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