{"id":84241,"date":"2018-11-09T14:28:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T22:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=84241"},"modified":"2023-11-22T16:47:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T00:47:33","slug":"did-jim-jones-have-tattoos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=84241","title":{"rendered":"Did Jim Jones have tattoos?"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. The last line of Jim Jones\u2019 physical description in his autopsy report<\/a> states, \u201cNo tattoos or scars are identified.\u201d<\/p>\n

The real question is, what is the source of the rumor that Jones had tattoos? It has been around almost before the last body was removed from Jonestown, first noted in Hold Hands and Die!<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>an instant paperback by John Maguire and cited in John Judge\u2019s The Black Hole of Guyana<\/a>. At this point, it falls into the realm of common knowledge \u2013 it\u2019s true, even if we don\u2019t know the source, and even if we don\u2019t have a means to refute \u2013 as shown in some online discussions on the subject:<\/p>\n

Jim Jones\u2019 own suicide also leaves some unanswered questions. His body didn\u2019t reveal his tattoos in the photographs. His fingerprints were checked twice. His dental records were not checked. Jones was known to use doubles.<\/p>\n

Another strange thing about Jonestown was Jim Jones\u2019 corpse. The Peoples Temple leader was known to have tattoos all over his chest. Yet the photos of his corpse found after his supposed suicide show a chest free of tattoos. \u2026\u00a0I recall watching something on TV many years ago on this. They said to the effect that Jim had a twin brother.<\/p>\n

The body identified as\u00a0Jim Jones\u00a0did not have Jones’ chest\u00a0tattoos\u2026it is reported that the corpse did not have\u00a0Jones’ distinctive chest\u00a0tattoos.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the dead may not have included Jim Jones himself. The body alleged to be his didn’t show his tattoos in the photographs. Fingerprints had to be checked twice, and his dental records were never looked at. He was known to use doubles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No. The last line of Jim Jones\u2019 physical description in his autopsy report states, \u201cNo tattoos or scars are identified.\u201d The real question is, what is the source of the rumor that Jones had tattoos? It has been around almost before the last body was removed from Jonestown, first noted in Hold Hands and Die!,\u00a0an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":35361,"menu_order":82,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84241","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84241"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125277,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84241\/revisions\/125277"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}