Jonestown
Almost four decades after Jonestown, an author looks back to look forward
By Kimberly Winston — November 17, 2017
(RNS) — A madman, a church, many people dead. It's not 2017 and Sutherland Springs. It's nearly 40 years since the November day in 1978 when the Rev. Jim Jones led more than 908 people to their deaths — some by suicide, some by murder. Jeff Guinn, author of 'The Road to Jonestown,' connects the dots.
New film focuses on African-American women in Jonestown deaths
By Kimberly Winston — November 17, 2016
(RNS) Thirty-eight years ago this week, more than 900 people died, most of them by 'revolutionary suicide,' at Jonestown, Guyana. A new film fleshes out the experiences of the African-American women who died there.
COMMENTARY: 35 years after Jonestown
By A. James Rudin — November 14, 2013
(RNS) Even as the Peoples Temple massacre 35 years ago fades into history, Jonestown is a bitter reminder of what happens when people surrender their emotional and moral independence and become spiritual slaves to evil leaders who guarantee salvation, eternal life and utopia either here on earth or in the great beyond.
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