Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) The Reverend Jim Jones' bloated body lies on the ground after it was hastily sewn together after his autopsy by officials November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana. On November 18, 1978 over 900 members of the People's Temple Cult led by Reverend Jim Jones died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
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James Warren Jones Where He Supposedly Originally Fell---At The Foot of His Throne--Post Self-Inflicted GunShot Behind the Ear--Utterly Commingled With Those Who Are Said To Have Drank Poison. But the photo of his pre-autopsied torso is dated Nov. 21--or three days after the image above, whose captioning makes explicitly clear that Jones was autopsied on the same day 900 cultist suicided by drinking poison
Reverend Jim Jones Lying DeadOriginal caption: Reverend Jim Jones, leader of the People's Temple Cult, lies shot to death in his agricultural retreat. Over 400 persons were found dead, mostly from cyanide poisoning, after U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and newsmen were killed.
Stock Photo ID: U1949810
Date Photographed: November 21, 1978
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
Credit: © Bettmann/CORBIS
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For insight into the photographer David Hume Kennerly:
October 28, 1979, Boston Globe, page C3, David Kennerly: Shooting for the stars, by Marian Christy,
"The word that makes him bristle slightly is luck. Some photographers, for example, think it was lucky that Kennerly found himself at the scene of the Robert F. Kennedy assassination.
"I've been lucky to an extent," he says, controlled irritation creeping into his voice. "But I've also worked my ass off. You can't discount that. I'm lucky in the sense that I almost got killed getting pictures at drug scenes and in Vietnam, Cambodia and India." He leans back in his chair. It is the stance of America's early settlers leaning back on the porch of the country store. "No one ever handed me anything," he says softly---but not so softly that you don't catch every word. He wants you to understand that he risked his life to get pictures.
He says he is painfully aware that other top American photographers are jealous of his success. It was, for instance, his photo of the Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana that made the cover of Time Magazine last year. "I know that there are photographers who resent my success. I don't have time to worry about jealousy. Maybe these people should worry about their own success." October 28, 1979, Boston Globe, page C3, David Kennerly: Shooting for the stars, by Marian Christy, 1,486 words
What are people like David Kennerly going to do when it becomes more generally known what's behind the brand of luck that adheres to his particular kind of professional success, which he's enjoyed as a political and war photographer? He may fancy it's his zest, or gumption, that would find him so fortuitously positioned at major events or turning points in world history--- better yet, often with an exclusive on the moment too. Since every professional photographer meets a technical threshold, as adept as the next guy when it comes to lens apertures and light meters, what explains standing out from the crowd, whether in cities of white upon the hill, or in regions equatorial as here? If Kennerly's going to bristle, it should be at the word foreknowledged and not any abstraction like "luck."
But if to get to where he wanted to go, he apparently had to take instructions from some seedy liaison between the dodgy intelligence community and the iffy criminal underworld (two old designations commingled more or less onto one) who told him to position himself by the dishwashing station of a hotel ballroom, where by chance, an encounter between a celebrated politician and his assassin, at a specified time, could be captured for posterity. If true, he wouldn't have to worry that the world hated him because he was beautiful, or too talented or too rich. He would have earned the enmity of eternity as a scum of the earth, and have been exposed as such for all to see.
The editor at Time Magazine in the 1970's said that Jonestown, Guyana cover was by far the best-selling issue in his eight years on the job. Polling groups said the Peoples Temple commune slaughter was the most widely known, and deeply penetrating news event of 1978. Such a thing couldn't hurt a career.....
But seen in context with the work of other photographers, it's apparent that something terribly, terribly wrong is afoot. My understanding of the record is that the first journalistic access to the carnage at the Peoples Temple commune site was on Monday, November 20, and the pool coverage consisted only of Charles Krause of the Washington Post, along with a Post photographer, who is named here in several these Getty images, as Frank Johnston.
Frank Johnston's bio at the Washington Post gives out some very spooky coincidences:
The son of the chief photographer at the Philadelphia Inquirer in the 1940s and 1950s, Frank Johnston counted newspaper photographers as his childhood playmates and the darkroom his playground. "As a kid, I used to run around the darkrooms harassing all of the photographers as they came in from their assignments," recalls Johnston. In 1963, Johnston landed his first job as staff photographer with UPI, where he covered President Kennedy's assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald's shooting. As U.S. involvement in Vietnam escalated, Johnston volunteered to cover the ground war. Since joining The Post in 1968, he has covered the Watergate scandal, the People's Temple tragedy in Jonestown, Guyana, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. A three-time winner of the White House News Photographers' Photographer of the Year Award, Johnston is the co-author of "The Working White House" and "Jonestown Massacre."
Apparently, the way past the Oval Office and into the family dining room is to have a high-level assassination on your resume.
However, all of Kennerly's images are dated Nov. 18th, supposedly the date of mass deaths.
People's Temple follower Larry Layton (C) stands with police following his arrest November 18, 1978 in the shooting of two people on a remote Guyana airstrip. That same day, precipitated by the shootings, over 900 members of the People's Temple Cult led by Reverend Jim Jones died in Jonestown, Guyana of mass murder and suicide.
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A Jim Jones Shot
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) The Reverend Jim Jones' bloated body lies on the ground (on planks) along with his followers after it was hastily sewn together after his autopsy by officials at the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana. Over 900 members of the cult, commanded by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid November 18, 1978; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
Another Jim Jones Shot
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) Bodies lie behind a tub of cyanide-laced punch November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana after over 900 members of the People's Temple Cult led by Reverend Jim Jones drank the punch to commit mass suicide. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
A No Jim Jones Shot
Title: Jonestown Mass Suicide
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - 1978: People lie on the ground dead from being forced to commit suicide. Over 900 people died by the direction of Rev. Jim Jones. (Photo by Frank Johnston / The Washington Post / Getty Images)
| This family was among the more than 900 people who died in the mass-suicide of The People's Temple cult in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978. |  |
"David Hume Kennerly + Jonestown" 26 images all 30 are dated Nov. 18
"Frank Johnston + Jonestown" 4 images
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But That's Not His Chair At All!
Dead Bodies of People's Temple Members
Original caption: 11/23/78 - Jonestown, Guyana- Bodies of cultists lie around the "throne" used by sect leader Jim Jones 11/20. Quotation on sign is from U.S. philosopher George Santayana.
Stock Photo ID: BE058058
Date Photographed: November 23, 1978
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
Credit: © Bettmann/CORBIS
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People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) Dead bodies lie in the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana after over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. In the background, above Jim Jones's chair, a sign from the rafters reads 'those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
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Not Even Close
Jim Jones' Podium Chair at Jonestown
Original caption: Jim Jone's lawn chair "throne" stands in front of the stage in the main pavilion, its floor boards torn up because "they were soaked with blood," in this photo. A 25 member work crew of the Guyanese government was making a halfhearted attempt to keep the jungle from reclaiming Jonestown.
Stock Photo ID: U1981911
Date Photographed: November 1, 1979
Photographer: Les Sintay
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
Credit: © Bettmann/CORBIS
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I'm Hard Pressed Seeing How They Could Fit 1,000 to 1,200 Community Members Under This Picnic Shed At One Time -- With the Skimpy Fluorescent Lights It Must Have Been Ghastly As the Moon Waned
Plant Growing Between Pews In Pavilion
A plant grows in Jonestown between the pews at the rear of the assembly pavilion. The hanging plants in the main pavilion, where Jones delivered long, haranguing sermons until the wee hours, are all dead. So is the vegetable garden.
Stock Photo ID: BE046112
Date Photographed: November 15, 1979
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
Credit: © Bettmann/CORBIS
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) Investigators examine the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana after over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) An aerial view of some of the bodies at Jonestown. November 18, 1978 over 900 members of the People's Temple Cult led by Reverend Jim Jones died in Jonestown, Guyana victims of mass murder and suicide. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) Dead bodies lie around the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 after the over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) Dead bodies lie around the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 after the over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
What's the Small Flat-Roofed Structure Surrounded by a Fence For?
A Command Commode?
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) Dead bodies lie around the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 after the over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) Dead bodies lie around the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 after the over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
Title: Jonestown Mass Suicide
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - 1978: People lie on the ground dead from being forced to commit suicide. Over 900 people died by the direction of Rev. Jim Jones. (Photo by Frank Johnston / The Washington Post / Getty Images)
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Corpses from the Jonestown Massacre of 1978
Dead bodies litter the ground after a mass suicide of the People's Temple cult followers, led by Jim Jones, the founder and leader of the cult. Over 900 adults and children died after drinking cyanide-laced punch. The Jonestown Massacre occurred on November 18, 1978, at the Jonestown commune in Guyana.
Stock Photo ID: BE058087
Date Photographed: November 23, 1978
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
Aerial View of Mass Suicide
People's Temple Cult mass suicide at Jonestown, Guyana.
Stock Photo ID: U1949910B
Date Photographed: November 23, 1978
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
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People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) The bodies of a mother and child lie among the dead near the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana after over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) Dead bodies lie near the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana after over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) Dead bodies lie in the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana after over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. In the background, above Jim Jones's chair, a sign from the rafters reads 'those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) A sign on the back wall reading 'love one another' hangs over the bodies of Reverend Jim Jones' followers on the floor of the People's Temple Cult compound November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana. On November 18, 1978 over 900 members of the People's Temple Cult led by Reverend Jim Jones died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
Title: Jonestown Mass Suicide
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - 1978: Inside the People's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. The bodies of followers that drank the cyanide-laced drink are strewn around the commune. More than 900 Americans died in a murder and suicide ritual at the Peoples Temple agricultural mission in the jungle of Guyana. (Photo by The Washington Post / Getty Images)
Title: Closeups of bottles of cyanide which members of the...
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 01: Closeups of bottles of cyanide which members of the People`s Temple mixed with Kool-aid & drank to commit suicide. (Photo by Matthew Naythons
/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Date created: 01 Nov 1978
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) A needle and syringe lie near a vial of valium November 18, 1978 after over 900 members of the People's Temple Cult led by Reverend Jim Jones committed mass murder and suicide from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid. The valium was used to assist in the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) Bodies lie in a bedroom at the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana after over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) Dead bodies lie near the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana after over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
Gassed & Dead Dog Shot
Title: Jonestown Mass Suicide
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - 1978: People lie on the ground dead from being forced to commit suicide. Over 900 people died by the direction of Rev. Jim Jones. (Photo by Frank Johnston / The Washington Post / Getty Images)
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) Dead bodies lie near the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana after over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
Another Gassed & Dead Dog Shot
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) Dead bodies lie near the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana after over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. Bows and arrows near the victims were used by fanatical followers of Jim Jones to keep people from running away. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
The Absolute Best Gassed & Dead Dog Shot!
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Jonestown Suicides
Original caption: Over 900 bodies were found at the People's Temple cult headquarters on November 20. The leader of the cult was Jim Jones. Guyana authorities, upon arrival, found many of the dead to be clutching each other. Apparently, they died through cyanide poisoning.
Stock Photo ID: U1949906B
Date Photographed: November 23, 1978
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
Credit: © Bettmann/CORBIS
License Type: Rights Managed (RM)
The Expensive Crossbows & Arrows Shot
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) Dead bodies lie near the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana after over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. Bows and arrows in the foreground which were used by fanatical followers of Jim Jones to keep people from running away. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) A parrot, one of the only survivors of Jonestown, looks down at dead bodies at the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana after over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
Two Birds Are Better Than One
Title: Jonestown Massacre
Caption: Jim Jones, leader of the People's Temple Cult, massacred 912 people, in a mass suicide in the jungle of Guyana spared only these two Macaws in Jonestown. The tragic 20th anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre is November 17, 1998. (photo by Tim Chapman)
Date created: 09 Nov 1998
Editorial image #: 1147687
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License type: Rights-managed
Photographer: Tim Chapman / Contributor
Collection: Getty Images News
Title: Jonestown Mass Suicide
Caption: JONESTOWN, GUYANA - 1978: People lie on the ground dead from being forced to commit suicide. Over 900 people died by the direction of Rev. Jim Jones. (Photo by Frank Johnston / The Washington Post / Getty Images)
The Uncropped View
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) The airplane which carried California Congressman Leo Ryan sits on a runway November 18, 1978 in Port Kaituma, Guyana after he was shot and killed by members of Jim Jones' People's Temple cult while boarding the plane after paying an investigative visit to the cult's compound in Jonestown, Guyana. That same day, precipitated by the shootings, over 900 members of the People's Temple Cult led by Reverend Jim Jones died in Jonestown, Guyana of mass murder and suicide. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
Date created: 18 Nov 1978
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) People's Temple follower Larry Layton (C) stands with police following his arrest November 18, 1978 in the shooting of two people on a remote Guyana airstrip. That same day, precipitated by the shootings, over 900 members of the People's Temple Cult led by Reverend Jim Jones died in Jonestown, Guyana of mass murder and suicide. Larry Layton was convicted in 1986 by a federal jury in San Francisco of conspiring in the 1978 murder of California congressman Leo Ryan and aiding and abetting in the attempted murder of Richard Dwyer, a U.S. diplomat wounded in the attack. Layton's sister Debbie's departure from the Peoples Temple and denunciation of Jones in May 1978 led her brother to leave California to join the settlement in Guyana. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) People's Temple follower Larry Layton (C) stands with police following his arrest November 18, 1978 in the shooting of two people on a remote Guyana airstrip. That same day, precipitated by the shootings, over 900 members of the People's Temple Cult led by Reverend Jim Jones died in Jonestown, Guyana of mass murder and suicide. Larry Layton was convicted in 1986 by a federal jury in San Francisco of conspiring in the 1978 murder of California congressman Leo Ryan and aiding and abetting in the attempted murder of Richard Dwyer, a U.S. diplomat wounded in the attack. Layton's sister Debbie's departure from the Peoples Temple and denunciation of Jones in May 1978 led her brother to leave California to join the settlement in Guyana. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images)
Title: People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana
Caption: GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) People's Temple follower Larry Layton (C) stands with police following his arrest November 18, 1978 in the shooting of two people on a remote Guyana airstrip. That same day, precipitated by the shootings, over 900 members of the People's Temple Cult led by Reverend Jim Jones died in Jonestown, Guyana of mass murder and suicide. Larry Layton was convicted in 1986 by a federal jury in San Francisco of conspiring in the 1978 murder of California congressman Leo Ryan and aiding and abetting in the attempted murder of Richard Dwyer, a U.S. diplomat wounded in the attack. Layton's sister Debbie's departure from the Peoples Temple and denunciation of Jones in May 1978 led her brother to leave California to join the settlement in Guyana. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
Title: Aftermath Of The Jonestown Tragedy
Caption: An unidentified man a strap onto a stack of aluminum coffins for shipment to the United States, following the more than 900 deaths in the mass suicide staged in Jonestown by members of the People's Temple and their leader, the Reverend Jim Jones, Georgetown, Guyana, November 23, 1978. A group of photographers and police officers stand in the background. (Photo by New York Times Co ./ Neal Boenzi/Getty Images)
Title: Aftermath Of The Jonestown Tragedy
Caption: Members of a US military team prepare aluminum coffins for shipment to the United States, following the more than 900 deaths in the mass suicide staged in Jonestown by members of the People's Temple and their leader, the Reverend Jim Jones, Georgetown, Guyana, November 24, 1978. (Photo by New York Times Co./ Neal Boenzi / Getty Images)
Title: Aftermath Of The Jonestown Tragedy
Caption: View of the partially collapsed main pavillion in the Jonestown compound, Guyana, November 28, 1978. The site was host to a mass suicide led by the Reverend Jim Jones of more than 900 of his Peoples Temple followers. (Photo by New York Times Co ./ Neal Boenzi/Getty Images)
Wrong. That is one of the two long canvas-roofed school buildings with walls made up of bookcases.
Title: Aftermath Of The Jonestown Tragedy
Caption: Men load coffins into a moving truck for transport in Dover, Delaware, April 26, 1979. The coffins all arrived from Jonestown, Guyana, where the Reverend Jim Jones led more than 900 of his followers, the People's Temple, in a mass suicide. (Photo by New York Times Co. / Keith Meyers /Getty Images)
I doubt Dover did any work on identifying these remains during the months they were stored here. The point was to not make any identifications.
Title: Jim Jones And Family
Caption: Portrait of American religious leader Jim Jones (1931 - 1978), the founder of the People's Temple, and his wife, Marceline Jones (1927 - 1978), seated in front of their adopted children and next to his sister-in-law (right) with her three children California, 1976. In 1977, Jones relocated the People's Temple from San Francisco, California, to Jonestown, Guyana, where he led the mass suicide of over 900 members on November 18, 1978, before dying of a gunshot wound later that day. (Photo by Don Hogan Charles/New York Times Co. / Getty Images)
Date created: 01 Jan 1976
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Title: Temple of people
Caption: Picture taken in 1978 of 'Temple of people' members' in front of the agricultural department of the sect, in Georgetown, renamed Jonestown, Jim Jones guru's name. Overnight 20 November 1978, bodies of more than 400 members of the sect were discovered after they committed mass suicide, compliance with the rules of the sect. (Photo by AFP / Getty Images)
Date created: 01 Jan 1978
Title: Temple of (little) people
Caption: Picture taken in 1978 of 'Temple of people' members' children in the nursery of the sect in Georgetown, renamed Jonestown, Jim Jones guru's name. Overnight 20 November 1978, bodies of more than 400 members of the sect were discovered after they committed mass suicide, compliance with the rules of the sect. (Photo by AFP / Getty Images)
Date created: 01 Jan 1978
Title: Temple of people
Caption: Picture taken in 1978 of 'Temple of people' members' mending old clothes in Georgetown sect' house, renamed Jonestown, Jim Jones guru's name. Overnight 20 November 1978, bodies of more than 400 members of the sect were discovered after they committed mass suicide, compliance with the rules of the sect. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)
Date created: 01 Jan 1978
Title: Temple of people
Caption: Picture taken in 1978 of 'Temple of people' members' children in the nursery of the sect in Georgetown, renamed Jonestown, Jim Jones guru's name. Overnight 20 November 1978, bodies of more than 400 members of the sect were discovered after they committed mass suicide, compliance with the rules of the sect. (Photo by AFP / Getty Images)
Date created: 01 Jan 1978
Life Imitating Art or Something
Title: Powers Boothe In 'Guyana Tragedy'
Caption: American actor Powers Boothe portrays cult leader Jim Jones in the made-for-television movie 'Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones,' 1980. The movie, for which Boothe earned an Emmy, aired just 16 months after the charismatic reverend and over 900 of his followers committed suicide or were murdered following a visit to their utopian religious community (Jonestown) by a US Congressman investigating allegations of abuse. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive / Getty Images)
Date created: 01 Jan 1980
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