The radio call came before the suicides began. On Nov. 18, 1978, Jim Jones Jr. was 18 years old and living in a Peoples Temple compound in Georgetown, Guyana, 150 miles from the Jonestown settlement. ...
Second of Three Parts "I'm 28 years old, and I am about to die." Could S.F.'s month of tragedies happen again? Disclaimer SF Gate polls are strictly surveys of those who choose to participate and are ...
First of Three Parts Thirty years ago, two unimaginable tragedies jolted San Francisco in less than a fortnight. On Nov. 18, 1978, more than 900 men, women and children - many of them poor African ...
ATLANTA (AP) The bombing of a prominent Atlanta synagogue in 1958 claimed no lives, but the community outrage that it prompted helped galvanize the city's nervous Jewish community to embrace the civil rights movement.
(10-13) 07:04 PDT ATLANTA (AP) -- The bombing of a prominent Atlanta synagogue in 1958 claimed no lives, but the community outrage that it prompted helped galvanize the city's nervous Jewish ...