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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 ...
Flynn’s new book Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco (ISI Books) is a bold, at times shocking work of revisionist history that challenges what we think we ...
Nearly 50 years after the Jonestown massacre shocked the world, the site of one of history's deadliest cult tragedies is now ...
Bodies lie around the Peoples Temple compound in Guyana on Nov. 18, 1978, after more than 900 members of the temple, led by Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple was responsible for the largest mass murder-suicide in history at his remote Jonestown ...
In 1978, cult leader Jim Jones led one of the deadliest mass murders in American history. Here is everything to know about the true story of the horrific Jonestown Massacre.
The Jonestown massacre remains one of the largest mass murders in American history. In a single day, 901 Americans and 8 Guyanese died from Jim Jones’ actions. Met with criticism rather than ...
Jones, founder of the Peoples Temple, leased land from Guyana’s government in 1974 and eventually moved nearly 1,000 followers and children from California to an agricultural commune that ...