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

Bodies of victims of Jonestown mass suicide are loaded from U.S. Army helicopter at Georgetown’s international airport on Nov. 23, 1978.

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.

The site of a chilling cult massacre, which resulted in the deaths of over 900 people nearly half a century ago, has been ...

Just before departure, a dump truck with Jones’ henchmen appeared on the airstrip and opened fire on one plane. A Temple gunman pretending to be a defector was on board the other plane and began ...

What it was like to be first on the scene after the Jonestown massacre Some of the first people to touch down in Guyana in November 1978 remember what they saw at the scene where over 900 people died.

Find out more about the new tour set to take tourists to the site of the 1978 Jonestown massacre in Guyana, and what survivors think.

After the airstrip shooting, Jones summoned his congregation to the compound’s open-air pavilion, telling them that soldiers would soon be “parachuting” into Jonestown to kill everyone.

What do you wish people understood about Jonestown, nearly 46 years later? The church that Jim Jones had in San Francisco was actually under investigation for stealing people’s money, taking ...

The Jonestown massacre in 1978 left more than 900 dead in Guyana, a country in South America. Now, that country is considering turning that site into a tourist attraction.