James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 - November 18, 1978) was the American founder of the Peoples Temple group, which became synonymous with group suicide after the November 18, 1978 mass murder - suicide by poison in their isolated agricultural intentional community called Jonestown, located in the country of Guyana. Nine-hundred-and-nine (909) people drank cyanide after Jim Jones ordered his men to kill visiting Congressman Leo Ryan and numerous members of his entourage Wikipedia
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