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JonestownCommune of the People's Temple Sect, northwest of Georgetown, Guyana, established in 1974 by the American Jim Jones (1933-1978), who originally founded the sect among San Francisco's black community. After a visiting US congressman was shot dead, Jones enforced mass suicide on his followers by instructing them to drink cyanide; 914 died, including over 240 children. |
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How has Jonestown been received across the country? It's the footage of these people taken the night before, putting on a happy face for fact-finding Congressman Leo Ryan, who was visiting Jonestown at the behest of stateside relatives who said their family members were being imprisoned by Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones. Jonestown Radio, 2004-2005, uses the fuzzy atmospheric density of a Claude vista, placing at its center an ivy-entwined pergola that more or less houses an arrangement of tables. |
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