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There had been discussions about a mass suicide. In some circles, there were practice drills,” one survivor recounted to The ...
Many of the bodies were decomposed and could not be identified. Several cemeteries refused to take them. Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, California, stepped forward in 1979 and accepted 409 bodies.
Jonestown is seared into the American psyche as one the darkest tragedies of the modern era, where 918 people “drank the Kool Aid” and ended their lives under the command of cult leader Jim Jones.
DOVER, Del. >> The cremated remains of nine victims of a 1978 mass cult suicide-murder in Jonestown, Guyana, have turned up in a former funeral home in Delaware, officials said Thursday.The s… ...
On Apr. 26, 1979, the first of 545 unclaimed bodies were loaded onto a van to be shipped west. Most were buried in an Oakland cemetery. It's unclear why those shipments did not include the ...
Hundreds of children and a U.S. congressman died at Jonestown, and 911 decomposing bodies... Jonestown victims’ remains found after 35 years New Haven Register Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...
Bodies of 911 massacre victims were brought after the deaths to Dover Air Force Base, home to the U.S. military's largest mortuary. This file photo from 1978 shows victims of the Jonestown cult ...
An Antioch man said Friday he was shocked to learn that his wife's cremated remains had been found inside a decrepit former funeral home, 35 years after she and more than 900 others died in a ...
After bodies dropped to the floor, Jones had his gunmen traverse the commune to ensure that all of his followers died. When examining bodies from Jonestown, inspectors discovered injections on many, ...
DOVER, Del. (AP) - The cremated remains of nine victims of a 1978 mass cult suicide-murder in Jonestown, Guyana, have turned up in a former funeral home in Delaware, officials said Thursday. The ...
3 decades later, remains of Jonestown bodies found. August 7, 2014 at 4:33 p.m. | Updated August 7, 2014 at 4:50 p.m.
More than 35 years after the infamous suicide-murder of some 900 people — many forced to drink a cyanide-laced grape punch — in Jonestown, Guyana, the cremated remains of nine of the victims ...