Roughly 900 corpses lay before the Guyanese state pathologist Dr. Leslie Mootoo, one of the first on the scene at Jonestown. Arrayed in strangely uniform rows on the ground, the bodies were ...

Many of the bodies were decomposed and could not be identified. Several cemeteries refused to take them. Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, California, stepped forward in 1979 and accepted 409 bodies.

Bodies of victims of Jonestown mass suicide are loaded from U.S. military helicopter at Georgetown's international airport. The corpses, in body bags, ...

Arriving at Jonestown on November 20, Washington Post reporter Charles Krause did not immediately register the mass of colors on the ground below as an unfathomable number of human bodies.“It ...

The U.S. military clears some of the bodies from Jonestown. Used by permission of Preston Jones/John Brown University. The bodies of 408 victims are buried in a mass grave at Evergreen Cemetery in ...

Bodies of victims of Jonestown mass suicide are loaded from U.S. Army helicopter at Georgetown’s international airport on Nov. 23, 1978. The corpses, in body bags, ...

The Jonestown Massacre was one of the deadliest mass murders in history with 909 people taking ... a cache of guns and $500,000 in cash at the compound when they returned along with the mass bodies.

FILE–U.S. military personnel place bodies in coffins at the airport in Georgetown, Guyana after 900 members of the People’s Temple committed suicide in Jonestown, Guyana in Nov. 1978.

Kenyan starvation cult death toll hits 90, authorities liken situation to Jonestown 17 more bodies were exhumed Tuesday by police. Associated Press. Published April 25, 2023 5:07pm EDT.

DOVER, Del. (AP) — More than 35 years after the infamous suicide-murder of some 900 people — many forced to drink a cyanide-laced grape punch — in Jonestown, Guyana, the cremated remains of ...

On Nov. 18, 1978, Jones orchestrated a ritual of mass murder and suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. Bodies of 911 massacre victims were brought to Dover Air Force Base, home to the U.S. military's ...

3 decades later, remains of Jonestown bodies found. August 7, 2014 at 4:33 p.m. | Updated August 7, 2014 at 4:50 p.m.