24 Hours

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11/18/19 • 31 min

In this first episode of Oversight: Jonestown, we take you deep into the Guyanese jungle, behind the harrowing scenes of the last 24 hours of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Collective. We have new information and a new understanding of how one man — the Rev. Jim Jones — orchestrated the deaths of 917 people, including Congressman Leo Ryan.

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Introducing Oversight: Jonestown

More than 900 Americans died in Jonestown, Guyana, on Nov. 18, 1978. Some committed suicide. More were murdered. In Oversight, CQ Roll Call’s new podcast, we ask new questions about Jonestown, shining a new light on the corruption, international intrigue, racial tensions and betrayal.

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Descent Into Madness

Oversight: Jonestown takes a step back to the mid-1970s, a time of tumult, to explain how the Rev. Jim Jones went from Midwest preacher to messiah to maniac. It's the story of how he became a master of exploitation. He used the Black Power movement against the African-American community, politicians' own votes against them — and abuse and coercion against his own flock.