American Horror Story was created by Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy and produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series is unique from other such programs in that each season is a self-contained storyline with a different cast of characters and actors, though many cast members are recycled as different characters from season to season.
Episode 7x09, "Drink the Kool-Aid" presented an interpretation of the mass murder/suicide incident from 1978 when cult leader Jim Jones convinced 918 members of his cult to commit suicide by consuming a flavored drink laced with cyanide. Evan Peters portrays Jim Jones in the episode.
Evan Peters also portrays Marshall "Do" Applewhite, the leader of the Heaven's Gate commune, all of whom castrated themselves and committed suicide in Santa Fe, California on March 26th, 1997.
Evan Peters also portrays David Koresh who was a radical cult leader who maintained a commune of followers in Waco, Texas known as the Branch-Davidians. Members of the F.B.I. and A.T.F. raided the Branch-Davidian compound, Koresh was killed on April 19th, 1993 by a gunshot to the head. It remains unclear whether he was killed by Federal agents during the siege, or if he had committed suicide.