DOVER, Del. — More than 35 years after the infamous suicide-murder of some 900 people — many forced to drink a cyanide-laced grape punch — in Jonestown, Guyana, the cremated remains of nine of the ...

"I think if I were in Jonestown and I saw 900 people who I loved make a choice, I can't imagine wanting to survive that. We ...

On a remote airstrip in the South American country of Guyana, Jackie Speier lay gravely wounded behind the wheel of a small plane. The 28-year-old legal adviser to a California congressman had been ...

Minutes before the Jonestown massacre began, a 12-year-old girl fled into the jungle with four other children as gunmen opened fire on the airstrip, killing her mother and several others. For three ...

A tour operator is planning to turn Jonestown, a remote area in Guyana surrounded by jungle where more than 900 people died under the direction of cult leader Jim Jones, into a tourist destination.

San Clemente resident Ed Norwood said that looking at old photos of his cousins and family members is still “deeply painful.” Norwood lost 27 of his family members in the Jonestown massacre, the ...

The site of one of the 20th century’s most infamous mass murders may soon become a tourist attraction: Should private tour operators get their way, Jonestown will be open to curious and macabre ...

Laura Kohl was one of the few survivors of the Jonestown massacre in 1978, when cult leader Jim Jones ordered his followers ...

A revolution in telecommunication history occurred on November 18, 1963, with the use of push-button telephones. Introduced by the Bell System, these new phones replaced the rotary dial mechanism and ...