The Jonestown Massacre
The images coming from Jonestown in 1978 were ghastly. Bloating in the sweltering heat of the South American sun lay the bodies of hundreds of people, the result of an apparent mass suicide. Some of the bodies had their arms linked around friends, as if they had gone to face the afterlife together. All were members of a religious cult called “The People’s Temple”. Allegedly, they had been convinced to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid… Continue reading The Jonestown Massacre