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In December 1978, the government of Guyana held a six-day inquest into the deaths of Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers who died the previous month in Jonestown.
The transcript of the inquest includes testimony from Guyana’s Assistant Commissioner of Crime, C.A. “Skip” Roberts; Guyana’s chief pathologist Dr. Leslie Mootoo; several local Guyanese government and police officials; Jonestown survivors Odell Rhodes, Stanley Clayton, Tim Carter, Mike Carter, and Mike Prokes; and Temple member Herbert Newell.
The document concludes with a one-page finding of the coroner’s jury that Jones “and persons unknown” were responsible for the deaths in Jonestown. The jury also named only two people – Ann Elizabeth Moore, who died of a gunshot wound, and Maria Katsaris who “drank the brew” – as suicide victims.
This is the best available copy of this document. The blacked-out deletions were made by the FBI but are being challenged in litigation. There are also two pages missing from the original.
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