The Story of the Deadliest Cult in History

The Jonestown Massacre remains the deadliest cult-related event in American history. On November 18, 1978, over 900 followers of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple died in a mass murder-suicide in the Guyana jungle. Jones, a charismatic leader who preached racial equality and socialism, had built a community in the South American jungle. But when a US congressman visited to investigate allegations of abuse, Jones ordered his followers to drink cyanide-laced punch in a "revolutionary suicide." Mothers fed the poison to their children. The final death toll: 909 people. This is the story of a leader who promised paradise and delivered hell.