McGehee also highlighted the grim fascination surrounding dark tourism, noting that visiting Jonestown could allow people to boast about being at a location where over 900 individuals lost their ...

The idea has reopened deeply painful chapters for many, with the notion of turning such a tragic location into a tourist ... entitlement to benefit from any Jonestown-related ventures yet asserts ...

How can a location like Jonestown, the location of the ghastly demise of its inhabitants by poison, their bodies left scattered in the open be a tourist site? What a way it was for Guyana to ...

co-director of The Jonestown Institute, a non-profit group. He pointed to the amount of money it would cost to turn the location into a viable tourist attraction.

Many others were wounded. A total of 918 people died at Jonestown, including five from the airstrip ambush and four from another location. Nearly a third of the deaths were children. In the wake of ...

The Jonestown massacre remains one of the largest mass murders in American history. In a single day, 901 Americans and 8 Guyanese died from Jim Jones’ actions. Met with criticism rather than ...

The plan did not come to fruition, in part due to the logistical difficulties of the location. “It’s still a very, very, very rough area,” Fielding McGehee, co-director of The Jonestown ...