Jonestown Primer

Murder Made Fiction

Jenn and Joe are spending November talking about cults on the Main Feed. First up: Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple (note the lack of apostrophe), the cult that claimed the highest number of American civilian deaths until 9/11.

Who was Jones? Was he always a bad person? And how many people actually died in the infamous Jonestown massacre in Guyana?

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