Articles
Q&A: A Jonestown Survivor Remembers
No one knows more about the Jonestown massacre than journalist Tim Reiterman. He began investigating Reverend Jim Jones, the twisted leader of the Peoples Temple...
Time Essay: The Lure of Doomsday
The Jonestown story, like some Joseph Conrad drama of fanaticism and moral emptiness, has gone directly into popular myth. It will be remembered as an...
Nation: The Press Abroad: Aghast
IS SATAN DEAD? This stark headline on the cover of London's prestigious Economist was typical of the foreign press reaction to the Jonestown massacre. As so...
Nation: The Horror Lives On
A search for answers to the questions of Jonestown The grisly remains of Jonestown's dead had been brought to the U.S. and stacked tidily in coffin-like...
Nightmare in Jonestown
"The large central building was ringed by bright colors. It looked like a parking lot filled with cars. When the plane dipped lower, the cars turned out to...
A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 4, 1978
New York Bureau Chief Donald Neff and Photographer David Hume Kennerly heard the bulletin in Miami early Sunday morning: a Congressman had been killed on a...
Did Jeb Bush Actually Say That?
We may be reaching critical mass in the belief that this pathetic field of Republican candidates has jumped the shark…even many Republicans have come to that...
5 Things You Should Know About.
MUSIC Hilary Hahn Schoenberg, Sibelius Violin Concertos; out now At the ripe age of 28, Hahn has been a world-class violinist for more than a decade. How much...
Following His Leader
Will Hong Kong follow Beijing's lead and ban Falun Gong? The territory's leaders are sending out mixed signals. Last week, Sir Donald Tsang, head of Hong Kong's...
THE MARKER WE'VE BEEN...WAITING FOR
"PLANET EARTH ABOUT TO BE RECYCLED. YOUR ONLY CHANCE TO SURVIVE--LEAVE WITH US." --DO, LEADER OF HEAVEN'S GATE If a group of people are going to choose to die...
Photo Essays
Mass Suicide at Jonestown: 30 Years Later
On November 18, 1978, 909 men, women and children died in "revolutionary suicide" at Jim Jones' Peoples Temple in Guyana
