Heaven’s Gate mass suicide, March 26, 1997
This week in 1997, dozens of people died in a mass suicide north of San Diego in hopes of hitching a ride on a spaceship they believed to be traveling with the Hale-Bopp comet. An Associated Press article published March 28, 1997, in the Logansport Pharos-Tribune of Logansport, Ind., explored the group’s beliefs.
“Among the 39 New Age cult members who killed themselves en masse was a former college music teacher who as far back as 20 years ago was preaching a bizarre mix of Scripture and UFOs.”
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Read about an earlier mass suicide
A Nov. 20, 1978, Associated Press article in The Progress-Index of Petersburg, Va., reported on the deaths in Guyana of hundreds of followers of the Rev. Jim Jones. Mass suicide at Jonestown
Nov. 22, 1978 coverage of the Jonestown deaths in the Frederick News-Post of Frederick Md., included articles on the poison that killed them and the psychology of cults. Why did they die?
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