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Jones, Jim, 1931-1978

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Personal name headingJones, Jim, 1931-1978
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Variant(s)Jones, James Warren, 1931-1978
Jones, Jimmie, 1931-1978
LocatedIndiana California Jonestown (Guyana)
Birth date1931-05-13
Death date1978-11-18
Field of activityCults Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978
AffiliationPeoples Temple
Profession or occupationReligious leaders
Found inMills, J. Six years with God, 1979 (subj.) t.p. (Jim Jones; rev. of People's Temple)
Kilduff, M. The suicide cult, 1978: text (Jim Jones; James Warren Jones; b. 5-13-31; d. Nov. 1978)
Syski, J. Świątynia zagłady, 1980: cover (Jimmie Jones)
Smith, Eugene. Back to the world, 2021: ECIP preliminary page (the first book-length memoir of Peoples Temple and Jonestown by a Black man) page 19 (Reverend Jim Jones, the Temple leader)
Wikipedia, viewed Novemeber 12, 2020: Jim Jones (James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 - November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader, preacher and self-professed faith healer who, with his inner circle, orchestrated a mass murder-suicide of himself and his followers in his jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana on November 18, 1978. He launched the Peoples Temple in Indiana during the 1950s; opened branches in California cities including San Fernando, San Francisco, and Los Angeles in 1960s)
Associated languageeng