This is the last morning of Jonestown, filmed by an NBC crew on November 18, 1978. Within 24 hours almost everyone you see here was dead, including the man behind the camera. The night before, a man named Vernon Gosney had walked up to an NBC reporter and slipped him a note: “Please help us get out of Jonestown.” Gosney had mistaken reporter Don Harris for the congressman. Congressman Leo Ryan had flown into the jungle of Guyana with the crew to find out whether Jim Jones was holding Americans there against their will. Around 900 members of Jones’s Peoples Temple lived in that settlement. In the video below Harris sits down with Jones, shows him the note, and asks about people who want to leave. Jones says they’re lying and want to destroy Jonestown. That afternoon about 15 people left with Ryan’s group and drove to the Port Kaituma airstrip. Temple members pulled up on a tractor and opened fire. NBC cameraman Bob Brown kept filming the shooters until they shot him. Ryan, Harris, Brown, a newspaper photographer and one of the defectors died on that airstrip. Gosney was shot too and survived. The same evening Jones ordered his followers to drink cyanide mixed into a fruit drink, and some were forced. 909 people died in Jonestown, more than 270 of them children. Jones was found with a gunshot wound to the head. Did showing Jones that note on camera help those people get out, or did it set off everything that happened next?