There had been discussions about a mass suicide. In some circles, there were practice drills,” one survivor recounted to The ...

Jim Jones, an evangelist from San Francisco, had founded Jonestown in the South American nation earlier in the 1970s. He chose Guyana as the site for his "utopia" to get out of the reach of U.S ...

On Nov. 18, 1978, an itinerant preacher, faith healer and civil rights activist named the Rev. Jim Jones led more than 900 of his followers to kill themselves by drinking cyanide-laced Flavor Aid ...

Sipping the Flavor-Aid. ... San Francisco Examiner journo Tim Reiterman, who exactly 30 years ago was shot by members of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple sect outside Jonestown, ...

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.

And there were members who would not drink the Flavor Aid that was laced with cyanide. ... In the case of Jim Jones, as a young minister in Indianapolis in the late '40s and early '50s, ...

Jim Jones, an evangelist from San Francisco, ... Ironically, authorities determined Jones used Flavor-Aid, a similar product, for the poison. All these years Kool-Aid has been getting a bad rap.

Jim Jones, the charismatic preacher who led the People's Temple in San Francisco, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Jonestown. He was 47. Former follower Yulanda Williams is speaking out.

Jeff Guinn doesn’t like the expression “drinking the Kool-Aid.” First, he says, it’s inaccurate: Most of the 918 people who died in the 1977 Jonestown massacre in a remote commune in ...

Shia LaBeouf has left some fans a little confused after a statement he made about himself on social media this week. On Thursday (June 26), the actor, seemingly unprompted, declared: "I AM JIM JONES." ...

It was at that infamous event that commune members drank cyanide-spiked Flavor Aid. The film, which is titled “Jim Jones,” was reportedly written by Scott Rosenberg, whose other works include ...

Jim Jones led 900 followers to their deaths. A new tour revisits the history. Story by Hannah Sampson • 2mo. A new overnight tour in South America pitches “a journey through history” that ...