The Guyanese site of the Jonestown massacre, where over 900 people either died by mass suicide or murder in connection with the Jim Jones-led cult in 1978, has opened for tourism. After decades of abandonment, a private tourism company in the South American country of Guyana announced plans to host …
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On November 18, 1978, 918 members of Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple cult died in Jonestown, Guyana, in the single largest loss of American civilian lives in a deliberate act before 9/11. From the moment media coverage of the massacre began, much of the reporting has characterized the event as a …
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Revisit the tragic and infamous Jonestown massacre in the new trailer for an upcoming docuseries that examines the final hours of Jim Jones’ cult in Guyana. Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown — the latest installment in Nat Geo and Hulu’s One Day in America franchise — features rare archival …
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