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Bookmark or Share- Inside Jonestown: How Jim Jones Trapped Followers and Forced ... - HistoryJim Jones used armed guards and threats to force 'suicides.' Scheeres says she felt a deep connection to Tommy Bogue, a survivor she interviewed for her book, who was a teenager at the time and ...
- Jim Jones - WikipediaJames 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 he 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 November 18, 1978.
- Jonestown - Massacre, Guyana & Cult | HISTORYJim 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 them ...
- Jim Jones | Biography, Jonestown, Massacre, Peoples Temple, & FactsJim 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.He ultimately led his followers into a mass suicide, which left more than 900 dead and came to be ...
- Who Was Jim Jones? | American Experience | PBSJim Jones’ insistence that the Peoples Temple was always on the verge of attack by American authorities probably helped to unite his congregation and consolidate his power. In fact, by 1976 ...
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