were all away from the Jonestown community in Guyana when Jones ordered his followers – starting with the young children – to drink flavored poison. The order that ended 900 lives came after a ...

shortly after Jones' gunmen killed a visiting U.S. congressman and four others at a nearby airstrip. Of the nearly 1,000 church members who began the day in Jonestown, a cult commune, only 33 ...

After the airstrip shooting, Jones summoned his congregation to the compound’s open-air pavilion, telling them that soldiers would soon be “parachuting” into Jonestown to kill everyone.