Both American survivors of the mass suicide and murder and Guyanese have criticized the tour. But defenders say the site ...

View of the partially collapsed main pavilion in the Jonestown compound, Guyana, November 28, 1978. Photo: New York Times Co./Neal Boenzi/Getty Images What will visitors see on the tour of Jonestown?

Horror at future of horrific Jonestown cult massacre site where 900 died in mass suicide-murder. ... Today, all that remains are fragments of a cassava mill, parts of the main pavilion, ...

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

Jonestown's main pavilion is partially collapsed a week after over 900 people were killed on the commune. Photograph by New York Times Co., Getty Images. By Parissa DJangi. June 14, 2024.

An obvious attraction is Jonestown, argued Astill Paul, the co-pilot of a twin-engine plane that flew US Rep. Leo J. Ryan of California and a US news crew to a village near the commune a day ...

An obvious attraction is Jonestown, argued Astill Paul, the co-pilot of a twin-engine plane that flew U.S. Rep. Leo J. Ryan of San Mateo, Calif., and a U.S. news crew to a village near the commune ...

The Bay City native and her husband were on a list of 162 Jonestown ... the delegation was treated to musical performances by house band Jonestown Express and served dinner in the town’s pavilion.

FILE - An aerial view of the Peoples Temple compound, after the bodies of the U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers were removed, in Jonestown, Guyana, November 1978. (AP Photo, File) ...

McGehee noted that dark tourism is popular, and that going to Jonestown means tourists could say they visited a place where more than 900 people died on the same day. “It’s the prurient ...

Jonestown is once again in the news and is attracting widespread and serious comment. This article, from the paragraph below, was written by Roger Arjoon, a Guyanese, who lives and works in the ...