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Why Did They Do It Deaths at Jonestown cult rally in Guyana
Hundreds of People's Temple members lined up to drink poison in Jonestown Guyana after U S Rep Leo Ryan was killed during a probe Into abuse. Experts say the mass suicide fits a totalitarian cult pattern with no room for dissent and a climate of us versus them.
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New York
Jim Jones
Guyana
Jones
U.S
Leo Ryan
California
People’s Temple
Edwin Shneidman
University of California
Thanatos
Death
Clark
Ryan
People’s Temple Commune
Mark Lane
Georgetown
U.S. Defense Department
Jonestown
Leo J. Ryan
D-Calif
Port Kaituma
Odell Rhodes
Rhodes
Charles Krause
The
Washington Post
Washington
State Department
San Francisco
Clem DeAmicis
White House
Jody Powell
Carter
Rosalynn
Powell
Walter Mondale
Carters
Clement J. Zablocki
D-Wis
House International Relations Committee
Jonestown Colony