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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.
Jonestown: Paradise Lost, a 2007 documentary broadcast on The History Channel; Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, a 2006 documentary film; Guyana: Cult of the Damned, a 1979 exploitation film based on the Jonestown tragedy; Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, a 1980 television movie based on the life of Jim Jones and the ...
Jim Jones was a cult leader who on November 18, 1978, orchestrated the mass murder suicide of 909 members of his commune in Jonestown, Guyana. Since the events of the Jonestown Massacre, a massive amount of literature and study has been produced on the subject. [ 1 ]
But in the new documentary, Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown, streaming on Hulu on June 17, director Marian Mohamed illustrates how the people who died there were victims of a mass murder.
"Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults" (Max) In 1997, 39 members of Heaven’s Gate , a celibate religious sect, died in a mass ritual suicide timed to the approach of the Hale-Bopp Comet.
At the top were the Temple's staff, a select group of predominantly college-educated white women that undertook the Temple's most sensitive missions. [70] They necessarily acclimated themselves to an "ends justify the means" philosophy. [70] The earliest member was Sandy Bradshaw, a socialist from Syracuse, New York. [70]
NXIVM sex cult founder Keith Raniere, 64, is serving a 120-year sentence at a federal prison in Tuscon, Arizona. Prosecutors said he recruited women and girls into a sex cult disguised as a self ...
Christine Miller (June 4, 1918 – November 18, 1978) [1] was a member of the Peoples Temple cult led by Jim Jones.She is known for being the only Temple member to publicly urge Jones against carrying out the group's mass murder in Jonestown, Guyana on November 18, 1978.