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Jonestown
The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name Jonestown, was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American religious cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations.
Peoples Temple
defunct new religious movement founded in 1955
George Moscone
American lawyer and 37th Mayor of San Francisco from 1976 to 1978

Port Kaituma
Locality controlled de facto by Guyana and claimed by Venezuela from Guyana