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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.
Jim Jones was a cult leader who on November 18, 1978, orchestrated the mass murder suicide of 909 members of his commune in Jonestown, Guyana.Since the events of the Jonestown Massacre, a massive amount of literature and study has been produced on the subject. [1]
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.
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ]
Children 1 Yolanda Rose "LaLa" Brown (May 20, 1986 – October 19, 2007) was an American R&B singer best known for being featured on the track " S.E.X. " with Lyfe Jennings , which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart [ 1 ] and peaked at No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 2006. [ 2 ]