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 ...

The commune they created was named in honor of the cult's founder and religious leader, a charismatic figure in dark glasses named the Reverend Jim Jones.

It is nearly impossible to conceive what caused more than 900 people to commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978 under the direction of the Rev. Jim Jones. “The People’s Temple ...

Author Bob Calhoun discussed the Reverend Jim Jones as part of San Francisco's history of crime. The California Historical Society hosted this virtual event.

It’s November 18, 1978. The tape is running. Reverend Jim Jones is rambling into a microphone, dictating a suicide note on behalf of nearly a thousand people. Death is all around him, in the air and ...

Jim Jones’ two surviving sons, former members ofPeoples Temple mark 40th anniversary of Jonestown Massacre in new ABC documentary.