Fifty years after the cult suicide, Guyana invites dark tourists to Jonestown

image: The Jonestown Institute, http://jonestown.sdsu.edu

On November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of the Peoples Temple, under the guidance of cult leader Rev. Jim Jones, killed themselves or were murdered in the jungles of Guyana. Five years before the mass suicide-murder though, Jones was a pillar of the San Francisco community, hobnobbing…