In 1955, Jim Jones founded the Peoples Temple. By 1978, he led more than 900 of his followers to their deaths. From political power plays to psychological torture in the Guyanese jungle, in this episode of Cults and Cons, Vanessa Richardson exposes how one man’s delusions led to one of the deadliest cult tragedies in history: the Jonestown Massacre.
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