Who Is Jim Jones A Cruel Cult Leader?

Jim Jones was a cruel cult leader with a long, successful career and an idea that ultimately led to the deaths in Jonestown. James Warren Jones was born on May 13, 1931, in Crete, Indiana. Jim Jones was described as a weird kid, and he would usually hold funerals for small animals, Jim even stabbed a cat to death when he was ten-years-old. At around this time, Jim Jones began visiting churches. Jim Jones was also very intolerant of racial discrimination and had African American friends that weren’t allowed to come over. When Jim’s parents got a divorce, Jim moved with his mother to Lynn, Indiana. In 1949, Jim graduated from Richmond High School and married a nurse two years later. After his marriage, Jim Jones began practicing Communism and

The Wings of Deliverance Church had its name changed to the Peoples Temple. This was a cult that was created by Jim Jones. The Peoples Temple was open to any race and the majority of Jim’s followers were African American. By the 1960’s, Jim’s cult church had spread into Northern California and had almost 100 members. Jim soon developed a trademark, dark sunglasses, and slick-backed black hair. Jim also had very strict rules about romantic relationships, yet Jim himself had two other children with two different women. Jim also began lying to his followers secretly by keeping the belongings and money the members gave him. The members thought that surrendering over goods was for the good of the church, but the only thing it was benefitting was Jim Jones. Jim Jones would also humiliate his members in front of the congregation if they did something against the rules (Jim Jones

While the guards drove off to fulfill the order, Jim Jones began giving a speech. He told all parents to give their children a cyanide-laced poisoning that was also mixed with grape-flavored Kool-Aid. Jim Jones gave a speech the whole time this was happening. The next people to drink the poisoning was the adults. After everyone in Jonestown had died and the people at the airstrip had been killed, Jim Jones took his own life by a gunshot wound to the head. Jim Jones and 900 other people died on March 18, 1978 (Jim Jones