Decades after over 900 followers of Jim Jones died in a mass murder-suicide at Jonestown, survivor Tracy Parks recounted her ...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (WKRC) - A local government expressed interest in turning the site of the Jonestown massacre, which killed over 900 people, into a tourist destination. The city of Georgetown and ...
On a remote airstrip in the South American country of Guyana, Jackie Speier lay gravely wounded behind the wheel of a small plane. The 28-year-old legal adviser to a California congressman had been ...
In 1954, Infamous cult leader Jim Jones established the People’s Temple Full Gospel Church in Indianapolis as a pastor. Known for his charismatic preaching and idealistic views, Jones quickly ...
"I think if I were in Jonestown and I saw 900 people who I loved make a choice, I can't imagine wanting to survive that. We ...
The reality of what transpired was far more nuanced — as was life in Jonestown since establishment of the failed utopian community in 1974. Even as popular culture has slowly started to shift away ...
McGehee noted that dark tourism is popular, and that going to Jonestown means tourists could say they visited a place where more than 900 people died on the same day. Followers of cult leader Jim ...
Rebecca Moore was visiting relatives in Potter Valley in the late 1970s when she first met Jim Jones, then based in nearby Redwood Valley. "He was a strange man. Everyone around him had red eyes. I ...