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   Jonestown Massacre: How 918 people followed a cult leader to Guyana, 'drank the Kool-Aid'... and died in a single day ... Temple members campaigned to help get Democrat George Moscone elected San ...

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   The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name " Jonestown ", was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 [1] [2] people died at the settlement, at the ...

   • Population(1978): >930
   • Region: Barima-Waini

   • Country: Guyana

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   Are there cults in America?

   • Cults are not unique to the United States, but there is a long history of cults in America. "Compared to other developed nations, the U.S. does have this consistent relationship with cults," Amanda Montell, author of "Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism," tells LitHub.

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   Where did the cult start?

   • The cult began in Indiana before relocating to California. From there, Jones and his followers moved to Guayana, where the leader became more erratic. A concerned Leo Ryan, a California congressman, headed to the South American country in November 1978 to learn more.

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   Was the Peoples Temple a cult?

   • The “Peoples Temple was – as many communes, cults, churches and social movements are – an alternative to the established social order, a nation unto itself”, he wrote in Raven.

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   • While there is interest in cults in the U.S., we do not have enough information on them — and that's by design. Psychologist Steve Eichel, president of the International Cultic Studies Association, estimates there are as many as 10,000 cults today, but, as he told "48 Hours", they "very deliberately try to stay under the radar.

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4. history.howstuffworks.com › historical-eventsWhy Did Hundreds of Americans 'Drink the Kool-Aid' at ...

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   A portrait of Jim Jones taken in the early days of the Jonestown community in Guyana, South America. Michelle VIGNES/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images. Back in November 1978, Americans were shocked by newspaper headlines about the deaths of more than 900 people in the South American nation of Guyana, in what appeared to be a combination of mass murder and suicide by poison. The carnage took place at a ...

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   Feb 26, 2024 · Heaven's Gate members, led by Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr., believed that leaving their bodies behind on Earth would transfer their consciousness into an extraterrestrial being. The group started in 1975. In 1997, nearly 40 members died by mass suicide.

6. www.theguardian.com › world › 2018An apocalyptic cult, 900 dead: remembering the Jonestown ...

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   Nov 17, 2018 · J Oliver Conroy. Sat 17 Nov 2018 04.00 EST. F our decades ago this Sunday, the Rev Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of an American cult in the Guyanese jungle, ordered his followers to murder a...

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7. www.history.com › topics › crimeJonestown - Massacre, Guyana & Cult | HISTORY

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   Oct 18, 2010 · Getty Images. The “Jonestown Massacre” occurred on November 18, 1978, when more than 900 members of an American cult called the Peoples Temple died in a mass suicide-murder under the direction...

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   Jan 10, 2022 · David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images Dead bodies surround the compound of the Peoples Temple cult after the Jamestown Massacre, when more than 900 members, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Flavor Aid. November 19, 1978.