Jim Jones

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 fanatical viewpoints and practices. However, a scholarly book disputes the cult label [1]. 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 Flavor-aid (a Kool-aid imitation) in 1978 and shooting each other to death.