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Jonestown is located at the northern end of Lake Travis, 19 miles (31 km) northwest of Austin. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 5.3 square miles (13.7 km 2 ), of which 4.7 square miles (12.1 km 2 ) is land and 0.6 square mile (1.6 km 2 ) (11.34%) is water.
His news readings usually portrayed the U.S. as a "capitalist" and "imperialist" villain, while casting "socialist" leaders, such as Kim, [59] Stalin [60] and Robert Mugabe [61] in a positive light. Jonestown's primary means of communication with the outside world was a shortwave radio. [62]
Don Harris (September 8, 1936 – November 18, 1978) was an NBC News correspondent who was killed after departing Jonestown, an agricultural commune owned by the Peoples Temple in Guyana. On November 18, 1978, he and four others (including Leo Ryan ) were killed by gunfire by Temple members at a nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma , Guyana .
Homes flooding in Texas as severe storms ramp up across the South, including a threat of strong tornadoes Robert Shackelford, Dalia Faheid and Mary Gilbert, CNN April 10, 2024 at 9:42 AM
A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday lifted an order that blocked the enforcement of an anti-money laundering law that forces millions of business entities to disclose the identities of their real ...
The 11-year-old died by suicide on February 8 – five days after her mother found her unresponsive at their home in Gainesville, Texas, according to an online obituary. Her mother says Jocelynn ...
The first allusion to the phrase after Jonestown occurred a month later, in December 1978, when Rev. Dr. William Sloane Coffin told a convention of the American unit of Pax Christi that American planning for nuclear war and preparations for the civil defense was "the Kool-Aid drill without the cyanide." [15]
"The good news is that it was discovered early and I had a successful lumpectomy on Tuesday." ... Speier was an aide to then-Rep. Leo J. Ryan in 1978 when members of the Jonestown settlement ...