The First to Break the News of Jonestown:
Journalist Mohamed Hamaludin

Photo courtesy of Mohamed Hamaludin

Guyanese journalist Mohamed Hamaludin was one of the first two reporters to enter Jonestown following the mass deaths of November 18, 1978, and the first to file an eyewitness account to the outside world.

The articles on this page were provided by Mohamed Hamaludin. The introductory articles and interview were by Aliah Mohmand.

Mohamed Hamaludin: An Introduction

An Interview with Guyanese Journalist Mohamed Hamaludin

• Articles by Mohamed Hamaludin

The Drink of Death (Part 1), (Part 2), November 22, 1978

Mass suicide planned to the last milligram of drugs, November 22, 1978

Man, 79, tells of escape from execution, November 22, 1978

Role as money-runners saved them, December 6, 1978, part of a special 32-page Jonestown edition of the Guyana Chronicle.

Mohamed Hamaludin: An Autobiographical Statement