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Documentary that explores the circumstances that led to the deaths of more than 900 men, women and children in 1978 at the People's Temple in northern Guyana.
“I just missed dying by one day,” she recalled. Vilchez, 67, said Guyana has every right to profit from any plans related to Jonestown. “Then on the other hand, I just feel like any ...
For the first time, Guyana has given its blessing for a tour company to start bringing visitors into what’s left of Jonestown ...
He and his followers called it Jonestown and also the PL, or The Promised Land. Also known to its residents as The Promised Land, it was a working farm carved out of the Guyana jungle in the 1970s.
GUYANA’S Jonestown was recently featured in an article on CNN Travel under the heading, “A first look into the heart of darkness; What it’s like visiting ...
Four decades after over 900 followers of Jim Jones committed suicide at Jonestown, survivor Tracy Parks recounts her escape from the horrors of the group's compound in the Guyana rainforest Johnny ...
The Jonestown massacre ... he moved them to a 3,800-acre jungle compound in South America (pictured in November 2011) that he’d leased from the government of Guyana, promising a vision of ...
These survivors, due to happenstance or their own efforts, were all away from the Jonestown community in Guyana when Jones ordered his followers – starting with the young children – to drink flavored ...