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 head, ...

The anniversary ceremony in East Oakland, where about four hundred Jonestown victims are buried, often gets some local media coverage, but the group that has branched away from the high-profile ...

Her two sisters and two nephews were among the victims. “I just missed dying by one day,” she recalled. Vilchez, 67, said Guyana has every right to profit from any plans related to Jonestown.

When Tim Reiterman set out to tell the story of the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown mass murders and suicides, he didn’t want to retread territory he’d covered with previous anniversary stories, or ...

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 ...