More than 900 Americans died in a South American jungle upon the orders of Rev. Jim Jones, who had tried to create a socialist paradise that survivors called a slave camp. What led up to this?

Trump asked him. The remark instantly evoked one of the most shocking and tragic instances of cult mind-control - that of ...

For the first time, Guyana has given its blessing for a tour company to start bringing visitors into what’s left of Jonestown ...

“Revolutionary”: That was the word Jim Jones used to describe the mass suicide ... “If we can’t live in peace, then let’s die in peace,” the reverend — who had descended from a ...

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 ...

Before he became infamous as a murderous cult leader who led more than 900 of his Peoples Temple followers to suicide, Jim Jones (pictured in November 1978) was an advocate for the poor and ...

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.

We were closing in on the airstrip where, nearly 50 years ago, followers of the Reverend Jim Jones killed US Congressman Leo Ryan. He had come to the remote settlement of Jonestown to investigate ...