Jim Jones was an American religious leader who in the 1950s founded Peoples Temple, a new religious movement that combined ideals of equality, socialism, and racial integration with strands of Pentecostal Christianity and eschatological ideas. He established the movement in Indianapolis and later relocated it to California and then Guyana. Increasingly paranoid and controlling, Jones ultimately led his followers to suicide in what would be called the Jonestown massacre, one of the largest mass murder-suicides in American history, in 1978.
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