LOS ANGELES - Forty-five years ago this week, 918 people died in a mass murder-suicide orchestrated by the Rev. Jim Jones at a jungle settlement in Guyana, South America – a horror that remains nearly ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a remote airstrip in the South American country of Guyana, Jackie Speier lay gravely wounded behind the wheel of a small plane.
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 suicide in 1978. Cy Musiker of San ...
In 1978, cult leader Jim Jones led one of the biggest mass murders in American history David Hume Kennerly/Getty The Jonestown Massacre is one of the largest mass death events in American history. On ...
Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Tim Reiterman's Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People ...
San Clemente resident Ed Norwood said that looking at old photos of his cousins and family members is still “deeply painful.” Norwood lost 27 of his family members in the Jonestown massacre, the ...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — 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. It ...