The black messianic leader, known as Father Divine, that Jim Jones admired.

In Guyana after the Jonestown massacre, with the survivors and the dead.

The rise of the Peoples Temple through the lens of an earlier group: Father Divine’s Peace Mission.

An early investigation into Jim Jones’ cult.

As divided families argued over whether to stay or go, Jones saw part of his congregation slipping away. Al Simon, father of three, wanted to take his children back to America. "No! No! No!" screamed his wife. Someone whispered to her: "Don't worry, we're going to take care of everything." Indeed, as reporters learned later from survivors, Jones had a plan to plant one or more fake defectors among the departing group, in order to attack them. He told some of his people that the Congressman's plane "will fall out of the sky."