“I just missed dying by one day,” she recalled. 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 ...

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

I. The Horror of Jonestown. I was sixteen years old, and just months into an emancipation that was all at once frightening, peaceful, and confusing. I had no idea what I was doing, but was ...

These survivors, due to happenstance or their own efforts, were all away from the Jonestown community in Guyana when Jones ordered his followers – starting with the young children – to drink flavored ...

Harvey Milk described Jonestown as “a beautiful retirement ... misled officials in Guyana into dismissing allegations against the lunatic in their midst, and biased State Department hands ...

a representative from the Guyana Tourism Authority, two local residents, two international journalists, a visitor from Norway, and a Californian traveller. The group journeyed to the Jonestown ...

Documentary that explores the circumstances that led to the deaths of more than 900 men, women and children in 1978 at the People's Temple in northern Guyana.

Nearly 50 years after the massacre at Jonestown, the South American country of Guyana is considering opening up the site for tourism. Former Bay Area Congresswoman Jackie Speier, who was shot five ...

Then, Guyana. Jonestown. A Utopian dream created especially for those disenfranchised or disenchanted by society – a dream that went terribly wrong – leaving over 900 people including 287 ...

When Samu Qureshi sits down in the middle of his 4,100-square-foot “museum” in Bethesda, the longtime Washington football fan is surrounded by his life’s work.