A ceremony was held at the California cemetery that holds the unclaimed and unidentified remains of 400 Jonestown victims on Sunday to mark the 40th anniversary of the horrific massacre that shocked the globe.
Dozens of survivors and family members gathered at the Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland to pay their respects to the 918 victims of the mass suicide and murder that unfolded on November 18, 1978 in Guyana, South America orchestrated by Peoples Temple cult leader Reverend Jim Jones.
The names of all the victims are inscribed on giant granite slabs at the cemetery with the message: 'In memory of the victims of the Jonestown tragedy'.
Jim Jones Jr, the adopted black son of the Reverend Jim Jones, spoke at a service at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland California on Sunday for the 40th Jonestown anniversary
Dozens of survivors, family and friends gathered at the gravesite that lists the name of all 918 Jonestown victims and holds the remains of 400 victims. Erica Harden, of Sacramento, California points to the names of her six relatives who died in the devastating mass suicide and murder on November 18, 1978 in Guyana, South America
Jim Jones Jr pictured in October pointing to the names of his family members at the Jonestown memorial in Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, California
Speaking at the ceremony on Sunday Jones Jr said: 'It’s not the death, it’s the loss of potential that these people had to want to change the world. They were manipulated by Jim Jones. I’m the first one to say it, I’m his son. But at the same time, their goal was to change the world'
Jones' adopted son Jim Jones Jr and other Peoples Temple members conducted a service on the somber anniversary date on Sunday.
On November 19, 1978, 918 members of the Peoples Temple living in Guyana, South America were killed by drinking a cyanide-laced drink, after they were instructed to do so by cult leader Rev. Jim Jones (above)
'Forty years, that’s two generations, two lifetimes. This is not a day that we’re celebrating people’s death, we’re celebrating life. Every one of these people who have relatives who survived, they made a choice,' Jones Jr said according to the East Bay Times.
He spoke bluntly on his father's leadership of the cult.
'Here's the facts: It was a horrific event. But it’s not the death, it’s the loss of potential that these people had to want to change the world. They were manipulated by Jim Jones. I’m the first one to say it, I’m his son. But at the same time, their goal was to change the world. So the tolerance was miscued, their blind loyalty was miscued,' he said.
Jon Cobb, who called Jim Jones his adopted father, also spoke at the ceremony.
'I was born into the Peoples Temple all my life, from in Indiana in 1960, and I was there until the end in 1978. I lost 11 family members,' Cobb said.
'Every time that we’ve been up here, we’ve noticed that different tourists are up here from just all over. As people get a better understanding of it, more than just the craziness of Jim Jones and the mass murder-suicides at the end, the interest has grown in what drew people there and what happened day to day to sustain that group. This memorial is fitting for everyone to have a place to see,' he added.
A vat that contained a drink laced with deadly cyanide sits on a sidewalk at Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana in November 1978. The bodies of followers that drank the poison are strewn around the commune
A total of 918 people died at the Guyana, South American mission post. The aftermath of the massacre pictured above
Dozens of survivors, friends, and relatives gathered at the Oakland cemetery on Sunday to remember their loved ones lost in the 1978 massacre
Survivors, family and friends gathered to the cemetery to find the names of their loved ones and honor their lives taken too soon.
Minister Jynona Norwood, who lost 27 relatives in the mass suicide, separately unveiled a portable memorial wall to honor more than 300 children and other victims.
She notably left off the names of Jones and those she says assisted him.
People's Temple member Janet Shular, who managed to escape the group with her husband and her adopted children months before the church traveled to Guyana paid her respects at the cemetery on Sunday.
'I’m feeling great exuberance over what I am able to observe — the power of love encourages people to keep going beyond all reasonable levels of expectation, we rise above tragedy, pain, sadness and sorrow,' she said.
Both memorials list California Congressman Leo Ryan, three newsmen and a church defector killed by temple gunmen at an airstrip.
On that fateful day U.S. Rep Leo Ryan and our others were killed by members of the Peoples Temple after they landed on a nearby airstrip.
What followed was horrific mass suicide and massacre where cult members drank cyanide-spiked drink.
The shocking massacre brought international attention to the church and it was the largest loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act until the 9/11 terror attacks.
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