Started his own church in indianapolis. named it peoples temple and opened its doors to african-americans. he and his wife marceline became an interracial family through adoption and embraced racial harmony in an era that resisted it. but even then jones preached of catastrophe. at that time the cold war was going on, and he was saying a bomb was going to fall and there would be a nuclear war. in the mid- 60s, jones moved his church outside the town of ukiah in northern california. he got this revelation to come to ukiah, california. and there was a cave out here. a cave in the hills around redwood valley that would shield everyone from nuclear fallout. i know now as sure as i m sitting here and i knew and have for a long time there was no such place. it was all one of his lies. jones built this church and
Started his own church in indianapolis, named it peoples temple, and opened its doors to african-americans. he and his wife marceline became an interracial family through adoption and embraced racial harmony in an era that resisted it. but even then jones preached of catastrophe. at that time, the cold war was going on, and he was saying a bomb was going to fall and there would be a nuclear war. in the mid- 60s, jones moved his church outside the town of ukiah in northern california. so he got this revelation somehow to come to ukiah, california. and there was a cave out here. a cave in the hills around redwood valley that would shield everyone from nuclear fallout. i know now as sure as i m sitting here and i knew and have for a long time there was no such place. it was all one of his lies.
Within a few years he had started his own church in indianapolis. named it peoples temple and opened its doors to african-americans. he and his wife marceline became an interracial family through adoption and embraced racial harmony in an era that resisted it. but even then jones preached of catastrophe. at that time the cold war was going on, and he was saying a bomb was going to fall and there would be a nuclear war. in the mid- 60s, jones moved his church outside the town of ukiah in northern california. he got this revelation to come to ukiah, california. and there was a cave out here. a cave in the hills around redwood valley that would shield everyone from nuclear fallout. i know now as sure as i m sitting here and i knew and have for a long time there was no such place.
He was fooled for years. but it was all through lies and fake healings and all that stuff. the man was fake. i know now that he was fake from the beginning. by his own account, jim jones was born on the wrong side of the tracks in a small indiana town in the depression years. at 21, jones became a student pastor by taking a correspondence course. within a few years he had started his own church in indianapolis. named it peoples temple and opened its doors to african-americans. he and his wife marceline became an interracial family through adoption and embraced racial harmony in an era that resisted it. but even then jones preached of catastrophe. at that time the cold war was going on, and he was saying a bomb was going to fall and there
jump up and down real quick. no pain whatsoever. that s it. they traveled around the country and held these meetings, pulled these fake healings and fake miracles and people would shell out money like you wouldn t believe. this is jerry parks as he looked back then. he was fooled for years. but it was all through lies and fake healings and all that stuff. the man was fake. i know now that he was fake from the beginning. by his own account, jim jones was born on the wrong side of the tracks in a small indiana town in the depression years. at 21, jones became a student pastor by taking a correspondence course. within a few years he had started his own church in indianapolis.