Don Harris

Journalist, TV Personality

1936 – 1978

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Who was Don Harris?

Don Harris was an NBC News correspondent who was killed after departing Jonestown, an agricultural commune owned by the Peoples Temple in Guyana. Harris and four others were killed by gunfire by Temple members at a nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, Guyana. Their murders preceded the death of 909 Temple members in Jonestown and four Temple members in Georgetown, Guyana.

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Born
Sep 8, 1936
Vidalia
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Died
Nov 18, 1978
Port Kaituma

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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