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.

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 ...

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.