jungle. while you are running they are still shooting? they had identified people they wanted to kill. it is almost impossible to fathom, even now, more than 900 americans dead in the jungle at jonestown. you are telling me this man says drink this poison and they drink it? that s right. we take you inside the mission that observed the dangerous truth. the only video camera there to capture it all belonged to nbc news. he said i can never put this camera down. rare pictures and powerful details. my whole shirt was dripping with red blood. all of a sudden i was hit. a riveting look at the story that still haunts the whole world. whole world. and welcome to dateline. jim jones led nearly 1,000 americans hello and jim jones led nearly 1000 americans to a remote area in south america, promising a religious paradise. what followed was more like hell on earth. the horror almost too horrible to believe. you are about to hear from some eyewitnesses who lived t
told the united states it wants the victims returned to the united states for burial. it will take weeks to recover all of those bodies and ship them home. in the end 909 bodies were found. investigators determined jim jones and his nurse died of gunshot wounds, likely self- inflicted. all the rest it seems either drank the poison or had it injected. former nbc correspondent fred francis. some of those who escaped talked about how the people were with a ring around the pavilion. how it took some of them many minutes to die. and in the five data from the airstrip ambush and 4 dead from the other location the total death tally was 918. it was while combing the compound for clues that investigators made another discovery. jim jones had actually recorded
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