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4 days ago · The 1970s – Allegations, Media Scrutiny, and the Move to Guyana In the 1970s, Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple faced escalating allegations of abuse and manipulation. As media scrutiny intensified, Jones leased land in Guyana to create Jonestown, a supposed utopian society. This episode explores the controversial move to South America and the beginning of life in Jonestown, setting the stage ...
16 hours ago · Lured with a vision of a paradise land, in the 1970s, more than 900 members of what was known as The People's Temple arrived in the jungles of Guyana to a place that became known as "Jonestown ...
1 day ago · Guyana: Cult of the Damned, a 1979 exploitation film based on the Jonestown tragedy; Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, a 1980 television movie based on the life of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple; Seconds From Disaster, a documentary television series that covered the events at Jonestown in Season 6, Episode 2 ("Jonestown Cult Suicide")
4 days ago · Jim Jones' Path to Guyana: In this episode, we continue the story of Jim Jones, focusing on the pivotal years from his meeting with his future wife, Marceline, to the scandalous sexual assault allegations in the 1970s that precipitated the move to Guyana.
2 days ago · The Theatre Guild of Guyana Ltd., the group which is an amalgam of nearly all the amateur dramatic companies in Guyana, now confidently advertises in advance two weeks runs for all its shows staged at the “Playhouse”, in spite of its almost total involvement in the functions to mark the visit of Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip, and, later, the many functions celebrating ...
1 day ago · In 1978, a total of 918 people died at the Jonestown mass murder-suicide led by cult leader Jim Jones at a remote settlement in northwest Guyana. [30] Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter visited Guyana to lobby for the resumption of free elections.
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