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
it was friday november 17, 1978 when jim jones finally agreed to see the ryan group. after landing in a small village a few miles from georgetown the group was taken the rest of the way in the back of a temple dump truck. it was after dark by the time the reporters finally arrived. too dark to see anything except what jim jones wanted them to see. we see people lined up in a big pavilion welcoming us to come in. they started with the music and thinking, like a welcoming party. at that point is kind of what you thought, everyone is happy. you can see the videotape. the people were happy. they had some very good musicians out there who did some really good music. washington post reporter charles krause.