More than 900 people died in the 1977 Jonestown massacre, the largest mass suicide in U.S. history Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses on human interest, crime and sports stories.

One-third of the dead at Jonestown were children; only 33 people survived Jones was a self-appointed minister and phony faith healer from the Midwest Unlike his followers, Jones was shot in the ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American ...

The Jonestown massacre of 1978 -- which happened 41 years ago today -- is the largest mass suicide in modern history Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses on human interest, crime ...

When Tim Reiterman set out to tell the story of the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown mass murders and suicides, he didn’t want to retread territory he’d covered with previous anniversary stories, or ...