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 ...

Netflix is delving into one of America's most chilling true crime stories as it explores the cult of Jim Jones in a new ...

BOISE, Idaho -- In the 30 years since Clifford Gieg has seen his brother alive, he has never talked publicly about what happened. Until now. The Boise cabinet maker survived the Jonestown massacre -- ...

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In 1978, cult leader Jim Jones led one of the biggest mass murders in American history David Hume Kennerly/Getty The Jonestown Massacre is one of the largest mass death events in American history. On ...

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 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 ...

OAKLAND — Jonestown was the highlight of Mike Touchette’s life — for a time. The 21-year-old Indiana native felt pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana, South America. As a self-taught ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Jonestown was the highlight of Mike Touchette's life — for a time. The 21-year-old Indiana native felt pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana, South America. As a self ...

DIXON (CBS13) -- A controversial memorial for the massacre at Jonestown will include the name of mass murderer Jim Jones, and now one local Jonestown survivor is speaking out about it. Few can share ...

In this series, Newsweek reconstructs the events leading to the Jonestown Massacre as it happened in 1978, day by day. November 7, 1978: On the morning of Tuesday, November 7, U.S. Consul Doug Ellice ...

Until the September 11th attacks, the tragedy in Jonestown on November 18th, 1978 represented the largest number of American civilian casualties in a single non-natural event. It is unfathomable now, ...