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 ...

Bodies of victims of Jonestown mass suicide are loaded from U.S. Army helicopter at Georgetown’s international airport on Nov. 23, 1978. The corpses, in body bags, ...

Arriving at Jonestown on November 20, Washington Post reporter Charles Krause did not immediately register the mass of colors on the ground below as an unfathomable number of human bodies.“It ...

FILE–U.S. military personnel place bodies in coffins at the airport in Georgetown, Guyana after 900 members of the People’s Temple committed suicide in Jonestown, Guyana in Nov. 1978.

Jim Jones’ ‘throne’ in the Jonestown pavilion surrounded by bodies in the massacre aftermath. Jim Jones in trademark sunglasses as land is cleared in Guyana for his so-called utopian commune.

Guyana wants to turn site of Jonestown massacre that killed over 900 into tourist attraction: ... An aerial view of the ...

Guyana wants to turn site of Jonestown massacre that killed over 900 into tourist attraction: ... An aerial view of the Peoples Temple compound in Guyana after the bodies were removed in 1978. AP.

McGehee noted that dark tourism is popular, and that going to Jonestown means tourists could say they visited a place where more than 900 people died on the same day. “It’s the prurient ...