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James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what Jones 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.
Carolyn Louise Moore Layton (July 13, 1945 – November 18, 1978 [1]) was a leadership figure within Peoples Temple and a long-term partner of Temple leader Jim Jones.Along with other inner circle members, she assisted in the planning of the mass murder that took place in Jonestown, Guyana on November 18, 1978.
Joseph Guillermo Jones II (born July 15, 1976), [1] better known by his stage name Jim Jones (or Jimmy Jones), is an American rapper, record producer and record executive. He is a founding member of the hip hop collective the Diplomats (also known as Dipset), which he formed in 1997 with fellow Harlem native Cam'ron .
Jones' sons, Stephan, Jim Jr. and Tim, were in Georgetown with Jonestown's basketball team to play in a tournament with the Guyanese national team. [179] In the moments before the suicide, Jones contacted Stephan with orders to "get revenge" on enemies of the Temple in Georgetown before committing suicide themselves.
Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty. Sheinelle Jones and her kids, Kayin, Clara and Uche, on April 27, 2023 on 'Today'.
January Jones has just learned that the name Jim is short for James, and it’s safe to say she’s not happy about it.. The Mad Men star, 46, took to her Instagram Story on 9 January to share her ...
Stoen encountered Jones' son Stephan in his Georgetown hotel, neither knowing that Jones was conducting a mass murder-suicide two hundred miles away. [62] As they spoke, 909 inhabitants of Jonestown, [63] 276 of them children, died of apparent cyanide poisoning, mostly in and around the settlement's central pavilion. [64]
January Jones came to some shocking revelations about the name “Jim” — and she wasn’t too thrilled about it. “Last night I spent a good 30 [minutes] laying in bed pondering the name Jim ...