Jonestown Anniversary

30 years ago Jim Jones was a cult leader in California and also had a place in Guyana, South America. His groupies killed several U.S. officials on an airstrip in Guyana, including a U.S. Congressman. This was the last time a Congressman was killed in the line of fire. After the cult killed the group, he convinced his folloers, more than 900 to committ mass suicide by injesting rat poison. It was an act to avoid capture. It was the largest mass suicide in history and also the largest death rate from an unnatural event leading up to the September 11th terrorist attacks.