This Jan. 1976 photo shows the Rev. Jim Jones, pastor of peoples Temple in San Francisco. (AP Photo/File)(AP) Updated on Nov. 18, 2016, to reflect the 38th anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre ...

By the end at Jonestown, Jones was more rock star than preacher. His sermons and remarks at meetings were littered with obscenities. He regularly had sex with his followers and he abused drugs.

Netflix’s latest docuseries How To Become A Cult Leader shines a spotlight on several cult leaders, one of which is American preacher Jim Jones, known for his People’s Temple cult. Yet despite ...

The story of an Indianapolis preacher named Jim Jones ended with the deaths of more than 900 people — most of them by suicide in Guyana, South America, on Nov. 18, 1978.

The community, established in Guyana by a California preacher named Jim Jones, was engulfed in mystery. Although Rev. Jones billed Jonestown as a socialist paradise built on equality and love, ...

Forty years ago, an American preacher and madman named Jim Jones orchestrated the largest mass murder in recorded history when he forced more than 900 men, women and children to ...

The peculiar preacher sermonized about slitting Stoen’s throat and blamed the group’s mass-murder/suicide on his friend-turned-foe in his ... My War with Jim Jones the Devil of ...

Jones, Sandra (Sandy) Yvette Cobb 11/16/1956 Indianapolis, Indiana Jones, William Dillon Dean 8/30/1961 Indiana Kelley, Anita Christine 3/15/1950 Indianapolis, Indiana ...

Columnist Pete Waters examines the story of Jonestown and calls Jim Jones, a supposed man of God, ... One day a pastor’s wife introduced him to a Bible and told him to study the Word.

Jim Jones didn't want NBC in Jonestown partly because he had undergone a huge change ... caring pastor—the kind of man who'd go out of his way to pay compliments to elderly women—and ...

The small-town serenity of Camp Verde, Ariz., has been shaken by fears that the pastor of a cultlike church will kill his flock on Christmas Day to prematurely trigger “the rapture.” It isn ...