On Nov. 18, 1978, 909 members of the Peoples Temple cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, committed mass suicide at Jonestown, their Guyana-based settlement. Additional victims, including the late ...

South America led by Jim Jones. The reverend brought thousands of members to his religious cult with his charismatic personality and focus on civil rights. His group, the Peoples Temple ...

One former Temple member later told The Star that the ... A small few survived by fleeing into the jungle. Jim Jones died there, too, shooting himself after killing his wife and one of his ...

His condition was getting severe, and one of his clergy friends told him about the People’s Temple and how its leader, Jim Jones, had the ability to heal." "My father went to a service," said ...

While there, she would cross paths with the Rev. Jim Jones, joining his growing congregation in the Peoples Temple. Shirlee and Donald Fields befriended the Harrison family, including their ...

multiracial and multigenerational as well,” Former Peoples Temple member Yulanda Williams remembers. “When I heard Jim Jones, he spoke about how much he respected the civil rights movement and ...

"We should reconstruct the home of Jim Jones, the main pavilion and other ... tractor that once hauled a flatbed trailer to take temple members to the Port Kaituma airfield. Until now, most ...

The city of Georgetown and the country of Guyana were the home of the Peoples Temple cult led by Jim Jones in the 1970s. Jim Jones instructed his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by ...

Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American country.