Some tragedies lose their power to shock with the passage of time. That’s not true of what’s become known as the Jonestown massacre. Forty years ago, on Nov. 18, 1978, self-styled holy man Jim Jones ...

Jim Jones of the People's Temple ordered followers to drink poison Kool-Aid. Nov. 18, 2012— -- From the age of 13, Leslie Wagner Wilson had been indoctrinated in the California-based Peoples ...

In this series, Newsweek reconstructs the events leading to the Jonestown Massacre as it happened in 1978, day by day. November 1, 1978: Congressman Leo Ryan, a 53-year-old Democrat from San Mateo, ...

This story was originally published in 1998, and the radio documentary originally aired in 1981. On Nov. 18, 1978, more than 900 men, women, and children — followers of cult leader Jim Jones — died ...

In this series, Newsweek reconstructs the events leading to the Jonestown Massacre as it happened in 1978, day by day. November 8, 1978: On November 8, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article ...

Roughly 900 corpses lay before the Guyanese state pathologist Dr. Leslie Mootoo, one of the first on the scene at Jonestown. Arrayed in strangely uniform rows on the ground, the bodies were rapidly ...

A survivor of the infamous suicide-murder Jonestown massacre in 1978 recently recalled how she escaped as some 900 people lost their lives. Tracy Parks, who was just 12 years old, recalled holding her ...

Rumors had already spread that Jim Jones’ socialist community in the Guyana jungle was no utopia. There were reports that followers had been strong-armed into staying put — some of them forced to sign ...

Bill Hader is back at HBO. Per Variety and confirmed by IndieWire, the “Barry” creator is co-writing a series about Jonestown, AKA the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project founded by cult leader Jim ...

The daughter of a woman killed trying to escape from Jonestown — shortly before 900 followers of Jim Jones committed suicide — was haunted by the tragedy until her death Johnny Dodd is a senior writer ...

It’s only a small cadre of Jonestown survivors and former Peoples Temple members represented here, but with a couple of exceptions, they each serve a clear purpose in the telling of this story.