Jonestown: Paradise Lost
Encyclopedia
Jonestown: Paradise Lost was a 2007 documentary played on the History Channel about the final days of Jonestown
, the Peoples Temple
, and Jim Jones
. From eyewitness and survivor accounts, the program recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978.
Jonestown
Jonestown was the informal name for the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, an intentional community in northwestern Guyana formed by the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones. It became internationally notorious when, on November 18, 1978, 918 people died in the settlement as well as in a nearby...
, the Peoples Temple
Peoples Temple
Peoples Temple was a religious organization founded in 1955 by Jim Jones that, by the mid-1970s, included over a dozen locations in California including its headquarters in San Francisco...
, and Jim Jones
Jim Jones
James Warren "Jim" Jones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 mass suicide of 909 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the killings of five other people at a nearby airstrip.Jones was born in Indiana and started the Temple in...
. From eyewitness and survivor accounts, the program recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978.