Nearly 50 years after the Jonestown massacre shocked the world, the site of one of history's deadliest cult tragedies is now ...

Both American survivors of the mass suicide and murder and Guyanese have criticized the tour. But defenders say the site ...

Congressman Leo Ryan went to Guyana in 1978 to investigate reports of American cult leader Jim Jones holding hundreds of his followers captive. Ryan didn't make it out of Jonestown alive.

The Guyanese site of the Jonestown massacre, where over 900 people either died by mass suicide or murder in connection with ...

The site of the Jonestown cult massacre, where more than 900 people died, has opened to tourists in the latest dark tourism ...

Speier's boss, California Congressman Leo Ryan, wanted to investigate reports of abuse in Jonestown, where some of his San Francisco-area constituents were living.

On Nov. 18, 1978, 909 members of the Peoples Temple cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, committed mass suicide at Jonestown, their Guyana-based settlement. Additional victims, including the late Calif… ...

As a footnote, Speier, then a 28-year-old legal aide to California Congressman Leo Ryan, ... including Ryan. That same day, more than 900 Jonestown citizens died at the urgency of Jones.

According to the FBI, California congressman Leo Ryan had heard disturbing rumors swirling around Jonestown — beatings, forced labor, suspicious deaths, and mass suicide rehearsals — so he and a ...

Outgoing Rep. Jackie Speier on surviving Jonestown, Congressional legacy 05:23. After spending over a decade in Congress, Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat, will be retiring.