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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.
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.
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 Jonestown experiment ended four years later in one of the most tragic and bizarre murder-suicide incidents in American history. More than 900 people died on November 18, 1978, including a US ...
The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project ("Jonestown", Guyana) In 1974, the Peoples Temple signed a lease to rent land in Guyana. [ 124 ] The community which was established on this piece of property was named the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project , informally dubbed "Jonestown".
A NatGeo documentary on Hulu examines the Jonestown massacre through the stories of survivors and witnesses
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, is a 2006 documentary film made by Firelight Media, produced and directed by Stanley Nelson.The documentary reveals new footage of the incidents surrounding the Peoples Temple and its leader Jim Jones who led over 900 members of his religious group to a settlement in Guyana called Jonestown, where he orchestrated a mass suicide with poisoned ...
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 ...