Jim Jones was a self-obsessed American cult leader who manipulated the poor and vulnerable, demanded their complete obedience, and ordered the murder of those who questioned his integrity. At the end he killed or convinced nearly a thousand people — including two hundred children — to take their own lives in a jungle settlement in South America called ‘Jonestown’, constructed around his own warped and paranoid fantasy.
- Simon Sebag Montefiore, Monsters: History's Most Evil Men and Women (2009), p. 341
- Photographs by David Hume Kennerly
- https://kennerly.com/blog/story-photographs-by-david-hume-kennerly/
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