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 ...

Jim W. Jones Jr., left, shown here after coaching basketball practice at City College of San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, November 16, 2008. On Nov. 18, 1978, the day of the mass suicide at ...

Private tourism group offering (controversial) guided tours of site of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple in Guyana after decades of abandonment ...

Jim Jones was the leader of a San Francisco religious sect called Peoples Temple, which purportedly aimed to bring people of all races and classes together into a utopian family.

In 1978 over 900 people led by Rev. Jim Jones died in the largest mass murder-suicide in history, at Jonestown, Guyana. The story is told by survivors, Temple defectors, relatives, and journalists.

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.

Rev. Jim Jones was charismatic founder of the Peoples Temple He enraptured followers with dynamic preaching style, staged faith healings Jones had sex with followers, abused drugs and cursed at ...

The author of “The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple” will speak at 7 p.m. April 18 at Elliott Bay Book Co. (elliottbaybooks.com or 206-624-6600) ...