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November 27, 1978, Wilmington Morning Star - AP, page 3-A, Gruesome job is finally over in Jonestown,

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November 27, 1978, Wilmington Morning Star - AP, page 3-A, Gruesome job is finally over in Jonestown

The contingent's commander, Col. William I. Gordon, said a total of 909 bodies were found at Jonestown. But in Dover, Del., where the bodies were taken, officials said they had counted 912 corpses.

The body of the one Guyanese was reported among the dead in Jonestown. The identity of this victim, the first known non-American among the bodies, was not known.

The count at Dover apparently included the four Americans killed in Georgetown, but not the one Guyanese national.

The evacuation of bodies was finished Saturfay night, with the departure of the last American C-141 carrying 83 caskets containing more than 180 bodies, many of them children, to the mortuary at Dover Air Force Base. 

Air Force Capt. John Moscatelli, the task force spokesman, said the bodies "appeared to be in rings or circles with the kids in the center and the larger adults on the outside."

Except for cult leader the Rev. Jim Jones and two woman, all three of whom died of bullet wounds, none of the bodies showed any signs of death other than by Poison, Moscatelli said.


 

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