Jim Jones, American cult leader who proclaimed himself messiah of an evangelist group named the Peoples Temple. He led his followers to the South American country of Guyana and eventually ordered them to drink a cyanide-laced beverage as part of a mass m
Jonestown, location of the mass murder-suicide of the California-based Peoples Temple cult at the behest of their charismatic but paranoid leader, Jim Jones, in Jonestown agricultural commune, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. The death toll exceeded 900, ma
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Jim Jones and the Jonestown MassacreThe Cabin Kevin Jones
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 bodies still lay, three days after the massacre that culminated in the death of more than 900 members of the Reverend Jim Jo...
Revisit the tragic and infamous Jonestown massacre in the new trailer for an upcoming docuseries that examines the final hours of Jim Jones’ cult in Guyana.Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown — the latest installment in Nat Geo and Hulu’s One Day in America franchise — features rare archi...
Jim Jones and his wife Marceline were the first white couple to adopt a Black child in Indiana in 1961. Death Year: 1978 Death date: November 18, 1978 Death City: Jonestown Death Country: Guyana Fact Check We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn’t look right...
THE SONS OF JONESTOWN They survived the massacre their father staged in 1978, but Stephan Jones and Jim Jones Jr. are still struggling with his grim legacyIrene Sege, Globe Staff
Jonestown massacreBodies of members of the Peoples Temple who died after their leader Jim Jones ordered them to drink a cyanide-laced beverage. The vat that contained the poison is in the foreground.(more) A year later, Concerned Relatives, a group of former members, persuaded Leo J. Ryan,...