Jonestown

medias portrayal of the race aspect

Sources

medias portrayal of Jones himself

medias portrayal of the religious aspect

New York Times

Chicago Tribune

Time

Washington times

medias portrayal of the socialist aspect

Jones placement on the mad criminal spectrum.

Phycological

Societal

Moral

Evil because he was evil

Preyed on poor blacks

very race conscious for the time

Used civil rights to gain a large following

technically a mass shooter

Believed to have shot 4.

portrayed with absolutely no sympathy

seen as pure unexplained evil

very frenzied and made sure to let everyone know he was a socialist

no one considers him a real christian

even before the murders his church was seen as a sham by chrisindom as a whole

used to fuel the resurgence of the red scare in the late 70s early 80s