As founder and leader of the People's Temple, Reverend James Warren "Jim" Jones had so much power over his followers that he once urged his church's members to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid as a ...

Watch out Trump cult, he may be offering up a poison drink next, just like the Jim Jones cult. And to the person accusing Joe Biden of using his political positions to enrich himself ...

Believers of the Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ followed Reverend Jim Jones to Guyana in the Seventies, hoping to create a utopia in the jungle ...

A passage of The Road to Jonestown in which he tests his core followers’ allegiance by pretending he’d laced their drink with poison reads all the more chillingly for being written in a near-deadpan.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (WKRC) - A local government expressed interest in turning the site of the Jonestown massacre, which killed over 900 people, into a tourist destination.

Paper cups and syringes filled with poison. Jim Jones had carried out a mass murder-suicide dry run several months ... Jones didn't wait for everyone to drink before interrupting the proceedings.

Jim Jones believed someone at Jonestown was trying to poison him, which is ironic given that he was planning to poison his entire congregation. U.S.

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple By Jeff Guinn Simon and Schuster, 544 pp., $28. When the news filtered out of the deep jungles of Guyana in November 1978, it seemed too ...