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American Experience
Season 19 · Episode 11
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
0.055mApril 9, 2007
Examines the story behind the November 1978 mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, where more than 900 people were led to their deaths by cult leader Jim Jones. Included: comments from Jones' son, Jim Jr.; survivor Stanley Clayton; and Hue Fortson, whose wife and child died in the incident.
Episodes
- Episode 1Eyes on the Prize (1 & 2): Awakenings 1954-1956 / Fighting Back 1957-1962
- Episode 2Eyes on the Prize (3 & 4): Ain't Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961/No Easy Walk 1961-1963
- Episode 3Eyes on the Prize (5 & 6): Is This America? 1963-1964 / Bridge to Freedom 1965
- Episode 4Test Tube Babies
- Episode 5The Great Fever
- Episode 6The Gold Rush
- Episode 7The Berlin Airlift
- Episode 8The Living Weapon
- Episode 9New Orleans (1 & 2)
- Episode 10Sister Aimee
- Episode 11Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
- Episode 12Summer of Love
- Episode 13The Mormons (1): History
- Episode 14The Mormons (2): Church and State
- Episode 15Alexander Hamilton