Jim Jones of the People's Temple ordered followers to drink poison Kool-Aid. Nov. 18, 2012— -- From the age of 13, Leslie Wagner Wilson had been indoctrinated in the California-based Peoples ...
In this series, Newsweek reconstructs the events leading to the Jonestown Massacre as it happened in 1978, day by day. November 8, 1978: On November 8, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article ...
In this series, Newsweek reconstructs the events leading to the Jonestown Massacre as it happened in 1978, day by day. November 1, 1978: Congressman Leo Ryan, a 53-year-old Democrat from San Mateo, ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history. It happened to American citizens living in a religious cult ...
Some tragedies lose their power to shock with the passage of time. That’s not true of what’s become known as the Jonestown massacre. Forty years ago, on Nov. 18, 1978, self-styled holy man Jim Jones ...
The daughter of a woman killed trying to escape from Jonestown — shortly before 900 followers of Jim Jones committed suicide — was haunted by the tragedy until her death Johnny Dodd is a senior writer ...
Four decades after over 900 followers of Jim Jones committed suicide at Jonestown, survivor Tracy Parks recounts her escape from the horrors of the group's compound in the Guyana rainforest Johnny ...
It’s only a small cadre of Jonestown survivors and former Peoples Temple members represented here, but with a couple of exceptions, they each serve a clear purpose in the telling of this story.
Until the September 11th attacks, the tragedy in Jonestown on November 18th, 1978 represented the largest number of American civilian casualties in a single non-natural event. It is unfathomable now, ...
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