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James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was the United States|American founder of the Peoples Temple, which became synonymous with group suicide after the November 18, 1978 mass murder-mass suicide|suicide in their isolated agricultural intentional community called Jonestown, located in Guyana, South America. Over 900 people died from cyanide poisoning or gunshot wounds. To the extent the actions in Jonestown were viewed as a mass suicide, it is one of the largest such mass suicides in history, perhaps the largest in over 1,900 years and the largest mass suicide of United States citizens. At a nearby airstrip, the event also resulted in the first and only murder of a Congressman, Leo Ryan, in the line of duty in the history of the United States, along with the murder of two journalists and a defecting Temple member.
Early life
Jones was born in Crete, Indiana, to James Thurman Jones, a World War I veteran, and Lyneta Putnam.<ref>Martindale, Rob. [http://www.wargs.com/other/jonesjw.html ''Ancestry of Jim Jones'']. Wargs.com.</ref> He would later claim part Cherokee descent through his mother. In 2007 interviews with PBS, childhood acquaintances recalled Jones as being a "weird kid" who was "obsessed with religion ... obsessed with death;" they further claimed that Jones frequently held funerals for smal... read all
The Polyphonic Spree @ Lollapalooza 2007
Music
Black Moses At Sxsw 2006
Nathaniel Sinatra
