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Jonestown: Mystery of a Massacre (1998) Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006) Jonestown: Paradise Lost (2007) CNN Presents: Escape From Jonestown (2008) Seconds from Disaster, episode (season 6, episode 1) "Jonestown Cult Suicide" (2012) Witness to Jonestown (2013) Jonestown: The Women Behind the Massacre (2018)
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.
According to academic Rebecca Moore, early analogies to Jonestown and Kool-Aid were based around death and suicide, not blind obedience. [16] The earliest such example she found, via a Lexis-Nexis search, was a 1982 statement from Lane Kirkland , then head of the AFL–CIO , which described Ronald Reagan 's policies as "Jonestown economics ...
A NatGeo documentary on Hulu examines the Jonestown massacre through the stories of survivors and witnesses The Story Behind 'Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown' Skip to main content
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 ...
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 ...
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.
"Drink the Kool-Aid" was watched by 1.48 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 0.7 ratings share among adults aged 18–49. [2] The episode has been critically acclaimed. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Drink the Kool-Aid" holds a 100% approval rating, based on 14 reviews with an average rating of 7.7 out of 10. [3]