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

Jonestown is seared into the American psyche as one the darkest tragedies of the modern era, where 918 people “drank the Kool Aid” and ended their lives under the command of cult leader Jim Jones.

Months ago, when tickets went on sale for the Brian Jonestown Massacre's only U.S. show this summer (at New York's Terminal 5), I said to someone I was trying to persuade to go, "This could be a ...

San Clemente resident Ed Norwood said that looking at old photos of his cousins and family members is still “deeply painful.”. Norwood lost 27 of his family members in the Jonestown massacre ...

Society; Feature; July 15, 2021; In the Image of Jonestown In the Image of Jonestown In our flattened historical imagination, pictures of atrocity and those of progress can coincide in unsettling ...

The letter sent to NBC from The People's Temple on November 4, 1978. Jones accuses the media of a 'McCarthy-like web'. Julia Scheeres. But there was another reason Jones' inner circle was nervous ...

The pictures of Jonestown go through my mind everyday. So when I visualize a picture now it just brings it to the forefront of what was lost. And that's, ...

Jonestown, Then and Now Jonestown is infamous for a mass suicide in 1978. Now, the city is trying to overcome that image. Here are photos from the town 30 years ago and today.Read related article ...

Rep. Jackie Speier knows exactly how it feels to be left for dead. On Nov. 18, 1978, she was shot five times on a remote airstrip in Guyana, South America. Her boss, Rep. Leo J. Ryan and four ...