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Is it My Body? Someone I Might Be?
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Saturday 18th of November 1978

46 years ago



Founder and leader of the Peoples Temple Jim James Warren Jones commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 47 in Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, Jonestown, Barima-Waini, Guyana.


That same day Jones coaxed 910 inhabitants of Jonestown including 303 children into a mass suicide by drinking cyanide-laced grape-flavored Flavor Aid. At the end of a 45-minute recording made during the mass suicide, Jones concluded: "We didn't commit suicide; we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world."