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Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 [1] [2] 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 name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations.
Fifty years ago, parishioners from Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple in San Francisco began to settle a rural commune in the South American country of Guyana. The Jonestown experiment ended four years ...
In a new National Geographic documentary on Hulu, survivors discuss their memories of the jungle ‘utopia’ in Guyana where Reverend Jim Jones caused the death of nearly a thousand of his ...
A NatGeo documentary on Hulu examines the Jonestown massacre through the stories of survivors and witnesses The Story Behind 'Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown' Skip to main content
Jonestown is a village in the Demerara-Mahaica region of Guyana. The old name of the village was Voorzigtigheid . [ 3 ] The village is located 37.5 kilometres (24 miles) from Georgetown between Hand-en-Veldt and the Atlantic Ocean, [ 3 ] and near the town of Mahaica . [ 4 ]
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. Because of the killings in Guyana, the Temple is regarded by scholars and by popular view as a destructive cult.
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what Jones termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.
Nascimento visited Jonestown in 1977 while other government ministers were in Panama during the signing of the Torrijos–Carter Treaties. [13] At the visit, Nascimento served Jones with papers related to the Stoen case by nailing the papers to a wooden wall, [14] which then led to a state of emergency in Jonestown referred to as the "six day ...