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 ...

SPENCER MICHELS: On a stage in Berkeley, California, actors rehearsed "The People's Temple," a new, highly-anticipated play that tells the story of pastor Jim Jones and his followers, most of whom ...

When Tracy Parks’ parents joined the Peoples Temple in 1966, they were drawn by the Christian gospel, socialist politics and racial equality espoused by the founding pastor, Jim Jones.

But Jim Jones arrived in 1977, and an influx of 1,000 immigrants — including more than 300 children and 200 senior citizens — followed. The situation changed.

It isn’t helping matters that the Rev. Jim Jones bears the same name as that of the Peoples Temple minister who in 1978 led 912 followers in a mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.

So said pastor Jim Jones on Nov. 18, 1978, in Guyana, right before he perpetrated the mass killing of more than 900 members of his Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ. Comments.

Jim Jones used his People's Temple Church for his madness and greed ending in mass suicide at Jonestown in Guyana. It all started in Indianapolis.

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 ...

Before he orchestrated the murder of more than 900 men, women and children in the jungles of Guyana, Jim Jones was laudable, even admirable. In that paradox lies the power of Jeff Guinn's ...

The "Jonestown" tragedy happened 25 years after Jones worked as a student pastor at Somerset Methodist Church in Indianapolis. Jones was born in Crete, Ind., a community of 1,200 residents 82 ...