In his personal life, Jim and his wife fostered/adopted black and Korean children, creating what he referred to as his “rainbow family”. The man really seemed to practice what he preached; people just loved his ideas, they loved him. Jim took donations, of course; the elderly who followed him often signed over their entire social security/pension checks, others handed him everything they owned, often their homes. With all of the money he’d made from his followers, a chunk of land in South America’s Guyana was purchased; it was beautiful, enchanting land surrounded by rain forest. After receiving a good deal of negative media attention, Jim concentrated on sending his people there and building Jonestown, a place which his followers believed would be a peaceful religious utopian commune where they’d sit and sing Kumbaya all day…
Jim Jones & The Murder Of The People’s Temple
