1. PROPAGANDA Definition: information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view

2. INSPIRATIONS Karl Marx: Writer of the Communist Manifesto Joseph Stalin: Leader of the Soviet Union Mao Zedong: Creator of the Communist Party in China Twisted work of his inspirations to create his own Marxist views.

3. BELIEFS OF THE CHURCH Apostolic Socialism: Give up everything that you have and give it to the church Nursing homes, soup kitchens, homeless shelters Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx Radicalism in America: Morris Hillquit Introduction to Socialism: Leo Huberman Revolutionary Suicide: Created by Huey Newton and Jim Jones twisted the words

4. PEOPLES TEMPLE AGRICULTURAL PROJECT Communist Society Messages over speakers every day condemning America & Democracy More teachings based on Socialism and Communism White Night Services Showed devotion to Jim Jones by drinking poison Randomly during the night Locations for Jonestown outside of Guyana Soviet Union North Korea Cuba

5. OUR ULTIMATE GOAL “Take our life from us. We laid it down. We got tired. We didn't commit suicide, we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world.” November 18 th, 1978 Death Toll: 918 Minors: 318

6. SURVIVORS 82 Survivors officially Julia Scheeres: Author of A Thousand Lives Rebecca Moore: Author of Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America George Phillip Blakely: Put down the payment for the area in Guyana that was to be Jonestown http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=37978 (Website of all survivors)