Peoples Temple established Jonestown in Guyana as an agricultural settlement intended to create a racially integrated socialist community removed from American capitalism. Jim Jones also predicted a coming nuclear catastrophe, and the settlement was presented as a refuge from that danger. Amid mounting accusations in the media of financial fraud, physical abuse of followers, and fraudulent claims of supernatural abilities, Jones led hundreds of members to Guyana in 1977.
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