Who Was Jim Jones? PBS American Experience Jonestown

 

Murderous

More than nine hundred people died from cyanide poisoning on November 18, 1978; Jones was not one of them. He and Annie Moore (a nurse who had probably helped prepare the cyanide concoction) were found dead of gunshot wounds to the head. It is not known whether he committed suicide or asked Moore to shoot him.

Bodies of Peoples Temple members surround a pavilion at Jonestown.

Bodies of Peoples Temple members surround a pavilion at Jonestown.

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