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.

Nearly 50 years after the Jonestown massacre shocked the world, the site of one of history's deadliest cult tragedies is now open to tourists, sparking debate over whether confronting the past is ...

Jonestown, the site in Guyana where more than 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones died in a mass murder-suicide in 1978, ...

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, ...