Jim Jones didn't want NBC in Jonestown partly because he had undergone a huge change thanks to his lifestyle of drink and drugs.
In this series, Newsweek reconstructs the events leading to the Jonestown Massacre as it happened in 1978, day by day.crew. The network was sending down one of its best journalists—Don Harris, a lanky 42-year-old who'd won four Emmy Awards for his investigative reports.
The letter sent to NBC from The People's Temple on November 4, 1978. Jones accuses the media of a 'McCarthy-like web'.But there was another reason Jones' inner circle was nervous about a live interview. After arriving in Guyana the late summer of 1977, Jim Jones had undergone a shocking change.
It was easier to hide this dual nature in the States than in the constricted space of Jonestown, where he lived in a secluded cottage with two of his female lovers and his wife Marcie lived alone. Although rank-and-file members were forbidden from approaching his residence, word of his living arrangement still leaked out.
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