Forty years ago, on Nov. 18, 1978, more than 900 members of cult group People’s Temple were led by its leader Jim Jones to commit mass suicide by cyanide in the Jonestown settlement of Guyana ...

Tim Carter's brother-in-law Lew Jones, who was the adopted son of Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones, is pictured with his son Chaeoke Jones at Jonestown in 1977. Lew Jones and his son died at Jonestown.

Jim was the Rev. Jim Jones — charismatic, volatile and ultimately evil. It was he who dreamed up Jonestown, he who willed it into being, and he who brought it down.

Hyacinth Thrash was 52 years old and a lifelong Baptist in 1957 when she met the Rev. Jim Jones. They both lived in Indianapolis. He had a church at 1502 N. New Jersey St. He called it the Peoples ...

In 1978, cult leader Jim Jones led one of the deadliest mass murders in American history. Here is everything to know about the true story of the horrific Jonestown Massacre.

The bodies of Jim and Marceline Jones were cremated, their ashes scattered over the Atlantic. Charles Garry and Mark Lane emerged from the jungle on November 19 bedraggled and bickering.

Here are 13 little-known facts about Jonestown. Jim Jones’ Cruelty and Madness Were Rooted in His Childhood. People have wondered how Jim Jones, a man who preached racial and social equality, ...

The Rev. Jim Jones and his wife, Marceline, taken from a photo album left behind in Jonestown, Guyana. Bettmann Archive Leslie Wagner-Wilson was 19 when she moved to Guyana with her family.

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 ...

But by the time Jones and many of his followers completed a lengthy relocation from California to Jonestown in Guyana in 1977, he had begun to change as a speaker. His trademark passionate ...

Subsequently, Jim Jones told everyone to be a part of the cult murder and gave them cyanide. The Jonestown Massacre death toll went up with each minute passing. Per ABC News, 907 out of 918 people ...