…(Layton 1999). On the fatal November 18th of 1978 armed guards were also present to make sure that everyone drank cyanide-spiked Kool-Aid (Nelson 2006). 2.3 Moving the movement Peoples Temple…
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…C. Leslie Mootoo, Guyana’s chief medical examiner, reported that the bodies he examined had not died by “drinking the Kool-Aid,” but by murder. In the aftermath of the tragedy, The…
…Temple actually believed in. “Drinking the Kool-Aid” is an idiom that derives from the Jonestown tragedy, commonly used to refer to blind obedience or belief in a flawed idea. Despite…
…drills. Jones called people into a tent and told the people that if they wanted to prove their loyalty to him they would drink the poison Kool-Aid. Some people drank…
…Man. Reverend Jim’s just as nice as can be, Come on and drink that Kool Aid with me. We use dark, tongue-in-cheek humor to relay the fact that this evil,…
…the viewing of Kennerly’s photograph, particularly with his decision to place an empty vat of Kool-Aid as the central device of his image. The subject is a benign drink consumed…
…Prokes joined him. Prokes said that the Page 21 same woman said Ryan was going to be attacked soon. He had not been attacked yet or could be they were…
…by an impulse to know the answers to those big, unanswerable questions – how? why? When I asked my students to explain the phrase, “Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid,” they did,…
…questionable sources, and even to expressions like “drink the Kool-Aid.” I personally had never heard about Jonestown until the end of March 2015. My first exposure to this subject was…