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Dead Bodies From Mass Suicide

People's Temple Cult mass suicide at Jonestown, Guyana.
Stock Photo ID: U1949910J
Date Photographed: November 23, 1978
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
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Jonestown Suicides

Original caption: Over 900 bodies were found at the People's Temple cult headquarters on November 20. The leader of the cult was Jim Jones. Guyana authorities, upon arrival, found many of the dead to be clutching each other. Apparently, they died through cyanide poisoning.
Stock Photo ID: U1949906B
Date Photographed: November 23, 1978
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
Credit: © Bettmann/CORBIS
License Type: Rights Managed (RM)







Dead Cult Members Clutching Each Other

Original caption: Jonestown, Guyana: Many of the bodies in Jonestown were found clutching each other as if in a final embrace. Note body of small child in left side of photo.
Stock Photo ID: U1949806
Date Photographed: November 20, 1978
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
Credit: © Bettmann/CORBIS







Man in Gas Mask Surveys Bodies of Jonestown Cult Members

Original caption: A member of the team sent to Jonestown by the Guyana Government surveys some of the hundreds of bodies of People's Temple followers who died following the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan and newsman on November 18. Authorities said that five, including cult leader Jim Jones, died of gunshot wounds. Most, however, died of cyanide poisoning.
Stock Photo ID: U1949804
Date Photographed: November 21, 1978
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
Credit: © Bettmann/CORBIS






Removing Bodies of Jonestown Suicide

Original caption: 11/24/1978-Georgetown, Guyana: A U.S. military body recovery unit removes more victims of the Jonestown mass suicide-murder from a helicopter at Georgetown's International Airport Nov. 28 even as officials announced the body count will probably go as high as 800. One of the men jots information on a note pad on identification of the body while a woman member of the unit (r) helps carry one of the bodies.
Stock Photo ID: BE046040
Date Photographed: November 24, 1978
Location: Georgetown, Guyana
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Reverend Jim Jones Lying Dead

Original caption: Reverend Jim Jones, leader of the People's Temple Cult, lies shot to death in his agricultural retreat. Over 400 persons were found dead, mostly from cyanide poisoning, after U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and newsmen were killed.
Stock Photo ID: U1949810
Date Photographed: November 21, 1978
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
Credit: © Bettmann/CORBIS






Girls Describe Their Jonestown Ordeal

Original caption: 11/28/1978-Georgetown, Guyana: They survived but Jonestown was a place of horror for them too. Tracy Parks (l), 12, her sister Brenda, and Brenda's boyfriend, Chris O'Neal, talk to newsmen in Georgetown Nov. 23. They survived the airport attack in which Rep. Leo Ryan (D-CA) and members of his party were killed after visiting the People's Temple commune at Jonestown. The Parks family was attempting to defect from the commune and go with the Ryan party. The girls' mother, Patricia, was one of those killed in the attack on the Ryan party.
Stock Photo ID: BE046042
Date Photographed: November 28, 1978
Location: Georgetown, Guyana
Credit: © Bettmann/CORBIS





Elderly Jonestown Survivor

Elderly survivors of the Jonestown mass suicide return to San Francisco, saying nothing out of fear.
Stock Photo ID: U1946962
Date Photographed: November 30, 1978
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Credit: © Bettmann/CORBIS




Jonestown Survivors in Custody

Two members of the People's Temple are held in custody in Georgetown, Guyana, on November 22, 1978 following the Jonestown massacre. At left is Michael Prokes.
Stock Photo ID: U1949917
Date Photographed: November 22, 1978
Location: Georgetown, Guyana
Credit: © Bettmann/CORBIS





Mike Prokes

Nov. 16, 2011 - Georgetown, California, U.S. - Mike Prokes listens to the international band radio which kept him informed of world events while living in Jonestown. Here he is in a room at Park Hotel in Georgetown, November 1978. (Credit Image: © Bob Bazemore/Modesto Bee)
Stock Photo ID: 42-30920218
Date Photographed: November 16, 2011
Photographer: Bob Bazemore
Location: California, USA
Credit: © Bob Bazemore/ZUMA Press/Corbis

Cards Found at Jonestown

Cards and pictures made by the children of members of the People's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana.
Stock Photo ID: U1949912C
Date Photographed: November 22, 1978
Location: Jonestown, Guyana





People's Temple Member Deborah Layton

Deborah Layton, a member of People's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana.
Stock Photo ID: 42-20582741
Date Photographed: June 14, 1978
Model Released: No Release
Property Released: No Release
Photographer: Vincent Maggiora
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
Credit: © Vincent Maggiora/San Francisco Chronicle/Corbis





Murdered Journalists Tim Reiterman and Greg Robinson

San Francisco Examiner reporter Tim Reiterman (L) and photographer Greg Robinson. Robinson was one of the five people killed and Reiterman was among the nine injured after an attack by members of the People's Temple in Guyana. The journalists were part of the group led by Congressman Leo Ryan to investigate reports of abuse and human rights violations by the People's Temple and its leader, Jim Jones. Fearing the results of the murders and further investigations into Jonestown, despite Leo Ryan's assertion that he was going to give a largely positive review of the People's Temple, Jim Jones led his followers in a ?revolutionary suicide?. On November 18, 1978, 909 Temple members died, all but two of which from cyanide poisoning, forming the largest mass suicide in modern history.
Stock Photo ID: 42-20693972
Date Photographed: April 11, 1978
Location: Georgetown, Guyana
Credit: © Bettmann/Corbis




Murdered Photographer Greg Robinson

San Francisco Examiner photographer Greg Robinson was one of the five people killed after an attack by members of the People's Temple in Guyana. The journalists were part of the group led by Congressman Leo Ryan to investigate reports of abuse and human rights violations by the People's Temple and its leader, Jim Jones. Fearing the results of the murders and further investigations into Jonestown, despite Leo Ryan's assertion that he was going to give a largely positive review of the People's Temple, Jim Jones led his followers in a ?revolutionary suicide?. On November 18, 1978, 909 Temple members died, all but two of which from cyanide poisoning, forming the largest mass suicide in modern history.
Stock Photo ID: 42-20693973
Date Photographed: filed 11/19/1978
Credit: © Bettmann/Corbis

Clare Bouquet Looking at Photo Album

Clare Bouquet looks through a photo album containing pictures of U.S. Representative Leo Ryan as he was leaving for Jonestown, Guyana. Ryan was supposed to investigate rumors of abuse at the People's Temple in Jonestown. He was murdered by its members when he landed.
Stock Photo ID:RR028149
Date Photographed:October 26, 1979
Photographer:Roger Ressmeyer
Location:USA
Credit:© Roger Ressmeyer/CORBIS






Reverend Jim Jones with His Followers

Followers gather around Reverend Jim Jones (far right). This photograph is a reproduction of one of the undated color photographs in a photo album, found among the dead in the Jonestown commune in Guyana after the mass suicide in 1978.
Stock Photo ID: U1949475
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
Credit: © Bettmann/CORBIS




Cult Leader Jim Jones in Corn Field

Original caption: Jonestown, Guyana: Left behind in the village of the dead in Jonestown, Guyana, was a pink photo album. It's a collection of over 40 color pictures of the Rev. Jim Jones in happier times. Most pictures were made years before Rev. Jones led more than 900 members of his cult to painful death. These are some of the photos from that collection of photos.
Stock Photo ID: U1949931
Date Photographed: ca. 1974-1978
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
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Jim Jones and Marceline Jones

Original caption: Reverend Jim Jones and his wife, Marceline, taken from a pink photo album left behind in the village of the dead in Jonestown, Guyana, during Reverend Jones' happier times. Jones led more than 900 members of his cult to a painful death.
Stock Photo ID: U1949920
Date Photographed: ca. 1974-1978
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Jim Jones with His Followers

Original caption:Jonestown, Guyana- Among the more than 40 photos in the album found dead in Jonestown in the wake of the mass suicide of the cult founded by Rev. Jim Jones are these. Photo shows Jones wearing a straw hat and leaning on a walking stick in what appears to be a tropical setting. Undated photograph.
Stock Photo ID: U1950411A
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
Credit: © Bettmann/CORBIS





Cult Leader Jim Jones and Followers Outdoors

Jonestown, Guyana: Jim Jones is shown wearing a straw hat and leaning on a stick while clearing area for his visionary "Jonestown."
Stock Photo ID: U1949930
Date Photographed: ca. 1974-1978
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
Credit: © Bettmann/CORBIS
License Type: Rights Managed (RM)