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Tags Martin Luther King III to keynote unveiling and dedication of memorial wall honoring 305 innocent children who perished in Jonestown Guyana

Tag: Martin Luther King III to keynote unveiling and dedication of memorial wall honoring 305 innocent children who perished in Jonestown Guyana

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.”