Heaven's Gate: Inside the Web of Death (Singles Classic)
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Heaven's Gate: Inside the Web of Death (Singles Classic)
Rancho Santa Fe, California. March 20, 1997.
It was a remarkably well-choreographed departure, made more astonishing by the rich trail of video and Internet information the victims left behind. But the largest mass suicide in U.S. history has blasted the doors wide open onto a considerably less tidy world--a dense and jumbled universe of UFOs and extraterrestrials careening smack into unusual astronomical happenings, apocalyptic Christian heresies and end-is-nigh paranoia.
This story is part of the TIME Classic Coverage Collection from Time Inc. This is a reproduction of a story that appeared in the April 7, 1997 issue of TIME magazine.
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