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Five Deaths on a Dirt Airstrip: The Murders That Made Jonestown Inevitable
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On November 18, 1978, gunmen sent by Jim Jones opened fire on Congressman Leo Ryan's delegation at Port Kaituma airstrip — and the five murders that followed made the Jonestown massacre unavoidable. This chapter reconstructs every decision, every passed note, and every shot fired before the sun went down.
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Nine hundred and eighteen people died in a single afternoon. Most of them never saw it coming.
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