짐 존스

소개

제임스 워런 "짐" 존스(영어: James Warren "Jim" Jones, 1931년 5월 13일 ~ 1978년 11월 18일)는 인민사원의 교주이자, 범죄인으로, 1978년 11월 18일에 가이아나 조지타운과 인근 활주로에서 900명이 넘는 신도들과 함께 자살한 사건으로 유명하다.

James Warren Jones was an American cult leader, preacher, and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder–suicide that resulted in the deaths of over 900 people including 304 children, which he described as "revolutionary suicide", a term coined by Huey P. Newton, in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana on November 18, 1978, including the assassination of U.S. congressman Leo Ryan. Jonestown had a defining influence on society's perception of cults.