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Jim Jones before he became a mad cult leader was actually a civil rights and social justice advocate and a respected clergyman who was given a position in San Francisco's city government. So what if he had remained sane and became a sort of a white Jesse Jackson drawing the ire of conservatives but still in the mainstream?