Jim Jones and the Battle of the Bulge

In private, Jones presented not the certitude of a visionary, but rather insecurity and an inferiority complex. His worst attacks came at his own home; he keeled over while emotionally discussing some problem. Marceline provided comfort when he took ill: "She treated him like a fragile child" In October 1961, Jim Jones had to be hospitalized for severe stress-related ulcers. But even here, the Indianapolis Human Rights Commission director was on the job,. Even in the hospital wards were still segregated by race. And finally, deciding they didn't want to explain why he was staying where he was being kept because it wasn't their care, they agreed to desegregate them.