Donate.

Advertisement

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle ** BONUS** Part 1 Clip: The Healer

Please select playlist name from following

Former members of the Peoples Temple recall the fervor over Jim Jones' performative healing.

1 Comments

Please login to comment

Video Transcript:

Jones is best recruitment tool. Who has fake miracles? The first hillings were the cancers. Jim called a woman out and said, you know, asked her, was she feeling a certain way? Darth A. Lewis, who is that? Now, on your breasts, they're tender spots. Notice his tenderness? Yes. Follow my hand down to the breast. I command cancer to be removed. I command it. She had to go with the nurse and usually Marcelle, to the restroom, which she was going to get rid of this cancer. When she gets to the bathroom, she'll bring it back. That tumor is jumping from the back. Or from the end of the day. So it took a while and all of a sudden they had to go to the bathroom and they were going to be in the back. And then they were going to be in the back. And then they were going to be in the back. And then they were going to be in the back. So it took a while and all of a sudden they come down the aisle. Here she comes. They're carrying this white napkin and it's just horrible smelling. Right? It's just, it smells rotten. Just look at that, Bruce. That bloody mat. The drug is passing me now. And our Lord, Master of paper towel. Now, now press it again. You'll find no tenderness or sornice this time. No. It's all gone. You can protect the breast. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. I'm excited. The whole charge is just in frenzy. No. No. No. No. No. No. I believed absolutely everything that I saw. They had this belief that Jim had. God-like pouch. I've always thought I should have known something was up. It wasn't until I was maybe 16, 17 years old. I started putting things together. Why they always went to the bathroom to spit up the cancer. I was a suspicious piece. He had a person named Rose. It was only Rose that would produce these gross tumors. She's always giving me a bag of fried chicken. So all my friends loved me. And I always wondered why she cooked so much chicken. And I'm not saying I was scientific, but no, the answers look like chicken gizzards. Oh, chicken gizzards. So, then that's when I put together. Jim created this environment for people to believe. He still may have cancer. And they may die three months later. At that moment, they were healed. Once Jones had proven to his followers that he can make things happen, they were absolutely loyal that ultimately will contribute to the real downfall of deepest temple. Jones Town terror in the jungle a two night special event premiere Saturday.