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.

Congressman Leo Ryan and a small news crew went to Guyana in the Fall of 1978 to investigate concerns about Reverend Jim Jones and the religious compound he called Jonestown. Watch Dateline: Secrets ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial view of the Peoples Temple compound in Jonestown, Guyana in November 1978. Forty-three years ago, on November 18, 1978, ...

Thirty years ago today, the Rev. Jim Jones led more than 900 of his followers to commit mass suicide at the Peoples Temple compound in Jonestown, Guyana. It was a cultlike community cut into the ...

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 ...

A view of the People's Temple compound, Jonestown, Guyana, November 1978, where more than 900 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones committed suicide. GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana is revisiting a dark ...

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“Drinking the Kool-Aid” has long been common parlance for accepting the unacceptable, for buying into a program that defies common sense. But at the beginning there really was Kool-Aid: Jim Jones ...