The People's Temple, on Stage A new play at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre attempts to tell the story of the People's Temple, the religious cult whose members followed leader Jim Jones in a mass ...

Although the Peoples Temple tragedy, in the eyes of some, was all too soon eclipsed nine days later by the City Hall assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk ...

The 1978 mass suicide of 914 U.S. religious cult members in the Guyana jungle was a news event so high-profile that public awareness was compared to that following the Pearl Harbor or Hiroshima ...

When people hear the word “Jonestown,” they usually think of horror and death. Located in the South American country of Guyana, the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project was supposed to be the ...

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 ...

The expression "Drinking the Kool-Aid" is usually delivered with a sneer to describe people who unquestioningly follow orders or commands from incompetent or misguided leaders.

The People’s Temple borrowed their name from the Jim Jones Kool Aid suicide cult, and their dark psychedelic pop does justice to that bizarre, atavistic association: It has the same tripped-out ...

I wanted to know how the People’s Temple became validated within black people’s perspectives. Because that’s really what anchored the movement. It was the investment of everyday working-class and ...

On Nov. 18, 1978, 909 Americans living in a community called the People’s Temple Agricultural Project in Guyana, South America, died following the orders of their leader, Jim Jones, to ...