There had been discussions about a mass suicide. In some circles, there were practice drills,” one survivor recounted to The ...

Before Jackie Speier headed into the jungles of Guyana to investigate living conditions in a town created by Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones in 1978, she wrote her parents a letter that she ...

DOVER, Del. (AP) — A California man said Friday he was shocked to learn that his wife’s cremated remains had been found inside a decrepit former funeral home, 35 years after she and more than ...

At 46, Jones, the adopted son of infamous cult leader Jim Jones, might be the most well-adjusted person you'll ever meet. He has been married to his wife, Erin, for 19 years, and known her since ...

Private tourism group offering (controversial) guided tours of site of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple in Guyana after decades of abandonment ...

Nearly 50 years after the Jonestown massacre shocked the world, the site of one of history's deadliest cult tragedies is now ...

Remembering Jonestown Twenty-five years ago, more than 900 followers of Reverend Jim Jones were killed after they drank fruit juice mixed with cyanide. All Things Considered Latest Show ...

The victims of the Jonestown massacre were often portrayed as brainwashed sheep. In truth, many were murdered, including over 300 children. What began as an idealist experiment turned into a ...

Leigh Fondakowski and Margo Hall write that all too often portrayals of the Jonestown Massacre focus only on Jim Jones when we actually need to hear the stories of survivors as well.

(RNS) When the Rev. Jim Jones led more than 900 followers to commit mass suicide at his compound in the jungles of Guyana in 1978, was he, too, a victim Skip to content Mastodon Covering the world ...

Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Jonestown Survivor: Trump Has “All the Trappings” of Being the Next Jim Jones. Featured in the new doc, 'Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown,' the Democratic ...

Panelists talked about the Peoples Temple, its leader Jim Jones, and the community called Jonestown he established in Guyana. In 1978, more than 900 Americans died in Jonestown from cyanide ...