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An apocalyptic cult, 900 dead: remembering the Jonestown massacre, 40 years on
Four decades ago this Sunday, the Rev Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of an American cult in the Guyanese jungle, ordered his followers to murder a US congressman and several journalists, then commit mass suicide by drinking cyanide-laced fruit punch.
The Jonestown massacre was, before 9/11, the largest single incident of intentional civilian death in American history. More than 900 people died, many children. It was also a devastating cultural trauma: the end of the last strains of a certain kind of 1960s idealism and 1970s radicalism. Jonestown’s legacy lives on in the ironic phrase “drink the Kool-Aid”. (In actuality it was Fla-Vor-Aid.)
Although he would later become a symbol of the darker side of the west coast counterculture, Jim Jones was born to a poor family in Indiana. Described as an intelligent and strange child, Jones was instinctively attracted to religion, especially charismatic Christian traditions like Pentecostalism. He cut his teeth as a street preacher, and was, unusually for the time and place, a passionate advocate for racial equality.
Jones’s idiosyncratic blend of evangelical Christianity, New Age spirituality and radical social justice attracted an enthusiastic follo
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‘They Take You For a Joke, ’Til They Find Out It’s Serious’: How Jim Jones Ended Up on Top
“Shit, it’s my job. We all got a job.”
Jim Jones is downplaying my flattery-disguised-as-an-interview-question: What’s kept you going in the music business for two solid decades, since your appearance on Cam’ron’s “Me, My Moms & Jimmy” back in 1998?
Upon first hearing Joseph Guillermo Jones II on that track, few rap fans would have pictured that the guy setting up My Two Dads punchlines would become arguably the most relevant and successful member of one of the genre’s most influential crews. Not bad for someone who, by his own admission, initially planned on just “playing the back.”
Jones was introduced to the hip-hop business early—at around age six, actually, when he met his neighbor Dame Dash. And right around that time, the legend of one of Dame’s future Roc-A-Fella co-founders was spreading.
Kareem “Biggs” Burke was known to a young Jones as “one of the bosses” of their Harlem world.
“[Biggs] has always been around Harlem, been around the East Side. Always been a little older than me, been known for hustling, for having some money, for having a weapon,” Jones recalls. Even now, he talks about Biggs’ brother, the late Robert “Bobalob” Burke, in similar awed tones (“He us
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