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The metal tub that served cups of poison and emptied nine hundred lives
In a Guyana jungle, Peoples Temple members carried children and drank from a metal tub - how did the Temple’s structure and rehearsals expose them?
The metal tub that served cups of poison and emptied nine hundred lives
In this episode we lay out the documented history of Peoples Temple and the construction of Jonestown in northwestern Guyana. We trace the decades of organizing, political ties, daily routines and rehearsals that made mass compliance possible-how was such a disaster built?
Date: November 18, 1978
Location: Jonestown, northwestern Guyana
Person: Jim Jones
Event: White Nights…
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