There had been discussions about a mass suicide. In some circles, there were practice drills,” one survivor recounted to The ...

Both American survivors of the mass suicide and murder and Guyanese have criticized the tour. But defenders say the site ...

Nearly 50 years after the Jonestown massacre shocked the world, the site of one of history's deadliest cult tragedies is now ...

Jonestown is seared into the American psyche as one the darkest tragedies of the modern era, where 918 people “drank the Kool Aid” and ended their lives under the command of cult leader Jim Jones.

Private tourism group offering (controversial) guided tours of site of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple in Guyana after decades of ...

Jonestown, the site in Guyana where more than 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones died in a mass murder-suicide in 1978, ...

A view of the People's Temple compound, Jonestown, Guyana, November 1978, where more than 900 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones committed suicide.

Vilchez, 67, said Guyana has every right to profit from any plans related to Jonestown. “Then on the other hand, I just feel like any situation where people were manipulated into their deaths ...

Guyana is planning on opening the site of the infamous Jonestown massacre up to tourists. AP Over 900 people died at Jonestown after orders from cult leader Rev. Jim Jones in 1978.

Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American country.

A view of the People's Temple compound, Jonestown, Guyana, November 1978, where more than 900 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones committed suicide.