But the history in question is macabre: the mass death of more than 900 people at the remote Jonestown settlement in Guyana nearly 50 years ago. And plans to bring tourists to the former cultist ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American country.

When Tim Reiterman set out to tell the story of the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown mass murders and suicides, he didn’t want to retread territory he’d covered with previous anniversary stories, or ...