Nearly 50 years after the Jonestown massacre shocked the world, the site of one of history's deadliest cult tragedies is now ...

More than 900 people --mostly followers of the American guru-reverend Jim Jones-- died, on November 18, 1978, in the largest mass suicide in the history of the American continent.

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

Congressman Leo Ryan went to Guyana in 1978 to investigate reports of American cult leader Jim Jones holding hundreds of his followers captive. Ryan didn't make it out of Jonestown alive.

Jones, founder of the Peoples Temple, leased land from Guyana’s government in 1974 and eventually moved nearly 1,000 ...