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#17 – God’s Socialist, pt. 7: A Gallant, Glorious, Screaming End

The Martyr Made Podcast

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The Beginning of a New Life in Jonestown

When Jim Jones arrived, he and his staff took control of everything. No task was assigned, no crop planted, no tool purchased without jones's approval. Cottages were overcrowded with as many as eight, then ten, then a dozen or more occupants. Real toilet paper was a rare extravagance. In primitive showers, workers filthy from a day in the fields had only two minutes to rinse off. One black man named eugene smith was alarmed by the increasing craziness on the temple temples. He joined as a teener with his mother but soon became a man who could not be left alone.

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