“If we can't live in peace, then let's die in peace.”

—  Jim Jones

" Death Tape http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/DeathTape/Q042fbi.html" FBI No. Q042 (18 November 1978)

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founder and the leader of the Peoples Temple 1931–1978

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