Roughly 900 corpses lay before the Guyanese state pathologist Dr. Leslie Mootoo, one of the first on the scene at Jonestown. Arrayed in strangely uniform rows on the ground, the bodies were ...

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

Bodies of victims of Jonestown mass suicide are loaded from U.S. military helicopter at Georgetown's international airport. The corpses, in body bags, ...

The U.S. military clears some of the bodies from Jonestown. Used by permission of Preston Jones/John Brown University. The bodies of 408 victims are buried in a mass grave at Evergreen Cemetery in ...

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 ...

On Nov. 18, 1978, Jones orchestrated a ritual of mass murder and suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. Bodies of 911 massacre victims were brought to Dover Air Force Base, home to the U.S. military's ...

Bodies of victims of Jonestown mass suicide are loaded from U.S. military helicopter at Georgetown's international airport. The corpses, in body bags, will be transferred to shipping containers ...

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.

Until the September 11th attacks, the tragedy in Jonestown on November 18th, 1978 represented the largest number of American civilian casualties in a single non-natural event. It is unfathomable ...

Hundreds of children and a U.S. congressman died at Jonestown, and 911 decomposing bodies were brought to Dover Air Force Base, home to the U.S. military's largest mortuary.

"Jonestown wasn't set up for so many people - we were 1,000 ... and returned to find Guyanese national defence forces bringing out the body-bags for the secretary and her children.