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Guyana: Cult of the Damned, a 1979 exploitation film based on the Jonestown tragedy; Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, a 1980 television movie based on the life of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple; Seconds From Disaster, a documentary television series that covered the events at Jonestown in Season 6, Episode 2 ("Jonestown Cult Suicide")
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.
Jocelyn R. Wingfield, Virginia's True Founder: Edward Maria Wingfield and His Times (Booksurge, 2007) Benjamin Woolley, Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America (Harper Perennial, 2008) William M. Kelso, Nicholas M. Luccketti, Beverly A. Straube, The Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeology Project
Collier is listed among the 104 colonists on the Virginia Company of London's manifest, and was one of four boys in the first group of settlers to Jamestown. [1] [3] [4] He served as a servant and page to captain John Smith and accompanied Smith on his explorations into the unknown parts of Virginia. [5]
The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, [1] originally Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church and commonly shortened to Peoples Temple, was an American cult which existed between 1954 and 1978 and was affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
Thomas West convinces the colonists to return to Jamestown with fresh supplies and healthy men. July 9: St. John's Episcopal Church (Hampton, Virginia) is founded on Cape Henry. August 9, 1610 De la Warr sends Percy with 70 colonists to attack the Paspahegh and Chickahominy villages, burning buildings, destroying crops, and killing up to 75 ...
Samuel Jordan died sometime before mid-February 1623, [note 3] as his name does not appear among living at Jordan's Journey in a list submitted to the Virginia Company that month. [13]: 171 Soon after his burial, his widow Cecily Jordan became involved in the first breach-of-promise dispute in North America. The law suit was filed by Rev ...
Robert Hunt Memorial Shrine at Jamestown. Today, a shrine sits on the site at the National Park Service's Historic Jamestowne attraction of the Colonial National Historical Park on Jamestown Island. The shrine replicates the outdoor chapel conditions under which he spiritually led the men and boys, most of whom were to die, as did Chaplain Hunt ...