Four decades after over 900 followers of Jim Jones committed suicide at Jonestown, survivor Tracy Parks recounts her escape from the horrors of the group's compound in the Guyana rainforest Johnny ...

Reports indicate that a cult leader, Jim Jones, established Jonestown in Guyana in 1974 and instructed his followers to move there. However, some of Jones’ followers killed a Congressman and his ...

One-third of the dead at Jonestown were children; only 33 people survived Jones was a self-appointed minister and phony faith healer from the Midwest Unlike his followers, Jones was shot in the ...

Before he became infamous as a murderous cult leader who led more than 900 of his Peoples Temple followers to suicide, Jim Jones (pictured in November 1978) was an advocate for the poor and ...

Jim Jones, borrowing a concept from Huey Newton ... Guyana 40 years ago “revolutionary suicide.” His indoctrinated followers regarded their nihilistic coda a political act.

Based upon the real life story of Reverend Jim Jones ... than face the charges against him, Jones committed suicide, and convinced virtually most of his followers to do the same.