This event happened way before your time...and mine, but it was a horrible tragedy. Use the net to research this day. Who was Reverand Jim Jones? What happened?

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American cult leader who promised his followers a utopia in the jungles of South America after proclaiming himself messiah of the People Temple, a San Francisco-based evangelist group. He ultimately led his followers into a mass Suicide , which came to be known as the Jamestown Massacre. people killed themselves cause they thought he was there messiah over 900 people killed themselves cause he told them to all at the same time. it was a mass massacre.