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Brochure of the
People's temple portraying cult leader
Jim Jones as the loving father of the "Rainbow Family".
James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 - November 18, 1978) was the founder of the People's Temple, an originally Christian group that later mainly advocated social justice and turned into a cult when Jim Jones turned it into a mini-dictatorship, with controversial viewpoints and practices.
Jones then founded Jonestown in Guyana; the town was a closed-in society of Jones' followers, where Jim Jones and all of Jonestown committed suicide or murder on Jones's instructions by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid in 1978 and shooting each other to death.
The label "cult" is disputed in relation to Jones' group by this book [1] (http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/1998/06/cov_17feature.html).
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