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==History==
==History==
===Jim Jones===
===Jim Jones===
[[File:Jim Jones shares the Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Jim Jones shares the Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award. The Award was endorsed by former Democratic presidential nominee [[Hubert Humphrey]], [[Vice-President]] [[Walter Mondale]], Carter Secretary of [[HHS]] Joseph Califano, [[Watergate]] Committtee chairman Sen. [[Sam Ervin]], Democratic Senators [[Warren Magnusen]], Philip Hart, [[Mike Gravel]], [[Scoop Jackson]], Representatives [[Ronald Dellums]], [[Bella Abzug]], Patsy Mink, Philip Burton, Don H. Clauson, George E. Brown, Jr., Lawrence Coughlin, Cardiss Collins, Don Edwards, R. Eckhardt, Jonathan Bingham, San Fransisco Mayor [[George Moscone]], Art Agnos, and [[Willie Brown]]. <ref>[https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=18355 Peoples Temple Endorsements Packet (Text)].</ref>]]
James Warren Jones ("Jim Jones") was born on May 13, 1931 in Lynn, Indiana, the only child of James Thurmond and Lynetta Jones. He was an average child in elementary school, but in high school he was among the top of his class due to a high IQ. He got along well with others, but he was charismatic and had learned how to manipulate and control them to his advantage. Biographies of favorite world leaders were read, among them [[Machiavelli]], [[Mohandas K. Gandhi|Gandhi]], [[Marx]], [[Stalin]], and [[Hitler]].
James Warren Jones ("Jim Jones") was born on May 13, 1931 in Lynn, Indiana, the only child of James Thurmond and Lynetta Jones. He was an average child in elementary school, but in high school he was among the top of his class due to a high IQ. He got along well with others, but he was charismatic and had learned how to manipulate and control them to his advantage. Biographies of favorite world leaders were read, among them [[Machiavelli]], [[Mohandas K. Gandhi|Gandhi]], [[Marx]], [[Stalin]], and [[Hitler]].