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The crime
If you've clicked on this review to find out whether to bother with Cult Massacre: One Day In Jonestown, I can't imagine you don't know the basics already, but just in case: on November 18, 1978, more than 900 people perished in a mass poisoning at Jonestown, the Peoples Temple settlement in Guyana. Five more were murdered at a nearby airstrip.
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Initially reported as a mass suicide, the tragedy is now properly understood as a homicidal massacre committed on the orders of the community's leader, Reverend Jim Jones.
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