living in Jonestown. Jones claimed he had sired the boy and that he would never give him up. Stoen hired a lawyer to start custody proceedings. For Jones, it was just another measure of how far they would go. Traitors were playing with children’s lives, using a six-y...
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Jim Jones. Self: People's Temple. Jim Jones was born during the Great Depression. He was the only son of James Thurman Warren Jones Sr. (1887-1951) and Lynetta Putnam (1902-1977). His father was an alcoholic Klansman and he claimed his mother was part Ch
Jones had been around the local schools for about three years when he brought Anderson Valley into the melting-pot mainstream. He had worked part-time at the elementary school and subbed at the high school. As I recall we had him fairly often one year in Spanish class. It took a while ...
The compound was impressive. Members of Jonestown were certainly saying all the right things, no matter how rote. But someone slipped us a note asking for help. I felt my stomach turn into hard knots of terror, as we realized our worst fears about Jones and his followers were tru...
Leonardo DiCaprio is currently in final talks to portray the infamous cult leader Jim Jones. According to Deadline, the Oscar-winning actor will be joining MGM for an upcoming film based on the true events of the Jonestown Massacre. DiCaprio will be portraying the infamous cult leader who foun...
Jim Jones. Self: People's Temple. Jim Jones was born during the Great Depression. He was the only son of James Thurman Warren Jones Sr. (1887-1951) and Lynetta Putnam (1902-1977). His father was an alcoholic Klansman and he claimed his mother was part Ch
THE SONS OF JONESTOWN They survived the massacre their father staged in 1978, but Stephan Jones and Jim Jones Jr. are still struggling with his grim legacyIrene Sege, Globe Staff
Jim Jones, American cult leader who proclaimed himself messiah of an evangelist group named the Peoples Temple. He led his followers to the South American country of Guyana and eventually ordered them to drink a cyanide-laced beverage as part of a mass m
Jonestown, location of the mass murder-suicide of the California-based Peoples Temple cult at the behest of their charismatic but paranoid leader, Jim Jones, in Jonestown agricultural commune, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. The death toll exceeded 900, ma