Jonestown - Wikipedia
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.
Jonestown | History, Facts, Jim Jones, & Survivors | Britannica
Dec 15, 2024 · The Jonestown massacre was a mass murder-suicide of the Peoples Temple cult at the behest of their leader, Jim Jones, in 1978. After cult members attacked Congressman Leo Ryan, who was investigating the cult, Jones enacted a suicide plan at the Jonestown compound.
Jonestown ‑ Massacre, Guyana & Cult - HISTORY
Oct 18, 2010 · The “Jonestown Massacre” occurred on November 18, 1978, when more than 900 members of an American cult called the Peoples Temple died in a mass suicide-murder under the direction of their...
Mass suicide at Jonestown | November 18, 1978 - HISTORY
Feb 9, 2010 · Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass murder‑suicide at Jonestown, their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of Guyana. 909...
What Happened During the Jonestown Massacre? The True Story …
Jun 17, 2024 · On Nov. 18, 1978, over 900 Americans were killed after ingesting poison at Jonestown, a religious commune in Guyana, South America led by Jim Jones. The reverend brought thousands of...
The Story of the Jonestown Massacre - ThoughtCo
Mar 20, 2020 · The Jonestown Massacre was the most deadly single non-natural disaster in U.S. history until September 11, 2001. The Jonestown Massacre also remains the only time in history in which a U.S. congressman (Leo Ryan) was killed in the line of duty.
Inside Jonestown: How Jim Jones Trapped Followers and Forced ... - HISTORY
Nov 13, 2018 · Just two years later, on Nov. 18, 1978, those words became reality when more than 900 people, one-third of them children, died during what would be known as the Jonestown Massacre, one of the...
Inside The Jonestown Massacre, The Largest Mass Suicide In History
Aug 1, 2024 · Known as the Jonestown Massacre, over 900 members of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple died after consuming cyanide on November 18, 1978. Were the hundreds who literally drank the "Kool-Aid" deranged cultists or desperate victims?
The chilling story of the Jonestown massacre - Encyclopedia Britannica
In November 1978 the world was shocked by the mass murder-suicide of more than 900 members of the California-based Peoples Temple cult. Members of its Jonestown commune in Guyana drank cyanide-laced fruit drink after being ordered to do …
What was the Jonestown massacre? | Britannica
The Jonestown massacre was a mass murder-suicide of the Peoples Temple cult at the behest of their leader, Jim Jones, in 1978. After cult members attacked Congressman Leo Ryan, who was investigating the cult, Jones enacted a suicide plan at the Jonestown compound.