Jim Jones, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jim Jones

American founder and the leader of the Peoples Temple

Date of Birth: 13-May-1931

Place of Birth: Randolph County, Indiana, United States

Date of Death: 18-Nov-1978

Profession: murderer, peace activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Jim Jones

  • James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American civil rights preacher, faith healer, and cult leader who conspired with his inner circle to direct a mass suicide and mass murder of his followers in his jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana.
  • He launched the Peoples Temple in Indiana during the 1950s.
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  • Jones was ordained in 1956 by the Independent Assemblies of God and in 1964 by the Disciples of Christ.
  • He moved his congregation to California in 1965 and gained notoriety with its activities in San Francisco in the 1970s.
  • He then left the United States, bringing many members to a Guyana jungle commune. In 1978, media reports surfaced of human rights abuses in the Peoples Temple in Jonestown.
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  • Representative Leo Ryan led a delegation to the commune to investigate.
  • Ryan and others were murdered by gunfire while boarding a return flight with some former cult members who had wished to leave.
  • Jones then ordered and likely coerced a mass suicide and mass murder of 918 commune members, 304 of them children, almost all by cyanide-poisoned Flavor Aid.

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