>>> IT HAS BEEN 40 YEARS SINCE
THE HORROR AND TRAGEDY OF JONES
TOWN.
JIM JONES ORDERED THE MURDER OF
MASS SUICIDE OF MORE THAN 900
FOLLOWERS INCLUDING HUNDREDS OF
CHILDREN.
>> JIM JONES STARTED PREACHING
IN INDIANAPOLIS BACK IN THE
'50S.
IN THE '60S HE MOVED TO THE
PEOPLES TEMPLE CONGREGATION TO
SAN FRANCISCO.
AFTER THAT INTO THE SOUTH
AMERICAN JUNGLE.
THE PROMISED UTOPIA BECAME A
HELLISH PRISON.
>> WHEN A CONGRESSMAN WENT TO
JONES TOWN TO INVESTIGATE, HE
AND HIS ENTOURAGE WERE ATTACKED.
RYAN AND OTHERS DIED IN A HAIL
OF BULLETS.
HOURS LATER NEARLY 1,000 OF
JONES FOLLOWERS WERE DEAD, TOO.
>> WE FOUND ONE SURVIVOR WHO
KEPT HIS LIFE BUT LOST HIS
FAMILY IN THE PROCESS.
>> I THINK ABOUT THEM EVERY DAY.
>> Reporter: TOM BIKEMAN HAS
ONLY MEMORIES AND OLD PICTURES
OF RON, HIS 11-YEAR-OLD BROTHER,
HIS MOM BECKY.
>> SHE WAS SEWING CLOTHES IN
THIS ONE.
THIS WAS OVER IN THE JUNGLE.
>> Reporter: AND HIS BUDDIES.
>> CHRIS, HE AND I WENT TO
SCHOOL, IN HIGH SCHOOL TOGETHER.
>> Reporter: THREE OF 903 PEOPLE
WHO DIED IN JONES TOWN.
>> THEY DIED FOR NO GOOD REASON.
AND IT WASN'T BY CHOICE.
IT WASN'T MASS SUICIDE.
THAT'S A FALLACY.
IT WAS MASS MURDER.
>> Reporter: WE FIRST MET TOM 40
YEARS AGO.
A SKINNY, 21-YEAR-OLD COMING
HOME FROM JONES TOWN WITH A
CASKET BEARING THE BODY OF HIS
MOTHER.
>> I REMEMBER THAT DAY.
LIKE SOMEBODY RIPPED YOUR HEART
OUT.
>> Reporter: HIS LITTLE
BROTHER'S REMAINS WERE NEVER
IDENTIFIED.
>> I WOULD RATHER HAVE DIED THAN
LET MY BROTHER LIVE.
HE WAS YOUNGER.
THAT'S BOTHERED ME.
THAT'S BOTHERED ME FOR YEARS.
>> Reporter: FOR 30 YEARS HE
KEPT QUIET.
NEVER SPOKE OF JONES TOWN TO
EVEN HIS WIFE SHERYL OR SON.
>> IT GOT SO BAD MEAN THE
DREAMS, I JUST PUSHED IT OUT OF
MY MIND, ACTED LIKE IT DIDN'T
HAPPEN.
I JUST LET IT GET THE BETTER OF
ME.
>> Reporter: TIMES WERE GOOD
WHEN THE BIKEMANS AND SCORES OF
OTHER FAMILIES WERE SWEPT UP BY
THE HOPES AND PROMISES OF A CARE
MATTIC JIM JONES.
AT A TIME WHEN THE CITY WAS
SEGREGATED, JIM JONES WAS
PREACHING INCLUSION AND
EQUALITY.
HALF THE MEMBERS WERE
AFRICAN-AMERICAN.
IN 1960, HE BECAME DIRECTOR OF
THE CITY'S HUMAN RIGHTS
COMMISSION.
BIKEMAN WAS JUST A KID.
>> WE WERE SINGING JESUS LOVES
ME.
>> Reporter: LATER THE CHURCH
BECAME LESS ABOUT JESUS AND MORE
ABOUT JONES.
>> I BEG YOU, PLEASE LEAVE US.
WE WON'T BOTHER NOBODY.
ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO GET OUT OF
HERE CAN.
>> Reporter: JONES TOWN WASN'T
EVEN CLOSE TO THE PROMISE LAND
FOLLOWERS EXPECTED.
>> HELL ON EARTH.
WORSE HELL I THINK I WOULDN'T
SEND MY WORST ENEMY THERE.
>> Reporter: HE LABORED AS A
WELDER.
HIS DAD A SCHUMACHER.
HIS MOM A SEEM STRESS.
THE WORK WAS BRUTAL, FOOD
TERRIBLE.
ARMED GUARDS AND THE JUNGLE MADE
JONES TOWN A PRISON.
WHAT SAVED YOUR LIFE?
>> THIS ARM.
>> Reporter: A BROKEN ARM.
WHEN JONES ORDERED HIS FOLLOWERS
TO SWALLOW A CONCOCTION TOM AND
HIS FATHER CHARLES WERE 125
MILES AWAY SEEING A DOCTOR.
>> I KNEW SOMETHING WAS GONNA
HAPPEN AT SOME POINT.
BUT IN MY MIND I DIDN'T REALIZE
IT WOULD BE THAT BAD.
>> Reporter: ONLY 33 PEOPLE
SURVIVED.
CHARLES BIKEMAN SPENT YEARS IN A
GUYANA PRISON.
WHEN SET FREE, HE STRUGGLED AND
PASSED IN 2001.
>> THAT'S HER HOLDING ME.
>> Reporter: TOM STRUGGLES, TOO,
WHEN HE SEES THE FACES OF ALL
THE JONES TOWN VICTIMS.
>> SAD PART ABOUT IT IS, LOT OF
GOOD HEARTED PEOPLE WHO MEANT TO
DO WELL.
THEY GOT CAUGHT UP IN IT.
I WON'T ALLOW MYSELF TO LIVE IN
THE PAST.
BUT I'M NOT GONNA FORGET IT.
I'M NOT GONNA LET THAT RUIN ME.
>> Reporter: TOM'S BEEN THROUGH
A LOT.
HE'S CERTAIN HE MADE THE POTS
THAT WERE USED TO MICK AN SERVE
THE POISON.
ANOTHER INDIANAPOLIS FAMILY LOST
21 LOVED ONES.
ONE MAN TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER
JONES TOWN TALKED TO ME.
HE REMEMBERS GROWING UP AS A
KID.
HIS FAMILY NEVER TALKING ABOUT
IT.
HE COMPARED IT TO SOLDIERS
LEAVING A BATTLEFIELD AND WANTED