jonestown autopsy photos

A new stone placed this year in front of the four plaques commemorates the 2011 dedication and in part thanks Evergreen Cemetery. Can you imagine what a terrible burden that would be to have such a stigmatized death that you couldnt even talk about your loved one because then youd have to go into the big explanation about Jonestown and Why were they fanatics? On November 18, 1978, the village of Jonestown became the location of a shocking tragedy when 909 members of a cult, the Peoples Temple, died from cyanide poisoning at the direction of their leader, Jim Jones. For misinformed and often novice military recruits, this made transporting some 900 unrefrigerated bodies from Guyana to San Francisco a gruesome, traumatic ordeal. In the 1970s, Jones convinced his followers to leave the US and join him in the remote village, promising a better life. He and current Congresswoman Jackie Speier, then 28, had traveled to the country, responding to reports of people held in Jonestown against their will forwarded from a group called the Concerned Relatives. As they waited to depart, a tractor from the settlement arrived towing a trailer filled with armed gunmen. We could improve the cemetery and provide services to people being discriminated against for being in a cult.. sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies at San Of the seven bodies which were autopsied, the government specified only one that of Jim Jones for examination. We could do 48 at a time, get the vault ready and then the caskets. The first 160 bodies were unidentifiable, he says, everything from babies up to 18 year olds, because at their young age they had no fingerprints or dental records on file. after visiting the jungle headquarters of a controversial American religious sect. This photo was secured via FOI request to the FBI by Preston Jones/John Brown University. Jones set up the commune Jonestown to escape growing criticism of his cult in the US.