Peoples Temple Background
San Francisco Ukiah Bakersfield Fresno Sacramento Santa Rosa Some of the Peoples Temple's California LocationsThe Peoples Temple was an organization founded in 1955 by Reverend James Warren Jones (Jim Jones) that, by the mid-1970s, possessed over a dozen locations in California, including in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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