Where is Jonestown Massacre?
| Port Kaituma airstrip shootings | |
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| Location | Port Kaituma Airport, Guyana |
| Date | November 18, 1978 5:20 p.m.–5:25 p.m. (UTC-4) |
| Target | Congressman Leo Ryan and party; defectors from the Peoples Temple at Jonestown |
| Attack type | Assassination Mass shooting |
Who was Sharon Amos?
Sharon Amos worked for the People’s Temple and was a member of Jones’ innermost circle. She lived in Guyana’s capital of Georgetown with her three children Christa, Liane, and Martin.
What was the Kool Aid poisoned with?
potassium cyanide
Residents of the commune later committed suicide by drinking a flavored beverage laced with potassium cyanide; some were forced to drink it, some (such as small children) drank it unknowingly. Roughly 918 people died.
Where is Marceline Jones buried?
Marceline Mae Baldwin Jones
| Birth | 8 Jan 1927 Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, USA |
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| Death | 18 Nov 1978 (aged 51) Jonestown, Barima-Waini, Guyana |
| Burial | Earlham Cemetery Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, USA |
| Memorial ID | 6143532 · View Source |
Are Chrissy and Jim Jones together?
Jim Jones and Chrissy Lampkin have been together since 2004. As previously reported, in 2019 Chrissy Lampkin spoke on their life together while on The Real and shared that marriage for the pair isn’t a priority. She said, “To be honest with you, [marriage] is not a priority anymore.
Where is Jim Jones from?
Crete, IN
Jim Jones/Place of birth
Jim Jones, byname of James Warren Jones, (born May 13, 1931, Crete, near Lynn, Indiana, U.S.—died November 18, 1978, Jonestown, Guyana), American cult leader who promised his followers a utopia in the jungles of South America after proclaiming himself messiah of the Peoples Temple, a San Francisco-based evangelist …