Jim Jones

James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was the founder of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 death of over 900 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the deaths of nine other people at a nearby airstrip in Georgetown. Jones was born in Indiana and started the Temple in that state in the 1950s. Jones and the...

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  • May 13, 1931

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  • Nov 18, 1978

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