On Nov. 18, 1978, 909 members of the Peoples Temple cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, committed mass suicide at Jonestown, their Guyana-based settlement. Additional victims, including the late ...

Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after American Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American country. It was the ...

More than 900 people --mostly followers of the American guru-reverend Jim Jones-- died, on November 18, 1978, in the largest mass suicide in the history of the American continent. (Photo by ...

Instead, Reiterman, global environment team editor based in San Francisco, mainly focused on those he hadn’t interviewed before, including the adopted black son of the Rev. Jim Jones. He also focused ...

Based upon the real life story of Reverend Jim Jones, a self-proclaimed prophet who founded the Peoples Temple. In the 1960s, he began as an idealist helping minorities and working against racism.