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The Jonestown Massacre

Jonestown, GuyanaNovember 18, 1978

On November 18, 1978, 918 members of the Peoples Temple cult died in Jonestown, Guyana, in a mass murder-suicide orchestrated by cult leader Jim Jones. It remains the largest single loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act until September 11.