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The site of the Jonestown cult massacre, where more than 900 people died, has opened to tourists in the latest dark tourism ...
The Guyanese site of the Jonestown massacre, where over 900 people either died by mass suicide or murder in connection with the Jim Jones-led cult in 1978, has opened for tourism. After decades of ...
Forty-five years have passed since the Jonestown Massacre, where more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple cult were compelled by their leader, Jim Jones, to commit mass suicide by cyanide in a ...
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, ...
Offers a look at the Jonestown holocaust and explains why 13 years later, we should still be afraid. Background; The Peoples Temple; The cult's founder and religious leader, Reverend Jim Jones ...
Some members of the community, including Peoples Temple survivors, expressed concerns about the idea. "I just missed dying by one day," said Jordan Vilchez, who was 14 years old on the day of the ...
By the time Jones moved the Peoples Temple to a secluded jungle in Guyana and the U.S. Government began investigating reports of abuse and false imprisonment in Jonestown, it was already too late. On ...
FILE – Followers of cult leader Jim Jones lay dead on the Peoples Temple compound where more than 900 members committed suicide, in Jonestown, Guayana, Nov. 1978. (AP Photo, File) ...