Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looking back on the Jonestown massacre today, the horror is almost unfathomable. On Nov. 18, 1978, Jim Jones orchestrated the mass ...

(Editor’s Note: Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of a still-shocking mass-killing that left more than 900 people dead in “Jonestown,” a remote settlement in Guyana founded by cult leader Jim Jones.

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In this series, Newsweek reconstructs the events leading to the Jonestown Massacre as it happened in 1978, day by day.

That some of the most vital documents from Jonestown were audio-only probably explain the utterly purposeless reenactments that are scattered throughout, never adding anything of value and never quite ...

Moore has spent the three decades since Jonestown challenging that perception, writing books, spearheading the annual "Jonestown Report" and overseeing a Web site that offers firsthand accounts of ...