How was the childhood of Jim Jones (not the rapper)?
James Warren Jones was born May 13, 1931, in the small town of Lynn, Indiana. His father was an active member of the Ku Klux Klan, and his mother was a factory worker. From early childhood, Jim Jones was exposed to Pentecostal Christianity which would penetrate his entire life. After his parents divorced in 1945, Jones moved with his mother to Indianapolis, Indiana and eventually attended Butler University. Here he developed two areas of concern that would dominate his thinking and beliefs for the rest of his life: racial integration and socialism. Article 2… As a grammar school student in this small town in rural Indiana, the architect of one of the most notorious mass murder-suicides in history liked to hang out with kids one or two grades behind him. They were easier to boss around. Jimmy would arrange the members of his childhood congregation on the porch steps of a friend’s house. Then, he would drape a sheet over his shoulders, step up on a wooden packing crate and start preach
