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 open to tourists, sparking debate over whether confronting the past is ...

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

Jonestown is seared into the American psyche as one the darkest tragedies of the modern era, where 918 people “drank the Kool Aid” and ended their lives under the command of cult leader Jim Jones.

Thirty years ago, 909 Americans were led to their death by the Rev. Jim Jones in a mass murder-suicide pact in a South American jungle, shortly after Jones' gunmen killed a visiting U.S ...

In November 1978, 913 people died in a shocking mass murder-suicide, and 28 years later, the Jonestown Massacre still remains the most chilling example of faith turned against the faithful.

Believers of the Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ followed Reverend Jim Jones to Guyana in the Seventies, hoping to create a utopia in the jungle ...

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. The city of Georgetown ...

The Jonestown Massacre was one of the deadliest mass murders in history with 909 people taking their own lives Credit: Corbis - Getty Who was Jim Jones? Cult leader and the man behind the infamous ...

They wanted to enter just as the Jonestown pioneers did back in 1974, when a preacher named Jim Jones sent some of his heartier followers all the way from California to begin work on a new ...

The Jonestown memorial at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland. (J.P. Dobrin/KQED) His birth mother’s name was Agnes Bishop Jones, and she was the eldest adopted child of Jim Jones and his wife, Marceline.