Entertainment Critic The Jonestown massacre is so well known that the phrase “drink the Kool-Aid” has become part of the American vernacular—a fact that still rankles Stephan Jones ...

That really strikes to the heart of how the community functioned.” Jones’ son, Stephan G. Jones, advises taking Shirlee’s writings with a grain of salt. By the time they were penned ...

She speaks to Stephan, who was in Guyana’s capital, Georgetown, when the killing began. She also interviews Yulanda Williams, who was a follower of Jones’s group The Peoples Temple of the ...

“What you see in the media about my father,” Stephan Jones says in the documentary, “one who didn’t experience the temple can’t help but think, ‘Why would anybody follow that gu ...

In 1978, cult leader Jim Jones led one of the biggest mass murders in American history David Hume Kennerly/Getty The Jonestown Massacre is one of the largest mass death events in American history.

Two of the most important interviews were with Jim Jones’ son Stephan, who had a very contentious relationship with his father and was stationed at a Peoples Temple outpost in the Guyanese city ...