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Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 [1] [2] people died at the settlement; at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma; and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations. [3]
That evening, in Jonestown, Jones ordered his congregation to drink a concoction of cyanide-laced, grape-flavored Flavor Aid. [ 136 ] [ 137 ] In all, 918 people died, including 276 children. [ 138 ] This includes four that died at the Temple headquarters that night in the Guyanese capital of Georgetown . [ 139 ]
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.
Forty years ago, on Nov. 18, 1978, self-styled holy man Jim Jones oversaw the mass slaughter of nearly 900 members of his church or, more accurately, cult — the Peoples Temple, marking the ...
On Nov. 18, 1978, 912 people died in Jonestown after its leader Jim Jones ordered them to inject themselves with poison, right as U.S. government authorities were looking to investigate him for ...
In a new National Geographic documentary on Hulu, survivors discuss their memories of the jungle ‘utopia’ in Guyana where Reverend Jim Jones caused the death of nearly a thousand of his ...
At Jonestown, Guyana, followers of Jim Jones' Temple drank from a metal vat containing a mixture of "Kool Aid", cyanide, and prescription drugs Valium, Phenergan, and chloral hydrate. Present-day descriptions of the event sometimes claim the beverage was not Kool-Aid, but Flavor Aid , [ 15 ] a less-expensive product from Jel Sert reportedly ...
The movement's leader, Jim Jones, called a mass meeting at the Jonestown pavilion after the murder of U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and others in nearby Port Kaituma. Jones proposed "revolutionary suicide" by way of ingesting a powdered drink mix made from Flavor Aid (later misidentified as Kool-Aid) that was lethally laced with cyanide and other ...