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The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name " Jonestown ", was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 [1][2] people died at the settlement, at the ...
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.
Leo Joseph Ryan Jr. (May 5, 1925 – November 18, 1978) was an American teacher and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the U.S. representative from California's 11th congressional district from 1973 until his assassination just prior to the Jonestown massacre in 1978. Before that, he served in the California State ...
Jonestown is located in northeastern Coahoma County. It is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of U.S. Routes 49 and 61 and 13 miles (21 km) northeast of Clarksdale, the county seat. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.39 square miles (1.0 km 2), all land. [8]
Johnstown is part of a four thousand acre (16 km 2) tract of land deeded to John Brown, a revolutionary soldier, by President John Adams for military services in 1800. . Brown sold the property in 1810 for $2.50 per acre, or $10,000, to Dr. Oliver Bi
Jonestown: Paradise Lost. Jonestown: Paradise Lost is a 2007 documentary television film on the History Channel about the final days of Jonestown, the Peoples Temple, and Jim Jones. From eyewitness and survivor accounts, the program recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978.
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.