While I was raging through the Miami airport, Tim Chapman, a husky twenty-eight-year-old photographer for theMiami Herald,was doing some of the best work of his life. In Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, he had talked his way onto a flight to Jonestown, where the bodi...
father was Dr Laurence Laird Layton who had been the chief of the army's Chemical Warfare Division during the 1950's. It had also been Larry Layton's brother-in-law, the UNITA link, who had negotiated with the Guyana government, on behalf of Jones, for the establishment of "Jonestown."...
Jim Jones was the cult leader of the Peoples Temple who led more than 900 followers in a mass suicide known as the Jonestown Massacre. Learn more at Biography.com.
father was Dr Laurence Laird Layton who had been the chief of the army's Chemical Warfare Division during the 1950's. It had also been Larry Layton's brother-in-law, the UNITA link, who had negotiated with the Guyana government, on behalf of Jones, for the establishment of "Jonestown."...
By 1974, fifteen of Jones' followers had negotiated a lease for 27,000 acres on Guyana's western border with Venezuela, and began clearing the jungle for what would become the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, or "Jonestown." Jones eventually relocated to Guyana in July 1977. In December ...
俚语 jim jones 释义 Jim Jones a cult leader who killed hundreds, along with taking his own life, by drinking cyanide laced koolaid in guyana in the 70s the jim jones cult moved to jonestown guyana, then after shooting a senator and his guards, he ordered them to drink the poison and ...
next 10 years along with her brother Jim and sister Teresa trying to get the rest of her family -- parents, brothers, sisters -- out of the Temple and out of Jonestown. They didn't make it and the next time I saw her it was on television being interviewed the day after the ...
Inconvenienced by the fact that the media began asking questions about what was going on under Jones’ rule of the Peoples Temple, the cult moved to a compound in Guyana. In 1978, California congressman Leo Ryan sought to uncover whether some Peoples Temple members were being held against thei...
Jonestown: Then In the dense rain forest of Guyana, Jim Jones built a compound where he and his followers were meant to live in utopian harmony: the Peoples Temple. There were several huts for sleeping, teaching, working and Jones’ own sermons. On November 18, 1978, Jones led 909 of ...
Over the years, he would depart from the Christian Socialism roots of the group and self-proclaim to be God, amassing a big following which he took to Jonestown, a commune he had built in Guyana in 1974 which he promoted as a socialist utopia free from the U.S. government’s tyranny....