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 ...
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.
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 ...