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161 results for 'Jonestown Peoples Temple'

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Watchf AP I   GUY APHS433237 Peoples Temple Cult
Peoples Temple compound, mass suicide cult led by Jim Jones, after bodies were removed at Jonestown, Guyana in 1978. (AP Photo)

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Watchf AP I   GUY APHS433244 Peoples Temple Cult

#3
Watchf AP I   GUY APHS433238 Peoples Temple Cult

#4
Watchf Associated Press International News   Guyana APHS52309 Peoples Temple Cult

#4
Creative Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images A    U1949475 Reverend Jim Jones with His Followers
Followers gather around Reverend Jim Jones (far right). This photograph is a reproduction of one of the undated color photographs in a photo album, found among the dead in the Jonestown commune in Guyana after the mass suicide in 1978. (Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images)

#5
Creative Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images A    BE046152 Jim Jones and Marceline Jones
Original caption: In this photo the Rev. Jim Jones is preaching at an unknown location as his blonde wife, Marceline, stands near him. Undated photograph. (Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images)


#5
Watchf Associated Press International News   GUYANA APHS52310 Peoples Temple Cult
Bodies of People's Temple mass suicide cult victims led by Jim Jone's in Jonestown, Guyana, 1978. (AP Photo)

#7
Watchf Associated Press     APHS129544 Jonestown Mass Suicide 1978

#8
Watchf Associated Press International News   Guyana APHS129543 Jonestown Mass Suicide 1978
An aerial shot of the mass suicide of the religious cult, The Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones, 1978, Jonestown, Guyana. (AP Photo)

#9
Watchf Associated Press International News   Guyana APHS129545 Jonestown Mass Suicide 1978

#11
Watchf Associated Press International News   Guyana APHS146633 Jonestown Mass Suicide 1978
Detail shot of bottles of poison which belonged to members of the Peoples Temple cult, who participated in a mass suicide, 1978, Jonestown, Guyana. (AP Photo)

#12
Watchf Associated Press International News   Guyana APHS146632 Jonestown Mass Suicide 1978
Detail shot of a bottle of poison and a syringe which belonged to members of the Peoples Temple cult, who participated in a mass suicide, 1978, Jonestown, Guyana. (AP Photo)

#15
Watchf AP I   GUY APHS258498 Religion Cults Sects People's Temple    Mass suicide cult
Jonestown, Guyana, mass suicide cult led by Jim Jones in 1978. (AP Photo)





Creative Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images A    U1949931 Cult Leader Jim Jones in Corn Field




#6



San Francisco Examiner photographer Greg Robinson was one of the five people killed after an attack by members of the People's Temple in Guyana. The journalists were part of the group led by Congressman Leo Ryan to investigate reports of abuse and human rights violations by the People's Temple and its leader, Jim Jones. Fearing the results of the murders and further investigations into Jonestown, despite Leo Ryan's assertion that he was going to give a largely positive review of the People's Temple, Jim Jones led his followers in a ?revolutionary suicide?. On November 18, 1978, 909 Temple members died, all but two of which from cyanide poisoning, forming the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images)


#16

Former Peoples Temple member Tim Stoen holds a flower while listening to speakers during the 32nd annual memorial service and prayer vigil to remember the more than 900 victims of the Jonestown massacre in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. Parting ways with longtime organizers of Jonestown memorial services, a group of Peoples Temple survivors announced their own plans Thursday for a granite monument inscribed with the names of those who died at Jonestown in Guyana. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
ID: 101118121900
Creation Date: November 18, 2010 07:21:46 AM
Photographer: Eric Risberg
Source: AP
Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Image Resolution: 2584 x 3992 0.87 MB
Person: Tim Stoen


#17
Associated Press International News Guyana JONESTOWN MASS SUICIDE
U.S. military personnel place bodies in coffins at the airport in Georgetown, Guyana after 900 members of the People's Temple committed suicide in Jonestown, Guyana in Nov. 1978. The Rev. Jim Jones urged his disciples to drink cyanide-laced grape punch. Jones, who was among those who died, led the Peoples Temple, which ran a free clinic and a drug rehabilitation program and performed other charitable functions. (AP Photo/file)
#18
Associated Press International News Guyana JONESTOWN SUICIDE



#23
AP VM GUY REV. JIM JONES
JONES AT JONESTOWN - Rev. Jimmy Jones, founder of People's temple, clasps an unidentified man at Jonestown, Nov. 18, 1978, during Congressman' Leo J. Ryan's visit. Shortly after, Ryan, newsman Don Harris, Cameraman Bob Brown and San Francisco Examiner photographer Greg Robinson, who took this photo, were killed in ambush at Port Kaituma, Guyana. (AP-Photo/str/Greg Robinson)

#25
Creative Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images A    42-16112844 Bodies on Airstrip in Jonestown, Guyana
Bodies lie on the Port Kaituma airstrip by the plane which was to carry them back to Georgetown. Congressman Leo Ryan and four other Americans were massacred (11/18) by members of the People's Temple after they had inspected the Temple to investigate charges by Ryan's constituents that their relatives were being held against their will and subjected to sexual and mental intimidation. (Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images)

#27

Watchf Associated Press Domestic News   United States APHS133159 Jim Jones
Rev. Jim Jones, right, speaks during faith healing service on Nov. 20, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana. It was one of his first appearance as head of the People's Temple organization. (AP Photo)


#36
Creative Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images A    U1949803 Dead Victims of Jim Jones Cult


#38
30 Years After Jonestown
** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, NOV. 1--FILE** This Nov. 1978 file photo of the aftermath of the Jonestown tragedy shows some of the dead. Thirty years ago, more than 900 Americans died in a murder and suicide ritual at the Peoples Temple agricultural mission in the jungle of Guyana. Passage of time since the holocaust has faded the differences between some temple enemies and loyalists, because they have experiences in common. Many share painful memories, guilt-filled feelings, loss of loved ones and psychological scars from an incomprehensible event that has come to symbolize the ultimate power of a charismatic leader over his followers. Although Jonestown has long ago passed from worldwide headlines to history, people who were entwined with the calamity live with it daily. (AP Photo, file)
ID: 081107030967
Creation Date: November 07, 2008 09:32:26 AM
Source: AP
Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Special Instructions: ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, NOV. 16; NOVEMBER 1978 FILE PHOTO
Image Resolution: 2944 x 1952 1.87 MB
Subject: Religion, Social affairs
Keywords: Mass Suicide Cyanide Poisoning Religion Dead Death Bodies Corpse
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
Transmission Reference: NY402
Caption Writer: SCM XNC JE**NY**



#39

An unidentified couple stop momentarily as photographers photograph the front of Peoples Temple on Geary Street, Nov. 21, 1978, San Francisco, Calif. (AP Photo/James Palmer)
781121063
November 21, 1978 03:00:00 AM
James Palmer
AP
ASSOCIATED PRESS
10582
1793 x 3000 4.22 MB


#40
Creative Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images A    U1948295 Dead Bodies in Jonestown


42
Creative Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images A    U1949810 Reverend Jim Jones Lying Dead
Original 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. (Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Image
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November 21, 1978 12:00:00 AM
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Creative Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images A    U1949917 Jonestown Survivors in Custody







#63
Associated Press Domestic News California United States JONESTOWN MEMORIAL
Steve Jones, son of cult leader Jim Jones, gestures while speaking during a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the People's Temple mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1998, in Oakland, Calif. At left are Jyonna Norwood and her son, Ed Norwood. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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ID: 98111801900
Creation Date: November 18, 1998 10:57:00 AM
Photographer: BEN MARGOT
Source: AP
Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Special Instructions: PERSON AT RIGHT REAR NOT IDENTIFIED
Image Resolution: 2000 x 1392 0.29 MB
Person: STEVE JONES JYONNA NORWOOD, ED NORWOOD
Subject: Homicide, Crime, Edgil Crime
Location: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
Transmission Reference: FX108
Byline Title: STF
Caption Writer: XJM DB BEN


#64
Associated Press Domestic News California United States JONESTOWN MEMORIAL
Steve Jones, son of the Rev. Jim Jones, listens to speakers while attending a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the People's Temple mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1998, at the Evergreen cemetery in Oakland, Calif. The service was held on the location of a mass gravesite, where 417 of the victims are buried. (AP Photo/Ben Margot
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November 18, 1998 10:57:00 AM
BEN MARGOT
AP
ASSOCIATED PRESS
2000 x 1368 0.18 MB
STEVE JONES
Crime, Edgil Crime
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
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XSS TCH PA BEN


#65




#77


Workmen at Dover Air Base Delaware, April 26, 1979, begin the grim task of loading caskets bring the bodies of some 500 deceased members of the Peoples Temple aboard moving vans behind for California Thursday morning. The deceased, who died in Jonestown, Guyana, November 18, 1978, will be transported over undisclosed routes to California for burial. (AP Photo)
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ID: 790426084
Creation Date: April 26, 1979 04:00:00 AM
Photographer: Anonymous
Source: AP
Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Special Instructions: 10581
Image Resolution: 3000 x 2070 4.85 MB
Keywords: Carrying, Transportation, truck
Location: Dover, DELAWARE, United States
Transmission Reference: APHS146654
Byline Title: STF
Caption Writer: XJFM R2 RO.


#79

Teri Buford of the People's Temple appears at a news conference with attorney Mark Lane at the Federal Building in San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 21, 1978. Buford left the Jim Jones cult three weeks before the mass suicide. (AP Photo/Sal Veder)
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ID: 522949987091
Creation Date: December 21, 1978 05:49:17 AM
Photographer: Sal Veder
Source: AP
Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Special Instructions: 46787 ONEG
Image Resolution: 3115 x 2092 5.48 MB
Subject: Religious cults, Suicides, Religious issues, Religion, Social affairs, Religious issues, Social issues, General news
Location: San Francisco, CALIFORNIA, United States
Transmission Reference: APHS447056
Byline Title: STF
Caption Writer: XMB


#80

Teri Buford of the People's Temple appears at a news conference with attorney Mark Lane at the Federal Building in San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 21, 1978. Buford left the Jim Jones cult three weeks before the mass suicide. (AP Photo/Sal Veder)
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ID: 290753173300
Creation Date: December 21, 1978 05:58:59 AM
Photographer: Sal Veder
Source: AP
Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Special Instructions: 46787 ONEG
Image Resolution: 3111 x 2197 4.23 MB
Subject: Religious cults, Suicides, Religious issues, Religion, Social affairs, Religious issues, Social issues, General news
Location: San Francisco, CALIFORNIA, United States
Transmission Reference: APHS447058
Byline Title: STF
Caption Writer: XMB


#81

Teri Buford of the People's Temple, center, with attorney Mark Lane left, is served a subpoena by Doug Keener of the San Francisco District Attorney's office, at the Federal Building in San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 21, 1978. Buford left the Jim Jones cult three weeks before the mass suicide. (AP Photo/Sal Veder) (AP Photo)
ID: 604505754633
Creation Date: December 21, 1978 05:47:40 AM
Photographer: Sal Veder
Source: AP
Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Special Instructions: 46787 ONEG
Image Resolution: 3013 x 2152 5.12 MB
Subject: Religious cults, Suicides, Religious issues, Religion, Social affairs, Religious issues, Social issues, General news
Location: San Francisco, CALIFORNIA, United States
Transmission Reference: APHS447057
Byline Title: STF
Caption Writer: XMB

#82

Wanda Johnson, right, who told news people she has had no word on the fate of her 12-year-old son who was in Jonestown, shouts at Laura Johnston, left, one of the Peoples Temple cult members arriving at the Federal Building in San Francisco on Friday, Dec. 8, 1978. Laura Johnston said earlier she was one of the survivors subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury probing the death of Rep. Leo Ryan and four other Americans in Guyana. (AP Photo/Sal Veder)ID:168483385589
Creation Date:December 08, 1978 12:00:00 AM
Photographer:Sal Veder
Source:AP
Credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS
Special Instructions:4903
Image Resolution:3026 x 2060 3.04 MB
Subject:Religious cults, Religious issues, Religion, Social affairs, Religious issues, Social issues
Location:San Francisco, CALIFORNIA, United States

#83

Paul McCann, a survivor of the Peoples Temple death ritual in Jonestown, Guyana, is welcomed home at San Francisco International airport on Thursday, Dec. 7, 1978, by an unidentified friend. (AP Photo/Jim Palmer)
ID: 688404335409
Creation Date:December 07, 1978 12:00:00 AM
Photographer:Jim Palmer
Source:AP
Credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS
Special Instructions:4903

#84

Walter Williams carries his possessions in a duffle bag as he arrives at the hotel near John F. Kennedy Airport in New York Thursday, Dec. 7, 1978, following a flight from Guyana. Williams was among a group a 17 People’s Temple survivors to arrive in New York, Wednesday, night. (AP Photo/DG)
ID:7812070113
Creation Date:December 07, 1978 03:00:00 AM
Photographer DG
Source:AP
CreditASSOCIATED PRESS
Special Instructions:11698
Image Resolution:2162 x 3137 3 MB
Person:Walter Williams





#85


Laura Johnston, a nine-year member of the peoples temple, arrives early on Thursday, Dec. 7, 1978, at a hotel near New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport after a flight from Guyana, site of he Cult’s murder-suicide. She told reporters that all 17 of those who arrived in New York Wednesday, night had been subpoenaed to appear in U.S. District court in San Francisco before a grand Jury investigating the death in Guyana of Rep. Leo Ryan, D-Calif. (AP Photo/DG)

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ID: 7812070105
Creation Date: December 07, 1978 03:00:00 AM
Photographer: DG
Source: AP
Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Special Instructions: 11698
Image Resolution: 1976 x 2904 2.35 MB
Person: Laura Johnston
Subject: Religion, Crime, Courts, Social affairs, General news, Judiciary, Government and politics
Keywords: Airport, Cult, Jonestown, Luggage', People's Temple, Religion, Returning, Suicide, Survivor
Location: New York, NEW YORK, United States
Transmission Reference: APHS173773Byline Title: STR
Caption Writer: S RO. XCJ



#86



Mark Cordell, 19, of San Francisco arrives at a hotel near New York's John F. Kennedy Airport after a flight from Guyana, Dec. 7, 1978. Cordell, one of 17 survivors of the Jonestown Peoples Temple cult who arrived in New York said that his wife, daughter, mother, brother and three sisters were among those who died in the cult's murder-suicide rite. (AP Photo/Dan Goodrich)

ID: 781207088
Creation Date: December 07, 1978 03:00:00 AM
Photographer: Dan Goodrich
Source: AP
Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Special Instructions: 11691
Image Resolution: 2058 x 3000 3.67 MB
Person: Mark Cordell




#87


Paul McCann, left, a survivor of the Peoples Temple mass deaths in Jonestown, Guyana, talks with his lawyer David Zapp, an associate of lawyer William Kunstler, at Kennedy Airport in New York, Dec. 7, 1978. Zapp was brought in after McGann requested a lawyer. Zapp said the FBI had counseled McCann not to request a lawyer, quoting an agent as saying "You know that's going to make you look guilty." (AP Photo/Dan Goodrich)
ID:781207097
Creation Date:
December 07, 1978 03:00:00 AM
Photographer:Dan Goodrich
Source:A Credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS
Special Instructions:11691
Image Resolution:2051 x 3000 4.17 MB
Person:Paul McCann, David Zapp
Subject:Religion, Social affairs
Keyword sattorney, cults, death, Jonestown, mass suicides, religion, return home, sects, survivors, witness
Location: New York, NEW YORK, United States
Transmission Reference:APHS173612
Byline Title:STR
Caption Writer:S PO. XMB


#88



Laura Johnston, one of 17 People temple cult members who arrived on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 1978 in New York from Guyana, told reporters that all of those who had arrived had been subpoenaed to appear before a grand Jury in San Francisco. She has been a member of the cult for nine years. (AP Photo/Goodrich)

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ID: 781206098
Creation Date: December 06, 1978 03:00:00 AM
Photographer: Goodrich
Source: AP
Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Special Instructions: 11698
Image Resolution: 2120 x 3137 3.23 MB
Person: Laura Johnston







#89



Timothy Glen Jones, left, walks past a reporter as he arrives at New York’s Kennedy Airport Wednesday, Dec. 6, 1978, from Guyana. An adopted son, he reportedly served as body-guard and security man for People’s Temple cult leader Jim Jones. Seventeen peoples temple followers arrived Wednesday and all were subpoenaed to appear before a San Francisco grand jury to tell what they know about the slaying of Calif. Rep. Leo Ryan at Jonestown. (AP Photo/Goodrich)

ID: 781206089
Creation Date: December 06, 1978 03:00:00 AM
Photographer: Goodrich





#90



Paul McCann, center, is escorted by federal agents after his arrival, Dec. 6, 1978 at New York's Kennedy Airport from Guyana. McCann, a survivor of the Peoples Temple death ritual at Jonestown, Guyana, was subpoenaed to tell a San Francisco grand jury what he knows about the murder of Calif. Rep. Leo Ryan. (AP Photo/Dan Goodrich)
ID: 781206070
Creation Date: December 06, 1978 03:00:00 AM
Photographer: Dan Goodrich




#91



Michelle Rachelle, 10, hugs her cousin Julius Evans after he arrived with his wife and three daughters at San Francisco International airport from Guyana on Sunday, Dec. 3, 1978. Left is Evans' wife Sandra, and right is his mother Marths Evans of San Francisco. Evans said his family was just leaving Jonestown for a picnic when Jones began leading more than 900 followers in a mass murder-suicide. “We just kept walking,” Evans said. “I guess I picked the right time.” (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

ID: 727101527067
Creation Date: December 03, 1978 12:00:00 AM
Photographer: Paul Sakuma
Source: AP




#92



Nine female People’s Temple members and one child were permitted to board the commercial airliner bound for New York’s John F. Kennedy airport in Georgetown, Guyana, on Dec. 3, 1978, after the captain refused to fly the entire group which included 18 men without more through security precautions. The ten who left are shown as they walk under the tail section of the aircraft. (AP Photo)

ID: 781203082
Creation Date: December 03, 1978 03:00:00 AM
Photographer: Anonymous
Source: AP



#93


People’s Temple member Richard Clark waves and beams as he walks to the U.S. Consulate to pick up his passport in Georgetown, Guyana on Dec. 3, 1978. People in background are unidentified People’s Temple members who were also en route to pick up their passports. (AP Photo)

ID: 781203073
Creation Date: December 03, 1978 03:00:00 AM
Photographer: Anonymous
Source: AP


#94


Six more People’s Temple members were permitted to leave Guyana on Dec. 2, 1978. They are shown as they prepared to board an aircraft bound for New York’s JFK Airport. They are (from extreme right) Edith Parks and the Julius and Sandra Evans family. (AP Photo)

ID:7812020241
Creation Date:December 02, 1978 03:00:00 AM
Photographer:Anonymous
Source:AP


#95


Alvaray Satterwhite, 61, second from left, a survivor of the People's Temple mass suicide in Guyana, is greeted by her brother Joe McGowan, 54, right, and two other unidentified members of her family at Los Angeles International Airport, Nov. 30, 1978. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)


ID: 781130044
Creation Date: November 30, 1978 03:00:00 AM
Photographer: Nick Ut
Source: AP
Person: Alvaray Satterwhite, Joe McGowan








#96

Raymond Godshalk, 62, of Los Angeles, talk to reporters after he and six other elderly members of the Peoples Temple arrives at New York’s Kennedy Airport Wednesday, Nov. 30, 1978 from Guyana. Godshalk’s wife was one of those died in the mass suicide at Jonestown. Godshalk was in Georgetown at the time. (AP Photo/Red)

ID: 781130053
Creation Date: November 30, 1978 03:00:00 AM
Photographer: RED
Source: AP
Person: Raymond Godshalk








#97



Seven members of the Peoples Temple walk toward airplane in Georgetown, Guyana on Nov. 29, 1978, that will return them to U.S. Two members of the party, Hyacinth Thrash, 84, and Grover Davis, 79, were survivors of the Jonestown mass suicide. (AP Photo/Ray Stubblebine)

ID: 781129083
Creation Date: November 29, 1978 03:00:00 AM
Photographer: Ray Stubblebine
Source: AP











#98



Members of the Peoples Temple bid farewell to those permitted to leave their Georgetown headquarters, Nov. 29, 1978. The Guyanese government permitted 7 to leave for New York by commercial airline today. (AP Photo)

ID: 781129065
Creation Date: November 29, 1978 03:00:00 AM
Photographer: Wilson
Source: AP





#99

Two survivors of the Jonestown mass suicide, Hyacinth Thrash, 84, left, and Grover Davis, 79, sit in back of a van at Georgetown's Park Hotel, Nov. 29, 1978, as they wait to be taken to the airport. The Guyanese government allowed 7 members of the Peoples Temple to leave the country. (AP Photo/Charles Harrity)
ID: 781129074
Creation Date: November 29, 1978 03:00:00 AM
Photographer: Charles Harrity
Source: AP
Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Special Instructions: 11691
Image Resolution: 3000 x 2079 4.55 MB
Person: Hyacinth Thrash, Grover Davis
Subject: Religion, Social affairs
Keywords: cults, death, Jonestown, mass suicides, religion, sects, survivors
Location: Georgetown, Guyana
Transmission Reference: APHS173615
Byline Title: STF
Caption Writer: S PO. XMB


#100

Original caption: 11/28/1978-Georgetown, Guyana: They survived but Jonestown was a place of horror for them too. Tracy Parks (l), 12, her sister Brenda, and Brenda's boyfriend, Chris O'Neal, talk to newsmen in Georgetown Nov. 23. They survived the airport attack in which Rep. Leo Ryan (D-CA) and members of his party were killed after visiting the People's Temple commune at Jonestown. The Parks family was attempting to defect from the commune and go with the Ryan party. The girls' mother, Patricia, was one of those killed in the attack on the Ryan party. (Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images)



#106
Watchf Associated Press International News   Guyana APHS160123 Jim Jones House 1978
This is the home of Rev. Jim Jones, Nov. 26, 1978, Jonestown, Guyana. Outside lay scattered letters and papers from his files. Jones led a mass suicide of his religious cult that resulted in 912 deaths. (AP Photo/Val Mazzenga)


#120
Creative Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images A    U1949804 Man in Gas Mask Surveys Bodies of Jonestown Cult Members

Original caption: A member of the team sent to Jonestown by the Guyana Government surveys some of the hundreds of bodies of People's Temple followers who died following the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan and newsman on November 18. Authorities said that five, including cult leader Jim Jones, died of gunshot wounds. Most, however, died of cyanide poisoning. (Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images)
November 21, 1978 12:00:00 AM
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Creative Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images A    42-20693971 Jackie Speier Wounded in Jonestown

Jackie Speier, an aide to Congressman Leo Ryan, being taken from a plane at Georgetown on November 19, 1978, after its arrival from Jonestown where Speier was shot five times and Ryan and four others were ambushed and killed by members of the People's Temple. Congressman Leo Ryan was leading a group that went to Guyana to investigate reports of abuse and human rights violations by the People's Temple and its leader, Jim Jones. Fearing the results of the murders and further investigations into Jonestown, despite Leo Ryan's assertion that he was going to give a largely positive review of the People's Temple, Jim Jones led his followers in a ?revolutionary suicide?. On November 18, 1978, 909 Temple members died, all but two of which from cyanide poisoning, forming the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images)




#138

AP VM GUY SENATOR LEO J. RYAN

US-SENATOR ERSCHOSSEN - Der amerikanische Senator Leo J. Ryan mit blutbeflecktem Hemd, nachdem ihn ein Angehoeriger der "Peoples Temple"-Sekte am 18. November 1978 vor dem geplanten Abflug von Kaituma, Guyana, mit einem Messer angegriffen hatte. Ryan hatte die Sektensiedlung Jonestown besucht, wo nach Berichten Sektenmitglieder gegen ihren Willen festgehalten wurden. Wenige Minuten darauf wurde die Gruppe aus Gewehren beschossen, Ryan und 4 Reisebegleiter wurden getoetet. Im Anschluss befahl Sektenfuehrer Jim Jones den "Selbstmord" aller Mitglieder der Siedlung, der 912 Todesopfer forderte. Hier, Senator Ryan nach dem Messerattentat, wenige Minuten vor seinem Tod. (AP-Photo/str)
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November 18, 1978 12:00:00 AM
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SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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LEO RYAN
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#155
Watchf Associated Press International News   Guyana APHS160123 Jim Jones Dead 1978
Government handout allegedly showing the deceased body of the Peoples Temple Leader Jim Jones, at the scene of the mass suicide, Nov. 1978, Jonestown, Guyana. (AP Photo/U.S. Government)


#160

Bodies of People's Temple mass suicide cult victims led by Jim Jone's in Jonestown, Guyana, 1978. (AP Photo)


3 comments:

  1. Hi. The caption on picture #27 is incorrect. It was not taken in Jonestown, nor was it taken on Nov 20, 1978 as the deaths occurred on the 18th. Jim Jones founded Peoples Temple in 1955. But I am not sure of which church location this photo was taken. Hope this info helps :)

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  2. Picture #23 .. the unidentified man is Dale Parks. Bob Hicks is looking on in the background. (white hat)

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  3. Picture #44 is Mike Prokes and Tim Carter

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