According to the Guyanese court which had jurisdiction in the matter, all but three of the deaths in Jonestown were ruled to be the result of murder, not suicide. TONIGHT at 9PM on #JonestownWomen find out who was really responsible for all those deaths. 3. Rebecca Moore and the members of the Jonestown Memorial Fund think of the stone as a historical document; it lists everyone who died in Guyana on November 18, 1978. A preacher and civil rights activist — known as Rev. Jonestown, location of the mass murder-suicide of the California-based Peoples Temple cult at the behest of their charismatic but paranoid leader, Jim Jones, in Jonestown agricultural commune, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.
Jonestown, Guyana was the scene of one of the most harrowing tragedies in American history. the children of Jonestown 1.

He then moved his people to Guyana when he came under criticism for church beatings and financial abuses. 287 children died in the Jonestown massacre. Source: The New York Times, 12/12/78. An apocalyptic cult, 900 dead: remembering the Jonestown massacre, 40 years on More than 900 people, many of them children, died in a mass murder-suicide … The death toll exceeded 900, making it one of the largest mass deaths in American history. In 1978, 909 people died in Jonestown, Guyana resulting in the largest mass suicide in history. Jonestown Massacre: How 918 people followed a cult leader to Guyana, 'drank the Kool-Aid'... and died in a single day. On November 18, 1978, at the direction of charismatic cult leader Jim Jones, 909 members of the People's Temple died, all but two from apparent cyanide poisoning, in a "revolutionary suicide." IT WAS the scene of one of the most disturbing tragedies in American history.

2. Escape from Jonestown Thirty years ago, more than 900 people died …