The “Jonestown Massacre” was a heinous mass suicide, carried out by a mad man. It shocked the world both in its magnitude and its heartlessness. Many consider the architect of this crime the epitome of a wolf in sheep clothing. A man who led a congregation from California to Guyana just to quench his need of control, this was the man that ultimately led his congregation to their demise. In 1965 an Indiana minister named Jim Jones moved his congregation to Redwood Valley, California. Although Jones’s
Did you know the Jonestown massacre was a mass suicide that killed over 900 people? All of the members in People Temple drank the“Poison Punch” except the leader Jim Jones who died of a bullet wound to the head. The Jonestown massacre was marked the single most deaths of U.S citizens. The leader of peoples temple was Jim Jones and how he used many different ways of intimidation to scare his people so they would accept his rules. Some examples of intimidation that he used were: He took his peoples