The 3 Best Oversight: Jonestown Podcast Episodes
1) 24 Hours
In this first episode of Oversight: Jonestown, we take you deep into the Guyanese jungle, behind the harrowing scenes of the last 24 hours of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Collective. We have new in...Show More
2) The Cover Up
In this episode, we reveal how the FBI refused to investigate Jim Jones, how the San Francisco district attorney was involved with the Peoples Temple and how a mole was working for both Jones and the ...Show More
3) Descent Into Madness
Oversight: Jonestown takes a step back to the mid-1970s, a time of tumult, to explain how the Rev. Jim Jones went from Midwest preacher to messiah to maniac. It's the story of how he became a master o...Show More
4) Epilogue: Shattered Lives
Betrayal — it's the tie that binds everyone who was touched by Jim Jones' evil ways. In this final episode of Oversight: Jonestown, we take you into the lives of survivors and victims' families who we...Show More
5) Who's to Blame?
Listen as we detail how nearly every government agency that came into contact with Jim Jones dodged responsibility for the tragedy. We bring you the facts of how investigation and oversight at all lev...Show More
6) Final Warnings
In the waning months of Jonestown, the only primary American officials in touch with the Rev*.* Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple were U.S. diplomats at the tiny embassy in Georgetown, Guyana. We tell ...Show More
7) Introducing Oversight: Jonestown
More than 900 Americans died in Jonestown, Guyana, on Nov. 18, 1978. Some committed suicide. More were murdered. In Oversight, CQ Roll Call’s new podcast, we ask new questions about Jonestown, shining...Show More