the reality of jonestown?ard work, long hours, too much heat, too little sleep, and, as leslie wilson remembers, meager food. >> dinner was rice and gravy and sometimes a soup with chicken feet sticking out. >> she wrote this letter to a friend there in jonestown. >> i now feel as if my whole being is being worthless here. i'm now 21 years old, and my life will surely consist of nothing more than it does now. >> at the bottom she wrote -- >> destroy this now. >> but at a wednesday catharsis meeting -- >> my letter was being read by jim in front of the whole congregation. and if i could have crawled in that guyanese soil and dug a hole so deep, i would have done that. i was just in fear. >> your best friend turned you in. >> my best friend turned me in. >> as punishment, leslie was placed on a hard work detail. for her, the promised land was a failure. >> we're not going to make a difference in the world because no one knew about us. no one cared. we were just this bunch of folks living in the jungle, surviving

six miles over a bumpy road back to jonestown.thing i noticed was the heat was unbearable. >> everything else was different. an open field at what was the heart of the settlement. the buildings dismantled and carried away by natives. jungle growth retaking the land, so thick our guides needed machetes. a few banana trees still standing. and this. the remains of one small tractor half hidden in the weeds. for tracy parks, what is important is what was not here. >> it's -- this is where it happened. so i had to bring myself back to feel the pain and the -- the fears. and see that it's gone, really helped me. >> did you not believe it was gone? >> i had to see it for myself. >> that it was really gone? >> yeah. >> that no buildings stand? >> yep. >> that he's not here. >> that he's not here. >> when one of the earliest members of the peoples temple arrived here in guyana he said jim jones told him the road to jonestown led in but it did not lead out. for 900 people who followed jim jones here, he led them only to the grave. the sign

. >> now, do i understand you to say that you both want to leave jonestown on this date, november 18, then i remember seeing this couple with a child between them. >> you bring those kids back here! you bring them back! don't you take my kids! >> you could feel the tension. >> last night someone came and passed me this note. >> people play games, friend. they lie. they lie. what can i do about liars? you people leave us. i just beg you. please leave us. >> instead of just letting that plane take off with minimal damage to his movement, jones snapped. >> good evening. for about the last 30 hours, we here at nbc news have been trying to establish what happened last night at the airstrip at a place called port kaituma. we do have a particular interest in it. two nbc newsmen were shot to death there. >> don harris was killed. bob brown was killed. congressman ryan was shot 45 times. >> every time somebody would fall down wounded, they would walk over and shoot them in the head with a shotgun. >> i was shot five times. i was lying on my side with my head down pretending i was dead. and the

jonestown was a city of the dead. >> they found tremendous quantities of potassium cyanide poison.-aid. it killed quickly, within five minutes. >> we will never know how many people voluntarily drank the poison. but other people were either coerced, brainwashed or took it against their will. they were murdered. >> i was lifted into this medevac plane, and i was so grateful. >> good evening. the searching american soldiers have finished counting the bodies in jonestown, guyana. 910 died in the poison ritual of the people's temple last week. >> this is americans killing other americans and themselves. in its own interest for its own well being this nation will have to find out why. can a business have a mind? a subconscious. a knack for predicting the future. reflexes faster than the speed of thought. can a business have a spirit? can a business have a soul? can a business be...alive? i'm sorta marge... you're not marge? we both drive a stick, we both like saving money on car insurance, and we both feel integrity, such as, that of healthcare in the america of the us and therefore. ye

. >> i first flew to jonestown last evening around sunset. there was absolute silence.cene of the dead. >> they found tremendous quantities of potassium cyanide poison. it had been mixed with kool-aid. it killed quickly, within five minutes. >> we will never know how many people voluntarily drank the poison. but other people were either coerced, brainwashed or took it against their will. they were murdered. >> i was lifted into this medevac plane, and i was so grateful. >> good evening. the searching american soldiers have finished counting the bodies in jonestown, guyana. 910 died in the poison ritual of the people's temple last week. >> this is americans killing other americans and themselves. in its own interest for its own well being this nation will have to find out why. ♪ ♪ isn't it beautiful when things just come together? build a beautiful website with squarespace. hiking brought us togetherdom hikers. but that's not the only thing that keeps us coming back. here's to friends who reach for better. fewer carbs, fewer calories, superior taste. michelob ultra. the

i'm soledad o'brien reporting from what was once jonestown in guyana, south america. >>> the following is a cnn special report. >>> a monster -- >> it's my world! >> a madman. >> i run with a pack of wolves and i got to be a wolf. >> a master mind of one of the most horrific killing sprees in u.s. history. >> what do you think will happen when i get out? >> the savagery that went on that night. it is uncome precomprehensible. >> charles manson transformed a group of young women into vicious killers. >> he was the dictatorial ruler of the family, the king. the ma that raja. a man, who redefined evil, and violently ended seven innocent lives. >> charles manson is one of the worst human beings that ever walked the planet. >> now 45 years after his trial, exclusive interviews with family friends, the prosecutor, the jury, the manson followers. >> he just seemed on fire. >> i'm terrible. i'm a terrible guy. >> face of evil. the charles manson murders. august 9, 1969. it was an unusually hot night when hollywood's prestigious cielo drive. >> it was peaceful and very isolated. it curved aroun

is i believe that there should be no deletions of bus stops in san francisco state university or jonestownhose are heavily used stops not try to consolidate them that is extremely unrealistic and the other part i agree what the idea of agreeing o adding more buses that will speed up service but try a pilot project for 6 months to see the results before you jump into this there is a lot of money to be spent and if something goes wrong that will take a lot of money to be undoing this is a major thoroughfare and connects the peninsula to the city it is extremely important i'm grateful that the concerns of the merced xarntd neighborhood triangle was addressed i appreciate that but this is those are my concerns thank you. >> howard is the last person to turn in a speaking. >> good afternoon, directors howard first, i was even more excited than shown when this project was going to be started i ride it regularly when i go to the old people's school at ucsf let's talk about the consolidation you've had consolidation in the richmond of the north of the park forever and i know just did it you didn't