A Brief History of the Jonestown Massacre
Jim Jones was a complex man . A sideburned commie and occasional Methodist minister , fond of tinted glasses , he found his own pseudo - church service in Indianapolis in the late 1950s , the Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church , get it on in myopic as the Peoples Temple . While Jones called it a church , it was more like his reading of a Marxist commune , with a handful of Christian references thrown into his magnetic sermons ....