Reverend Jim Jones founds the Wings of Deliverance, a Pentecostal church later known as the Peoples Temple. The congregation is integrated and made up of working-class residents of the city’s south side. Jones later moves the church to San Francisco and then to Guyana, where he leads 900 members to commit mass suicide.
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