Famous Cults: Jonestown - The Beginning

Debatably the most famous cult of all time is The People's Temple. They are the group which set up The People's Agricultural Project in Jonestown, Guyana.

Members of the Peoples Temple standing outside the buses

Over the next few posts I will give a brief history of the temple, it's leader Jim Jones, and how it ended.

The Beginning

        The People's Temple was set up in Indiana by Jim Jones. Through the years it grew in size and moved it's headquarters to San Francisco, California because Jones claimed that they were not understood and accepted in Indiana.

        The group began a long bus tour around the country to help grow the movement. The bus would come to different towns, Jones would speak and inspire people in the town, who then had the choice to join the movement the next day and carry on the bus tour with the People's Temple.