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The sad, shocking story behind the Jonestown massacre, 40 years later
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Flash-forward to the present day, and Jonestown has become the go-to example when both professional and armchair analysts discuss the madness of crowds, or single-minded devotion to a religious or political leader. At the same time, the emphasis on the massacre often overwhelms the story behind Jonestown and Jones himself. The new four-part documentary series Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle, which premieres this Saturday on SundanceTV, reconstructs the incident’s history through the testimony of Jonestown survivors, Jones’s now-grown sons and author Jeff Guinn, who wrote the 2017 book The Road to Jonestown.
