'Jonestown: Terror In The Jungle': Survivors reveal details about Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple in Guyana, and the Kool-Aid incident
The Jonestown Massacre is known to have the greatest loss of American lives before the devastating 9/11 attacks took place on US soil
The story of the Jonestown Massacre of November 18, 1978, is one that began with people in the town feeling a sense of belonging and kinship and ended with one of the deadliest mass suicides in modern day history. With a death toll of more than 900 men, women, and children, the incident in the small township of Jonestown nestled in the tropical jungles of Guyana, was described by TV news legend Van Amburg in a 1978 broadcast of the shocking event as "shades of Auschwitz". The first pictures and videos captured by reporters outside the compound in Guyana sent shockwaves across the world. It is no wonder that the Jonestown Massacre is known to have the greatest loss of American lives before the devastating 9/11 attacks took place on US soil.
