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own way. He gathered the entire community around him and issued a call for each
person's death to be done in a unified act of self-destruction.
The first response was that of a young woman who calmly approached the now
famous vat of strawberry-flavored poison, administered one dose to her baby, one
to herself, and then sat down in a field, where she and her child died in convulsions
within four minutes. Others followed steadily in turn. Although a handful of
Jonestowners escaped and a few others are reported to have resisted, the survivors
claim that the great majority of the 910 people who died did so in an orderly, will-
ful fashion.
News of the event shocked the world. The broadcast media and the papers pro-
vided a barrage of reports, updates, and analyses. For days, conversations were full of
the topic, "How many have they found dead now?" "A guy who escaped said they
were drinking the poison like they were hypnotized or something." "What were they
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