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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 religious movement under the leadership of Jim Jones.
The entrance to Jonestown (photo:Jonestown Institute). While Jones' exit was hasty, the exodus of most Temple members had been carefully prepared. [105] The San Francisco field office of Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) received hundreds of requests for passports in the weeks before the New West article was published. [106]
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 Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, [1] originally Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church and commonly shortened to Peoples Temple, was an American Cult which existed between 1954 and 1978 and was affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
Articles relating to Jonestown, a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, a US-based cult under the leadership of Jim Jones.Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 909 people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city.
In the last half of the 20th century, Jonestown has shifted from a predominantly Eastern European and Jewish neighborhood into a predominantly African-American neighborhood. Public housing replaced many of the former rowhouses and townhouses throughout the area, though a historical presence is still felt. In the early 2000s, though, modern row ...
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 ...
Jonestown was the site of the 1978 mass suicide-and-murder of the Peoples Temple cult in northwestern Guyana. Jonestown may also refer to: Other places