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.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history. It happened to American citizens living in a religious cult ...

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 ...

A&E’s new documentary special Jonestown: The Women Behind The Massacre premieres Feb. 26 and focuses on the women who stood behind prophet leader Jim Jones. On Nov. 18, 1978, the mass murder-suicide ...

The facts haven’t changed in 38 years. On Nov. 18, 1978, more than 900 men, women and children died in a South American jungle, lured by the utopian promises of the group known as the Peoples Temple ...

Forty years later, even after the way it ended, there’s a part of Laura Johnston Kohl that still misses Jonestown. She’s standing in the living room of her San Marcos home, holding a framed photo that ...

THE OLD PEOPLES TEMPLE BUILDING COLLAPSED in the last big San Francisco earthquake, leaving behind nothing but an empty plot of land to mark its passing. I'd avoided the place for nearly 10 years -- ...

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(RNS) Thirty-eight years ago this week, more than 900 people died, most of them by 'revolutionary suicide,' at Jonestown, Guyana. A new film fleshes out the experiences of the African-American women ...