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People's Temple
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People's Temple: see Jones, Jim Jones, Jim, 1931–78, American religious leader, b. Lynn, Indiana. An influential Indianapolis preacher since the 1950s, Jones formed the People's Temple (1955), which he eventually moved to Ukiah, Calif. (1967) and then San Francisco (1971).
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Months before, Peoples Temple leaders had collected the potion's ingredients and tested them for maximum lethality with minimal discomfort.
For Ron Jones the aftermath from the account of his experiment being published was a call from religious leader and future mass cyanide poisoner Jim Jones looking for ideas for his Peoples Temple.
Last year, the Peoples Temple was detailed in a documentary film, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, broadcast on PBS as part of the American Experience series.
 
 
 
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