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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 massacre [4] November 18, 1978 Jonestown, Georgetown, & Port Kaituma: 918 A mass suicide, led by American Jim Jones, over 900 killed by consuming cyanide. Buxton Massacre: December 9, 1994 Buxton, East Coast Demerara 6 A known drug addict murdered his mother and five other villagers, before being killed by police officers. [5]
A NatGeo documentary on Hulu examines the Jonestown massacre through the stories of survivors and witnesses
Forty years ago, on Nov. 18, 1978, self-styled holy man Jim Jones oversaw the mass slaughter of nearly 900 members of his church or, more accurately, cult — the Peoples Temple, marking the ...
In a new National Geographic documentary on Hulu, survivors discuss their memories of the jungle ‘utopia’ in Guyana where Reverend Jim Jones caused the death of nearly a thousand of his ...
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 ...
Fifty years ago, parishioners from Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple in San Francisco began to settle a rural commune in the South American country of Guyana. The Jonestown experiment ended four years ...