women and children died in agony after poisoning themselves on the orders of a power-crazed cult leader who convinced them he was the Second Coming. The place where they fell was Jonestown ...

The Jonestown Peoples Temple massacre is one of the most infamous events in modern memory. News of the deaths of nearly 1,000 ...

A tour operator is planning to turn Jonestown, a remote area in Guyana surrounded by jungle where more than 900 people died under the direction of cult leader Jim Jones, into a tourist destination.

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 ...

The Jonestown massacre in 1978 left more than 900 ... were being held against their will at the People's Temple founded by cult leader Jim Jones. Speier said if there is to be a memorial for ...

Roselyn Sewcharran, Wanderlust’s owner, said the idea for the Jonestown tour came out of questions that clients often asked about the site, where American cult leader Jim Jones forced his ...

When Tim Reiterman set out to tell the story of the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown mass murders and suicides, he didn’t want to retread territory he’d covered with previous anniversary stories, or ...

1. Cult Massacre: One Day In Jonestown (2024) The People’s Temple, founded by the charismatic and authoritarian leader Jim Jones, is a stark example of how psychological mind control tactics can ...

Mrs. Speier, who was in Guyana when 913 persons including Ryan perished, said she believes the Jonestown cult mass Rose Sewcharran, director of Wanderlust Adventures, the private tour operator who ...