Jones, Jim, 1931-1978

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
ג'ונס, ג'ים, 1931-1978
Name (Latin)
Jones, Jim, 1931-1978
Other forms of name
Jones, James Warren, 1931-1978
Jones, Jimmie, 1931-1978
Date of birth
1931-05-13
Date of death
1978-11-18
Field of activity
Cults
Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978
Occupation
Religious leaders
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 10637491
Wikidata: Q213861
Library of congress: n 79017289
Sources of Information
  • Smith, Eugene. Back to the world, 2021:ECIP preliminary page (the first book-length memoir of Peoples Temple and Jonestown by a Black man) page 19 (Reverend Jim Jones, the Temple leader)
  • Wikipedia, viewed Novemeber 12, 2020:Jim Jones (James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 - November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader, preacher and self-professed faith healer who, with his inner circle, orchestrated a mass murder-suicide of himself and his followers in his jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana on November 18, 1978. He launched the Peoples Temple in Indiana during the 1950s; opened branches in California cities including San Fernando, San Francisco, and Los Angeles in 1960s)
  • Mills, J. Six years with God, 1979 (subj.)t.p. (Jim Jones; rev. of People's Temple)
  • Kilduff, M. The suicide cult, 1978:text (Jim Jones; James Warren Jones; b. 5-13-31; d. Nov. 1978)
  • Syski, J. Świątynia zagłady, 1980:cover (Jimmie Jones)