OAKLAND, Calif.OAKLAND, Calif. — On the 30th anniversary of the Jonestown disaster Tuesday, organizers of an annual memorial service displayed the first panels of a 36-foot-long stone wall that is to ...

A documentary on the deaths of 909 persons during the apocalyptic end of the Jim Jones Peoples Temple cult in Guyana in November 1978 could easily feel like rubbernecking at a particularly gruesome ...

Leslie Wagner-Wilson escaped death at age 22 when she strapped her 3-year-old son, Jakari, to her back and trekked over 30 miles through the jungles of Guyana with nine others. On Nov. 18, 1978, Jim ...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Twenty-five years ago, Leslie Cathey strapped her baby boy to her back and fled into the jungle of Guyana -- away from Jonestown and the imminent disaster that would take more than ...

San Clemente resident Ed Norwood said that looking at old photos of his cousins and family members is still “deeply painful.” Norwood lost 27 of his family members in the Jonestown massacre, the ...

Months ago, when tickets went on sale for the Brian Jonestown Massacre‘s only U.S. show this summer (at New York’s Terminal 5), I said to someone I was trying to persuade to go, “This could be a ...