Jonestown. The site of Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple in San Francisco is now a post office.But whatever became of the remote compound tucked into the tangled rainforest of Guyana, where in 1978 over ...

One of the most gruesome and disturbing events in U.S. history was the mass murder–suicide of Jim Jones’ cult following, the largest non-natural mass death of Americans until the September 11 th ...

In 1954, Infamous cult leader Jim Jones established the People's Temple Full Gospel Church in Indianapolis as a pastor. Known for his charismatic preaching and idealistic views, Jones quickly ...

Jim Jones was the architect of the Jonestown massacre, in which 918 people died Jeff Guinn doesn’t like the expression “drinking the Kool-Aid.” First, he says, it’s inaccurate: Most of the ...

More than 900 people died in the 1977 Jonestown massacre, the largest mass suicide in U.S. history Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses on human interest, crime and sports stories ...