from the temple and made an attempt to escape they were gunned down by men sent from Jones. Leo's role in this event was to help people out that wanted to leave the temple. but It ultimately led to his demise. and caused Jones to tell his followers that soldiers are coming and that they needed to commit suicide.

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This is the man behind one of the biggest mass suicides in history.

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(B)Jim Jones was a powerful preacher and cult leader and he had thousands of followers. He started off as a humble self-oriented Christian minister in small churches. He then opened his first people's Temple church in the mid-50s. As he became more and more powerful he attracted diverse groups of followers and it was typically young people want to do something meaningful with their lives. His role in this Tragic event was the villain that deceived  909 members to commit what he called a "revolutionary act" and end their own lives including his own.

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this is what the people's temple people took to commit suicide

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(A)Jim Jones was a cult leader of the people's temple and he attracted thousands of followers whom he abused and held against their will. a massive suicide was followed through by Jim Jones and 909 committed suicide by drinking cyanide but was phrased as "drinking cool-aid".this event took place on November 18, 1978. It happened in Guyana an agricultural commune in Jonestown. This happed after a U.S representative named Leo Ryan and he and a news crew when to Guyana. and they were welcomed but one of the people's temple members slipped a note stating they wanted to get away from Jonestown. Leo Ryan and the congressmen were leaving and they were gunned down which led to Jim Jones following through with the mass suicide.