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…When everyone was sitting at the tables ready to eat, Jones asked everyone to make a toast with the lime Kool-aid. After everyone took a drink, Jones said everyone was…

…deceased. While the American press screamed about the “Kool-Aid Suicides,” Dr. Mootoo was reaching a much different opinion.[29] This is understandable: Mootoo was on-site and the press wasn’t. Initially, the…

…of Guyana, Jim Jones was able to persuade 918 of his followers, most of them poor and black, to drink their lethal Kool-Aid. Fear can do that.” After giving a…

…course project we have come to gain a deeper understanding of the narrative and the life of Peoples Temple. These were not Kool-Aid drinking zombie cult members; they could have…

…of the Rev. Jim Jones in the sweltering and nigh-impenetrable Guyanese jungle. “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid” became pop culture’s callous takeaway, often still uttered by people who aren’t aware of…

…of suicide/murders that occurred. There is even an opportunity to say “drink the Kool-aid” and watch the kids go “Ah…that is where that came from!” The problem is, as it…

…“It’s the oldest… “ “They killed the babies first,” I said. “… religion in the world. We have… “ “Potassium cyanide.” “… members in all… “ “Dead,” I said. “Men,…

…as a fanatical “Kool-Aid” drinking cultist sect was not apt or accurate. As an example of the negative connotation of religious “cults,” the popular powdered fruit drink has managed to…

…expression “drink the Kool-Aid.” (Never mind that the cyanide-laced lethal concoction may have been mostly Flavor-Aid; accuracy and consistency never have been hallmarks of the story of Jones, beginning with…

…few childhood memories but this is one of them. The overused phrase, “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid” – i.e., never follow any religious fanatic blindly – became a permanent part of…