The Reverend Jim Jones

This podcast is far from any sort of definitive collection but it is an intereting episode to listen to. We begin with am interview with the Reverend Jim Hones himeself, then a short glimpse into the church it's self. Then a lengthy phone conversation in which a member discusses finding a breaking point and another member talking her through it and attempting to bring her back into the church. This podcast is meant to be a starting point to peak interest in a history America dealt with. Jones was born in Indiana and started the Peoples Temple there in the 1950s. He later moved the Temple to California in the mid-1960s, and gained notoriety with the move of the Temple's headquarters to San Francisco in the early 1970s. James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader. Jones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, infamous due to the mass murder-suicide in November 1978 of its members in Jonestown, Guyana, the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan, and the ordering of four additional Temple member deaths in Georgetown, the Guyanese capital. Nearly three-hundred children were murdered at Jonestown, almost all of them by cyanide poisoning. Jones died from a gunshot wound to the head; it is suspected his death was a suicide. Jim and Marceline Jones adopted several children of at least partial non-Caucasian ancestry; he referred to the clan as his "rainbow family",[23] and stated: "Integration is a more personal thing with me now. It's a question of my son's future."[24] Jones portrayed the Temple overall as a "rainbow family". The couple adopted three children of Korean-American ancestry: Lew, Suzanne and Stephanie. Jones had been encouraging Temple members to adopt orphans from war ravaged Korea. He had also long been critical of the United States' opposition to communist leader Kim Il-Sung's 1950 invasion of South Korea, calling it the "war of liberation" and stating that "the south is a living example of all that socialism in the north has overcome". In 1954, he and his wife also adopted Agnes Jones, who was partly of Native American descent. Agnes was 11 at the time of her adoption. Suzanne Jones was adopted at the age of six in 1959. In June 1959, the couple had their only biological child, Stephan Gandhi Jones. Two years later, in 1961, the Joneses became the first white couple in Indiana to adopt a black child, James Warren Jones, Jr. The couple also adopted another son, who was white, named Tim. Tim Jones, whose birth mother was a member of the Peoples Temple, was originally named Timothy Glen Tupper. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones Portions of this podcast may contain material that requires these links: https://archive.org/details/Episode2JimJonesThePeoplesTemple http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy