Jonestown's Legacy

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When most people think of Jonestown, they don't really think of leadership and legacy. They might think about how 900 people blindly followed a man to their death. Or, how crazy it was for Jim Jones to have control over so many people. However, in my opinion, the People's Temple started out as a beautiful vision. They showed leadership in their journey and, in the end, left a lasting legacy. In my research on the People's Temple I looked at many different aspects of the group. I quickly learned that the group did not start out as a cult, ready to kill themselves at any moment, and that's not the way they ended either. The People's Temple started with Jim forming a church that reached out to the community in many ways. It gained

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