Jonestown
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The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement established by the Peoples Temple, a cult under the leadership of Jim Jones, in Guayana Esequiba, a disputed territory in northwestern Guyana claimed by Venezuela.
It became internationally known when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city.
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See also
- Jonestown: Paradise Lost, a 2007 History Channel documentary
- Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, a 2006 documentary film
- Seconds From Disaster, a documentary television series that covered the events at Jonestown in season 6, episode 2 ("Jonestown Cult Suicide")
- The Sacrament (2013 film), a thriller whose plot borrows heavily from the events of Jonestown
- List of United States Congress members killed or wounded in office
- Jonestown conspiracy theory
- Casefile True Crime Podcast – Case 60 – three-part series aired in September 2017
- The Last Podcast on the Left – Episodes 300 - 304 – a five-part series aired in January 2018
- 605 Adults 304 Children , a 2019 short documentary filmed entirely by The Peoples Temple at Jonestown
Mass suicides:
- Heaven's Gate (religious group) in San Diego, California
- Order of the Solar Temple in Canada and Switzerland
- Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God in Uganda
- Puputan, mass ritual suicide in Bali
- Suicide in Guyana
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