His latest work is a biography of an equally infamous but more puzzling figure: Jim Jones, the reform-minded Marxist minister who led his followers in 1978 to a mass death by cyanide in Guyana.

What: Join reporter Robert Anglen in a discussion with bestselling author Jeff Guinn on his new book "The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple." When: 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 26 ...

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 ...

Childhood Jonestown Survivor Recounts Desperate Escape into the Jungle as Cult's Mass Suicide Killed Over 900. Four decades after over 900 followers of Jim Jones committed suicide at Jonestown, ...

40 years after the Jonestown massacre: Jim Jones' surviving sons on what they think of their father, ... especially early on,” Stephan said about his childhood. “It was not fake.