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Biography of Jim Jones, Jr.

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Jim Jones, Jr. bears one of modern America's most unhappy names. He was the first African-American child to be adopted by a white family in Indiana, when he was 10 weeks old - one of the many (one source says 11) adopted children of Marceline and Jim Jones. Jones, Sr. founded the People's Temple in 1956 and led it until its 1997 mass removal to the jungles of Guyana and the final mass suicide/murder of 913 members in November 1978. Aged 18, he and two brothers escaped the Jonestown carnage because they were on a church-sponsored basketball trip to Georgetown. The rest of their family was killed in Jonestown, including Jim Jr's. pregnant wife.

In the years since the tragedy, he has made a new life for himself in California, becoming a pharmaceuticals salesman, remarried, with three children. He also coaches a school basketball team.

He and his older brother, Stephan (a born-to child) returned to Jonestown in 1998 to participate in an ABC television 20/20 documentary

Elsewhere on the Web:

• Jonestown - Examining the Peoples Temple - from Rice University

Source: Roger Fenton's database of Famous Adoptees, Foster Children and Others. Used by permission.


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