WB6MNH/8R1 1978 Jonestown, Guyana

Operators: Paula & Bob Adams

Members of Peoples Temple at Jonestown, Guyana.
Rev. Jim Jones and 909 total people died on 18-November-1978 when the residents were ordered by Rev. Jones to drink a cyanide laced beverage.
The adults were ordered to first give their children the drink and then take it themself.
This was a mass rite of murder-suicide in which they took the poison or were shot.

QSL from the estate of W7HYW
Info courtesy of Wikipedia