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.

Netflix’s latest docuseries How To Become A Cult Leader shines a spotlight on several cult leaders, one of which is American preacher Jim Jones, known for his People’s Temple cult. Yet despite ...

The story of an Indianapolis preacher named Jim Jones ended with the deaths of more than 900 people — most of them by suicide in Guyana, South America, on Nov. 18, 1978.

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 1978, cult leader Jim Jones led one of the deadliest mass murders in American history. Here is everything to know about the true story of the horrific Jonestown Massacre.

"We should reconstruct the home of Jim Jones, the main pavilion and other buildings that were there." ... The Rev. Jim Jones, pastor of the Peoples Temple, is pictured in San Francisco, January 1976.

The truth is that Jonestown’s leader, preacher Jim Jones, was successful in drawing in followers in the United States because his message resonated in an era of frustration and upheaval—and ...