SF News Memorial for 45th Anniversary of Jonestown in East Oakland Saturday Remembers Victims, Honors Survivors A memorial event for the Jonestown massacre brought out survivors and victims' family members, although some disagreed about the inclusion of Jones' name on a memorial plaque.
SF Politics Rep. Jackie Speier, Whose Political Career Began at Jonestown, Announces Retirement at Age 71 "It's time for me to come home, time for me to be more than a weekend wife, mother and friend," said longtime Bay Area Congresswoman Jackie Speier.
Arts & Entertainment Uh Oh: Leonardo DiCaprio Reportedly Set to Play Jim Jones In Jonestown Flick Oscar-winner and meme star Leonardo DiCaprio is reportedly in final-stage talks to play evangelist cult leader Jim Jones — and with the families of Jonestown victims still alive all across the Bay Area, this could be cause for some fresh heartache and controversy.
Arts & Entertainment The 9 Most Infamous Cults In The Bay Area 'Cult' is a word that gets thrown around casually a lot to describe everything from Mormonism to Soul Cycle. But here in the Bay Area there's been a special affinity for cultism, and
SF News Remembering Jonestown And Why We Should Stop Saying 'Drink The Kool-Aid' This week marks the 36th anniversary of the deadly event we now simply call Jonestown. The horrifying tragedy was a national one, but it's one that belonged to the Bay Area, where the
SF News Five More Jonestown Victims Identified Among Ashes Found In Delaware In an update to the sad and morbid story about the trove of labeled and unlabeled cremains from Jonestown victims, five more of the nine unidentified remains have now been ID'd. As USA
SF News Cremated Remains Of Nine Jonestown Victims Discovered In Delaware More than 30 years after the tragic mass suicide that took the lives of 911 Bay Area residents at Jonestown, in Guyana, the cremated remains of nine of the dead turned up in
SF News Remembering Jonestown: Post Office Renamed / Memorial Unveiled Today was the 30-year anniversary of the Jonestown massacre. Days before more than 900 member of the Peoples Temple church committed suicide or were murdered in Guyana, former congressman Leo Ryan was killed