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On several occasions, Jones then gave his followers four options: attempt to flee to the Soviet Union, commit "revolutionary suicide", stay in Jonestown and fight the purported attackers or flee into the jungle. [87] On at least two occasions during White Nights, after a "revolutionary suicide" vote was reached, a simulated mass suicide was ...
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what Jones termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.
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 ...
Bay Area Rep. Jackie Speier was shot and left to die in what became the largest mass murder-suicide in American history. She says the lesson we need to learn from the Jonestown massacre is to be ...
The Temple is best known for the events of November 18, 1978, in Guyana, when 909 people died in a mass suicide and mass murder at its remote settlement, named "Jonestown", as well as the murders of U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and members of his visiting delegation at the nearby Port Kaituma airstrip.
DOVER, Del. (AP) - A California man says he is glad to finally be able to claim the remains of his wife, more than 35 years after she was among more than 900 who died in a suicide-murder in ...
The film draws on Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account and reports from The Washington Post at the time, to describe the life of Jim Jones from a 1960s idealist to the November 1978 mass murder/suicide of members of Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. [1] In the beginning of the film, Jim Jones is seen helping minorities and working against ...
Speier was an aide to then-Rep. Leo J. Ryan in 1978 when members of the Jonestown settlement opened fire on them as they attempted to leave Guyana for the United States following a visit there ...