Photo credit: Jason Minto/special to the news journal
Nov. 18, 1978 Jim Jones, the religious leader in Jonestown, orchestrated
a ritual of mass murder and suicide instructing his members to drink
cyanide-laced punch. 911 bodies including children and a U.S. congressman were
flown to the U.S. Dover Air Force Base.
The Dover, Del. Funeral homes struggled to quickly help the
families make arrangements. Most of them
were sent back home. 409 are in a mass grave in Oakland, CA. Many of the followers of Jim Jones were from
the San Francisco, CA area.
This week the remains of nine victims were found in a bank
owned, decrepit, now-shuttered funeral home in Dover. The survivors are traumatized, revisiting the
horror of that day.
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