Jim Jones

Known for ActingBorn 1931-05-13Died 1978-11-18Crete, Indiana, USA

James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American preacher, political activist and mass murderer. He led the Peoples Temple, a new religious movement, between 1955 and 1978. In what he called "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle orchestrated a mass murder–suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. Jones and the events which occurred at Jonestown have had a defining influence on society's perception of cults.Read more

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Explained

America's Book of Secrets

The Seventies

Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown

The Radical Story of Patty Hearst

Mother Undercover

Jonestown: The Women Behind the Massacre

Seconds from Disaster

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

The Killing of America

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle

People Magazine Investigates: Cults

The UnXplained

Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost

People's Temple

Witness to Jonestown

American Experience

Inside the Criminal Mind

History's Mysteries

QAnon: The Search for Q

Killer Cults - Blinded By The Light

Psychic TV: First Transmission

True Gore

Motorgasm: a cinematic act of terrorism

Forensic Justice

Deceived: The Jonestown Tragedy

The Miracle Healers