1. Barclays Canada gives the People's Temple a $400k bank draft
  2. Bank of Montreal in Los Angeles holds accounts for and donates to the People's Temple
  3. Jim Jones stashes money in Bank of Nova Scotia's Panama facilities

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People's Temple assets between $26 million and $2 billion (??)

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A Chart of Financial Holdings

  • culpritus [any]
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    1 year ago

    The Temple is best known for the events of November 18, 1978, in Guyana, when 909 people died in a mass suicide and mass murder at its remote settlement, named "Jonestown", as well as the murders of U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and members of his visiting delegation at the nearby Port Kaituma airstrip. The incident at Jonestown resulted in the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

    well that's an interesting factoid

    • culpritus [any]
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      1 year ago

      this shit is so fucking wild:

      According to the San Francisco Chronicle, while he [U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan] investigated, the United States Department of State "repeatedly stonewalled Ryan's attempts to find out what was going on in Jonestown" and told him that "everything was fine".