Jim Jones

== Death and aftermath ==
Jones's three sons, Stephan, Jim Jr., and Tim Jones, were with the Peoples Temple's basketball team in Georgetown at the time of the mass poisoning.{{sfn|Wessinger|2000|p=31}}<ref name=":0" /> During the events at Jonestown, the three brothers drove to the U.S. Embassy in Georgetown to alert the authorities. Guyanese soldiers guarding the embassy refused to let them in after hearing about the shootings at the Port Kaituma airstrip.<ref name ="ejt">{{cite web |author=Smith, Gary |title=Escape From Jonestown |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/magazine/12/24/jonestown1231/1.html |accessdate=November 12, 2012 |publisher=Sports Illustrated on CNN.com |date= December 24, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112022244/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/magazine/12/24/jonestown1231/1.html |archive-date=November 12, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Later, the three returned to the Temple's headquarters in Georgetown to find the bodies of Sharon Amos and her three children, Liane, Christa and Martin.<ref name ="ejt"/>

The Guyanese military arrived in Jonestown to find the dead. The United States military organized an airlift to bring the remains back to the United States to be buried.{{sfn|Reiterman|Jacobs|1982|p=573}} Jones was found dead on the stage of the central pavilion; he was resting on a pillow near his deck chair with a gunshot wound to his head.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/GuyanaInquest.pdf |title=Guyana Inquest—Interviews of Cecil Roberts & Cyril Mootoo |access-date=February 23, 2010}}</ref> Jones's body was later moved for examination and [[embalming]]. The official [[autopsy]] conducted by Guyanese coroner Cyril Mootoo in December 1978 confirmed Jones's cause of death as suicide. His son Stephan speculated that his father may have directed someone else to shoot him.<ref>''[[Jonestown: Paradise Lost]]'', Interview of Stephan Jones, Documentary airing on Discovery Networks, 2007</ref> The autopsy showed high levels of the [[barbiturate]] [[pentobarbital]] in Jones' body, which may have been lethal to humans who had not developed [[physiological tolerance]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Mueller, Kenneth H.|date=December 15, 1978|url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/JimJones.pdf|website=Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple|title=Autopsy Report: Jim Jones|publisher=[[San Diego State University]]|access-date=March 27, 2020}}</ref> Jones's body was [[cremation|cremated]] and his remains were scattered in the Atlantic Ocean.{{sfn|Guinn|2017|p=20}}

Guyanese soldiers kept the Jones brothers under [[house arrest]] for five days, interrogating them about the deaths in Georgetown.<ref name ="ejt"/> Stephan was accused of involvement in the deaths and placed in a Guyanese prison for three months.<ref name ="ejt"/> Tim and Johnny Cobb, other members of the Temple basketball team, were taken to Jonestown to identify bodies.<ref name ="ejt"/> After returning to the U.S., Jim Jones Jr. was placed under police surveillance for several months while he lived with his older sister, Suzanne, who had previously turned against the Temple.<ref name ="ejt"/> John Victor Stoen died in Jonestown. His body was found just outside of Jones's house.{{sfn|Reiterman|Jacobs|1982|p=380}}

[[File:Jonestown-brochure-16 LewJones TerryCarter-Chaeoke.jpg|thumb|Chaeoke Jones, Lew Jones, and Terry Carter Jones. Father, mother, and child all died in the mass murder-suicide.|alt=A smiling family of three.]]

In a signed note found at the time of her death, Marceline directed that Jones's assets be given to the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]. The Peoples Temple secretary had already made arrangements for $7.3 million (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|7.3|1978|2020}}}} million in 2020 dollars) in Temple funds to be transferred to the Soviet Embassy in Guyana. Most of the money was held in foreign bank accounts and was transferred electronically, but $680,000 (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|680000|1977|2020}}}} in 2020 dollars) was held in cash and three couriers were hired to transport the cash to the Soviets. The couriers were arrested before reaching their destination and claimed to have hidden most of the money.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/letter_fromMarceline.pdf|title=November 18 1978 Letter from Marceline Jone|website=Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple|publisher=San Diego State University|accessdate=March 15, 2022}}</ref>{{sfn|Reiterman|Jacobs|1982|pp=562–563}}