Two of Jones' children, Jim Jones Jr. and Stephan Jones, were among the survivors. They were attending a basketball game in Guyana's capital city, Georgetown, when the massacre happened.

They thought they were safe from Jim Jones until death arrived at their door. ... In one, their children are brightly smiling, little Daphene’s arms a blur of excited motion.

To practice what he preached, Jones and his wife Marceline adopted several children of different ethnic backgrounds, a professed “rainbow family.” In time, the Temple’s congregation grew to ...