Jim Jones
Organization founder
1931 – 1978
Who was Jim Jones?
James Warren "Jim" Jones was the founder and the leader of the Peoples Temple, best known for the cult murder/suicide in 1978 of 909 of its members in Jonestown, Guyana, and the murder of five individuals at a nearby airstrip, including Congressman Leo Ryan. Over 300 children were murdered at Jonestown, almost all of them by cyanide poisoning. Jones died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Jones was born in Indiana and started the Temple there in the 1950s. He later moved the Temple to California in the mid-1960s, and gained notoriety with the move of the Temple's headquarters to San Francisco in the early 1970s.
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- Born
- May 13, 1931
Lynn - Also known as
- Reverend James Warren Jones
- Parents
- Spouses
- Marceline Jones
(1949/06/12 - 1978/11/18)
- Marceline Jones
- Children
- Religion
- Atheism
- Pentecostalism
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Butler University
- Richmond High School
- Lived in
- Richmond
- Died
- Nov 18, 1978
Port Kaituma
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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