Port Kaituma – November 18th, 2010 marks 32 years since 918 people died at Jonestown, Port Kaituma, Guyana at the hands of the then People’s Temple leader Jim Jones. There was no formal observance of this historic event here in Guyana, but in California, USA according to the Associated Press, Jim Jones Jr. an adapted son of Jim Jones said four large stone slabs with the names of 900 will be constructed at the mass grave at San Francisco.
A total of 909 Temple followers died from cyanide poisoning in 1978 at Jonestown, ordered by their leader Jim Jones followed by the murders of five other persons including Congressman Leo Ryan, the first and only congressman to die in the line of duty in the history of the United States.
