Jim Jones is known for being the leader of the Peoples Temple religious group and for the Jonestown Massacre, when he led the mass murder-suicide of more than 900 members of the group at their commune in Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978
Jim Jones was the leader of the people temple religious group who led the mass murder suicide of more than 900 members of the group at their commune in Jonestown, Guyana on November 18, 1978.
In 1979, the American cult leader Jim Jones led 900 of his followers in a mass suicide at the Jonestown settlement in Guyana. This event, known as the Jonestown Massacre, remains one of the largest mass suicides in history.
