Category:Jonestown
Articles relating to Jonestown, a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, a US-based cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 909 people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations.
Pages in category "Jonestown"
The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- 1978 murders in Guyana
- November 1978 events in South America
- 1970s in Christianity
- Child murder in South America
- Christian missions
- Christian terrorism in South America
- Former populated places in Guyana
- Ghost towns in South America
- Guyana–United States relations
- Mass suicides
- Massacres in 1978
- Massacres in Guyana
- Peoples Temple
- Post–civil rights era in African-American history
- Socialism in Guyana
- Suicide in Guyana
- Suicides by cyanide poisoning
- Forced suicides
- 20th-century mass murder in South America
- Christian terrorist incidents