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Jonestown

Commune 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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