The move was dubbed “revolutionary suicide” by Jones, as heard on tapes recovered ... outside the home of Rev. Jim Jones, seen in a Nov. 26, 1978, photo in Jonestown, Guyana.

In the commune’s audio tapes, children and those who ... the Guardian reported. Jim Jones lured followers into Jonestown with the promise of a utopian society. He combined the concepts of ...

"There’s a tape from the end of October and a woman ... McGehee went on to paint a picture of the terrifying regime that was Jim Jones’ Jonestown. "During some meetings they would ...

Jim Jones was a complex man. A sideburned communist and occasional Methodist minister, fond of tinted glasses, he founded his own pseudo-church in Indianapolis in the late 1950s, the Peoples ...

Jim Jones and his guards were known to preside over Jonestown with a combination of ... now dubbed as the 'Death Tapes', many of Jones' followers wept and protested this order but were forcibly ...

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.

His condition was getting severe, and one of his clergy friends told him about the People’s Temple and how its leader, Jim ... Jones to summon his followers to a promised land known as Jonestown ...

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 ...