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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 .
[101] [102] [103] On 2 October 1978, Feodor Timofeyev, the Soviet consul in Georgetown, visited Jonestown for two days and gave a speech. [104] Jones stated before the speech, "For many years, we have let our sympathies be quite publicly known, that the United States government was not our mother, but that the Soviet Union was our spiritual ...
Attempts to prevent Jonestown massacre 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.
But in the new documentary, Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown, streaming on Hulu on June 17, director Marian Mohamed illustrates how the people who died there were victims of a mass murder.
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 ...
Jessica Beth Savitch (February 1, 1947 – October 23, 1983) was an American television journalist who was the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily newsreader for NBC News during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Leo Joseph Ryan Jr. (May 5, 1925 – November 18, 1978) was an American teacher and Democratic Party politician who represented California's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 until his assassination hours before the Jonestown massacre in 1978.