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There had been discussions about a mass suicide. In some circles, there were practice drills,” one survivor recounted to The ...
The leader of the group, Jim Jones, promised a "rainbow utopia." On Nov. 18, 1978, more than 900 people died after Jones ordered them to drink cyanide-laced punch. Stephan says some at the reunion ...
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 ...
In a new memoir “Jonestown: An American Family Tragedy,” author H.J. Jones recounts how her younger sister's search for a greater purpose led her to join Peoples Temple.
Jonestown survivors look back, 40 years later 'So much was attractive and unique that we turned a blind eye on what was wrong,' said the Rev. Jim Jones' biological son, now an adult.
(RNS) When the Rev. Jim Jones led more than 900 followers to commit mass suicide at his compound in the jungles of Guyana in 1978, was he, too, a victim Skip to content Mastodon Covering the world ...
SAN DIEGO -- In the boisterous aftermath of helping his San Diego Toreros clinch an NCAA tournament berth, Rob Jones slapped one of his prominent tattoos, the one with the Skip to main content ...
Forty-five years have passed since the Jonestown Massacre, where more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple cult were compelled by their leader, Jim Jones, to commit mass suicide by cyanide in a ...
Forty-five years have passed since the Jonestown Massacre, where more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple cult were compelled by their leader, Jim Jones, to commit mass suicide by cyanide in a ...
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 ...