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Before Jonestown

sweetness of this photo, a future cult leader and mass murderer was one of the grooms pictured at the June 12, 1949, wedding. James W. Jones had just turned 18; his bride, Marceline Mae Baldwin, was 22. Her sister, Eloise Baldwin, and her own betrothed,

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