Episode 29: Cyanide Pt. 2 The Jonestown Massacre

In the second episode of our cyanide series, we talk about the rise and fall of Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple, a cult that ended in a massacre of 918 people in 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana, South America.

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