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Leonardo DiCaprio to play cult leader Jim Jones in new film

Leonardo DiCaprio to play cult leader Jim Jones in new film

Leonardo DiCaprio to play cult leader Jim Jones in new film

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Leonardo DiCaprio to play cult leader Jim Jones in new film

Leonardo DiCaprio will play cult leader Jim Jones in an upcoming film. The new film will explore how Jones orchestrated the Jonestown mass suicide that caused over 900 deaths in November 1978.

Jones founded the Peoples Temple religious organization in Indianapolis in 1955 and constructed Jonestown in Guyana in 1974. When U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and members of his delegation arrived to investigate Jonestown in 1978, they were killed by Jones’ followers. Following the killings, Jones ordered a mass murder-suicide among his followers by drinking cyanide-laced Flavor Aid.  The mass suicide claimed the lives of over 900 people in November

 

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