Jim Jones was the architect of the Jonestown massacre, in which 918 people died Jeff Guinn doesn’t like the expression “drinking the Kool-Aid.” First, he says, it’s inaccurate: Most of the ...

Tim Carter's brother-in-law Lew Jones, who was the adopted son of Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones, is pictured with his son Chaeoke Jones at Jonestown in 1977. Lew Jones and his son died at Jonestown.

Jim Jones promised paradise to his followers. ... “The concept was to build a new world,” said Jim Jones, Jr., one of several children adopted by the Peoples Temple ... Today, a memorial in ...

Jim Jones: Jeff Guinn ... How Successful Would Jim Jones' Cult Be Today? Greg Hanlon. Updated Tue, April 11, 2017 at 7:44 PM UTC. ... including children and infants, were forcibly injected.

Jim’s pregnant wife was among the dead and at least 300 of the victims were children. Jones, who was 47, was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head. Their mother had died too.

Looking back on the Jonestown massacre today, the horror is almost unfathomable. On Nov. 18, 1978, Jim Jones orchestrated the mass suicide of 918 members of his cult in a remote commune in Guyana ...

If you see leaders today saying and doing some of the things Jones did, then it's time to turn around and run. The stuff I learned writing this book scares the hell out of me now.

They thought they were safe from Jim Jones until death arrived at their ... In one, their children are brightly smiling, little Daphene’s arms a blur of excited ... still lingering today, ...

Jim Jones is an MC known for his innate ability to constantly evolve his skills over time. Throughout his storied career, the cofounder of The Diplomats has consistently refined his artistry both ...

Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco, by Daniel J. Flynn (ISI Books, 330 pp., $27.95). T hanksgiving, 1978 was bookended by two of the most bizarre and notorious ...

Before Jackie Speier headed into the jungles of Guyana to investigate living conditions in a town created by Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones in 1978, she wrote her parents a letter that she ...

Dec. 19: Stephan Jones, the 19-year-old son of Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones, blurts out at a magistrate's meeting that he killed top cult official Sharon Amos and her three children.