The Jonestown Massacre, Jim Jones, and the People’s Temple Cult

The cult that led to 909 deaths

The crime scene for the mass suicide in 1978(left) and Rev. Jim Warren Jones in 1977 (right) — images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

On November 18th, 1978, over 900 people committed suicide in the Jonestown settlement in Guyana. They were members of the People’s Temple, a cult religion led by Reverend Jim Jones. Most of the people willingly swallowed a punch mixed with cyanide. Others were injected with the chemical, as confirmed by…