Jonestown Massacre

Tragic End of a Cult (American Disasters)

by Gina DeAngelis

2002 48 pages eng

The agricultural settlement of Jonestown in Guyana, South America, was meant to be a promised land for its inhabitants, the members of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple. How then, in November 1978, did 912 people—276 children among them—all lose their lives in the space of a single day there? How could Jon…