Syringes surround one of the vats used to mix up the poisoned drink used in the Jonestown mass suicide, as seen in this Nov. 26, 1978, photo. Bottles of poison belonging to members of the Peoples ...
But the history in question is macabre: the mass death of more than 900 people at the remote Jonestown settlement in Guyana nearly 50 years ago. And plans to bring tourists to the former cultist ...
These survivors, due to happenstance or their own efforts, were all away from the Jonestown community in Guyana when Jones ordered his followers – starting with the young children – to drink flavored ...
SAN MATEO, Calif. - It's a dark chapter in history. The Jonestown massacre in 1978 left more than 900 dead in Guyana, a country in South America. Now, that country is considering turning that site ...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American country.