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Scheeres, Julia.
A thousand lives
[HC] :
the untold story of hope, deception, and survival at Jonestown /
by Julia Scheeres.
Untold story of hope, deception, and survival at Jonestown.
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
New York :
Free Press,
2011.
xii, 307 p., [8] p. of plates :
ill. ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An adventure -- Church -- Redwood Valley -- "Dad" -- Edith -- Traitors -- Exodus -- Pioneers -- The promised land -- Georgetown -- Siege -- Bullets to kill bumblebees -- Runaways -- Concern -- Control -- Release -- Drill -- Hyacinth -- Stanley -- Relatives -- The Embassy -- Control -- Escape -- Chaos -- November -- Ryan -- End -- Bodies -- Survivors.
What started as a Utopian dream soon devolved into a terrifying work camp run by a madman, ending in the mass murder-suicide of 914 members in November 1978.
20190318.
Peoples Temple
History.
Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978.
Mass suicide
Guyana.
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