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 ...

Nearly 50 years after the Jonestown massacre shocked the world, the site of one of history's deadliest cult tragedies is now ...

Jonestown cult leader Jim Jones was bisexual & friends with Harvey Milk. The mass murder-suicide was the largest casualty of American citizens before 9/11.

The Guyanese site of the Jonestown massacre, where over 900 people either died by mass suicide or murder in connection with ...

CULT LEADER Jim Jones led over 900 people to their deaths in November 1978. Let's take a look at the mass murderer who was responsible for the Jonestown massacre.

One of the most gruesome and disturbing events in U.S. history was the mass murder–suicide of Jim Jones’ cult following, the largest non-natural mass death of Americans until the September 11 th ...

This Nov. 1978 file photo shows bodies of followers of cult leader Jim Jones are seen at the Jonestown commune in Guyana, where more than 900 members of the People's Temple committed suicide. (AP ...

It has been almost 30 years since the mass suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, shocked the world. Now a new documentary sheds light on Rev. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of the Peoples Temple, and ...

One of the most infamous examples of a soul-crushing disaster is what happened at Jonestown. Over 900 people died when cult leader Jim Jones ordered them to end their lives, though some rebelled ...

Jim Jones was a charismatic and highly manipulative cult leader who founded the Peoples Temple church Credit: Bettmann - Corbis. By the 1970s, he had temples in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, left, is reportedly in final talks to play Jonestown cult leader Jim Jones in a movie about the mass suicide he orchestrated in 1978. (AP Photos) By .

Cult leader Jim Jones in Jonestown in 1978, the year he would cause the deaths of nearly a thousand (AP) As the film shows, the roots of the tragedy date back to 1955 when Jones first formed The ...