The Temple is best known for the events of November 18 , 1978 in Guyana , when 918 people died in a mass murder at its remote settlement , named " Jonestown " , as well as the murders of U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and members of his visiting delegation at the nearby Port Kaituma airstrip . The incident at Jonestown resulted in the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks
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