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

Jonestown is seared into the American psyche as one the darkest tragedies of the modern era, where 918 people “drank the Kool Aid” and ended their lives under the command of cult leader Jim Jones.

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.

Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple was responsible for the largest mass murder-suicide in history at his remote Jonestown commune in 1978. Over 900 commune members died by drinking Flavor Aid, not Kool ...

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.

uyana 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.

The Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died there in 1978. FILE - A view of the People's Temple compound, Jonestown, Guyana, November 1978, where more than 900 followers of the Rev ...