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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jim Jones was the architect of the Jonestown massacre, in which 918 people died Jeff Guinn doesn’t like the expression “drinking the Kool-Aid.” First, he says, it’s inaccurate: Most of the 918 people ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.