As Actor
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
2006
7.1
Jim Jones
Acting
Birth Date
May 13, 1931
Place of Birth
Crete, Indiana, USA
Date of Death
November 18, 1978
Biography
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American preacher, political activist and mass murderer. He led the Peoples Temple, a new religious movement, between 1955 and 1978. In what he called "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle orchestrated a mass murder–suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. Jones and the events which occurred at Jonestown have had a defining influence on society's perception of cults.
