Vilchez, 67, said Guyana has every right to profit from any plans related to Jonestown. “Then on the other hand, I just feel like any situation where people were manipulated into their deaths ...
and has since revealed Jonestown's dark secrets in a powerful memoir, Seductive Poison. She describes how old people were sometimes stripped naked for disobedience, and children were dangled by ...
Until recently, successive governments shunned Jonestown, arguing that the country’s image was badly damaged by the mass murder-suicide, even though only a handful of Indigenous people died.
When Tim Reiterman set out to tell the story of the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown mass murders and suicides, he didn’t want to retread territory he’d covered with previous anniversary stories, or ...
“I just missed dying by one day,” she recalled. Vilchez, 67, said Guyana has every right to profit from any plans related to Jonestown. “Then on the other hand, I just feel like any situation where ...
“Some people went every year waiting to see something ... said that part of her own process of moving on with her life post-Jonestown has involved letting go. “It doesn’t do any good to ...
More than 900 people died in a mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, in November 1978 - David Howells/Corbis Historical It is hard to put a finger on the precise moment when the concept of ...
Interviews with Jeff Guinn the author of The Road to Jonestown, Jim Jones Jr, and two of the survivors. ABC iview Home Watch all your favourite ABC programs on ABC iview. More from ABC We acknowledge ...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American ...