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

Nearly 50 years after the Jonestown massacre shocked the world, the site of one of history's deadliest cult tragedies is now ...

The Jonestown massacre is so well known that the phrase “drink the Kool-Aid” has become part of the American vernacular—a fact that still rankles Stephan Jones, son of cult leader Jim Jones ...

Congressman Leo Ryan went to Guyana in 1978 to investigate reports of American cult leader Jim Jones holding hundreds of his followers captive. Ryan didn't make it out of Jonestown alive.

The Guyanese site of the Jonestown massacre, where over 900 people either died by mass suicide or murder in connection with ...

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

Die with some dignity.” Subsequently, Jim Jones told everyone to be a part of the cult murder and gave them cyanide. The Jonestown Massacre death toll went up with each minute passing.

Story Highlights In 1978, 909 Americans were led to mass murder-suicide by Rev. Jim Jones One-third of the dead at Jonestown were children; only 33 people survived Jones was a self-appointed ...

Jim Jones’ sons tell all in new Jonestown doc Stephan Jones and Jim Jones Jr., the surviving son of Jim Jones, tell all in a new documentary about the Jonestown massacre.

Congressman Leo Ryan went to Guyana in 1978 to investigate reports of American cult leader Jim Jones holding hundreds of his followers captive. Ryan didn't make it out of Jonestown alive.

Guyana is planning on opening the site of the infamous Jonestown massacre up to tourists. AP She was in Guyana’s capital the day Jones ordered hundreds of his followers to drink a poisoned grape ...