Encyclopaedia Britannica's and History.com's articles on Jonestown, read directly for this pass, covering the 1977 relocation of Peoples Temple to Guyana, the 18 November 1978 assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan, and the mass deaths of 909 people that followed the same day.
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Reliability tier 3: reputable general encyclopedic and history references, not peer-reviewed original scholarship, used here only for well-established facts (the 1977 relocation, the death toll of 909, the assassination of Congressman Ryan), consistent across independent FBI and PBS accounts read alongside them. NotesCited for the settlement's founding, the 18 November 1978 events, and the confirmed death toll.
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PublisherEncyclopaedia Britannica; History.com
URLhttps://www.britannica.com/event/Jonestown
Source Typereference
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- Religious Events, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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