Forty years ago Sunday, a young Jackie Speier was shot and left for dead on an airstrip in Guyana, after helping her boss — Rep. Leo Ryan — rescue 25 cult members from a deadly cult commune known as ...
Forty-five years later, what happened in Guyana, South America, is still shocking. More than 900 members of the Peoples Temple organization, a former San Francisco-based Disciples of Christ ...
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(Editor’s Note: Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of a still-shocking mass-killing that left more than 900 people dead in “Jonestown,” a remote settlement in Guyana founded by cult leader Jim Jones.
Disclaimer: This article contains mentions of suicide and murder. Reader discretion is advised. An episode of Dateline: Secrets Uncovered, titled “An American Tragedy”, will air on Oxygen on Wednesday ...
Above the stage where the Reverend Jim Jones addressed over 900 members of the Peoples Temple church for the final time, compelling them to leave behind the conditions of an inhumane world and commit ...
A new overnight tour in South America pitches “a journey through history” that will offer a chance to reflect and discover local culture. But the history in question is macabre: the mass death of more ...
Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment of a five-part series on the life of Bay City native Shirlee A. Fields (nee Miller), who was among 918 people who died in a mass murder-suicide in ...
It's the massacre that inspired the expression "drinking the Kool-Aid": In 1978, Jim Jones masterminded the largest mass suicide in modern history. Jones, a charismatic preacher who taught racial ...