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401 N. Randolph St. — Former site of the Indiana State Women's Prison In 1959, as Jones' career was taking off, his mother Lynetta moved from Randolph County to Indianapolis to be near her only ...
Yes, we know: Guiding 913 well-meaning followers—including hundreds of children—to their deaths is absolutely indefensible. So this is not an apology for Jim Jones, the cult leader who established the ...
Dead bodies lie around the compound of the People's Temple cult November 18, 1978 after the over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid.
Thirty-five years ago, on Nov. 18, 1978, the Rev. Jim Jones instigated a mass suicide at the Peoples Temple Agricultural and Medical Project in Jonestown, Guyana. With more than 900 dying by ...
Jones, James Warren (Rev.) 5/13/1931 Lynn, Indiana Jones, Marceline Mae Baldwin 1/8/1927 Indiana Jones, Sandra (Sandy) Yvette Cobb 11/16/1956 Indianapolis, Indiana ...
In 1978 over 900 people led by Rev. Jim Jones died in the largest mass murder-suicide in history, at Jonestown, Guyana. The story is told by survivors, Temple defectors, relatives, and journalists.
More than 900 people --mostly followers of the American guru-reverend Jim Jones-- died, on November 18, 1978, in the largest mass suicide in the history of the American continent.