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The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American religious movement under the leadership of Jim Jones.
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 is located at (40.414001, -76.479030 According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the borough has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.6 km 2 ), all of which is land. Jonestown is bordered to the north, east, and south by Swatara Township , and to the west by Union Township .
Articles relating to Jonestown, a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, a US-based cult under the leadership of Jim Jones.Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 909 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 Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and People Temple. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1476763828. Hall, John R. (2004) [1987]. Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-0765805874. Layton, Deborah (1998). Seductive Poison. Anchor Books. ISBN 978-1854106001.
The Peoples Temple headquarters, 1859 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, 1978. The Peoples Temple, the new religious movement which came to be known for the mass killings at Jonestown, was headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States from the early to mid-1970s until the Temple's move to Guyana in 1977.
Jonestown was founded in 1886. [1] A large share of the first settlers having the surname Jones caused the name to be selected. [2] A variant name was Tokio. [2] A post office called Tokio was established in 1880, and remained in operation until 1950. [3]
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 ...