On Nov. 18, 1978, 909 members of the Peoples Temple cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, committed mass suicide at Jonestown, their Guyana-based settlement. Additional victims, including the late ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and more than ... profit from any plans related to Jonestown. "Then on the other hand ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after US Rev. Jim Jones and more than ... profit from any plans related to Jonestown. “Then on the other hand ...

This division stems from a fundamental disagreement on how to commemorate Jonestown — a tension greatly exacerbated by the controversial inclusion of Reverend Jim Jones’ name in the new ...

including the adopted black son of the Rev. Jim Jones. He also focused on those who grew up in the Peoples Temple, or joined as teenagers. These survivors, due to happenstance or their own efforts, ...

Picture of a welcome sign at the entrance of Jonestown, Guyana ... 900 people --mostly followers of the American guru-reverend Jim Jones-- died, on November 18, 1978, in the largest mass suicide ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after American Rev. Jim Jones and more than ... from any plans related to Jonestown. "Then on the other hand ...

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.

He joined a well-known religious sect, the Disciples of Christ, and called himself the Reverend James Jones. In his early twenties he apparently grew restless with the discipline of the ...

Roselyn Sewcharran, Wanderlust’s owner, said the idea for the Jonestown tour came out of questions that clients often asked about the site, where American cult leader Jim Jones forced his ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers ... said Guyana has every right to profit from any ...