When news of the tragedy at Jonestown broke, it captured the public's attention immediately. A cult in the jungle? Mass ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim Jones at Jonestown before the infamous Jonestown massacre (Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection) Some tragedies lose their power ...
Perception may a collective guess. In 1978, that guess turned deadly.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history. It happened to American citizens living in a religious cult ...
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 ...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Jonestown was the highlight of Mike Touchette's life - for a time. The 21-year-old Indiana native felt pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana, South America. As a self ...
WASHINGTON DC (KGO) -- San Mateo Congresswoman Jackie Speier compared the January 6th Capitol riot to the day she was shot at the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana. Speier made the emotional speech on the ...
The Brian Jonestown Massacre will release Fire Doesn’t Grow On Trees, their nineteenth album, on June 24 via founder Anton Newcombe‘s A Recordings. This is the BJM’s first album in three years, a long ...
Jim Jones was the architect of the Jonestown massacre, in which 918 people died Jeff Guinn doesn’t like the expression “drinking the Kool-Aid.” First, he says, it’s inaccurate: Most of the 918 people ...
In this series, Newsweek reconstructs the events leading to the Jonestown Massacre as it happened in 1978, day by day. November 7, 1978: On the morning of Tuesday, November 7, U.S. Consul Doug Ellice ...