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-'''''The Killing of America''''' ([[1982 in film|1982]]) was an American [[Mondo film]], , a documentary tracing the origins of U.S. violence. Directed by [[Sheldon Renan]] and narrated by [[Chuck Riley (voice actor)|Chuck Riley]], the film was written by [[Leonard Schrader]] and his wife [[Chieko Schrader]], with music by W. [[Michael Lewis]], [[Mark Lindsay]].  
-It featured notorious criminals such as [[Tony Kiritsis]], [[Ted Bundy]], [[Mark Essex]], [[David Berkowitz]], [[Kenneth Bianchi]], [[Mark Essex]], [[Jim Jones]], [[Charles Manson]], [[Herbert Mullin]] and [[Charles Whitman]].+'''James Warren "Jim" Jones''' (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was the founder of the [[Peoples Temple]], which is best known for the November 18, 1978 death of over 900 Temple members in [[Jonestown]], [[Guyana]] along with the deaths of nine other people at a nearby airstrip and in [[Georgetown, Guyana|Georgetown]].
 +Jones was born in Indiana and started the Temple in that state in the 1950s. Jones and the Temple later moved to California, and both gained notoriety with the move of the [[Peoples Temple in San Francisco|Temple's headquarters to San Francisco]] in the mid-1970s.
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 +To the extent the actions in Jonestown were viewed as a [[mass suicide]], it is one of the largest such mass suicides in history, and the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the events of [[September 11 attacks|September 11, 2001]]. One of those who died at the nearby airstrip was [[Leo Ryan]], who became the only [[Congressman]] murdered in the line of duty in the history of the United States.
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James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was the founder of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 death of over 900 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the deaths of nine other people at a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown.

Jones was born in Indiana and started the Temple in that state in the 1950s. Jones and the Temple later moved to California, and both gained notoriety with the move of the Temple's headquarters to San Francisco in the mid-1970s.

To the extent the actions in Jonestown were viewed as a mass suicide, it is one of the largest such mass suicides in history, and the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the events of September 11, 2001. One of those who died at the nearby airstrip was Leo Ryan, who became the only Congressman murdered in the line of duty in the history of the United States.



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