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18/11/1978 Mass suicide at Jonestown

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A total of 918 died in Jonestown, most of them from cyanide poisoning. Nearly a third of the dead were children. The act of revolutionary suicide was instructed by a leader of a racially integrated church the Peoples Temple Jim Jones.
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