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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Caroline welcomes prize-winning LA Times journalist Tim Reiterman, author of the recently re-published "Raven-The Untold Story of the Rev Jim Jones and His People." Reiterman was wounded on the jungle ...

As visitors pull up to the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, they encounter three uniformed guards with rifles slung over their shoulders. Each vehicle is searched before it can proceed ...

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