Of the 918 Americans who died on Nov. 18, 1978, 907 of them ingested poison. Tim Carter was in a state of absolute shock. He had been told to go on an errand in the midst of a big, hastily-called ...
918 Americans lost their lives at Jonestown on Nov. 18, 1978. At the time of his death, Jim Jones held such power over his followers that he was able to direct more than 900 of them to participate in ...
Jim Jones was a complex man. A sideburned communist and occasional Methodist minister, fond of tinted glasses, he founded his own pseudo-church in Indianapolis in the late 1950s, the Peoples Temple ...
THE OLD PEOPLES TEMPLE BUILDING COLLAPSED in the last big San Francisco earthquake, leaving behind nothing but an empty plot of land to mark its passing. I'd avoided the place for nearly 10 years -- ...