Jim Jones (
May 13,
1923 -
1978) was the founder of The
People's Temple, a religious group that originally advocated social justice, but later turned
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, and where Jim Jones and all of Jonestown commited
suicide on Jones's instructions by drinking
cyanide laced Flavor-aid (a
Kool-aid imitation) in
1978.
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