Apparently realizing that you can't kill a United States congressman, even on foreign soil, without being found out and hunted down, Jim Jones ordered the death of his entire community. On November 18, 1978, nine hundred people drank a mixture of Kool-aid and cyanide. A few, including Jon...
In our society today, we hear the wordcultused to describe dangerous groups like the People’s Temple whose members drank poisoned Kool-Aid in a mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, forty years ago this year. Do all cults end up like that? No, Jonestown is an extreme example. Many other ...
Jones urged his more than 900 followers in Jonestown that they had to commit suicide or else the Guyanese military will come in and take their children away. From a vat, his people drank the cyanide-laced punch, which birthed the phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid,” referring to those who b...