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Who was the leader?

Jim Jones

Survivors87 People died including people who were born into the cult.Grover Davis, 79, who was hearing impaired, missed the announcement to assemble on the loudspeaker, laid down in a ditch, and pretended to be dead.

Hyacinth Thrash, 76, realized what was happening and crawled under her bed, only to walk out after the suicides were completed. She died in November 1995, aged 93.

Odell Rhodes, 36, a Jonestown teacher and craftsman, volunteered to fetch a stethoscope and hid under a building.

Stanley Clayton, 25, a kitchen worker and cousin of Huey P. Newton, tricked security guards and ran into the jungle.

Where are they now?Jim Jones died from suicide because he shot himself in the head