61. Survivor Tells Story Of Mass Suicide - The Daily Targum - University Deborah Layton, survivor of the jonestown mass suicide, is coming out with a bookcalled Her brother was already a member of the People s temple. http://www.dailytargum.com/news/2003/09/30/University/Survivor.Tells.Story.Of.Ma

document.write(''+''); The Daily Targum Extras: Student Resources Scholarships Movies Travel ... Home Login to The Daily Targum to gain full access: Username Password showNetworkBanner(1); var story_id = 507726; Survivor tells story of mass suicide Author tells of "shameful" events in her memoir By Pooja Singh, Staff Writer Published: 9/30/2003 Media Credit: Provided by Charisma Lanez Deborah Layton, survivor of the Jonestown mass suicide, is coming out with a book called "Seductive Poison" - which is about a "shameful story." Layton spoke to University students and professors Wednesday in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. She discussed her membership in the People's Temple, which, she said, will always be remembered in connection with the "Kool-Aid, where a bunch of lunatics killed themselves" to reach a higher salvation. The event Layton spoke of involved the deaths of over 900 people in a South American jungle after they ingested "a concoction of purple Kool-Aid, cyanide, sedatives and tranquilizers," according to the Infoplease Web site. The cult started in California and moved to Guyana, where the mass suicide occurred. Layton said those who died were not unstable at first but felt the need to do a good deed and get somewhere in their lives - and People's Temple just seemed "right." The author said she was mainly attracted to the group because it hoped to solve issues of discrimination and strive for racial justice and equality. She left the group six months before the suicide took place and so she considers herself a survivor of the tragedy. She wrote her memoir - which she said was the key to her life - 20 years after the event.

62. People's Temple “New Religious Movements, mass suicide and People s temple.” Sociological “People s temple and jonestown A Corrective Comparison and Critique.” http://science.gcc.edu/reli/kemeny/people's_temple.htm

People's Temple By Sanford Groff BOOKS Primary Popular Books on The People’s Temple Jones, Mother. Thoughts of Mother Jones: Compiled From Her Writings and Speeches Huntington, WV: Appalachian Movement Press, 1971. Krause, Charles A. Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account . New York: Berkley, Layton, Deborah. Seductive Poison: a Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple . New York: Doubleday, 1998. Secondary Scholarly Books on The People’s Temple Alinin, S.F. and Antonov, B.G. and Itskov, A.N. The Jonestown Carnage - A CIA crime Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1987. Appel, Willa. Cults in America . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983. Beckford, James A. Cult Controversies . New York: Tavistock Publications, Chidester, David. Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. Crimmins, John Hugh. The performance of the Department of State and the American Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana in the People's Temple Case . Washington, D.C.:

63. USA Today (Society For The Advancement Of Education): JONESTOWN MASSACRE: The Un Jim Jones and the mass suicide of hundreds of people in jonestown, Guyana. Milk disassociated himself from the temple and believed that jonestown http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2644_127/ai_53630954

@import url(/css/us/style1.css); @import url(/css/us/searchResult1.css); @import url(/css/us/articles.css); @import url(/css/us/artHome1.css); Home Advanced Search IN free articles only all articles this publication Automotive Sports FindArticles USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education) Jan 1999 Content provided in partnership with 10,000,000 articles Not found on any other search engine. Featured Titles for Advocate, The Air Force Journal of Logistics Air Force Law Review Air Force Speeches ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports JONESTOWN MASSACRE: The Unrevealed Story USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education) Jan, 1999 by Jeff A. Schnepper Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. The testimony of Rev. Jim Jones' mistress opens a Pandora's box of sex, lies, drugs, politics, and murder. IN NOVEMBER, 1978, the world was stunned by dramatic pictures and stories about Rev. Jim Jones and the mass suicide of hundreds of people in Jonestown, Guyana. While the deaths were real, the stories were fabrications created to cover up the theft of more than $26,000,000, planned mass murder (not suicide), and the fiscal rape of the treasury of San Francisco by corrupt politicians. Jones' second in command, Teresa Buford, was a survivor of the massacre. Her confession, revealing the true nature of what happened, details Jones' blueprint for creating his own nation, funded by U.S. taxpayers' dollars stolen as part of San Francisco's corrupt political system. Buford's allegations have been supported by Charles Garry, Jones' first lawyer, eight boxes of notes and correspondence found by The New York Times, and newly unsealed records turned over to the California Historical Society. In my research, all discrepancies between what she alleged and what was reported in 1978 have been resolved by independent documentation supporting her position. I believe Buford. This is her story.

64. The Jonestown Massacre to some extent done willingly, making the mass suicide all the more disturbing.The jonestown cult (officially named the People s temple ) was founded http://www.infoplease.com/spot/jonestown1.html

in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Daily Almanac for Sep 24, 2005 Skip Navigation Home Almanacs ... Word of the Day Editor's Favorites Hispanic Heritage Month Hurricane Katrina Daylight Saving Time Ramadan ... Texas Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map College Center Scholarship Search College Resources Career Center Job Search Post Your Resume Continuing Ed. more . . . Search: Infoplease Info search tips Search: Biographies Bio search tips Ministry of Terror The Jonestown Cult Massacre by Elissa Haney The vat containing Jones' deadly concoction sits amid the bodies of his followers on Nov. 20, 1978. (Source/AP) Two decades ago an unusual series of events led to the deaths of more than 900 people in the middle of a South American jungle. Though dubbed a "massacre," what transpired at Jonestown on November 18, 1978, was to some extent done willingly, making the mass suicide all the more disturbing. The Jonestown cult (officially named the "People's Temple") was founded in 1955 by Indianapolis preacher James Warren Jones . Jones, who had no formal theological training, based his liberal ministry on a combination of religious and socialist philosophies.

65. The Jonestown Massacre Shortly before the mass suicide, US Congressman Leo Ryan was assassinated on Jones the People s temple Full Gospel Church, in Indianapolis by 1963. http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/express/religion/jonestown.html

HOME ABOUT SEARCH COMMENTS? The Jonestown Massacre On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of a religious group led by the Reverend Jim Jones were killed in an apparent mass suicide. The megalomaniac Jones convinced most of his followers to drink a cyanide mixture. Some, including Jones, were shot, either in suicide or murder. Shortly before the mass suicide, U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan was assassinated on Jones' orders. Ryan had just landed in Guyana to investigate alleged human rights abuses at Jonestown. Jim Jones, born May 13, 1931 in Lynn, Indiana , had his own religious congregation, the People's Temple Full Gospel Church, in Indianapolis by 1963. Jones led the interracial congregation (rare at the time) with faith healing, visions and advice from extraterrestrials. After spending a short time in Brazil, Jones moved his congregation to California . He eventually moved it again to an isolated area of Guyana jungle, naming the new settlement after himself. Rumors abound of government connections to the Guyana tragedy. A former Jones cult member, Phil Kerns, wrote a book claiming that "Jones was a Marxist who had numerous contacts with officials of both the Cuban and Soviet governments."

66. A Journal Of Alternative News The last visitor to Jim Jones and the People s temple in jonestown was US a bunch of lunatics who committed an unparalleled act of mass suicide. http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Articles/Who Was Jim Jones.html

67. A Journal Of Alternative News My name is Laurie Efrein Kahalas, and I was with the peoples temple for The horrendous mass death at jonestown burst onto the world press in November, http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Articles/Jonestown Dismantling the Disinformation

68. Prehistoric: Jonestown `diary Of The Dead' Resurfaces [09-18-88] 900 people died a decade ago in a mass murdersuicide at a Guyana cult While Prokes survived the temple commune s mass suicide, a few http://www.subgenius.com/subg-digest/ancient/0505.html

Jonestown `diary of the dead' resurfaces [09-18-88] Douglas James Trainor ( trainor@CS.UCLA.EDU Fri, 23 Sep 88 19:46:39 PDT Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: Douglas James Trainor: "ALBERT HOFMANN IN AMERICA" Previous message: Douglas James Trainor: "Heartbreak, controversy, demonstrations [9-19-88]" 900 people died a decade ago in a mass murder-suicide at a Guyana cult commune have resurfaced among boxes of records unsealed this month. Many of the notes were written by Mike Prokes, a lieutenant of Peoples Temple leader the Rev. Jim Jones, and a survivor of the cyanide killings of 913 people in November 1978. The letters by Prokes and other dissatisfied Jones followers indicated the commune in South America was falling apart in its final days. "I don't know how much longer I can take it," Prokes wrote. "I mean the witchcraft. I feel like I'm being programmed. I enjoy the violence when I do it, but sometimes like right now I feel sorry I did it. "I think I'm going to end it all with my .38; I only wish I could see my brains blown out."

69. Reviews For Seductive Poison A jonestown suvivor s story of life and death in the peoples temple, On the20th anniversary of the mass suicides/murders at jonestown, Guyana, http://www.deborahlayton.com/reviews.html

Book Reviews Complete Reviews The following is a partial listing.... Personal Comments " Seductive Poison is an absolutely riveting story, told as memoir but with the pulse-pounding suspense of a murder mystery. I read Layton's account non-stop through the night, unable to let go, struck by the realization that this is not simply an account of a bygone tragedy. It has great relevance to many of the terrible events we see unfolding today, for this is a story about those who seek a better world and are then inextricably caught in a plan to end it. This is a universal tale about ideology gone awry." Amy Tan, Author of The Joy Luck Club "Cults are multiplying and growing in this country. Why do apparently normal people surrender in body and soul to a charismatic egomaniac? Deborah Layton knows. This haunting book, written with candor and passion, reads like a killer. I could not put it down!" Isabel Allende, Author of The House of the Spirits

70. Peoples Temple :: New Revelations On Jonestown Tragedy Religion news about peoples temple, religious cults, sects and world OAKLAND One day after the jonestown mass suicides in 1978 in the jungle of http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9204-New_revelations_on_Jonestown_tragedy.html

@import "/quicksub.css"; ReligionNewsBlog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Home News Tracker Archives About RNB ... Contact RNB Our sites: Apologetics Index Religion News Blog Cult FAQ ApoloTalk Grace and Mercy HouseChurch.nl ... Advanced Search [Peoples Temple] New revelations on Jonestown tragedy Oakland Tribune, USA Oct. 31, 2004 William Brand, Staff Writer www.oaklandtribune.com Peoples Temple ReligionNewsBlog.com Recordings indicate Jim Jones may have died the day after the massacre OAKLAND One day after the Jonestown mass suicides in 1978 in the jungle of Guyana, Jim Jones and leaders of the ill-fated settlement were still alive and calmly discussed the suicides and the murder of Rep. Leo Ryan, a historian said Saturday. "Everybody has assumed until recently that all 912 Jonestown residents, including Jones, died on the same day Nov. 18, 1978," said Fielding McGehee, who oversees the Jonestown Institute with his wife, Rebecca Moore, whose sisters and nephew died in Jonestown. But the tape found in Jonestown that the FBI labeled Q-875 appears to have been made many hours later, possibly on Nov. 19, McGehee said. The tape is one of 900 McGehee and Moore obtained from the FBI under a Freedom of Information Act request.

71. How Jones Used Drugs - SF Exam. 12/28/78 Dale Parks, a temple defector who was a nursing supervisor at jonestown, that narcotics might have been used to pave the road for mass suicide. http://www.maebrussell.com/Jonestown/How Jones Used Drugs.html

San Francisco Examiner - December 28, 1978, front page Narcotics as a control How Jones used drugs By Peter King Potential troublemakers or defectors from the Peoples Temple flock in Jonestown were kept under tight control in a special "extended-care unit" where they were heavily drugged, according to former residents of the jungle commune. Police and government authorities in Guyana are sorting out documents pertaining to drugs found at Jonestown as their investigation spreads into areas beyond the killings. The drug question has been a low priority up to now. Dale Parks, a temple defector who was a nursing supervisor at Jonestown, said he was shocked at the quantity of drugs found at the medical clinic there: "There's no way that many people were receiving treatment. I know they were using things to keep people under control, but not like this." Parks, a trained therapist for respiratory ailments, said the "extended-care unit" consisted of eight beds separate from the mission clinic. "If a person wanted to leave Jonestown or if there was a breach of rules, one was taken to the extended-care unit," he explained. "It was a rehabilitation place, where one would be re-integrated back into the community. The people were given drugs to keep them under control."

72. The People's Temple - Leigh Fondakowski The People s temple review of documentary theater piece about the San jonestown, of course, refers to the Guyana location of a 1977 mass suicide by http://www.culturevulture.net/Theater8/PeoplesTemple.htm

home dance destinations film ... archives The People's Temple Leigh Fondakowski Berkeley Repertory Theatre April 15 - June 5, 2005 Hand-carved sese wood mask from West Africa "I’m so tired of hiding my life," says a black actor playing a Jonestown survivor in the new docudrama . Jonestown, of course, refers to the Guyana location of a 1977 mass suicide by the followers of the Reverend Jim Jones. , by the same creative team that conceived the highly-lauded The Laramie Project , makes clear that Jonestown itself is only part of the story, death just the tragic ending. Along the way, life for the members of the California-based group was full of idealism, love, and foot-tapping music. Jones’ brilliant formula for a cult: a combination of religion, politics, community-building and free food. Like Adolph Hitler, Jones was a superb public speaker, and someone who knew how to incite. The play, presenting a script patched from archives and new interviews, is all individual voices, presented in character by twelve actors on a stage lined with storage cartons. There is no dialoguethe play is 100% narration. This technique runs the risk of going dry, and indeed, a certain rhythmic sameness begins to emerge after a few hours (the play runs for almost three hours, including intermission). The lack of interaction may protect audiences from the usual evangelist caricature and overblown theatrics, but it also dulls things down and creates an almost academic context for the "action."

73. Jim Jones the day after announcing his intention to leave the People s temple. Congressman Leo J. Ryan and the 900person mass suicide at jonestown, Guyana. http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/cult/reverend-jim-jones/

rotten Library Biographies Religion ... Cult leaders Jim Jones Failed monkey salesman. Despite his sociopathy, one must give Jim Jones mad props for loyalty and people management skills. First, he transforms his seemingly mainstream San Francisco congregation into a full-blown religious cult. Next he convinces the government of Guyana to give him 300 acres of South American jungle, and relocates 1,100 cult members to this distant hellhole. Finally, in 1978 after it all goes horribly wrong, Jones still manages to convince 900 of them to swallow poison in massively parallel suicide , the likes of which the world had never seen. Arrested in a cruisy restroom in Los Angeles. By the way, it wasn't Kool-Aid. It was Flavor Aid ®. Different company altogether. Timeline 13 Dec 1973 The Reverend Jim Jones is arrested in a cruisy movie theater bathroom in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, Jones had the bad luck to hit on an undercover LAPD vice officer while masturbating in the Westlake Theatre men's room. 5 Oct 1976 Bob Houston is pushed under a train, the day after announcing his intention to leave the People's Temple.

74. The Jonestown Massacre: CIA Mind Control Run Amok? * David Icke E-Magazine Mind By 1963 he had his own congregation in Indianapolis The People s temple Full Joyce Shaw, a former member, once mused that the mass suicide story was a http://www.davidicke.net/mindcontrol/research/re020600a.html

The Jonestown Massacre CIA Mind Control Run Amok? by Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen archived 02-06-00 Archive file re020600a Excerpted from 60 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time A Citadel Press Book By Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen On November 18, 1978, in a cleared-out patch of Guyanese jungle, the Reverend Jim Jones ordered the 911 members of his flock to kill themselves by drinking a cyanide potion, and they did. The cultists were brainwashed by the megalomaniac Jones, who had named their jungle village after himself and held them as virtual slaves, if not living zombies. Jones himself was found dead. He'd shot himself in the head, or someone else had shot him. Square-jaw, jet black hair and sunglasses, looking like a secret service agent on antipsychotic drugs, Jones takes his place alongside Charles Manson in America's iconography of evil. But was Jones really a lone madman as Americans are so often advised about their villains? Is it plausible that more than nine hundred people took their own lives willingly, simply because he told them to? Or is there another explanation? Not long after the slaughter in Jonestown, whispers beganstrange hints of human experiments in mind control, even genocide, and the lurking presence of the CIA. At the very least. these stories maintained, the U.S. government could have prevented the Jonestown massacre, but instead it did nothing. At worst, Jonestown was a CIA-run concentration camp set up as a dry run for the secret government's attempt to reprogram the American psyche. There are suggestions of parallel "Jonestowns" and that the conspiracy did not end with the deaths in Guyana.

75. Lessons From Jonestown Lessons from jonestown. The mass suicide of People s temple followers 25 yearsago teaches psychologists what happens when social psychology is placed in http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/jonestown.html

Volume 34, No. 10 November 2003 "It's shocking to me that so many people today have not even heard of Jonestown." Steven Hassan Freedom of Mind Lessons from Jonestown The mass suicide of People's Temple followers 25 years ago teaches psychologists what happens when social psychology is placed in the wrong hands. BY MELISSA DITTMANN Monitor staff Print version: page 36 In the middle of the jungle in Guyana, South America, nearly 1,000 people drank lethal cyanide punch or were shot to death, following the orders of their leader, Jim Jones. Mothers and fathers gave the deadly drink to their children and then drank it themselves. People screamed. Bodies trembled. And within a few minutes on Nov. 18, 1978, 912 people were dead. Jones' followers originally came to the Guyanese community, known as Jonestown, seeking paradise and an escape from racism and persecution in the United States. Instead, they found something that resembled a concentration camp in which they worked long hours with little food and much abuse, those who escaped Jonestown have reported. Twenty-five years later, social psychologists continue to examine how Jones came to command such enormous influence over his followers' thoughts and actions. Jonestown, they say, offers important lessons for psychology, such as the power of situational and social influences and the consequences of a leader using such influences to destructively manipulate others' behavior.

76. Father Cares: The Last Of Jonestown leader Jim Jones died during a mass suicide and murder in jonestown, Guyana.In the months preceding the tragedy, Jim Jones and his People’s temple http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/jonestown.html

Select a Program Tapes and Transcripts All Things Considered® Anthem At the Opera Billy Taylor's Jazz The Diane Rehm Show Jazz from Lincoln Center Jazz Profiles JazzSet with Branford Marsalis Latino USA Living on Earth Lost and Found Sound Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz Morning Edition® NPR Playhouse NPR World of Opera Only a Game Public Interest Radio Expeditions Rewind Says You! St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Selected Shorts Sounds Like Science Sunday Baroque Talk of the Nation Todd Mundt Show Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me Weekend All Things Considered Weekend Edition - Saturday Weekend Edition - Sunday Weekly Edition - The Best of NPR News World Radio Network from NPR NPR Worldwide Jim Jones Courtesy: Laurie Efrein Kahalas, author, Snake Dance: Unraveling the Mysteries of Jonestown (Trafford Publishing, 1998) Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown On November 18, 1978, 913 men, women, and children followers of cult leader Jim Jones died during a mass suicide and murder in Jonestown, Guyana. In the months preceding the tragedy, Jim Jones and his People’s Temple followers recorded their tho ughts, their problems and their aspirations. The hundreds of hours of audio tape form the basis of the NPR documentary Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown Airing in 1981, the documentary was written by James Reston, Jr and Noah Adams, and produced by Deborah Amos. It was based on the tapes Reston acquired under the Freedom of Information Act, and won most major broadcast awards including the Dupont Col umbia Award, the National Headliner Award and the Prix Italia.

77. Photojournalism And The American Presidency - David Hume Kennerly mass suicide in jonestown, Guyana, © David Hume Kennerly, UT Center for American Jim Jones was the charismatic leader of the People s temple, http://www.cah.utexas.edu/photojournalism/detail.php?nickname=kennerly&picid=6

78. Jonestown 20 Years Later To this day, Guyanese hardly regard the mass suicide/murder as being a part of jonestown Owing to the fact that the People s temple was coming under http://www.guyana.org/features/jonestown_20.html

Posted on November 22nd.1998 Stabroek News Mainpage Contact Us E-mail Directory Discussion Forum Special Feature Remembering Jonestown It was twenty years ago last week that news of the events at Jonestown was broadcast to an incredulous public. To this day, Guyanese hardly regard the mass suicide/murder as being a part of their own local history, and in a sense they are right. While the Jonestown residents occupied a portion of Guyana's land space, they were not incorporated into its body politic. For the most part United States citizens, they acted out a tragedy which was peculiarly American in its origins as well as its character. The sheer numbers involved - 909 in the final count - will cause Jonestown to be remembered for as long as mankind walks this planet. There are precedents for it, but the best known of them - the suicide pact of 960 Jewish Zealots at the fortress of Masada - has been questioned by archaeologists, while that at Saipan, when 1,000 Japanese civilians threw themselves from a cliff just before the island was taken by American forces during the Second World War, has been lost in the mind-boggling statistics of death for that war as whole. If anything good at all can be said to have come out of such a mind-numbing event, it can only be that we have since become more conscious and wary of cults in general, although that still has not prevented other cult suicides. As is it, Jonestown stands as the archetypal example of the dangers of suppressing the rational faculty and that small inner voice of conscience, and allowing another to do the thinking for us.

79. Jonestown 20 Years After. On November 18, 1978, some 900 members of the People s temple Cult, died ina ritual of mass suicide and murder at jonestown near Port Kaituma in http://www.guyana.org/features/jonestown20.html

Posted on November 22nd.1998 Stabroek News Mainpage Contact Us E-mail Directory Discussion Forum See here for a full Analysis of Jonestown Rev Jim Jones at a political rally in the US. At right is former US president, Jimmy Carter. Going home: Military personnel preparing and sealing the aluminium caskets to fly the bodies back to the US. They escaped it all: From left Deborah Tochette, 23; Paula Adams, 23; Stephan Jones, 19; and basketball coach Lee Ingram speaking to the press after the mass suicide 20 years ago. The cult of death Jonestown: 20 years after On November 18, 1978, some 900 members of the People's Temple Cult, founded by Indiana-born Rev Jim Jones, died in a ritual of mass suicide and murder at Jonestown near Port Kaituma in Guyana's jungle. A visiting United States congressman, three news reporters and cult defectors were shot to death. The majority of the people were United States citizens from San Francisco, California, where the cult had been based before Jones started moving his flock to the Guyana jungle in 1974. The congressman, Leo Ryan, had come to Guyana at the insistence of relatives of some cult members who had reported that their relatives at Jonestown were being held against their will, beaten and subjected to suicide drills. During Ryan's visit to the cult site, some 20 members decided to defect, some of them were shot dead at Port Kaituma airstrip as they were about to board a Guyana Airways chartered plane back to Timehri. The rest of the cult members in Jonestown were fed, some forcibly, a mixture of cyanide and Kool Aid. Some cult members who were in Georgetown, were murdered by Jones's lieutenants. Jones's son Stephan and members of a People's Temple basketball team, who were also in Goergetown escaped harm. Jones himself was found dead with a single bullet wound to the head.

80. The People's Temple Jim Jones leads his People s temple flock in a 1976 protest on behalf of local Jones was gathering residents of jonestown for a mass suicide attempt, http://www.gbs.sha.bw.schule.de/peoples_temple_wpost.htm

Exalting 'Beauty of Dying', Jones Leads 408 to Death By Leonard Downie Jr. Washington Post Foreign Service November 21, 1978 GEORGETOWN, GUYANA With exhortations on the "beauty of dying," the Rev. Jim Jones led 408 of his followers in the Peoples Temple Church to a mass suicide-murder and was himself shot to death, according to reports yesterday from the scene of the massacre. Guyanese authorities said most of the victims appear to have been killed with poison drawn from a vat set in a clearing in Jonestown, the agricultural settlement where Jones' cult was based. Only three of the bodies had gunshot wounds. By late yesterday only a dozen of the several hundred residents of Jonestown who apparently fled into the surrounding forest had returned to the compound. Authorities said the returnees were helping to identify the dead. A survivor of the mass murder-suicide told an investigating group that visited Jonestown yesterday that the poison consisted of cyanide mixed with Kool-aid in a vat. It was administered by Jonestown's staff doctor and nurses to men, women, children and babies. Those who tried to refuse the poison or escape were forced by armed guards to take it. It was not known if Jones was shot by someone else or killed himself.

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