- Peoples Temple, Biography, Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978, Erlebnisbericht
From Waco to Heaven's Gate, the past decade has seen its share of cult tragedies. But none has been quite so dramatic or compelling as the Jonestown massacre, in which the Reverend Jim Jones and 913 of his disciples of the Peoples Temple perished.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Deborah Layton
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 309
- Publisher
- Anchor, Anchor Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385489843
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