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 ...

Jones told the mayor he'd take the job (while keeping his preaching job), and afterwards he and some city officials walked over to Stachler's, a nearby coffee shop at 155 N. Alabama St., to ...

Opening Shot: Archival footage of Jim Jones preaching to the congregants in the Peoples Temple in the early 1970s. The Gist: ...

The Rev. Jim Jones raises his fist in a black power salute while preaching at an unknown location. This photograph was discovered in a photo album found in the Jonestown commune after the cult's ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Old Jim Jones and New Jim JonesPhotos: AP Position of Power Old Jones: Preaching apostolic ...

The broad strokes of the story are familiar: Jim Jones, Guyana, the Kool-Aid. But remember the loudspeakers? Mounted throughout his jungle outpost, they broadcast Jones preaching from his control ...

Before he orchestrated the murder of more than 900 men, women and children in the jungles of Guyana, Jim Jones was laudable, even admirable. In that paradox lies the power of Jeff Guinn's ...

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.

Six years before he led a mass suicide in Guyana, Jones and his People’s Temple purchased an ornate old church at Hoover and Alvarado streets. The Romanesque landmark was built in 1912 as the ...