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19 de nov. de 2018 · Em 18 de novembro de 1978, 918 pessoas morreram em um misto de suicídio coletivo e assassinatos em Jonestown, uma comuna fundada por Jim Jones, pastor e fundador do Templo Popular, uma...
Os eventos em Jonestown foram imediatamente sujeitos a ampla cobertura da mídia e ficaram conhecidos como o Massacre de Jonestown. À medida que a consciência chegava ao público, os estrangeiros recusaram-se a aceitar a tentativa de Jones de culpá-los pelas mortes.
In what Jones termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.
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Prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the tragedy at Jonestown marked the single largest loss of U.S. civilian lives in a non-natural disaster. The megalomaniacal man behind the tragedy, Jim Jones, came from humble beginnings. Jones was born on May 13, 1931, in rural Indiana. In the early 1950s, he began working as a self-ordained C...
In San Francisco, Jones became a powerful figure. He curried favor with public officials and the media, donated money to numerous charitable causes and delivered votes for various politicians at election time. Peoples Temple ran social and medical programs for the needy, including a free dining hall, drug rehabilitation and legal aid services. Jone...
In 1974, a small group of Jones’ followers went to Guyana to establish an agricultural cooperative on a tract of jungle in the tiny nation of Guyana. (Guyana, which gained its independence from Great Britain in 1966, is the only country in South America with English as its official language.) In 1977, Jones and more than 1,000 Temple members joined...
Leo Ryan, a U.S. representative from California, heard from some of his constituents that their family members were people being held against their will at Jonestown and decided to go there to investigate. Ryan arrived in Guyana in November 1978, with a delegation that included news reporters and photographers, along with concerned relatives of som...
The same day as the murders at the airstrip, Jones told his followers that soldiers would come for them and torture them. He ordered everyone to gather in the main pavilion and commit what he termed a “revolutionary act.” The youngest members of the Peoples Temple were the first to die, as parents and nurses used syringes to drop a potent mix of cy...
Learn about the Peoples Temple, a cult led by Jim Jones that ended in a mass suicide-murder in Guyana in 1978. Find out how Jones manipulated his followers, what life was like in Jonestown and how the tragedy unfolded.
19 de nov. de 2018 · Em 18 de novembro de 1978, 918 pessoas morreram em um misto de suicídio coletivo e assassinatos em Jonestown, uma comuna fundada por Jim Jones, pastor e fundador do Templo Popular, uma seita pentecostal cristã de orientação socialista.
Há 6 dias · The Jonestown massacre was a mass murder-suicide of the Peoples Temple cult at the behest of their leader, Jim Jones, in 1978. After cult members attacked Congressman Leo Ryan, who was investigating the cult, Jones enacted a suicide plan at the Jonestown compound.
14 de jun. de 2024 · The Jonestown massacre remains one of the largest mass murders in American history. In a single day, 901 Americans and 8 Guyanese died from Jim Jones’ actions. Met with criticism rather...
