Jim Jones was an eccentric man who studied religion and death at young age. He formed many groups over many years and even adopted many children. He called his family a Rainbow Family. After developing a following called the People's Temple which taught Christian values or what he thought were Christian values as long as it came with money. The organization had to move from place to place to escape discrimination and scrutiny. Jim Jones claimed to be the 'messiah'. To gain full control of his followers, he used mind control strategy to brain wash them. Disciplinary problems were dealt with by using torturous methods. Also, he had sexual control over women and children. the 'suicide'
After a California Congressman tried to get some family back from the cult, the cult leader hired hit men to kill the Congress man. When it failed, the Cult leader told his congregation that parachuting men were going to come down and steal the children. The cult would torture the women and the men to tell them secrets. Also, they would torture the children and then adopt them out so that they could be stupid to the truth. In order to stop this from happening, the majority of the congregation committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid. More than a third of deceased were children. This event resulted in the most American lives lost in a single event, until the attack of the World Trade Center in 2001.Source:http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912249-2,00.html
