Leigh Fondakowski and Margo Hall write that all too often portrayals of the Jonestown Massacre focus only on Jim Jones when we actually need to hear the stories of survivors as well.

Jim Jones, the charismatic preacher who led the People's Temple in San Francisco, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Jonestown. He was 47. Former follower Yulanda Williams is speaking out.

Both American survivors of the mass suicide and murder and Guyanese have criticized the tour. But defenders say the site ...

Life under Jim Jones. To me, Jim Jones was always a gangster. If he didn't like people, he would have them beaten up, ... Eugene Smith is a Jonestown survivor and now lives in the U.S.

“Revolutionary”: That was the word Jim Jones used to describe the mass suicide he had planned for his followers at his eponymous compound in northern Guyana in 1978.

Indianapolis woman Hyacinth Thrash was said to be the Jonestown massacre's only survivor. ... Hyacinth Thrash was 52 years old and a lifelong Baptist in 1957 when she met the Rev. Jim Jones.

Thirty years ago, 909 Americans were led to their death by the Rev. Jim Jones in a mass murder-suicide pact in a South American jungle, shortly after Jones' gunmen killed a visiting U.S ...

Before Jackie Speier headed into the jungles of Guyana to investigate living conditions in a town created by Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones in 1978, she wrote her parents a letter that she ...

Four decades after over 900 followers of Jim Jones committed suicide at Jonestown, survivor Tracy Parks recounts her escape from the horrors of the group's compound in the Guyana rainforest ...

On Nov. 18, 1978, Jim Jones, the leader of the People's Temple, had ordered the deaths of 918 followers by cyanide poisoning; 304 of them were children. Wilson lost six of her family members.

Survivor discusses how hundreds travelled to join leader Jim Jones and died in mass murder-suicide Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser ...

Survivor Jackie Speier Had a Premonition About Jonestown. Then a Real-Life Nightmare Unfolded (Exclusive) ... Jim Jones in his office in San Francisco, California on July 3, 1976.