Jim Jones
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American cult leader
Why Is Jim Jones Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James Warren Jones was an American mass murderer and cult leader who led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what he termed "revolutionary suicide", a term he took from the novel by the same name by Huey Newton, Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. Jones and the events that occurred at Jonestown have had a defining influence on society's perception of cults.
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