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	Jonestown, Guyana Mass Suicide, Massacre, & Jim Jones Cult
		Jim Jones was a follower of Sayville’s Father Divine and spent a lot of time with him at his home.
		Jones was vastly impressed both by his spell-binding preaching techniques and by the total control he still exerted on his congregation (which consisted mainly of elderly fl women).
		The Reverendo Jim Jones of the Guyana compound.
	www.geocities.com /oldsayville/jones.htm (3125 words)

	Jonestown
		Jones moved the Temple's headquarters to Ukiah, California, a city near San Francisco which he thought would be a safe haven in case of a nuclear war.
		Jones and his followers were products of their culture at the same time that they were producers of a reactant culture (namely, the Peoples Temple).
		Jones, apparently, saw the suicide as a revolutionary act, and in the last years of the Temple, an emphasis on religious ideas, particularly those of mainstream Christianity, was replaced by an emphasis on the political nature of the group.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~reli291/Jonestown/Jonestown.html (2122 words)

	THE PEOPLE'S TEMPLE (JIM JONES)
		Jim Jones held degrees from Indiana University and Butler University.
		Jones developed a belief called Translation in which he and his followers would all die together, and would move to another planet for a life of bliss.
		Jim Jones' mental illness, aggravated by his use of drugs.
	www.religioustolerance.org /dc_jones.htm (1733 words)

	The Religious Movements Homepage: Peoples Temple
		Jim Jones was born 13 May 1931, in Crete, Indiana (Hall 1987: 3), and died 18 November 1978 with over 900 of his followers in Jonestown, Guyana.
		Jim Jones initially relied upon the prophetic texts of the Holy Bible to exhort his congregation to work for social justice.
		Jones did not drink the poison, but died of a gunshot wound to the right temple; an autopsy could not determine whether his death had been murder or suicide.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/Jonestwn.html (4957 words)

	Jim Jones
		From early childhood, Jim Jones was exposed to Pentecostal Christianity which would penetrate his entire life.
		Jones joined numerous churches as a preacher, but found resistance in many to the idea of racial equality.
		Jones was criticized by many for his preaching and claims to have healing powers and raised people from the dead.
	www.trincoll.edu /classes/hist300/newpage21.htm (683 words)

	Making Sense of the Nonsensical: An Analysis of Jonestown
		Jim Jones had vilified previous defectors as "the enemy" and had instilled the fear that, once outside of the Peoples Temple, members stories would not be believed by the "racist, fascist" society, and they would be subjected to torture, concentration camps, and execution.
		Jim had demanded that we sell the life insurance policy and turn the equity over to the church, so that was gone.
		Jones would ask people if they were ready to die and on occasion would have the membership "decide" its own fate by voting whether to carry out his wishes.
	www.cultbuster.faithweb.com /jimjones.htm (7103 words)

	JIM JONES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jones taught that he was the manifestation of the Christ Principle.
		Jones claimed that he was a highly evoked fl soul incarnated in a white body, and felt that only he could identify with the problems of the African Americans.
		Jim Jones was the patriarch of a dysfunctional family because no one wanted to acknowledge the mental illness of their beloved and idealized Dad.
	www.conncoll.edu /academics/departments/relstudies/290/newage/jimjones.html (458 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Jim Jones
		Jones began his group in San Francisco and was once a respected community leader.
		Jones cast himself as a politically progressive and was embraced by liberal politicians such as U.S. Representatives Phillip and John Burton, Assemblyman Willie Brown and Mayor George Moscone.
		The paper exposed that Jones had claimed to be a "prophet" and said he could raise the dead.
	www.rickross.com /reference/jonestown/jonestown4.html (1243 words)

	Reverend Jim Jones & The People's Temple
		Jim Jones, the son of a Klansman, considered himself the reincarnation of both Jesus and Lenin.
		Jim had visions of an impending nuclear holocaust in which only the towns of Ukiah, California and Belo Horizonte, Brazil would survive.
		Jim's nirvana rapidly deteriorated into a nightmare which he knew of only one way to end.
	www.gbs.sha.bw.schule.de /jim_jones_history.htm (390 words)

	Jim Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jim Jones provided the classic model of cult mind control with the mass suicide-slaughter of over 900 members of his "Family" in Guyana in 1978.
		Within a year, however, allegations were heard that the charismatic Jones exercised a sinister power over his followers, extorting money from them, encouraging sexual promiscuity, and enforcing discipline by beatings and flmail.
		On November 18, Ryan and several of his party were murdered, after which Jones ordered his followers to commit suicide with him by drinking a concoction of a powdered fruit drink and cyanide.
	www.freeminds.org /family/jimjones.htm (291 words)

	People's Temple, Jim Jones, Jonestown - religious cults and sects
		Defense lawyers referred to the mass suicide of 912 followers of cult leader Reverend Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana, to attack the evidence of the expert witness of the Central Christian Church.
		Jim Jones utilized the threat of severe punishment to impose the strict discipline and absolute devotion that he demanded, and he also took measures to eliminate those factors that might encourage resistance or rebellion among his followers.
		Jones is purported to have made several visits to Belo Horizonte where the CIA's Brazilian headquarters was situated and Mitrione resided.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /p21.html (4634 words)

	How spiritual journey ended in destruction / Jim Jones led his flock to death in jungle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jones wanted to be a preacher, and he moved to Indianapolis to fulfill that dream.
		"Jim Jones had his hair combed back, and he had on -- not a zoot suit -- but certainly not a suit that was 'Indiana.' He had big sunglasses sitting up on top of his head and a goon on each side of him.
		Jones also had won the praise of several influential editors in the local press as well as of some of the top religious leaders in San Francisco.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/18/JONESTOWN.TMP (2578 words)

	CD Baby: JIM JONES: Breakin' Even
		Jim Jones is a native Texan who has lived in New Mexico since 1991.
		Jim is a two-time finalist in the Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk songwriter competition and has recorded and/or produced twelve albums of his own or other's songs.
		Jim performs both solo and with ensembles comprised of some of the many talented New Mexico musicians he counts as his friends.
	cdbaby.com /cd/jimjones (509 words)

	Jim Jones (rapper) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jim Jones (born Joseph Guillermo Jones, July 15, 1976) is an American rapper best known for being a founding member of The Diplomats.
		Jones also initiated a controversy on New York radio station Hot 97 when he called into the station while Ma$e was on the air to say that Ma$e was lying about things he was saying on the air, and had said in his book.
		Jones' conflict with Tru Life beef began when the Puerto Rican rapper said that Dipset co-founder Cam'ron was "a bitch" in an interview with Complex Magazine (see[1]).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Jones_(rapper) (541 words)

	Amazon.com: Harlem: Diary of a Summer: Music: Jim Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jim Jones sophomre effort Harlem: Diary Of A Summer truefully is better than his previous On My Way To Church, but unfortunately it falls short of many expectations.
		Jim Jones thought that he could come with a more mainstream appealing on this album which works in a sucessful way (thats why I bought this).
		It seems as Jim Jones was doing a good job as it starts off, but it falls apart after about 15 minutes later, with good songs mixed in with some horrible songs pulling the album down.
	www.amazon.com /Harlem-Diary-Summer-Jim-Jones/dp/B0009UVCJO (1481 words)

	The Government Psychiatric Torture Site
		But Jim Jones apparently led a charmed life and somehow each of these inquiries was abandoned, stalled, botched, or compromised until it was too late.
		It was Dwyer whom Jones refers to on the famous "death tape" as being on the scene at the mass killings, a charge he has denied.
		Jones' operation was in effect a large militant left-wing multinational conglomerate headquartered in San Francisco.
	www.mk-resistance.com /jonestown.html (2669 words)

	The Jonestown Massacre
		Jones, who had no formal theological training, based his liberal ministry on a combination of religious and socialist philosophies.
		In 1977, Jones and many of his followers relocated to Jonestown, located on a tract of land the People's Temple had purchased and begun to develop in Guyana three years earlier.
		Upon learning this, Jones told his followers that Ryan's murder would make it impossible for their commune to continue functioning.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/jonestown1.html (405 words)

	AllHipHop.com : Features
		Jim Jones: Cam just inked a major deal at Asylum, for his next project and a couple of the next Diplomat projects.
		Jim Jones: I was in Houston every couple of months, doing a lot of things out there.
		Jim Jones: I was just voicing my opinion, man. I ain’t really with all the s**t that’s going on in the game.
	www.allhiphop.com /features/?ID=1124 (1828 words)

	SHAPE Biographies: SACEUR General James L. Jones
		General Jones spent his formative years in France, returning to the United States to attend the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, from which he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1966.
		During August 1990, General Jones was assigned as the Commanding Officer, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit at Camp Lejeune, N.C. During his tour with the 24th MEU, he participated in Operation Provide Comfort in Northern Iraq and Turkey.
		General Jones assumed duties as the Commander of U.S. European Command on 16 January 2003 and Supreme Allied Commander Europe on 17 January 2003.
	www.nato.int /shape/bios/saceur/jones.htm (757 words)

	JIM JONES MEMORABILIA
		I in Richmond Indiana and Jim in Lynn.
		Jim Jones was born in Crete Indiana just a few miles from Lynn.
		JIM JONES SUICIDE RECORDING ON On November 18th of 1978 Jim Jones and 1000 of his followers committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.
	www.bright.net /~dapoets/jimjones.htm (300 words)

	CD Baby: JIM JONES: Western Takes
		Jim Jones is a native Texan who headed West to live in New Mexico in 1991.
		Jim Jones has a voice which is very pleasant to listen to.
		Jim Jones' voice is as smooth and strong as the wind across the vast prairie in Western Takes.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/jimjones2?cdbaby=895ec45b6add0951be90e454f00b7d74 (766 words)

	The facts about the children of Jonestown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		While in San Francisco, Jim Jones was engaged in a wide ranging criminal enterprise which included welfare fraud, election fraud, child abuse, and extortion.
		District Attorney Joseph Freitas appointed Jim Jones' personal attorney, Tim Stoen, to be in charge of his office's probe into allegation of election fraud in the election that put him and George Moscone into office.
		In fact, Jones was never charged with a single crime the entire time he operated in San Francisco.
	www.brasscheck.com /jonestown/facts.html?FACTNet (635 words)

	Jim Jones and The People's Temple
		When Jim Jones got to high school, there was no doubt he was college material.
		In 1964, the Reverend Jim Jones became officially ordained as a minister of the Disciples of Christ.
		Jones and his followers had reached their destination and hoped that this was their promised land.
	www.caic.org.au /biblebase/apocolyptic/jones.htm (2588 words)

	Home Page
		Jim has made his mark in the Real Estate industry of Central Contra Costa County, specializing in Martinez.
		Jim is eager to begin proving that his sterling reputation does in fact
		Jim has always maintained a high level of integrity and is one of the most ethical people I have encountered.
	www.jimjones.net (323 words)

	History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - Telcon: Jim Jones
		Jim Jones, now retired, worked in the cable industry at Greenwich for many years, beginning his apprenticeship at Telcon as a carpenter in 1959.
		Jim writes: I worked at the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company (Telcon) from 1959 until 1966, and at STC (Standard Telephones and Cables) from 1979 to 1989.
		In 1982 Jim Jones was working at STC (Standard Telephones and Cables), who had taken over the Telcon site at Greenwich.
	atlantic-cable.com /CableStories/Telcon-Jones/jones.htm (1440 words)

	Jim Jones
		It was during this time that Jim was called on to play support to the highly acclaimed female folk singer
		This would be the first time Jim would perform his material without the band to such a vast audience.
		Jim Jones will be joining The Peter Bruntnell band performing a solo acoustic set of STM songs and some new originals on Pete's National UK tour in November.
	www.jimjones.co.uk (329 words)

	www.myspace.com/jimjones
		Self-determined, self-reliant, self-actualized and entrepreneurial, Jim Jones is quickly proving to the world that he will be a force in Hip Hop for years to come.
		Born Joseph Guillermo Jones in Harlem in 1976 to an African American mother and a Puerto Rican father, renaissance man Jones is an indisputable Hip Hop force from the streets, to the music video set, to the mic, all the way to the boardroom.
		Jim Jones is clearly a man on a mission.
	www.myspace.com /jimjones (1672 words)

	CNN - Jonestown massacre + 20: Questions linger - November 18, 1998
		But after an August 1977 magazine article detailed ex-members' stories of beatings and forced donations, Jones abruptly moved his flock to Jonestown, a settlement in the jungle of Guyana, an Idaho-sized country on South America's northern coast.
		She went to the U.S. consulate and later to newspapers with a warning: Jones was conducting drills for a mass murder-suicide.
		Later that night, Jones told his followers "the time has come for us to meet in another place," as the mass suicide began.
	www.cnn.com /US/9811/18/jonestown.anniv.01 (791 words)

	Jim Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jim Jones was born in Crete, Indiana, to James and Lynetta Thurman Jones.
		The present-day California State Senator Jackie Speier, a staff member for Rep. Ryan in 1978, CIA officer Richard Dwyer and a producer for NBC News, Bob Flick, survived the attack.
		It was said at the time of all this that there were in Jonestown a fair number of kids who were there as wards of the court--placed with the temple for supervision, because their parents or guardians were "unacceptable" to the courts!
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Jones (1144 words)

	Jim Jones, Jonestown, and Official San Francisco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		At a September 1976 testimonial dinner honoring Jim Jones, Willie Brown, Jr.
		Jones is regarded among government officials, civic and religious leaders, and particularly the fl community and working class people, with utter respect for what he has done to upgrade the quality of life in our area and to bring greater health and well-being to thousands of poor, minority, and disadvantaged people."
		During the 1970s, official San Francisco delivered hundreds of children and elderly poor into the hands of Jim Jones in exchange for money and votes and then obstructed the family members who tried to rescue them.
	brasscheck.com /jonestown (183 words)

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