Dead bodies lie around the compound of the People’s Temple cult.          

On November 18, 1978, a charismatic Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones 
(inert) lead hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their
agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of
Guyana. Many of Jones’ followers willingly ingested a poison-laced punch
while others were forced to do so at gunpoint. The final death toll at the
compound that day was 909; a third of those who perished were children.

Bodies lie behind a tub of cyanide-laced punch in Jonestown,
Guyana.

Reverend Jim Jones and his wife, Marceline, taken from a photo
album left behind in the village in Jonestown, Guyana.

ROSS SIMPSON

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March
to the Sea" during the U.S. Civil War on this day in 1864.

William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891)

Zebulon Montgomery Pike
(January 5, 1779 – April 27, 1813)

On this day in 1777, The Continental Congress approved the
Articles of Confederation, precursor to the U.S. Constitution.

In Washington, DC. on this day in 1969, a quarter of a million
protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the
Vietnam War.

A judge in Mineola, NY, sentenced Joey Buttafuoco (right) to six
months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher (left). Fisher
was serving a prison sentence for shooting and wounding
Buttafuoco’s wife, Mary Jo.

Amy Elizabeth Fisher turned 43 August 21.

                                              

                                          Joseph A. Buttafuoco turned 61 March 11.

CARLATA BRADLEY

Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967)

Mike Gracia