GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — 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 ...

NOV. 21, 1978 -- GEORGETOWN, Guyana (UPI) -- The Rev. Jim Jones, head of the fanatical cult that killed a U.S. congressman and four other people, led his family and hundreds of American disciples to ...

I was only 10 years old when I watched the 1980 made-for-television movie "Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones." My parents and older siblings were actually the ones watching this fact-based film ...

Reverend Jim Eakle, 88 of Davisville, WV, passed away April 19, 2025, at his residence. He was born Aug. 15, 1936, at Lawford, WV, in Ritchie county the son of the late Charles Edward and Lola Frances ...

Once there, it's another 6 miles via a rough and overgrown dirt trail to the abandoned commune and former agricultural settlement. The Peoples Temple compound is shown in November 1978 after the ...

The commune they created was named in honor of the cult's founder and religious leader, a charismatic figure in dark glasses named the Reverend Jim Jones. While the news media treated the Jonestown ...