Jim Jones and the Civil Rights Movement

If Jim Jones had died in the late 1960s this is how he would be remembered but that's not what happened instead he died in 1978 from a gunshot to the head deep in the jungle of South America after his followers murdered a US congressman. Over 900 of his people lay dead on the jungle floor at his command. There's a moment in the Jones Town story that I can't clear out of my head and I'll wrap up this prologue here shortly. have more to do with the butter mine hoth gang and the symbionese liberation army than they do with David Koresh or heavens gateJim Jones and his people walked the path of radicalization it was followed by many of their