Photos: Jonestown remembered
People’s Temple members in front of the agricultural department of the sect, in Georgetown, renamed Jonestown after guru Jim Jones, in 1978. (AFP/Getty Images)
People’s Temple members and children in the nursery of the sect in Jonestown. (AFP/Getty Images)
A People’s Temple member with children in the nursery of the sect in 1978. (AFP/Getty Images)
This photo, taken Nov. 20, 1978, shows a tub that contained a drink laced with cyanide. Peoples Temple followers drank the brew voluntarily, or were forced to drink it at gunpoint. (Frank Johnston / Associated Press)
An onlooker in a gas mask examines the grim scene in Jonestown. (Frank Johnston / Associated Press)
Some of the victims of the Jonestown tragedy in Guyana. The Rev. Jim Jones led more than 900 followers to their deaths in Jonestown by drinking a cyanide-laced fruit drink. (Frank Johnston / Associated Press)
Hundreds of bodies are strewn across the Peoples Temple commune in Jonestown, Guyana, where more than 900 people died in a mass suicide in November 1978. (AFP/Getty Images)
NBC newsman Don Harris, 42, left, and San Francisco Examiner photographer Gregory Robinson, 27, right, are shown in footage taken by NBC-TV cameraman Robert Brown minutes before shooting erupted at an airstrip at Port Kaituma, Guyana. All three died. (NBC / Associated Press)
U.S. military personnel remove bags containing bodies of members of Jim Jones’ sect on Nov. 23, 1978, after they arrived from Jonestown. More than 900 people died in the largest mass suicide in American history. (AFP/Getty Images)
The site of the former Minus Funeral Home in Dover, Del., where police say the cremated remains of nine victims of the 1978 mass cult suicide-murder in Jonestown, Guyana, were discovered. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press)
A view inside the former Minus Funeral Home in Dover, Del., where cremated remains of nine victims of the 1978 mass cult suicide-murder in Jonestown, Guyana, were discovered. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press)
