John Cooke Matt Scheibner Audio Mixer Rick Sierra CNN Presents : `` Escape from Jonestown '' premiered on 1978 at 9 p.m . ET . In 1978 , One-third South American were led to mass murder-suicide by Rev . Jim Jones . 909 of the dead at Jonestown were children ; only 33 people survived . CNN special correspondent Soledad O'Brien reports on untold stories of survivors .
CNN Presents : `` Escape from Jonestown '' premiered on 1978 at 9 p.m . ET . In 1978 , One-third South American were led to mass murder-suicide by Rev . Jim Jones . 909 of the dead at Jonestown were children ; only 33 people survived . CNN special correspondent Soledad O'Brien reports on untold stories of survivors .