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Jim Jones was born on May 13, 1931, in the rural community of Crete, Indiana, to James Thurman Jones (October 21, 1887 – May 29, 1951) and Lynetta Putnam (April 16, 1902 – December 10, 1977). [1] [2] [3] Jones was of Irish and Welsh descent; he and his mother both claimed to also have some Cherokee ancestry, [4] but there is no evidence of ...
Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, the People's Temple and Jonestown (Religion in North America) (2nd ed.). Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0253216328. Collins, John Andrew (2017). Jim Jones: The Malachi 4 Elijah Prophecy. Dark Mystery Publications. ISBN 978-1548102630. Guinn, Jeff (2017). The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and People Temple.
He became a minister in the Disciples of Christ and joined Jim Jones Peoples Temple in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1956. Ijames was a follower of William Branham who traveled to Indianapolis to attend Branham's joint revival with Jones in June 1956. [1] Ijames was enamored with Jones views on racial integration and became one of his earliest ...
The cult began in 1955 in Indianapolis and, soon after its creation, Jones began promoting Christian Socialism and claiming to be God. He moved the headquarters to San Francisco in the 1970s, a ...
The Indiana Register of Historic Sites and Structures was created in 1981 by the Indiana General Assembly. ... Jacob Jones House: ... Fisher House (Indianapolis)
The Peoples Temple began in 1955 as a racially integrated Christian church founded by Reverend Jim Jones.While the Temple originated in suburban Indiana, the congregation moved to Redwood Valley, California in the late 1960s after Jones predicted a nuclear apocalypse that would facilitate the beginning of a socialist Eden on earth.
The Peoples Temple was formed by Jim Jones in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1955. [14] The movement purported to practice what it called "apostolic socialism."[15] [16] In doing so, the Temple preached that "those who remained drugged with the opiate of religion had to be brought to enlightenment – socialism."
Indiana author Meredith Nicholson was also a resident for many years and wrote his most noted work House of a Thousand Candles while in residence. [3] Old Northside was also the original location of Indianapolis' Butler University, then named North Western Christian University, which was later relocated to the town of Irvington. [3] [4]