November 18,1978 cult leader Jim Jones lead the mass suicide of 909 people. In what country did this happen?
Correct answer: Guyana
Yknip7
This was such an awful event. When the news reported it, the world was stunned. I remember the photographs in the L.A. Times of hundreds of bodies next to and on top of others. So horrible. How can one person be so charismatic and so utterly wrong / evil?
betty
1978 wasn't THAT long ago!
Burts
Quiz77, no...he told his people they were going to be harassed & not allowed to stay with their congregation and too quietly slip to the other side, gentle persuasion, soft voice...
jercie d'arkfourth
they all drank the kool-ade
hence the phrase
'don't drink the kool-ade'
Ivana Nűva-Gess
I hadn't heard of this shocking event until now, I wish you had told me a little more about what he got them all to believe in so strongly that they willingly without question
SnakesMissApes
Crazy how he could get that many people to do that to themselves
Quiz77
Force was used???
Yana
Yknip7, Charisma is a mask.