James Warren Jones was born into poverty near the tiny town of Lynn, Indiana, on May 13, 1931. His father, James T. Jones, already 47 at the time of his son’s birth, had been gassed in combat in WWI ...

Of the 918 names listed on a memorial for the victims of the Jonestown Massacre, one stands out: “James Warren Jones,” the cult leader who ordered the killing of a congressman and a news crew ...