Editing Jim Jones (section)

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*Jones' claimed his father was associated with the [[Ku Klux Klan]].
*He once described himself as "a combination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Davis, Albert Einstein, and [[Mao Zedong]]." He also began preaching that he was the reincarnation of Gandhi, Father Divine, Jesus, Gautama Buddha, and [[Vladimir Lenin]].
*Jones and his wife adopted several non-white children; he referred to the household as his "rainbow family", and stated: "Integration is a more personal thing with me now. It's a question of my son's future." He also portrayed the Temple as a "rainbow family".
*While Jones banned sex among Temple members outside marriage, he voraciously engaged in sexual relations with both male and female Temple members. Jones, however, claimed that he detested engaging in homosexual activity and did so only for the male temple adherents' own good, purportedly to connect them symbolically with him (Jones). People who left Jones' cult made claims of brutal beatings, planned murders within the cult, and plans for mass suicide.
*He idolized [[Fidel Castro]], [[Mao Zedong]], and [[Adolf Hitler]].
*In a 1976 phone conversation with John Maher, Jones alternately stated that he was an agnostic and an atheist, what was a bit ironic considering he was a pastor.
*His rants about communism led to increased tensions with the [[Nation of Islam]], so Jones spoke at a huge rally in hopes of closing the rift between the two groups in the Los Angeles Convention Center that was attended by many of his closest political acquaintances.
*Among the victims of the mass suicide at Jonestown were Jones' wife and four of his children.
*The entire family of a Los Angeles man named [[Tyrone Mitchell]] also died in the mass suicide at Jonestown. This ultimately drove Mitchell insane and caused him to commit a [[Mass Shooting|mass shooting]] at 49th Street Elementary School in South Central Los Angeles on February 24, 1984, killing two students and injuring twelve others before committing suicide.
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