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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]
Roughly 918 people died. Descriptions of the event often refer to the beverage not as Kool-Aid but as Flavor Aid, [4] a less-expensive product reportedly found at the site. [5] Kraft Foods, the maker of Kool-Aid, has stated the same. [6] This implies that it was referred to as Kool-Aid because that brand was better-known among Americans.
Pictures of those who died in Jonestown. On November 18, 1978, 918 people died in Peoples Temple–related incidents, led by Jim Jones, in Jonestown and Georgetown in Guyana. [23] [24] Using cyanide and tranquilizers, more than 200 children were murdered in the incident, and many of the elderly were forcibly injected with poison. [24]
A NatGeo documentary on Hulu examines the Jonestown massacre through the stories of survivors and witnesses
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ]