From Beloved Preacher to Madman and Mass Suicide: the Dark Descent of Jim Jones and Jonestown. The Jonestown massacre of 1978 -- which happened 41 years ago today ...

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.

By the end at Jonestown, Jones was more rock star than preacher. His sermons and remarks at meetings were littered with obscenities. He regularly had sex with his followers and he abused drugs.

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 ...

Forty years ago, on Nov. 18, 1978, more than 900 members of cult group People’s Temple were led by its leader Jim Jones to commit mass suicide by cyanide in the Jonestown settlement of Guyana ...

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.

Hyacinth Thrash was 52 years old and a lifelong Baptist in 1957 when she met the Rev. Jim Jones. ... She gave the charismatic preacher credit for driving away her breast cancer.

In The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Simon & Schuster, 468 pp., ***½ out of four stars), Guinn reintroduces us to a man of some potential — a young Indianan preacher whose ...

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.

Forty years ago, an American preacher and madman named Jim Jones orchestrated the largest mass murder in recorded history when he forced more than 900 men, women and children to ...

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Simon & Schuster, 544 pages, $28) traces the preacher's path from the tent-revival circuit in Indiana to the height of power in 1970s San ...