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He Wore His Sunglasses Indoors For Heaven’s Sake Is that man on the cover page Roy Orbison? No, that’s James Warren Jones, ordained minister of the “Disciples of Christ” Christian Denomination, highly regarded political figure and humanitarian, and megalomaniacal mass-murderer. Despite the fact that, in retrospect, Reverend Jim Jones seems parsecs away from the type of person one would expect to be the leader of a widespread socio-political religious movement, we are forgetting that it was the 1970’s, and the Jonestown mishap was the first of its breed. Yet, anyone with brains ought to have noticed that good ol’ Jim was a little light in his loafers, right? Well, sit down, make yourself comfortable… have a glass of Kool-Aid: this is a sociological study of the unwitting adherents, the enigmatic figurehead, and their concurrent descent. Jones was born of lowly origins in Indiana at the height of the Great Depression. It is speculated that his father belonged to the Ku Klux Klan. His mother, who raised him single