AP, FileThis November 1978 photo of the aftermath of the Jonestown mass suicide ritual shows some of the dead. Thirty years ago, more than 900 Americans died at the Peoples Temple agricultural ...

NOW that “The People’s Temple” is up and running at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, writer and director Leigh Fondakowski can take a breath and begin to assess her tremendous accomplishment ...

About 80 members of Peoples Temple who were living in Guyana survived that day. Hundreds of members living in San Francisco and Los Angeles did too. In the chaos of the aftermath, this event would ...

On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of the Peoples Temple died in what appeared to be a mass suicide, drinking Flavor-Aid laced with cyanide and other drugs.

By 1970, when she joined the Peoples Temple in California aged 22, ... and believed his separatist "apostolic socialist" community could thrive in the aftermath. Getty Images.

The Peoples Temple was Jones' congregation, which began informally in the 1950s. The original goal of his ministry was to combat racism and poverty, attracting an integrated crowd in Indiana ...

OAKLAND — Convinced Jim Jones was God, Garrett Lambrev was the first person to join Peoples Temple in Ukiah in 1966 after the group moved from Indiana. Ten years later — two years before the ...

AP, FileThis undated file photo from the California Historical Society shows Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones. Thirty years ago, more than 900 Americans died in a murder and suicide ritual at the ...

It’s only a small cadre of Jonestown survivors and former Peoples Temple members represented here, but with a couple of exceptions, they each serve a clear purpose in the telling of this story.

Peoples Temple rose to prominence in San Francisco during the turbulence of the post-civil rights, post-Black Power, post-Vietnam War era. A self-proclaimed Marxist who fetishized black liberation ...

Peoples Temple treated elders as "repositories of knowledge" and demanded that they be respected, Smith said. That appealed to Gibson, who was 72 at the time of her death.