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Jonestown Pt. 1

Cults by Spotify Studios

Oct 25, 202261:18Society & Culture

At the command of Jim Jones, more than 900 followers of The Peoples Temple drank a beverage laced with cyanide in an act that Jones labeled “revolutionary suicide.” But was this truly a mass suicide, or was it a mass mur...

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Jonestown Pt. 1 is an episode from Cults by Spotify Studios. At the command of Jim Jones, more than 900 followers of The Peoples Temple drank a beverage laced with cyanide in an act that Jones labeled “revolutionary suicide.” But was this t...

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