I Don't Know What Happened to Themselves

"I don't, i don't know what it was that set jim jones off. I don't think anybody does," says author Julian Zelizer. "But one thing that emerges very clearly is that his terror over nuclear weapons in nuclear war was real." In october of 19 61 he suffered a nervous breakdown and no longer knew if the world would be safe from an impending nuclear apocalypse. He also began behaving erratically, suffering headaches and collapses,. fearing that he was being watched and that were plotting against him. Other people out there could see inside his life but couldn't see inside his head to justify his behavior.