knew people were being held against their will
"let the ones go who want to"
"the stories the ones who leave would tell: held against their will, money taken, forms of discipline"
"if an older person did leak to [the U.S. embassy] that they wanted to return or worse, could we say that we did not realize this and send them back"
"Gene thinks that we should just let everyone that wants to go back go and that that would solve our financial problems. It is obviously not that simple for seniors are an economic base we need and the youth are a labor force we need. Tho a good number would I think stay"
"The project could go on here if it can maintain and if the people leave, then they could just go and we could see what happens."
helped plan mass deaths
"if we make a stand or decide to die how are we going to do it? Do you give everyone pills?"
"If there were a good way to insure the deaths of everyone I would consider it about the best alternative"
"You have always seemed sure that we could do away with ourselves and the babies we are worried about. Yet, each time [Marceline Jones] gets totally freaked out at this"
Jim Jones
Maria Katsaris
Carolyn Moore
Annie Moore
Phyllis Chaiken
Joyce Touchette
Sharon Amos (sliced the throats of her children Christa and Martin)
Marceline Jones
Jack Beam
Michael Prokes
Dick Tropp
Harriet Tropp
Patty Cartmel
Jim McElvane
Larry Layton (fake defector, Cessna shooter)
Bob Kice
Tom Kice
Joe Wilson (head of security; wife & baby escape that morning)
Al Touchette
Wesley Breidenbach
Ron James
Ron Tally
Ed Crenshaw
Ronnie Dennis
Stanley Gieg
Anthony Simon
Earnest Jones
Don Sly
Amondo Griffith
Tim Carter
Stephen Jones
Jim Jones, Jr.
Lee Ingram
Rita Tupper
Sandy Bradshaw