Peoples Temple was a religious organization founded in 1955 by Jim Jones. By the mid-1970s it includ
Peoples Temple was a religious organization founded in 1955 by Jim Jones. By the mid-1970s it included over a dozen locations in California including its headquarters in San Francisco. It is best known for the events of November 18, 1978, in Guyana, in which 920 people died at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project (informally, and now commonly, called “Jonestown”) and nearby airstrip at Port Kaituma, and Georgetown in an organized mass suicide/killing.The mass suicide and killings at Jonestown resulted in the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural non-accidental disaster prior to the events of September 11, 2001. Casualties at the airstrip included, among others, Congressman Leo Ryan. -- source link
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