Overview
- The project is in production at Netflix with no release date announced.
- Netflix describes the Jonestown catastrophe as one of the deadliest mass murders in American history and signals an intent to move past the 'drinking the Kool-Aid' cliché.
- The series draws on never-before-seen material and first-person accounts to trace the ideas and events that preceded the 1978 tragedy.
- According to the FBI account cited in reports, Congressman Leo Ryan was killed at the Port Kaituma airstrip after visiting Jonestown.
- Coverage notes that many victims, including women, children and the elderly, were forced under armed guard to ingest a cyanide-laced drink.