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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jim_JonesJim Jones - Wikipedia

    James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what Jones termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on ...

  2. www.history.com › topics › crimeJonestown - Massacre, Guyana & Cult | HISTORY

    Oct 18, 2010 · Jim Jones, age 47, was found in a chair, dead from a single bullet wound to the head, most likely self-inflicted. The death toll at Jonestown on November 18, 1978 was 909 people, a third of...

  3. www.britannica.com › biography › Jim-JonesJim Jones | Biography, Jonestown, Massacre, Peoples Temple, &...

    Jun 26, 2024 · Jim Jones (born May 13, 1931, Crete, near Lynn, Indiana, U.S.—died November 18, 1978, Jonestown, Guyana) was an American cult leader who promised his followers a utopia in the jungles of South America after proclaiming himself messiah of the Peoples Temple, a San Francisco-based evangelist group.

  4. www.britannica.com › event › JonestownJonestown | History, Facts, Jim Jones, & Survivors | Britannica

    Jun 26, 2024 · The Jonestown massacre was a mass murder-suicide of the Peoples Temple cult at the behest of their leader, Jim Jones, in 1978. After cult members attacked Congressman Leo Ryan, who was investigating the cult, Jones enacted a suicide plan at the Jonestown compound.

  5. www.nationalgeographic.com › history › articleThe perfect storm that led to the Jonestown massacre - National...

    Jun 14, 2024 · Jim Jones leveraged upheaval surrounding civil rights and the Vietnam War to earn trust and manipulate his followers.

  6. www.history.com › news › jonestown-jim-jones-mass-murder-suicideInside Jonestown: How Jim Jones Trapped Followers and Forced ......

    Nov 13, 2018 · The 918 deaths in Guyana under cult leader Jim Jones were more mass murder than suicide.

  7. www.history.com › this-day-in-history › mass-suicide-at-jonestownMass suicide at Jonestown | November 18, 1978 | HISTORY

    Feb 9, 2010 · On November 18, 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of ...

  8. time.com › 6120017Jonestown Massacre Survivors Need Their Story Told Too | TIME

    Nov 17, 2021 · So when a biopic of Jim Jones was recently announced in the press with a major Hollywood studio and major star attached to play Jim Jones, we called some survivors to see how they were...

  9. www.fbi.gov › history › famous-casesJonestown — FBI

    He’d been hearing that there was trouble in “Jonestown,” the makeshift settlement carved out of the jungle of Guyana by the charismatic Jim Jones and his cult-like following called the ...

  10. abcnews.go.com › US › 40-years-jonestown-massacre-jim-jones-surviving-sons40 years after the Jonestown massacre: Jim Jones' surviving sons...

    Sep 28, 2018 · Jim Jones Jr., recalled life with his father, Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones, on ABC's "Truth and Lies: Jonestown - Paradise Lost."