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Nearly 50 years after the Jonestown massacre shocked the world, the site of one of history's deadliest cult tragedies is now ...
Both American survivors of the mass suicide and murder and Guyanese have criticized the tour. But defenders say the site ...
World News Guyana wants to turn site of Jonestown massacre that killed over 900 into tourist attraction: ‘Ghoulish and bizarre’ By Associated Press Published Dec. 8, 2024, 4:58 p.m. ET ...
The Jonestown Massacre is one of the most terrifying events of modern times, in which 918, in an induced mass murder-suicide by Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple cult.
From that height, the piles of dead bodies looked to one reporter like “a garbage dump, where someone had dumped a lot of rag dolls”, dressed in red, green and blue: “bright, happy colors”.
Near her lay the bullet-riddled bodies of her boss, Rep. Leo Ryan, three journalists and a woman fleeing a cult commune known as Jonestown.
Arriving at Jonestown on November 20, Washington Post reporter Charles Krause did not immediately register the mass of colors on the ground below as an unfathomable number of human bodies. “It ...
We were safe and secure. A great utopia, the better life, helping each other as one, big, happy family.” An aerial view of the Jonestown compound shows hundreds of bodies across the property.
I remember walking through the camp having to step around dead bodies. It was unreal. What do you wish people understood about Jonestown, nearly 46 years later?
A U.S. military body recovery unit removes more victims of the Jonestown mass suicide-murder from a helicopter at Georgetown's International Airport November 28, 1978. Photo: New York Times Co./Neal ...
Jim Jones’ ‘throne’ in the Jonestown pavilion surrounded by bodies in the massacre aftermath. Jim Jones in trademark sunglasses as land is cleared in Guyana for his so-called utopian commune.
FILE–U.S. military personnel place bodies in coffins at the airport in Georgetown, Guyana after 900 members of the People’s Temple committed suicide in Jonestown, Guyana in Nov. 1978.