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.
The place where they fell was Jonestown, a remote commune in north-western Guyana named after its founder, Jim Jones - the evil architect of this terrible tragedy. He promised them it would be ...
This re-creation would include for example, the main meeting hall, Jim Jones’ residence, “The Box” (a 6’x4′ foot underground enclosure, where Jonestown’s offenders were allegedly ...
Roselyn Sewcharran, Wanderlust’s owner, said the idea for the Jonestown tour came out of questions that clients often asked about the site, where American cult leader Jim Jones forced his ...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and ... what happened in Jonestown." He recalled how one survivor proposed a personal ...
He was the first Guyanese Jim Jones converted following Jones’ performing a miracle healing at an “advertisement” revival meeting in Georgetown. Tourism at Jonestown should teach Guyana and ...
In short, Jonestown was a cult – the so-called Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ – which was founded in Indiana by the preacher Jim Jones in ... the cult’s few survivors (aged ...
The Jonestown massacre in 1978 left more than ... against their will at the People's Temple founded by cult leader Jim Jones. Speier said if there is to be a memorial for the victims, it should ...
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.