Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Guyana Tragedy The Story of Jim Jones, also called The Mad Messiah, is a 1980 television miniseries about the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones, and their 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown. Based on the book by Charles A. Krause, entitled Guyana Massacre The Eyewitness Account, the film was originally shown on television on April 15, 1980.
Joness family members in the movie are based directly on his own family. The characters of Clayton and Jean Richie are based on Timothy and Grace Stoen he was a primary Temple attorney and Joness former righthand man, she a main organizer for the Temples Planning Commission, and David Langtree on Larry Schacht the sole doctor at Jonestown, though elements of other Temple members are added to each, and details are changed. Many of the other characters are composites of one or more persons.Though not a documentary in its own right, the film takes the style of a true life portrayal of the events. James Earl Jones appears in the film, as spiritual leader Father Divine. The final scenes of the film, with dialog taken from the infamous Jonestown death tape FBI Number Q 042, were produced in a documentary cinematic style, and shot in Puerto Rico and Georgia instead of Guyana. The film was originally broadcast in two parts by CBS Television, on Apriland 16. ........
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