Some families of victims of the Jonestown massacre are opposing plans to include the name of People’s Temple leader, Jim Jones in the Oakland memorial to the victims of the 1978 mass suicide by the cult in Guyana.
Jones led his followers to mass suicide on November 18, 1978 via cyanide-laced Kool Aid after a visit by US Congressman Leo Ryan to investigate conditions there. Ryan and others were shot to death and more than 900 others died
