Jonestown, the experimental settlement that existed for four years in Guyana, South America, initially sounded like a utopia, with all medical care, rent, and food taken care of. Instead, it was “a ...
Rebecca Moore was visiting relatives in Potter Valley in the late 1970s when she first met Jim Jones, then based in nearby Redwood Valley. "He was a strange man. Everyone around him had red eyes. I ...
Decades after over 900 followers of Jim Jones died in a mass murder-suicide at Jonestown, survivor Tracy Parks recounted her ...
Before Jackie Speier headed into the jungles of Guyana to investigate living conditions in a town created by Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones in 1978, she wrote her parents a letter that she tucked ...
On November 18, 1978, 918 members of Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple cult died in Jonestown, Guyana, in the single largest loss of American civilian lives in a deliberate act before 9/11. From the moment ...