- Jim Jones was the leader and founder of the cult, the Peoples’ Temple.
- Began in Indianapolis and ultimately settled in Guyana.
- The Jonestown settlement was located in a South American country by the name of Guyana.
- Jones led his followers there under the idea of a utopian socialist society.
- Used religion and manipulation in order to influence his followers into cooperation.
- Psychological Manipulation at the Hands of Jones
- Jones took advantage of “groupthink.”
- Jones constantly threatened and harassed his followers into silence or they would be tortured or killed.
- The Result of a Cultist’s Actions
- November 18, 1978
- Murder of Congressman Leo Ryan
- “Jonestown Massacre”
