Tags “Beauty for Ashes: The Jonestown Memorial”
Tag: “Beauty for Ashes: The Jonestown Memorial”
Jonestown genocide 40 years later
On Nov. 18, 1978, the world as we knew it was changed forever: 918 victims, of whom 305 were children – including 40 infants – lost their lives along with U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and a United Press International film crew. The place was Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana – that Paradise of Pain – founded and led by James Warren “Jim” Jones, forever rendered infamous by its name “Jonestown.”