Jim Jones
James Warren "Jim" Jones (
May 13,
1923 -
November 18,
1978) was the founder of the
People's Temple, a religious group that originally advocated social justice, but later turned into a
cult when Jim Jones brought into it his dictatorship, and fanatical viewpoints and practice. Jones then founded
Jonestown in
Guyana; the town was a closed-in society of Jones' followers, where Jim Jones and all of Jonestown committed
suicide on Jones's instructions by drinking
cyanide-laced Flavor-aid (a
Kool-aid imitation) in
1978.
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