A woman detonates a bomb in a parking garage, and prosecutors suspect she was acting under orders of a charismatic cult leader.A woman detonates a bomb in a parking garage, and prosecutors suspect she was acting under orders of a charismatic cult leader.A woman detonates a bomb in a parking garage, and prosecutors suspect she was acting under orders of a charismatic cult leader.
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on the following incidents:
- The 1960's Charles Manson case. Manson, a charismatic cult leader, was believed to have brainwashed many of his followers into committing horrible atrocities, the most memorable (to most) being the brutal slaying of pregnant actress Sharon Tate in her home.
- Jim Jones and the 1978 Jonestown mass-murder suicide. Jones was a preacher and faith healer turned cult leader who conspired with his inner circle to direct a mass murder-suicide of his followers in his jungle commune at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", a remote settlement established by the Peoples Temple, in Guayana Esequiba, a disputed territory in northwestern Guyana claimed by Venezuela. On November 18, 1978, a total of 918 people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city.
- The Timothy Stoen case. Stoen was an attorney best known for his central role as a member of the Peoples Temple, and as an opponent of the group during a multi-year custody battle over his six-year-old son, John. Stoen's battle led to an investigation of the Peoples Temple's settlement at Jonestown, Guyana, which became internationally notorious in 1978 after 918 people-including Stoen's son-died in the settlement and on a nearby airstrip. Stoen continues to work as a deputy district attorney in Mendocino County, California, where he is assigned to the District Attorney's Fort Bragg office.
- The David Koresh case. Koresh was a cult leader who played a central role in the Waco siege of 1993. As the head of the Branch Davidians sect, Koresh claimed to be its final prophet.
- The 1993 Branch Davidian siege near Waco Texas. The Waco siege was the siege of a compound which belonged to the religious sect Branch Davidians. It was carried out by American federal and Texas state law enforcement, as well as by the U.S. military, between February 28 and April 19, 1993.
- The 1993 World Trade Center bombing. On February 26, 1993--eight years before the tragic events of 9/11--a car bomb detonated in the parking garage of the South Tower. The explosion killed six people plus an unborn child. Thousands of people were also treated for smoke inhalation and other injuries.
- GoofsThe quote of "200 years ago" as when "we came here on boats to get away from that sort of thing" (persecution by Europe's established churches) should've been "over 300 years ago" as when we came on the Mayflower.
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A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: I've never had a problem with religion and choice.
Adam Schiff: Oh no? Let me guess, agnostic?
[Claire nods]
Adam Schiff: Give it 40 years.
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Church or cult?
A bomb goes off in a parking garage and the woman who was planting the bomb
gets blown up herself. Jerry Orbach and Chris Noth determine that she was a
member of an extreme fundamentalist Christian church.
Church or as some would put it a cult? A question that philosophy classes debate endlessly today. So do the courts.
Michael Moriarty and Jill Hennessy are all for charging cult leader Sam Robards as providing the marching orders. Did the late bomber have any real choice in the thrall of a charismatic leader?
It's a knotty issue revolving around freedom of religion and her free will to leave the cult. Robards is quite the good choice for this role.
This is an episode that will have you thinking.
Church or as some would put it a cult? A question that philosophy classes debate endlessly today. So do the courts.
Michael Moriarty and Jill Hennessy are all for charging cult leader Sam Robards as providing the marching orders. Did the late bomber have any real choice in the thrall of a charismatic leader?
It's a knotty issue revolving around freedom of religion and her free will to leave the cult. Robards is quite the good choice for this role.
This is an episode that will have you thinking.
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- bkoganbing
- Jul 14, 2019
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