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EPISODE · Apr 11, 2017 · 17H 30M

Road to Jonestown Audiobook by Jeff Guinn

from Listen to New Releases of Audiobooks in Bios & Memoirs, Criminals · host Jeff Guinn

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/27/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Road to Jonestown Subtitle: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple Author: Jeff Guinn Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 04-11-17 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 870 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Criminals Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times best-selling author of Manson comes the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre - the largest murder-suicide in American history. In the 1950s a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the Gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially integrated, and he was a much-lauded leader in the contemporary civil rights movement. Eventually Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to Northern California. He became involved in electoral politics and soon was a prominent Bay Area leader. In this riveting narrative, Jeff Guinn examines Jones' life, from his extramarital affairs, drug use, and fraudulent faith healing to the fraught decision to move almost 1,000 of his followers to a settlement in the jungles of Guyana in South America. Guinn provides stunning new details of the events leading to the fatal day in November 1978 when more than 900 people died - including almost 300 infants and children - after being ordered to swallow a cyanide-laced drink. Guinn examined thousands of pages of FBI files on the case, including material released during the course of his research. He traveled to Jones' Indiana hometown, where he spoke to people never previously interviewed and uncovered fresh information from Jonestown survivors. He even visited the Jonestown site with the same pilot who flew there the day that Congressman Leo Ryan was murdered on Jones' orders. The Road to Jonestown is the definitive book about Jim Jones and the events that led to the tragedy at Jonestown.

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