On Nov. 18, 1978, 909 members of the Peoples Temple cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, committed mass suicide at Jonestown, their Guyana-based settlement. Additional victims, including the late ...

In this photo from 1974, the Rev. Jim Jones (in red shirt) leads Peoples Temple members through cleared grounds of the future Jonestown site in Guyana. Jones leads chimpanzee Mr. Muggs, ...

Jim Jones opened what would become Peoples Temple in Indiana in 1954. The Peoples Temple drew from socialism, communism, and Christianity to promote equality and attract a multi-racial congregation.

David Lindquist:Why infamous Hoosier Jim Jones shows up on the new Foo Fighters album A survivor story: She woke up in Jonestown — everyone was dead The founding of the People's Temple. After ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The Peoples Temple compound is shown in November 1978 after the bodies of the Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers were removed. Associated Press ...

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.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American ...

Followers of cult leader Jim Jones lay dead at the Peoples Temple compound in Jonestown, Guayana, where more than 900 members committed suicide in November 1978. Associated Press "It's the ...