Jim Jones used his People's Temple Church for his madness and greed ending in mass suicide at Jonestown in Guyana. ... 'Dateline NBC' takes an in-depth look at Jim Jones and the Jonestown Massacre.

Jim Jones didn't want NBC in Jonestown partly because he had undergone a huge change thanks to his lifestyle ... After arriving in Guyana the late summer of 1977, Jim Jones had undergone a ...

Sources in Guyana said the Jonestown camp began obtaining shipments of cyanide -- about a quarter to a half-pound of the deadly poison each month -- as early as 1976, well before ...

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 ...

By their wiles or happenstance, scores of temple members escaped the events of Nov. 18, 1978, when more than 900 people died by drinking poisoned drinks at the behest of Jim Jones.

Jim Jones promised paradise to his followers. ... a reporter and cameraman from NBC, ... 1978, under the direction of Jim Jones on his Guyana compound.

It was the site of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, in which more than 900 people, including hundreds of children, died after Jones ordered them to drink cyanide mixed with a fruit-flavored beverage.

And standing on the tarmac of an airfield in Port Kaituma, Guyana, on Nov. 18, 1978, moments after a massacre-style shooting by followers of cult leader Jim Jones, he appeared the image of toughness: ...

Hyacinth Thrash was 52 years old and a lifelong Baptist in 1957 when she met the Rev. Jim Jones. They both lived in Indianapolis. He had a church at 1502 N. New Jersey St. He called it the Peoples ...

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 ...