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Cult leader Jim Jones led over hundreds of his Peoples Temple to their deaths in a mass murder-suicide in Guyana on Nov. 18, 1978.

Delaware has a major connection to the Jonestown Massacre.

The majority of Jonestown Massacre victims were Black.

Editor's note: This story is about the Jonestown Massacre. It includes some graphic details about its aftermath and victims.

Moments before cult leader the Rev. Jim Jones led hundreds in his flock to die, he tried to convince them he was a good shepherd.

"We are not committing suicide. It's a revolutionary act," the self-proclaimed "prophet" declared to his followers. "Death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's treacherous."

Jones led the Peoples Temple, a religious group primarily made up of Black Americans from Cal

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