Jim Jones, American cult leader who proclaimed himself messiah of an evangelist group named the Peoples Temple. He led his followers to the South American country of Guyana and eventually ordered them to drink a cyanide-laced beverage as part of a mass m
Jonestown, location of the mass murder-suicide of the California-based Peoples Temple cult at the behest of their charismatic but paranoid leader, Jim Jones, in Jonestown agricultural commune, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. The death toll exceeded 900, ma
living in Jonestown. Jones claimed he had sired the boy and that he would never give him up. Stoen hired a lawyer to start custody proceedings. For Jones, it was just another measure of how far they would go. Traitors were playing with children’s lives, using a six-y...
Jim Jones and the Jonestown MassacreThe Cabin Kevin Jones
Jones had been around the local schools for about three years when he brought Anderson Valley into the melting-pot mainstream. He had worked part-time at the elementary school and subbed at the high school. As I recall we had him fairly often one year in Spanish class. It took a while ...
Revisit the tragic and infamous Jonestown massacre in the new trailer for an upcoming docuseries that examines the final hours of Jim Jones’ cult in Guyana.Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown — the latest installment in Nat Geo and Hulu’s One Day in America franchise — features rare archi...
THE SONS OF JONESTOWN They survived the massacre their father staged in 1978, but Stephan Jones and Jim Jones Jr. are still struggling with his grim legacyIrene Sege, Globe Staff