Synopsis
Why did Jim Jones, a charismatic American preacher and leader of the People's Temple, compel his members in 1978 to perform 'revolutionary suicide' in northern Guyana?
- Programme: Storyville
- Episode: Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle: 1
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2020
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