There had been discussions about a mass suicide. In some circles, there were practice drills,” one survivor recounted to The ...

Tim Carter's brother-in-law Lew Jones, who was the adopted son of Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones, is pictured with his son Chaeoke Jones at Jonestown in 1977. Lew Jones and his son died at Jonestown.

Both American survivors of the mass suicide and murder and Guyanese have criticized the tour. But defenders say the site ...

David Lindquist:Why infamous Hoosier Jim Jones shows up on the new Foo Fighters album A survivor story: She woke up in Jonestown — everyone was dead The founding of the People's Temple. After ...

Tim Carter's brother-in-law Lew Jones, who was the adopted son of Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones, is pictured with his son Chaeoke Jones at Jonestown in 1977. Lew Jones and his son died at Jonestown.

Surviving members of the Peoples Temple Choir recount the joyous creation of their private-press gospel LP and the tragedy that followed. California Historical Society, PC 010.08.0912 ...

In this photo from 1974, the Rev. Jim Jones (in red shirt) leads Peoples Temple members through cleared grounds of the future Jonestown site in Guyana. Jones leads chimpanzee Mr. Muggs, ...

In 1978 the Calif. Congresswoman, then a congressional attorney, was nearly killed in a savage attack while on a fact-finding mission into Jim Jones and the People's Temple cult. CBS News ...

Bodies lie around the Peoples Temple compound in Guyana on Nov. 18, 1978, after more than 900 members of the temple, led by Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.

Jim Jones, the charismatic preacher who led the People's Temple in San Francisco, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Jonestown. He was 47. Former follower Yulanda Williams is speaking out.

As temple involvement in money-laundering schemes became apparent, rumors of child and sexual abuse emerged and media scrutiny intensified, Jones opted for the privacy of the jungles, a hundred ...

Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple was responsible for the largest mass murder-suicide in history at his remote Jonestown ...