69: Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple

69: Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple

In the summer of 1977, Jim Jones, leader of The Peoples Temple, moved nearly 1,000 of his followers to a plot of land in Guyana, South America. Less than a year later, on November 18, 1978, 908 of the followers died after drinking Kool-Aid laced with poison. Was it murder or suicide? And what had made all of these people follow Jones to their deaths?

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33: My Friend Rockefeller

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32: Tower

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