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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 .
Christine Miller (June 4, 1918 – November 18, 1978) [1] was a member of the Peoples Temple cult led by Jim Jones.She is known for being the only Temple member to publicly urge Jones against carrying out the group's mass murder in Jonestown, Guyana on November 18, 1978.
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]
In 1996, Jonestown increased its borders by annexing a large parcel which had recently been bought by a real-estate development group. By 1999, the city had 1,500 residents and the Lake North area of Travis County, which includes Jonestown, had seen a 62% rise in median home prices from US$84,500 to US$137,250 in the five-year period from 1994 ...
The plane clipped power lines and then crashed "mostly in the alleyway," Griffis said at a news conference. The Cessna Citation business jet crashed around 7:40 a.m. local time, the Federal ...
Carolyn Louise Moore Layton (July 13, 1945 – November 18, 1978 [1]) was a leadership figure within Peoples Temple and a long-term partner of Temple leader Jim Jones.Along with other inner circle members, she assisted in the planning of the mass murder that took place in Jonestown, Guyana on November 18, 1978.
Jonathan Campos was the captain of American Airlines Flight 5342. His aunt told USA TODAY he was looking forward to a Caribbean cruise and had wanted to fly since childhood.
Based on 50,000 pages of recently released FBI files and rare interviews with survivors, A Thousand Lives chronicles the lives of five Jonestown residents who moved to the jungle utopia in 1978 only to realize that their leader, Jim Jones, was a madman bent on killing them. Scheeres broke several stories while writing the book.