James Warren Jones was an American religious cult leader who initiated a mass suicide and mass murder in Jonestown, Guyana. He was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple cult which he began in Indiana during the 1950s. He moved the Temple to California in 1965 and gained notoriety with its activities in San Francisco in the early 1970s. He then relocated to Guyana. In 1978, media reports surfaced that human rights abuses were taking place in the Peoples Temple in Jonestown. U.S. Representative Leo Ryan led a delegation to the commune to investigate what was going on, but he and others were murdered by gunfire while boarding a return flight with some former cult members who had wished to leave. Jones then committed a mass murder–suicide of 918 of his followers, 304 of whom were children, almost all by cyanide-poisoned Flavor Aid.
The Special Collections of Library and Information Access at San Diego State University contains a collection of every audio tape recovered from Jonestown.
Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple
https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/
Direct Link To The Directory of Audio Recordings
https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=29043