Jim Jones

=== "Rainbow Family" ===

Jones and his wife adopted several non-white children. Jones referred to his household as a "rainbow family",{{sfn|Reiterman|Jacobs|1982|p=65}} and stated: "Integration is a more personal thing with me now. It's a question of my son's future."<ref name="pbs.org" /> He also portrayed the Temple as a "rainbow family". In 1954, the Joneses adopted their first child, Agnes, who was part [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]].<ref name="pbs.org" />{{sfn|Wessinger|2000|p=169}} In 1959, they adopted three [[Korean-American]] children named Lew, Stephanie, and Suzanne,<ref name="will">{{cite web|url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=14027 |title=The Wills of Jim Jones and Marceline Jones|website=Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple|publisher=[[San Diego State University]]|date=July 15, 2019|accessdate=April 27, 2022}}</ref> and encouraged Temple members to adopt orphans from war-ravaged Korea.{{sfn|Reiterman|Jacobs|1982|p=63}} Stephanie Jones died aged 5 in a car accident in May 1959.{{sfn|Wessinger|2000|p=52}}

In June 1959, Jones and his wife had their only biological child, naming him Stephan Gandhi.{{sfn|Wessinger|2000|p=52}} In 1961, they became the first white couple in Indiana to adopt a black child, naming him Jim Jones Jr. (or James W. Jones Jr.).<ref>{{cite news|publisher= [[American Experience]] [[PBS]]|year= 2007|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jonestown-race/|title= Race and the Peoples Temple|series=[[Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple]]|location=US|access-date=June 20, 2020}}</ref> They adopted a white son, originally named Timothy Glen Tupper (shortened to Tim), whose birth mother was a member of the Temple.<ref name="pbs.org" /> Jones fathered Jim Jon (Kimo) with Temple member [[Carolyn Moore Layton|Carolyn Layton]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/WhoDied/bio.php?Id=633|title=Jim Jon (Kimo) Prokes|publisher=San Diego State University|website=Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple}}</ref>{{sfn|Wessinger|2000|p=52}}