The Road to Jonestown : : Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
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In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially integrated, and he was active in the civil rights movement. Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to California and soon was a prominent Bay Area leader. Jeff Guinn examines Jones's life, from his affairs, drug use, and fraudulent faith healing to the decision to move almost a thousand of his followers to the jungles of Guyana. New details emerge of the events leading to the day in November, 1978, when more than nine hundred people died after being ordered to swallow a cyanide-laced drink.
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PUBLISHED
Waterville : Thorndike Press, 2017.
Year Published: 2017
Description: 955 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Large Type
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781410498656
1410498654
SUBJECTS
Jones, Jim, -- 1931-1978.
Peoples Temple.
Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978.