Thrity-three years ago today, over 900 members of Reverend Jim Jones’ Jonestown community in northwest Guyana died from apparent cyanide poisoning. Amidst the devastation, controversy and investigation of Jones’ questionable political practices and involvement in the alleged mass suicide, Tim Cahill visited Guyana and reported back to Rolling Stone with a gruesome account of a terrible tragedy. To read the full article, first published on January 25th, 1979, visit RollingStone.com.
— Parry Ernsberger
Welcome to my last half hour or so.
Pretty much some of the best writing I’ve read in Rolling Stone.
my last half hour or so.
As chilling as it may be, remember Jonestown; this is what true fanaticism looks like,