Jonestown, the experimental settlement that existed for four years in Guyana, South America, initially sounded like a utopia, with all medical care, rent, and food taken care of. Instead, it was “a ...
PORT KAITUMA, Guyana — What makes a tragedy worth revisiting? Nearly 50 years after the mass murder-suicide in the settlement known as Jonestown, all that remains in the remote Guyanese jungle is a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Decades before Charles Manson’s followers spread terror in Los Angeles and Jim Jones orchestrated mass suicide in Guyana, a bearded mystic named Thomas Lake Harris ...
Of the 918 Americans who died on Nov. 18, 1978, 907 of them ingested poison. Tim Carter was in a state of absolute shock. He had been told to go on an errand in the midst of a big, hastily-called ...
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