The Road to Jonestown. As the Peoples Temple grew throughout the 1960s, Jones’s sermons became much more dystopian. He began to preach about an impending nuclear apocalypse (which, during the ...

While there is some background on the Peoples Temple, and how Jones was able to bring together people from different races, professions and socioeconomic strata, November 18 is the focus.

Forty-five years have passed since the Jonestown Massacre, where more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple cult were compelled by their leader, Jim Jones, to commit mass suicide by cyanide in a ...

A collage of photos showing the Rev. Jim Jones and Peoples Temple members during the earlier years of the movement. Jones' wife, Marceline Jones, is seated beside him in the upper left photo.