and back in jonestown, jim jones is calling for a revolutionary suicide where we're all going to killst flew into jonestown last evening around sunset. there was absolute silence. nothing living was around. jonestown last evening was a city of the dead. >> they found tremendous quantities of potassium cyanide poison. it had been mixed with kool-aid. it killed quickly, within five minutes. >> we will never know how many people voluntarily drank the poison. but other people were either coerced, brainwashed, or took it against their will. they were murdered. >> i was lifted into this medevac plane, and i was so grateful. >> good evening. the searching american soldiers have finished counting the bodies in jonestown, guyana. 910 died in the poison ritual of the people's temple last week. >> this was americans killing other americans and themselves. in its own interests for its own well-being, this nation will have to find out why. behr presents: ordinary versus overachiever. a lot of paints say they can do the job, but just one can "behr" through it all. behr premium plus, a top rated int

and then at one point jim jones had taken people to jonestown. there were a lot of complaints from family members in the bay area, and they complained to the department of health education welfare as a was then, and hcw told the post office to not male social security checks to jonestown. and harvey, jim jones wrote to harvey saying can you help me, please? my people are not getting social security checks. and harvey actually wrote to hew and wrote to the post office and said this is unfair. these people at work all their lives for these checks, and i'm sure he's using lines that jim jones had him, but he said they're doing something very important in jonestown. they are learning new agricultural methods that can feed the hungry all over the world, and it was a very lovely letter. and, of course, he couldn't really know what jim jones really was. i could imagine how traumatized, how awful it must've been for him windows 900 people died and leo ryan was killed, and leo ryan's assistance were killed. >> a wiki people's temple a a couple times. >> w

followers of )the reverend jim >>> it's been 40 years since the jonestown massacre. 900 followers ofim jones committed suicide. before their deaths, the cult killed congressman first lady are in scotland. it was the first meeting. there was plenty of pomp and ceremony complete with military bans. they spent 45 minutes over tea. the visit must have gone well because it went longer than expected. he is the 13th u.s. president to meet with queen elizabeth. first lady melania took a side trip playing a game of bowls with schoolchildren. she did it in four-inch heels. more points for her attire. her dress was by victoria it cost $2,000. it's already sold out. >>> one minute they call for an uber or lyft. next they were attacked. the suspected ride-sharing serial rapist. right now at 6-30 called the "rideshare rapist." a man arrested for attacking women -- who were waiting for a ride. tonight, we )re learning how police finally tracked him down. >>> right now at 6:30, thepi. how police finally tracked him down. dna was the major break in this ca the suspect linked to four victims. >>> sfpd

. >>> it has been 40 years since the infamous jonestown massacre. over 900 people. followers of the reverend jim jones died. before their deaths, the cult killed a couple of journalists and a bay area congressman. current congresswoman jackie speier was there as a staffer. she was shot, but she lived. here's news coverage from 1978. >> we do have a particular interest in it. two nbc news men were shot to death there. good evening, in one of the strangest cases of mass suicide and murder ever recorded, the -- >> if you didn't know, san francisco actually played a big role in the story. jim jones moved to california in the 1960s. he started making a name for himself in the mid-70s, running elderly homes, offering drug counsellining and feeding the p, but also claiming to be the vice reincarnated. "jones town: an american tragedy" airs tonight at 10:00 p.m. right here on nbc. >>> coming up, we'll see some high temperatures across the bay area, but there are some places where people can get relief. >> like tonight, music on the square, redwood city. it starts out warm m