Seconds from Disaster S6E2: Jonestown Cult Suicide
- Aired: 2012-11-05
- Time: 20:30:00
- Runtime: 60 minutes
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Overview
On November 18, 1978, cult leader Reverend Jim Jones and his followers die in Guyana, South America. In all 909 people die from a poisoned 'grape juice', the largest mass murder-suicide of US citizens in history. Congressmen Leo Ryan (D-CA) is assassinated. Jim Jones dies of a gunshot wound to the head, his 'divine socialism' had not succeeded.