Serial 1305-11

…members. She feels many people were forced to drink the poison Kool-Aid, since many at the polling raised their hands out of fear. Prior to her arrival at Jonestown, she…

Arts and popular culture notes (2022)

…is human nature to “drink the Kool-Aid” both when it comes to being cruel and when one feels fear and regret afterwards. “Kool Aid Kids” was released in June 2022….

Waste and Love

…followed a sick man named Jim Jones into a South American jungle and poisoned their children with Kool-Aid laced with cyanide, because that is something anyone can research, but isn’t…

The United States of Jonestown

…watched us fall in line with the final footsteps of my former family, those first-ever Kool-Aid drinkers, whose tumultuous passage on November 18, 1978 drew a sharp line of demarcation…

Scholarly Resources

…A Cultural Interlocutor Approach to Visual Media and New Religions.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 34, no.1: 53–72. Kutulas, Judy, “Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid: The Jonestown Tragedy, the Press,…

Murder or Suicide: What I Saw

…blind loyalty.” Ironically, what Jonestown has come to represent in popular culture is a parody of itself: The general public is “drinking the Kool-Aid” in its unquestioned acceptance of what…

Serial 1303-7

…at Jonestown. He specifically recalled at one that took place several months ago, a suicide ritual was practiced. He stated everyone was requested to drink Kool-Aid that allegedly contained poison,…

Coverage of memorial projects, November 2010 – November 2011

the poisoned Kool-Aid to remove Jones’s name from the monument. Jonestown memorial can go forward, judge rules http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/12/BAER1JFM1N.DTL by Carolyn Jones, San Francisco Chronicle Cemetery crews can finish installing a…