There had been discussions about a mass suicide. In some circles, there were practice drills,” one survivor recounted to The ...

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.

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

Jonestown is seared into the American psyche as one the darkest tragedies of the modern era, where 918 people “drank the Kool Aid” and ended their lives under the command of cult leader Jim Jones.

On the other hand, Jim Jones instructed his followers to kill themselves and forced them to ingest poison. According to ABC News, they reportedly used cyanide for mass murder-suicide.The ...