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

FILE – A view of the People’s Temple compound, Jonestown, Guyana, November 1978, where more than 900 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones committed suicide. (AP Photo, File) Expand.

Private tourism group offering (controversial) guided tours of site of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple in Guyana after decades of abandonment ...

A view of the People's Temple compound, Jonestown, Guyana, November 1978, where more than 900 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones committed suicide.

In November 1978, 913 people died in a shocking mass murder-suicide, and 28 years later, the Jonestown Massacre still remains the most chilling example of faith turned against the faithful.

He then moved his people to Guyana when he came under criticism for church beatings and financial abuses. Escape from Jonestown Thirty years ago, more than 900 people died by murder and suicide.

Dear People: Remembering Jonestown presents letters, personal histories, reports, newsletter articles, and other documents, as well as photographs, from the People's Temple collection at the ...

Believers of the Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ followed Reverend Jim Jones to Guyana in the Seventies, hoping to create a utopia in the jungle ...

Matthew Crowder, who had shown up for work in the neighborhood, yelled to wake the Eliashar family and helped them escape ...

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 ...