ca. 1978 — Jim Jones was the leader of the People’s Temple cult in Jonestown, Guyana. On November 18, 1978, Jones conducted a mass suicide, ordering more than 900 of his followers to drink punch laced with cyanide. The cult leader was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head. — Image by © Roger Ressmeyer/CORBIS
Author: Bryce Livi
Interviewer: Chase Abraham
On November 18, 1978, 900 members of The People’s Temple movement willingly drank “Kool-Aid” mixed with cyanide in what is known as the largest mass suicide in human history. One of the many unanswered questions is what was the reasoning for these people to end their lives? Jim Jones: their leader, their Father, and some even saw as their god, was the mastermind minister behind the start of the church to carrying out the revolutionary suicide himself. His actions and motives were the sole reason on why so many innocent lives were lost.