Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780887381249 (0887381243)
Publish date: January 1st 1987
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Pages no: 404
Edition language: English
On November 18, 1978, Congressman Leo Ryan and several others were shot to death as they attempted to board a plane leaving Jonestown, Guyana. Jim Jones, the spiritual and charismatic leader of Jonestown, then convinced over 900 of his followers to commit ritual suicide. Why? Was this a case of an e...
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