Joseph Gordon-Levitt is attached to star in a new film titled White Night, which will recount the famed 1978 Jonestown massacre in Guyana. Gordon-Levitt, 40, will embody cult leader Jim Jones, who as the head of the Peoples Temple led…[Continue Reading...]
Leonardo DiCaprio will soon be playing Jim Jones in an upcoming biopic about the cult leader's life. MGM secured the deal for the feature film project entitled “Jim Jones,” Deadline reported on Monday. In addition to playing the cult leader,…[Continue Reading...]
At the end of the 1960s, the counterculture started to become more dangerous by the day. As much as artists wanted to believe in freedom of expression, the heinous acts of people like Charles Manson cast a dark shroud over…[Continue Reading...]
The radio crackled to life with static, and a voice emerged from the jungle. “We choose as our model not those who marched submissively into gas ovens but the valiant heroes who resisted in the Warsaw Ghetto. Patrick Henry captured…[Continue Reading...]
TAMPA, Fla. - Nov. 18 is always a dark day on Olga Booker's calendar. "Nov. 18, 1978, they all committed suicide with the Kool-Aid lacing," recalled Booker. They, meaning the 900 followers of the People's Temple, led by the smooth-talking…[Continue Reading...]
On November 18, 1978, an inexplicable act of evil occurred in the remote Jungles of Guyana, South America, resulting in the deaths of 913 people; including 276 children, 40 of them infants. It is never too late in life or…[Continue Reading...]
On a fall day in 1978, the world woke up to learn that more than 900 people in Guyana had died in a mass “suicide,” ostensibly at the command of the Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones. In the weeks…[Continue Reading...]
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