41. Jonestown jonestown was a town in Guyana established by People s temple cult leader W). Notoriously,on Jones direction the inhabitants committed mass suicide in http://www.fact-index.com/j/jo/jonestown.html

Main Page See live article Alphabetical index Jonestown Alternate uses: See Jonestown (disambiguation) Jonestown was a town in Guyana established by People's Temple cult leader Jim Jones suicide in . The group had been formed in Indianapolis, Indiana from the . Under pressure the group had moved to San Francisco and following a report in the New West magazine in Jones leased 4,000 acres of land in Guyana and moved himself and his most devoted followers there. Calling it the People's Temple Agricultural Project they grew food and raised animals. Table of contents 1 Life in Jonestown 2 Mass suicide 3 Bibliography 4 External links Life in Jonestown When accounts of child abuse, false miracles, and various problems within The People's Temple surfaced, their leader Jim Jones took his followers to a jungle north-west of Georgetown, Guyana "The moment I got off that plane I knew something was wrong," said a former member Richard Clark, who ran away when he arrived in Guyana. Once Jones's followers arrived at the 42 acres of land leased from the local Guyana government, they were put to work on a primitive compound that became Jonestown Many of the People's Temple members believed that Guyana were to be their tropical paradise, in fact, Jones promised it to be. Instead, everyone including children, ended up working from six days a week, from seven in the morning to six at night, and often when temperature were as hot as 100 degrees

42. People's Temple People s temple. The People s temple was a cult that is best knownfor a mass suicide at jonestown on November 18, 1978. The temple http://www.fact-index.com/p/pe/people_s_temple.html

Main Page See live article Alphabetical index People's Temple The People's Temple was a cult that is best known for a mass suicide at Jonestown on November 18 . The Temple was founded in , at Indianapolis, Indiana by Reverend Jim Jones and it was at the time a group advocating and aiding social justice. In Indianapolis, and at the California cities of Ukiah San Francisco , and Los Angeles , where Jones extended new branches of his church, they earned a good reputation for aiding the cities' poorest citizens, especially racial minorities, drug addicts, and the homeless. Soup kitchens, day care centers, and medical clinics for elderly people were set up, along with counseling programs for prostitutes and drug addicts that want to change their lives. Then disturbing accounts began to spring up, told by a few people who had succeeded in leaving the cult . Jones was stealing from his followers, faked the miracle healings, was punishing the members severely and now considered himself the new Messiah By now, journalists, law enforcement officials, and politicians were showing interest in Jones' group. Jim Jones reacted with frequent long and angry speeches, where he claimed that the defectors lied, and the outside world was trying to destroy them. At the time, more former members told of beatings and abuse within the People's Temple, and relatives of members insisted that members were being forced to remain there against their will. Jones reacted by moving his church, over 800 followers, to

43. Jim Jones And The People's Temple Suicide 18, 1978, that over 900 members of the People s temple religious cult, along withtheir leader Jim Jones, committed mass suicide in jonestown, Guyana, South http://www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com/rants/1118a-almanac.htm

RonaldBruceMeyer.com November 18 Jim Jones and the People's Temple Suicide (1978) It was on this date, November 18, 1978, that over 900 members of the People's Temple religious cult, along with their leader Jim Jones, committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, South America. The leader of the cult, James Warren Jones, was born on 13 May 1931, the son of a Ku Klux Klansman in Lynn, Indiana. He opened his own independent, but non-Fundamentalist Christian church in Indianapolis by 1953, and in 1964, at the height of the American civil rights movement, the Disciples of Christ ordained him. His group of followers called themselves the People's Temple and started out as an inter-racial mission for the sick, homeless and jobless. An interracial organization was unusual for the segregated 1950s, and Jones drew many black congregants. Believing a nuclear Armageddon was coming, Jones moved his congregation to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1965. There he gained respect from politicians and civic leaders for his social programs. Jones was able to organize his followers to support political candidates in California and was rewarded by Mayor George Moscone with a seat on the Housing Authority Commission. But a 1977 New West magazine article charged Jones with faith-healing fakery, physical abuse of his parishioners and questionable finances. Having already leased some jungle land in Guyana for a "People's Temple Agricultural Project," Jones warned his followers his persecutors could end his mission. He ordered a select thousand to accompany him to Jonestown in 1977 and 1978.

44. Jonestown Mass Suicide - Encyclopedia Article About Jonestown Mass Suicide. Free established by People s temple The People s temple was a cult that isbest known for a mass suicide at jonestown on November 18, 1978. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Jonestown mass suicide

Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Jonestown mass suicide Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition Alternate uses: See Jonestown (disambiguation) Jonestown refers to the town in Guyana founded by cult leader Jim Jones, where the Jonestown mass suicide took place in 1978. It is also the name of several places in the United States of America: Jonestown, Mississippi Jonestown, Pennsylvania (two places) in Columbia County in Lebanon County Jonestown, Texas Click the link for more information. Jonestown was a town in Guyana The Co-operative Republic of Guyana is a nation of northern South America. It constitutes the western part of the wider region of Guiana (an Amerindian word meaning Land of Many Waters ), and is bordered to the east by Suriname, to the south by Brazil, to the west by Venezuela and to the north by the Atlantic Ocean. The most southern part of the border with Suriname is disputed (upper Corantijn river - the map shows the Guyana version of the border). Click the link for more information. established by People's Temple The People's Temple was a cult that is best known for a mass suicide at Jonestown on November 18, 1978. The Temple was founded in 1953, at Indianapolis, Indiana by Reverend Jim Jones. At the time it was a group advocating and aiding social justice.

45. Jonestown (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia Article About Jonestown (disambiguatio jonestown was a town in Guyana established by People s temple cult leader Notoriously,on Jones direction the inhabitants committed mass suicide in 1978 http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Jonestown (disambiguation)

Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Jonestown (disambiguation) Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition Jonestown refers to the town in Guyana Alternate uses: See Jonestown (disambiguation) Jonestown New West magazine in 1977 Jones leased 4,000 acres of land in Guyana and moved himself and his most devoted followers there. Calling it the People's Temple Agricultural Project they grew food and raised animals. Click the link for more information. founded by cult leader Jim Jones James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 - November 18, 1978) was the founder of the People's Temple, an originally Christian group that later mainly advocated social justice and turned into a cult when Jim Jones turned it into a mini-dictatorship, with fanatical viewpoints and practices. An academic book by the mother of an ex-follower disputes the cult label http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/1998/06/cov_17feature.html . Jones then founded Jonestown in Guyana; the town was a closed-in society of Jones' followers, where Jim Jones and all of Jonestown committed suicide or murder on Jones's instructions by drinking cyanide-laced Flavor-aid (a Kool-aid imitation) in 1978 and shooting each other to death. Click the link for more information.

46. Survivor Tells Story Of Mass Suicide Deborah Layton, survivor of the jonestown mass suicide, is coming out with a book Shediscussed her membership in the People s temple, which, she said, will http://www.dailytargum.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/507726

document.write(''+''); var sectionname = 'University '; Page One Sports University Opinions ... Job Opportunities Events Calendar Referendum 2004 Media Kit (PDF) Ad Rates Electronic Edition Subscriptions Targum Alumni Contact Us About Us Survivor tells story of mass suicide Author tells of "shameful" events in her memoir By Pooja Singh, Staff Writer Published: 9/30/2003 Media Credit: Provided by Charisma Lanez Deborah Layton, survivor of the Jonestown mass suicide, is coming out with a book called "Seductive Poison" - which is about a "shameful story." Layton spoke to University students and professors Wednesday in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. She discussed her membership in the People's Temple, which, she said, will always be remembered in connection with the "Kool-Aid, where a bunch of lunatics killed themselves" to reach a higher salvation. The event Layton spoke of involved the deaths of over 900 people in a South American jungle after they ingested "a concoction of purple Kool-Aid, cyanide, sedatives and tranquilizers," according to the Infoplease Web site. The cult started in California and moved to Guyana, where the mass suicide occurred. Layton said those who died were not unstable at first but felt the need to do a good deed and get somewhere in their lives - and People's Temple just seemed "right." The author said she was mainly attracted to the group because it hoped to solve issues of discrimination and strive for racial justice and equality. She left the group six months before the suicide took place and so she considers herself a survivor of the tragedy. She wrote her memoir - which she said was the key to her life - 20 years after the event.

47. The Jonestown Massacre Shortly before the mass suicide, US Congressman Leo Ryan alleged human rights abusesat jonestown. own religious congregation, the People s temple Full Gospel http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/express/religion/jonestown.html

HOME ABOUT SEARCH COMMENTS? The Jonestown Massacre On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of a religious group led by the Reverend Jim Jones were killed in an apparent mass suicide. The megalomaniac Jones convinced most of his followers to drink a cyanide mixture. Some, including Jones, were shot, either in suicide or murder. Shortly before the mass suicide, U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan was assassinated on Jones' orders. Ryan had just landed in Guyana to investigate alleged human rights abuses at Jonestown. Jim Jones, born May 13, 1931 in Lynn, Indiana , had his own religious congregation, the People's Temple Full Gospel Church, in Indianapolis by 1963. Jones led the interracial congregation (rare at the time) with faith healing, visions and advice from extraterrestrials. After spending a short time in Brazil, Jones moved his congregation to California . He eventually moved it again to an isolated area of Guyana jungle, naming the new settlement after himself. Rumors abound of government connections to the Guyana tragedy. A former Jones cult member, Phil Kerns, wrote a book claiming that "Jones was a Marxist who had numerous contacts with officials of both the Cuban and Soviet governments."

48. Jim Jones, Jonestown, People's Temple In The News 5 to Be Drawn A Quarter Century After jonestown, UC Davis in Guyana, followed by themurders and mass suicides of more than 900 members of peoples temple. http://www.cultsoncampus.com/jimjones5.html

Updated News on Jim Jones, Jonestown, People's Temple 2003 January - October Event - Saturday, October 25, 2003 STORIES FROM JONESTOWN AND THE PEOPLES TEMPLE, by Leigh Fondokowski and Greg Pierotti, Stephen Wangh, and Margo Hall, Arena Stage, Washington, DC (Marking the 25th anniversary of Jonestown, this powerful play re-examines the history and legacy of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. Drawn from interviews with survivors and family members who lost loved ones in Jonestown, a wide range of voices will speak, letting in the complexity and contradiction live on stage...) October 23, 2003 Lessons Still to Be Drawn A Quarter Even today, people are trying to understand the reasons behind the Jonestown apocalypse. Many blame cult leader Jim Jones for being mad or evil, says UC Davis sociologist John Hall, who studies religious violence...) October 8, 2003 Jonestown tragedy, 25 years ago, to be retold at Southport Baptist - The Spotlight, Indianapolis, Indiana (To mark the 25th anniversary of the Jonestown mass murder-suicide tragedy, Church Women United is presenting a readers' theater production of "The Onliest One Alive." The story is about Hyacinth Thrash, a Jonestown survivor, who told her story in a book of the same name...)

49. Jim Jones, Jonestown, People's Temple In The News 2 RE THE THREAT AND POSSIBILITY OF mass suicide BY MEMBERS of United States citizensliving in jonestown, Guyana 13, 1978, I was a member of the People s temple. http://www.cultsoncampus.com/jimjones2.html

Updated News on Jim Jones, Jonestown, People's Temple December 4, 1978 TIME Magazine Cover: Jonestown Deaths December 4, 1978 Newsweek Magazine Cover: The Cult Of Death: Jonestown November 23, 1978 U.S. Asks Help of Jonestown Kin, Washington Post (Frustrated in its efforts to locate the next-of-kin of deceased members of the Jonestown colony in Guyana, the State Department yesterday appealed to persons who are related to Jonestown residents to contact its special operations center...) November 21, 1978 'The Primary Emotions Were Exhaustion and Fear' - Washington Post (Deborah Layton Blakey, 25, was a top side of the Rev. Jim Jones until May, when she asked American consul officials to safeguard her departure from the Peoples Temple jungle outpost in Guyana. In the following June 15, 1978, affidavit given to her lawyer for potential action, she detailed conditions at the agricultural mission, saying Jones had become a "paranoid" obsessed with "traitors." Spokesmen for the temple categorically denied her charges at the time...) November 21, 1978

50. The Jonestown Massacre was to some extent done willingly, making the mass suicide all the more disturbing.The jonestown cult (officially named the People s temple ) was founded in http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/SPOT-JONESTOWN1

HOTWORDS CITE PRINT EMAIL in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Home Almanacs Atlas Encyclopedia ... Father's Day Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map Career Center Job Search Post Your Resume Continuing Ed. more . . . Also from Infoplease Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips Ministry of Terror The Jonestown Cult Massacre by Elissa Haney The vat containing Jones' deadly concoction sits amid the bodies of his followers on Nov. 20, 1978. (Source/AP) Two decades ago an unusual series of events led to the deaths of more than 900 people in the middle of a South American jungle. Though dubbed a "massacre," what transpired at Jonestown on November 18, 1978, was to some extent done willingly, making the mass suicide all the more disturbing. The Jonestown cult (officially named the "People's Temple") was founded in 1955 by Indianapolis preacher James Warren Jones . Jones, who had no formal theological training, based his liberal ministry on a combination of religious and socialist philosophies. A New, Isolated Community

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MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Shopping ... Money Web Search: logoImg('http://sc.msn.com'); Encarta Subscriber Sign In Help Home ... Upgrade to Encarta Premium Search Encarta Multimedia from Encarta Go to article Appears in Jonestown Mass Suicide The dead bodies of members of the People’s Temple Commune lie before the “throne” of the cult’s leader, Jim Jones, in Jonestown, Guyana. Acting on Jones’s orders, more than 900 cult members committed suicide at the Jonestown commune in 1978 by consuming a cyanide-laced soft drink. The quotation on the wall is from American philosopher George Santayana. Corbis Appears in these articles: Cult Exclusively for MSN Encarta Premium Subscribers Try MSN Internet Software for FREE! MSN Home ... Feedback

52. USA Today (Magazine): JONESTOWN MASSACRE: The Unrevealed Story suicide of hundreds of people in jonestown, Guyana. of more than $26,000,000, plannedmass murder (not and financial manager of the peoples temple in California http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1272/2644_127/53630954/p1/article.jhtml

@import url(/css/us/style.css); @import url(/css/us/searchResult1.css); @import url(/css/us/articles.css); Advanced Search Home Help IN all publications this publication News Automotive Business Computing Entertainment Health News Reference Sports YOU ARE HERE Articles USA Today (Magazine) Jan, 1999 Content provided in partnership with Print friendly Tell a friend Find subscription deals JONESTOWN MASSACRE: The Unrevealed Story USA Today (Magazine) Jan, 1999 by Jeff A. Schnepper The testimony of Rev. Jim Jones' mistress opens a Pandora's box of sex, lies, drugs, politics, and murder. IN NOVEMBER, 1978, the world was stunned by dramatic pictures and stories about Rev. Jim Jones and the mass suicide of hundreds of people in Jonestown, Guyana. While the deaths were real, the stories were fabrications created to cover up the theft of more than $26,000,000, planned mass murder (not suicide), and the fiscal rape of the treasury of San Francisco by corrupt politicians. Jones' second in command, Teresa Buford, was a survivor of the massacre. Her confession, revealing the true nature of what happened, details Jones' blueprint for creating his own nation, funded by U.S. taxpayers' dollars stolen as part of San Francisco's corrupt political system. Buford's allegations have been supported by Charles Garry, Jones' first lawyer, eight boxes of notes and correspondence found by The New York Times, and newly unsealed records turned over to the California Historical Society. In my research, all discrepancies between what she alleged and what was reported in 1978 have been resolved by independent documentation supporting her position. I believe Buford. This is her story.

53. Academic Info: Religious Movements & Alternative Spirituality: People's Temple of Deborah Blakey Re The Threat and Possibility of mass suicide by Members of thePeople s temple On behalf of the population of jonestown, I urge that the http://www.academicinfo.net/nrmspt.html

Academic Info People's Temple Home Search Index Contact ... Religious Movements Advertisers University of Phoenix Online - Earn your degree 100% online. Questia - Search over 70,000 books and journals online. TheFreeDictionary.com FreeEncyclopedia ESL - Improve Your English Prescription Drug Information ... Lab Band Surgery - The Weight Loss Institute offers research on weight loss and diet pills Online Education.net Online Degrees College-Campus.com ... Auto Insurance Cheap You can sponsor this page Email us for details Affidavit of Deborah Blakey Re The Threat and Possibility of Mass Suicide by Members of the People's Temple "...On behalf of the population of Jonestown, I urge that the United States Government take adequate steps to safeguard their rights. I believe that their lives are in danger..." "...to present an alternative view to the usual anti-cult hysteria which characterized discussion of Peoples Temple...In general this website will focus on the people who belonged to Peoples Temple and who were committed to the ideals of racial justice and human equality. It will also raise questions about the treatment of Peoples Temple both in life and in death by various governmental agencies: local, state, and federal." Sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, San Diego State University

54. CheatHouse.com - An Account Of The People's Temple Mass Suicide And Jim Jones's temple s temple s temple s temple actually believed that Jim Jones was God s templeand the killings of over 900 people in jonestown s temple continued s http://www.cheathouse.com/eview/25590-an-account-of-the-people-s-temple-mass-s.h

Over 910 people committed mass suicide in November of 1977. The people were all followers of the People's Temple (a religious death cult) based originally in California, lead by the infamous Jim Jones (Dickerson 2). The demise of the People's Temple and the killings of over 900 people in Jonestown, An account of The People's Temple Mass suicide and Jim Jones's persuasion and propaganda Note! The sentences in this essay are shuffled, making this essay unusable If you want to read the essay in it's original and proper state, click here. We use this page for our internal search engine, and it's not meant to be viewable. Home Essays [LOGIN] Lists ... 1995-2004, Loadstone

55. Jonestown 20 Years After. 1978, some 900 members of the People s temple Cult, founded by Indianaborn RevJim Jones, died in a ritual of mass suicide and murder at jonestown near Port http://www.guyana.org/features/jonestown20.html

Posted on November 22nd.1998 Stabroek News Mainpage Contact Us E-mail Directory Discussion Forum See here for a full Analysis of Jonestown Rev Jim Jones at a political rally in the US. At right is former US president, Jimmy Carter. Going home: Military personnel preparing and sealing the aluminium caskets to fly the bodies back to the US. They escaped it all: From left Deborah Tochette, 23; Paula Adams, 23; Stephan Jones, 19; and basketball coach Lee Ingram speaking to the press after the mass suicide 20 years ago. The cult of death Jonestown: 20 years after On November 18, 1978, some 900 members of the People's Temple Cult, founded by Indiana-born Rev Jim Jones, died in a ritual of mass suicide and murder at Jonestown near Port Kaituma in Guyana's jungle. A visiting United States congressman, three news reporters and cult defectors were shot to death. The majority of the people were United States citizens from San Francisco, California, where the cult had been based before Jones started moving his flock to the Guyana jungle in 1974. The congressman, Leo Ryan, had come to Guyana at the insistence of relatives of some cult members who had reported that their relatives at Jonestown were being held against their will, beaten and subjected to suicide drills. During Ryan's visit to the cult site, some 20 members decided to defect, some of them were shot dead at Port Kaituma airstrip as they were about to board a Guyana Airways chartered plane back to Timehri. The rest of the cult members in Jonestown were fed, some forcibly, a mixture of cyanide and Kool Aid. Some cult members who were in Georgetown, were murdered by Jones's lieutenants. Jones's son Stephan and members of a People's Temple basketball team, who were also in Goergetown escaped harm. Jones himself was found dead with a single bullet wound to the head.

56. Seductive Poison: A Survivor Of Jonestown Shares Her Story was a place where devoted peoples temple members believed constantly spoke of a revolutionarymass suicide, and Layton over the minds of jonestown residents to http://www.deborahlayton.com/

From Waco to Heaven's Gate, the past decade has seen its share of cult tragedies. But none has been quite so dramatic or compelling as the Jonestown massacre, in which the Reverend Jim Jones and 913 of his disciples of the Peoples Temple perished. In Seductive Poison , Deborah Layton writes about the Peoples Temple as it has never been written about before: with the keen hindsight and insider perspective of a former high-level member. Layton had been a member for seven years when she left Peoples Temple headquarters in San Francisco, California, for Jonestown, Guyana, the promised land nestled deep in the South American jungle. It was a place where devoted Peoples Temple members believed they could escape racism and persecution from the press and the government in the United Sates, and live peacefully in a socialist utopia. When she arrived, however, Layton saw that something was seriously wrong. The settlement was surrounded by armed guards, food was scarce, and members were forced to work long hours and follow rigid codes of behavior. Jones, who was becoming increasingly delusional and dictatorial, constantly spoke of a revolutionary mass suicide, and Layton knew only too well that he had enough control over the minds of Jonestown residents to carry it out. When he finally did, in November of 1978, the news that over nine hundred Americans had swallowed cyanide-laced punch on a commune in South America shocked the world. But just six months before, Layton had narrowly escaped from Jonestown and returned to the United States with warnings of impending disaster. In a

57. Reviews For Seductive Poison of one woman s seven years in the peoples temple, culminating in the mass suicidejust months after she escaped from the dystopian community of jonestown. http://www.deborahlayton.com/reviews.html

Book Reviews Complete Reviews The following is a partial listing.... Personal Comments " Seductive Poison is an absolutely riveting story, told as memoir but with the pulse-pounding suspense of a murder mystery. I read Layton's account non-stop through the night, unable to let go, struck by the realization that this is not simply an account of a bygone tragedy. It has great relevance to many of the terrible events we see unfolding today, for this is a story about those who seek a better world and are then inextricably caught in a plan to end it. This is a universal tale about ideology gone awry." Amy Tan, Author of The Joy Luck Club "Cults are multiplying and growing in this country. Why do apparently normal people surrender in body and soul to a charismatic egomaniac? Deborah Layton knows. This haunting book, written with candor and passion, reads like a killer. I could not put it down!" Isabel Allende, Author of The House of the Spirits

58. Jim Jones in 1973, the first possibility of mass suicide by the to what would become known asJonestown in Guyana named for the leader of the peoples temple, members and http://www.trincoll.edu/classes/hist300/newpage21.htm

Jim Jones James Warren Jones was born May 13, 1931, in the small town of Lynn, Indiana. His father was an active member of the Ku Klux Klan, and his mother was a factory worker. From early childhood, Jim Jones was exposed to Pentecostal Christianity which would penetrate his entire life. After his parents divorced in 1945, Jones moved with his mother to Indianapolis, Indiana and eventually attended Butler University. Here he developed two areas of concern that would dominate his thinking and beliefs for the rest of his life: racial integration and socialism. Throughout the 1950’s, Jones became increasingly involved in religion. He became a preacher of racial tolerance and integration, as well as Christian beliefs. Jones joined numerous churches as a preacher, but found resistance in many to the idea of racial equality. By 1955 he had founded the Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church and it was accepted in the Christian Church in 1960. As his church grew and changed locations, Jones became more and more concerned with socialism and developed an anti-capitalist sentiment. To him, "It seemed gross…that one human being would have so much more than another…I couldn’t come to terms with capitalism in any way." In the late 1960’s and early 70’s, Jones and his Peoples Temple became based in Northern California, mainly in San Francisco. In November of 1978, Congressman Leo Ryan of California and a team of reporters and relatives of those in Jonestown went to evaluate the community. When the delegation attempted to take fifteen unhappy members with them, they were ambushed. Ryan, one defector, and three reporters were killed. Then, the next day, the entire village of Jonestown committed mass suicide, leaving dead 913 Americans and one Guyanese citizen.

59. Guyanese Remember Jonestown in a frenzy of suicide and murder at the People s temple enclave the Chronicle newspaperson December 6, 1978 detailed the horror of the jonestown mass suicide. http://www.landofsixpeoples.com/news304/nc311182.htm

Guyanese remember Jonestown - on 25th anniversary of world infamous murder-suicide debacle A GINA article Guyana Chronicle November 18, 2003 Related Links: Articles on Jonestown Letters Menu Archival Menu Twenty-five years ago today, in a jungle clearing in Guyana's northwest, the noxious postule that was Jonestown erupted. Its excrescence spread across Guyana and the entire world. For the Co-operative Republic, it brought a notoriety our country could have done without. And for the then People's National Congress administration, it set a new high of duplicity and opaque government. It was on the evening of November 18, 1978 that 909 people died in a frenzy of suicide and murder at the People's Temple enclave. The Guyana Government was seemingly so stunned by the Jonestown horror, that while news wires around the world hummed with the tragic drama in the Guyana jungle, Guyanese were not officially informed about the nightmare until days later. A special issue of the Chronicle newspapers on December 6, 1978 detailed the horror of the Jonestown mass suicide. In his report, Neville Annibourne wrote," It was the most nightmarish experience of my life... the scenario played out on a remote blood-spattered airstrip, amidst whistling bullets, shrieking voices and falling bodies, as twilight engulfed the surrounding jungle".

60. A Visitor To Jonestown Looks Back Then came the shocking news of a mass suicide at the People s temple and murdersof Congressman Ryan and others. I returned to jonestown almost one year later. http://www.landofsixpeoples.com/news304/ns3111819.htm

Twenty-five years after A visitor to Jonestown looks back By Miranda La Rose Stabroek News November 18, 2003 Related Links: Articles on Jonestown Letters Menu Archival Menu Today marks a quarter of a century since the Jonestown tragedy made international headlines. On November 18, 1978, some 911 people died in a mass suicide/murder at the People's Temple in Port Kaituma. The tragedy appeared to have been triggered by a visit by Leo Ryan, a US Congressman, who was conducting a personal inspection to ascertain whether Jonestown was being run like a concentration camp and people were being held there against their will. According to reports, about 16 Temple members decided that they wanted to leave Jonestown with Ryan and his team. They were allowed to go, but while at the Port Kaituma airstrip, Jonestown security guards arrived and started shooting. Congressman Ryan and four others were killed; three were members of the press; the other was a person from Jonestown who wanted to leave. 11 were wounded. Some hours later, the population of Jonestown - some 638 adults and 276 children - lay dead. Most appear to have committed suicide by drinking a drink laced with cyanide and a number of sedatives; other victims appeared to have been murdered by poison injection and some had been shot. I first visited the People's Temple along with some senior Region One (Barima/Waini) government officials during the early months of 1978.

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