No one knows more about the Jonestown massacre than journalist Tim Reiterman. He began investigating Reverend Jim Jones, the twisted leader of the Peoples Temple cult, for the San Francisco Chronicle ...

A newsman who witnessed the carnage at Jonestown talks about the People’s Temple, the power of images and the state of news. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to ...

Before readers contacted news reporters via e-mail, online comments and Twitter, there was snail mail. And in the late 1970s, Tim Reiterman, a former reporter and editor for The San Francisco Examiner ...

TIM REITERMAN Associated Press Writer Dark clouds tumbled overhead on that afternoon 30 years ago, in the last hours of the congressman’s mission deep in the jungle of Guyana. This Nov. 1978 ...

Dark clouds tumbled overhead on that afternoon 30 years ago, in the last hours of the congressman's mission deep in the jungle of Guyana. With a small entourage, Rep. Leo Ryan had come to investigate ...

Thirty years ago today, the Rev. Jim Jones led more than 900 of his followers to commit mass suicide at the Peoples Temple compound in Jonestown, Guyana. It was a cultlike community cut into the ...