Who Caused The Jonestown Massacre?
The event often called the Jonestown Massacre refers to the mass suicide of the members of a cult led by the founder of the Peoples Temple, Jim Jones, in November 1978. A total of 918 cult members died in Jonestown, Guyana, making the Peoples Temple the most prominent suicide cult in American history. In fact, some historians point out that the Jonestown Massacre was the largest mass suicide in world history. The reason we can justly refer to the events in Jonestown as a massacre, is because chilling audio tapes recovered from the settlement in Guyana clearly show that many cult members were coerced into committing suicide, despite their apprehensions, by their leader.
