Jim Jones
James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American sect leader and community organizer. Jones was the founder and the leader of the Peoples Temple, best known for the mass murder-suicide in November 1978 of 913 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 gunshot wound to the head; it is suspected his death was a suicide. 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.
Personal facts
| Alias (AKA) | Jones James Warren |
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| Birth date | May 13, 1931 |
| Birth name | James Warren Jones |
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| Date of death | November 18, 1978 |
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External resources
- http://employees.oneonta.edu/downinll/mass_suicide.htm
- http://jonestown.sdsu.edu
- http://jonestownapologistsarticlearchive.blogspot.com/2007/11/part-1-prophet-who-raises-dead.html
- http://libcom.org/library/suicide-for-socialism-jonestown-brinton
- http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/305924/Jim-Jones
- http://www.history.com/media.do?id=historyrocks_jonestown_broadband&action=clip:
- http://www.laweekly.com/2008-10-23/news/from-silver-lake-to-suicide/all
- http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/jonestown-dismantling-the-disinformation
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/jonestown
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/11/12/MN85578.DTL