There had been discussions about a mass suicide. In some circles, there were practice drills,” one survivor recounted to The ...

Jonestown is seared into the American psyche as one the darkest tragedies of the modern era, where 918 people “drank the Kool Aid” and ended their lives under the command of cult leader Jim Jones.

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 ...

Jonestown, the site in Guyana where more than 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones died in a mass murder-suicide in 1978, ...

“Revolutionary”: That was the word Jim Jones used to describe the mass suicide he had planned for his followers at his eponymous compound in northern Guyana in 1978. “If we can’t live in ...

E! News reports Leonardo DiCaprio is in final talks to play Jim Jones. The notorious cult leader led 900 people to die by drinking grape punch laced with cyanide in a mass suicide at his Jonestown ...

Four decades of fanaticism, terrorism and light-speed media exposure to violence and victimization haven’t dulled the horrors of November 1978, when Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers ...

Except Jim Jones—his hat was primarily black with maybe a little polka dot of white. How do you feel when you hear people casually use the phrase “drink the Kool-Aid”—as in, “I drank the ...