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Large metal vat in the foreground with a dark liquid inside, surrounded by scattered cups and boxes, with numerous bodies lying on the ground near a wooden walkway in Jonestown, Guyana. Locator map of Guyana marking Jonestown in the country's northwest interior and Georgetown on the Atlantic coast, with Venezuela, Brazil, and Suriname shown nearby. Jim Jones
The chilling story of the Jonestown Massacre
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mass murder-suicide, Guyana [1978]
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The chilling story of the Jonestown Massacre
Overview of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the 1978 massacre at Jonestown, Guyana.
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Jonestown Massacre
Bodies of members of Peoples Temple who died after their leader, Jim Jones, ordered...
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Jonestown, Guyana
Map showing the location of Jonestown, Guyana, a commune where a mass murder-suicide...
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Jim Jones
As the leader of Peoples Temple, Jim Jones was notorious for instigating a shocking...
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