It’s been 40 years since Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones led more than 900 of his followers to participate in the mass murder-suicide that would become the largest deliberate loss of American ...

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.

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 ...

Forty years ago, on Nov. 18, 1978, more than 900 members of cult group People’s Temple were led by its leader Jim Jones to commit mass suicide by cyanide in the Jonestown settlement of Guyana ...

Remembering Jonestown Twenty-five years ago, more than 900 followers of Reverend Jim Jones were killed after they drank fruit juice mixed with cyanide. All Things Considered. Latest Show; ...