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Jim Jones was a founder who founded The People’s Temple. The People’s Temple is best known for the November 18, 1978 death of over 900 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana, along with nine others at a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown. Jim Jones was born in a rural community in Indiana close to the border of Ohio. His parents were James Thurman Jones who was a World War I veteran and Lynetta Putnam. In 1934, during the Great Depression Jones’ parents, due to economic struggle, were forced to move the family to nearby Lynn, Indiana. Later on Jim Jones and others claim that his father was a part of the Ku Klux Klan. Growing up, kids would say Jim Jones was a weird kid, obsessed with religion…and obsessed with death. They have also claimed that he would frequently hold funerals for animals and had purportedly fatally stabbed a cat. Jones was fascinated with reading and only read books from Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, and Adolf Hitler. He studied them carefully and......

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