People's Temple Cult Commits Mass Suicide In Guyana

JONESTOWN, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 18: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) Dead bodies lie in the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana after over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. In the background, above Jim Jones's chair, a sign from the rafters reads "those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)