Jim Jones
American religious leader
Born on: May 13, 1931Died on: November 18, 1978
Aged: 47 years 189 days (570 months)
Birth Sign: Taurus
James Warren Jones was an American cult leader, preacher, and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978.
Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder–suicide that resulted in the deaths of over 900 people including 304 children, which he described as "revolutionary suicide", a term coined by Huey P.
Newton, in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana on November 18, 1978, including the assassination of U.S. congressman Leo Ryan.
Jonestown had a defining influence on society's perception of cults.
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