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 ...

This Jan. 1976 photo shows the Rev. Jim Jones, pastor of peoples Temple in San Francisco. (AP Photo/File) (AP) Updated on Nov. 18, 2016, to reflect the 38th anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre.

NBCUniversal Archive. Before he became infamous as a murderous cult leader who led more than 900 of his Peoples Temple followers to suicide, Jim Jones (pictured in November 1978) was an advocate ...

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 ...

MEET THE AUTHOR:Jeff Guinn at Poisoned Pen, 4/26 Guinn's six-page prologue is an anchor of horror tying readers to the remarkable account of Jones' life that unfolds in the next 400-plus pages.