1. Cults in America
By Bella Greco

2. The Family Founded in 1967, San Francisco, CA
Cult Leader: Charles Manson
Beliefs were based on Scientology and Satanism
Helter Skelter (“The Race War”)
Killed a total of 9 people

5. Heaven’s Gate Founded in the early 1970’s, in San Diego, CA
Cult Leader: Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles
American UFO religious group (believed
in extraterrestrials)
“The Two”
39 members committed mass suicide in 1997

7. People’s Temple Founded in 1950, in Indianapolis, IN
Cult Leader: “Reverend” Jim Jones
“Inspired by the ideal of a just society that could
overcome the evils of racism and poverty”
Relocated to “Jonestown”, Guyana, SA
Mass suicide and murder of 914 members in 1978

8. “The box was a small underground cubicle to which even children would be sentenced if they had done anything that Father saw as punishable… It was six by four feet, dark, hot, and claustrophobic… There was also a punishment specifically for children, a well. They would be hung upside by a rope around their ankles and dunked in the water over and over again while someone hid in the well and tried to scare them.” –Deborah Layton

9. References
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