Jonestown Massacre: Aftermath Still Haunts First Responders
On Nov. 18, 1978, followers of Pentecostal leader Jim Jones drank cyanide-laced punch. The U.S. military was left to deal with the aftermath
Declassified FBI Photos Show the Horror of Being a First ... - VICE
Mar 1, 2020 · In the summer of 1977, some 900-odd people sold their possessions and followed Jones to the country’s remote north, where they hacked a settlement out of the jungle and called it “Jonestown.”...
What Happened After Jonestown? - Rolling Stone
Nov 16, 2018 · In the wake of the mass suicide in 1978, friends, family and survivors had to face the heartbreaking aftermath of Jim Jones' cult. U.S. military personnel place bodies in coffins at the airport...
The US military cleaned up victims of modern history’s largest mass suicide
Dec 23, 2021 · According to San Diego State University’s exhaustive study of the Jonestown cult and its aftermath, Army Medic Jeff Brailey was one of the first Americans to enter the compound. He described carrying the poison’s antidote among a sea …
In Jonestown’s aftermath, veteran saved a new life
Nov 12, 2024 · Ken Sullivan, an Army veteran who died in 2021, was part of a special forces unit that was sent to Guyana in 1978 in response to a disaster situation in Jonestown.
The U.S. Military Had to Clean Up After the Jonestown Massacre …
Nov 16, 2018 · Loaded with waterproof canvas body bags and coffin-like metal transport containers, U.S. military helicopters shuttled the dead and recovery personnel alike between …
Jonestown - Wikipedia
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 religious movement under the leadership of Jim Jones.
Jonestown: Rebuilding my life after surviving the massacre - BBC
Nov 18, 2018 · Jones spoke of an impending nuclear apocalypse, and believed his separatist "apostolic socialist" community could thrive in the aftermath. The group, although religious, was founded on socialist...
Inside The Jonestown Massacre, The Largest Mass Suicide In History
Aug 1, 2024 · Known as the Jonestown Massacre, over 900 members of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple died after consuming cyanide on November 18, 1978. Were the hundreds who literally drank the "Kool-Aid" deranged cultists or desperate victims?
1978-1982 SPECIAL REPORT: "JONESTOWN AFTERMATH"(PART I) - YouTube
The Temple's San Francisco headquarters came under siege by national media and relatives of Jonestown victims. The mass killing became one of the best-known ...