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“Neither Racial Justice nor Socialism but a Messianic Parody of Both”: the Jonestown Massacre at Forty-Three

Download PDF version   On 18 November 1978, just over 900 people were killed on the remote settlement of The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project—informally known as Jonestown. Located in Guyana, Jonestown was the latest and most radical manifestation of insular...