Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week long, a horrified world marveled at new details of the slaughter and new mysteries about Jones' cult. While the bodies swelled and rotted in the tropical sun, two U.S. military cargo planes flew in to bring back the remains to grieving relatives. At the same time, helicopters whirred over the jungles to search for survivors who were thought to be hiding from the cult. There were reports that the colony had been terrorized by Jones, who was rumored to be dying of cancer. Police found huge caches of illegal arms, ranging from automatic rifles to crossbows, but hundreds...
...told Ryan that Houston's son Bob, 33, had been found dead in the San Francisco railroad yards, where he worked, just one day after he had quit the Peoples Temple. Though authorities said his son died as the result of an accidental fall, Houston claimed the cult had long threatened defectors with death...
Charles L. Beikman, a temple member for 20 years, has been charged with murdering another member of the cult and her three children at the sect's headquarters in Georgetown shortly after the mass poisonings...
...cult member has been charged with murder in the deaths of Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D.-Calif.), three newsmen and a disaffected cultist, who were shot as they attempted to leave the commune. Another has been accused of killing four cultists in Georgetown...
...airport slaying of Ryan and others in his party triggered the mass suicides inside the agrarian commune run by Rev. Jim Jones. Ryan was investigating reports that cult members were being held against their will...