Network - Great Crimes and Trials Collection 1 (1993) Part 7 The Jonestown Massacre
Great Crimes and Trials: Collection 1
With unprecedented worldwide access to archive footage spanning from 1896 to present day, Great Crimes and Trials of the 20th Century reconstructs those horrifying cases that made legal history. Collection One examines the horrific crimes committed by the Black Panther, the Hillside Stranglers, the Boston Strangler and Ted Bundy, to name just a few. This series also investigates the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and the Manson 'family' murders. Each episode combines archive with new interviews and examines individuals and motives, how each crime was committed, breakthroughs in investigations and what happened at the trial. Much of the material has never before been seen on TV.
Part 7: The Jonestown Massacre
It was a crime that defied the imagination. In November 1978, deep in the jungles of Guyana the Rev Jim Jones gathered nearly 1,000 devoted followers around him, and with a simple promise persuaded them to commit the greatest 'revolutionary' mass suicide of the 20th Century.
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