Jim Jones was a complex man. A sideburned communist and occasional Methodist minister, fond of tinted glasses, he founded his own pseudo-church in Indianapolis in the late 1950s, the Peoples Temple ...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (WKRC) - A local government expressed interest in turning the site of the Jonestown massacre, which killed over 900 people, into a tourist destination. The city of Georgetown and ...
Cult leader Jim Jones led over hundreds of his Peoples Temple to their deaths in a mass murder-suicide in Guyana on Nov. 18, 1978. Delaware has a major connection to the Jonestown Massacre. The ...
PORT KAITUMA, Guyana — What makes a tragedy worth revisiting? Nearly 50 years after the mass murder-suicide in the settlement known as Jonestown, all that remains in the remote Guyanese jungle is a ...
THE OLD PEOPLES TEMPLE BUILDING COLLAPSED in the last big San Francisco earthquake, leaving behind nothing but an empty plot of land to mark its passing. I'd avoided the place for nearly 10 years -- ...