The Guyanese site of the Jonestown massacre, where over 900 people either died by mass suicide or murder in connection with the Jim Jones-led cult in 1978, has opened for tourism. After decades of ...

Nearly 50 years after the Jonestown massacre shocked the world, the site of one of history's deadliest cult tragedies is now open to tourists, sparking debate over whether confronting the past is ...

Jim Jones was a charismatic and highly manipulative cult leader who founded the Peoples Temple church Credit: Bettmann - Corbis. By the 1970s, he had temples in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

38 years ago in Guyana, more than 900 members of Jim Jones cult the People's Temple committed mass suicide. ... This Day in History: Jonestown Massacre November 18, 2016 2:51 PM ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (WKRC) - A local government expressed interest in turning the site of the Jonestown massacre, which killed over 900 people, into a tourist destination. The city of Georgetown ...

This Jan. 1976 photo shows the Rev. Jim Jones, pastor of peoples Temple in San Francisco. (AP Photo/File) (AP) Updated on Nov. 18, 2016, to reflect the 38th anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre.

The Jonestown massacre saw 909 people from Jones’ church simultaneously commit suicide on November 18, 1978. The followers carried out the “revolutionary suicide” by mixing a fruit-flavoured ...

Evergreen and a second group of survivors, led in part by Jones' son, Jim Jones Jr., are moving ahead with a $15,000 memorial they expect to install by the tragedy's 33rd anniversary, Nov. 18.

In 1978, over 900 people — including 300 children — were killed at a Guyana commune after drinking poison, ordered by cult leader Jim Jones.

Believers of the Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ followed Reverend Jim Jones to Guyana in the Seventies, hoping to create a utopia in the jungle ...

Revisit the tragic and infamous Jonestown massacre in the new trailer for an upcoming docuseries that examines the final hours of Jim Jones’ cult in Guyana.. Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown ...

Jim Jones: Jeff Guinn Biography Is Portrait of Demagouge. ... Most of the 918 people who died in the 1977 Jonestown massacre in a remote commune in Guyana, in South America, ...