"White Night" in the Jungle: The Jonestown Massacre and the Death of Congressman Leo Ryan

November 18 - Forty-seven years ago today, the world awoke to one of the most harrowing tragedies of the 20th century. On November 18, 1978, deep in the Guyanese jungle, a utopian experiment turned into a nightmare as 918 people-members of the Peoples Temple-lost their lives in a mass murder-suicide orchestrated by their leader, Jim Jones. Among the dead were over 270 children and U.S....