![]() ![]() ![]() Four other Temple members committed murder-suicide in Georgetown at Jones' command. Congressman Leo Ryan, an act that Jones ordered. The poisonings in Jonestown followed the murder of five others by Temple members at Port Kaituma, including U.S. In total, 909 individuals died in Jonestown itself, all but two from apparent cyanide poisoning, a significant number of whom were injected against their will, in an event termed "revolutionary suicide" by Jones and some Peoples Temple members on an audio tape of the event, and in prior recorded discussions. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name " Jonestown", was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Class=notpageimage| The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project's places of interest in Guyana ![]()
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