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) 2 of 2 The chilling story of the Jonestown massacreOverview of Jim Jones, the Peoples...
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...
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Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple: Directed by Stanley Nelson. With Rebecca Moore, Janet Shular, Tim Carter, Stanley Clayton. Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed
and sedatives. It was first squirted into the mouths of babies and children via syringe and then imbibed by adult members. Jones himself died of a gunshot wound. Fewer than 100 of the Temple members in Guyana survived the massacre; the majority of survivors either had defected that day or...
In the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Guyana After the Jonestown Massacre Every Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term “Jones wanted others to adopt his apocalyptic vision,” Reiterman wrote inRaven. “In his grand castle of paranoia, justifiable concerns about thermonuclear wa...
Jonestown Massacre: As We Watched: With Jim Jones, Frank Reynolds, John Moscatelli, Grace Stoen. In 1978, cult leader Jim Jones lures his followers to Jonestown, Guyana where they commit mass suicide of 918 adults and children.
“The sadness for me is that for all the blood that was shed and for all the lives that were lost, we don’t seem to have learned from the Jonestown massacre,” said Assemblywoman Jackie Speier (D-Burlingame), who as an aide to Ryan was shot five times during the airport attack. ...
Jackie Speier on Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple cult, and surviving the Jonestown massacre Forty years ago Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) was nearly killed in a savage attack while on a fact-finding mission into Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple cult. She told "Sunday Morning" about...
The first headlines the day of the massacre read: "Cult Dies in South American Jungle: 400 Die in Mass Suicide, 700 Flee into Jungle." By all accounts in the press, as well as People's Temple statements, there were at least 1,100 people living at Jonestown. There were 809 adult passp...