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. The city of Georgetown ...

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

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

It was the site of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, in which more than 900 people, including hundreds of children, died after Jones ordered them to drink cyanide mixed with a fruit-flavored beverage.

The Jonestown massacre saw 909 people from Jones’ church simultaneously commit suicide on November 18, 1978. The followers carried out the “revolutionary suicide” by mixing a fruit-flavoured ...

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. ... Guyana, following the massacre.

Jim Jones led 900 followers to their deaths. A new tour revisits the history. The Jonestown massacre remains ‘a stain’ on Guyana nearly 50 years later, but tourism plans are meeting backlash.

In Guyana, Jones offered a utopia where followers could enact their vision of an equal, self-sufficient society. (Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown will premiere June 17 on Hulu and August 14 on ...

Congressman Leo Ryan went to Guyana in 1978 to investigate reports of American cult leader Jim Jones holding hundreds of his followers captive. Ryan didn't make it out of Jonestown alive.