JIM JONES: MAN BEHIND THE MASS

By: Derrick, Joseph & Stephany

http://jonhung.com/blog/2009/03/31/jim-jones-and-the-psychology-of-influence-in-experiment-design /

Jim JonesBrief Biopic: -Born in Crete, Indiana, May 13, 1931

-Jones’ father, a World War One veteran, was an alcoholic, somewhat abusive towards Jones

-Was interested in political/religious figures such as Mahatmas Gandhi, Stalin, Karl Marx, and Adolf Hitler

As a Charismatic Leader:

-Speaking skills began when young, sometime before high school. -Was able to enchant his audience with his control and inflection, was extremely self-assured on stage -Disenchanted with church goings, split to make own church with righteous social and moral values, attracted followers

Leadership Continued…

While in his later

years he

accommodated a

more bizarre and

outlandish

persona, Jim

Jones was still

able to gather

unparalleled

support from

followers in a way

that was yet

unprecedented

among the

American society

-Jones preached social and radical justice and it kept his followers by his side-Jones was able to enact a soup kitchen for the poor, two elderly nursing homes, as well as center focused on clothing the poor and needy

Lifestyle

On a Move

-Although to satisfy his power hungry ego, Jones was able to convince his followers to move with him to Guyana, South America to a place they called the People’s Temple

-This is where Jones instructed the followers to unquestionably entrust him with their financial and physical belongings

“Revolutionary Suicide”• Jones convinced most in People’s

Temple to commit suicide. He believed that society was gruesome and wrongful to many. He stressed to his followers that everyone should die now before the world gets a hold of them.

• He concocted a poison that consisted of Flavor-Aid and cyanide

• Jones persuaded the people to drink the poison and lay down on the ground to die away because they have “lived long enough”

• 912 People died from his cultivating leadership skills• 1/3 of those who died were children• Those who opposed were either

shot or injected with the Kool-Aid

Graphics and

Information by:

Derrick AdamsJoseph Dounis

Stephany Goff

Images provided

by:

Google Images

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