NOW that “The People’s Temple” is up and running at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, writer and director Leigh Fondakowski can take a breath and begin to assess her tremendous accomplishment ...

AP, FileThis November 1978 photo of the aftermath of the Jonestown mass suicide ritual shows some of the dead. Thirty years ago, more than 900 Americans died at the Peoples Temple agricultural ...

OAKLAND — Convinced Jim Jones was God, Garrett Lambrev was the first person to join Peoples Temple in Ukiah in 1966 after the group moved from Indiana. Ten years later — two years before the ...

Peoples Temple rose to prominence in San Francisco during the turbulence of the post-civil rights, post-Black Power, post-Vietnam War era. A self-proclaimed Marxist who fetishized black liberation ...

All 912 Peoples Temple members did not die easily. Yet even if all the victims did not take their own lives willingly, enough of them probably did so that we cannot deny the force of their Conviction.

In 1978, cult leader Jim Jones led one of the deadliest mass murders in American history. Here is everything to know about the true story of the horrific Jonestown Massacre.

Former Peoples Temple members describe horrors of Jonestown massacre, the day 918 Americans died. Of the 918 Americans who died on Nov. 18, 1978, 907 of them ingested poison.