as they died. And he saw that the only people who were allowed through the circle of crossbows were medical personnel. He heard the doctor ask a nurse to get his stethoscope. Odell fell into step beside her. The guards stopped them, but the nurse said, “We’re going ...
“It…still hurts every time I hear it,” Juanell Smart, whose four children, mother and uncle died in the tragedy, said inThe Road to Jonestown. “I hated that people laughed when they said it, like what happened was somehow funny.” In the 2005 bookDear People: Remembering Jonestown,s...
in which more than 80 people died. ~Source The Leo J. Ryan Award was established by the Leo J. Ryan Education Foundation in honor of Congressman Leo J. Ryan; Prior to the establishment of the Foundation, Margaret Singer was given the "Leo J. Ryan Memorial Award" in 1978, for research...
Nov 18, 1978 More than 900 members of an American cult called "the People‘s Temple"(人民圣殿教) died in a mass suicide-murder (by drinking poison) under the direction of their leader Jim Jones. The tragedy left many legacies, one of which ...
to why the WHOLE operation had to be scrubbed with all the people there being MURDERED - If this is correct, to God be the glory, because I've been praying for answers and for justice to these victims at Jonestown. Especially praying for justice for the hundreds of children who died ...
Forty years ago this week, more than 900 people died at Jonestown, a settlement in Guyana created by the Peoples Temple church. Until 9/11, it was the largest loss of U.S. civilian life in a deliberate act. Victims, many from the Bay Area, were drawn to Jonestown by leader Jim Jones...
How many people died in the Jonestown massacre? Jonestown, (November 18, 1978), location of the mass murder-suicide of members of theCalifornia-basedPeoples Templecultat the behest of theircharismaticbut paranoid leader,Jim Jones, in Jonestown agriculturalcommune,Guyana. The death toll exceeded 900...
Shirley Smith and Loretta Cordell — also died in the tragedy. “There were so many talented people in Peoples Temple,” says Wagner-Wilson, who escaped from Jonestown with her child and several other people the morning prior to the suicides. “Deanna definitely could have made an ...