Today in 1978: A total of 912 people die in Jonestown, Guyana, after People’s Temple cult leader Jim Jones convinces most followers to kill themselves by drinking cyanide-laced punch. Others are shot to death or forcibly poisoned.
Today in 1978: Peoples Temple mass murder/suicide
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