Mass Suicide at Jonestown: 30 Years Later

The Victims
Odell Rhodes, a Temple member who survived by hiding underneath a building, said that among the very first to line up for the poison were several mothers and their babies. He said that there was no panic or emotional outburst; that people looked as if they were "in a trance." Other accounts have suggested that the Temple members had no choice; that the camp was ringed by guns as the poison drink was distributed.

• Read an interview with author and Jonestown survivor, Tim Reiterman