On November 18, 1978, members of the People's Temple (a cult led by Rev. Jim Jones) committed mass suicide at their Jonestown compound in Guyana. Over 900 people drank the cyanide-laced purple drink and died; over 300 of these were children. For some reason, Jim Jones did not drink the poison, but instead, shot himself in the head.
For three decades, people have wondered how it could be possible to convince so many people to take their own lives. Although no one has yet solved that mystery, a small piece of that puzzle has recently been found by CNN. According to research by CNN, the mass suicide was not a spontaneous event. Rather, the cyanide used in the lethal concoction had been arriving in Jonestown little by little for over two years. This means that Jones had deliveries of cyanide to Jonestown begin even before the People's Temple moved from California to the Jonestown compound in 1977.
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