Fifty years after the cult suicide, Guyana invites dark tourists to Jonestown
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On November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of the Peoples Temple, under the guidance of cult leader Rev. Jim Jones, killed themselves or were murdered in the jungles of Guyana. Five years before the mass suicide-murder though, Jones was a pillar of the San Francisco community, hobnobbing with government officials and other big-shots while leading his adoring congregation in religious, social, and political activism. It’s an incredibly fascinating and tragic tale of power, corruption, and control. And now, nearly 50 years later, Guyana has officially approved a company bringing dark tourists into what’s left of Jonestown, which isn’t much.
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