…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…
…said, “We must overthrow this Government.” He said that the Government was bad and displayed a strong dislike for then President Nixon. She said he had talked about having a…
…the Kool-Aid.” I couldn’t help but wonder if the indifference/callousness/lack of empathy which had endured the intervening 25 years was a reflection of a broader sentiment among a society unwilling…
…acceptance or at least tolerance of “cults” in America and elsewhere. The phrase, “Drink the Kool-Aid,” entered the English language to mean blind uncritical acceptance or following of a false…
…to scandal to jungle exodus to mass suicide, Kool-Aid, conspiracy. I try to imagine reading these things in the context of the ’60s and ’70s. As I’m reading, a woman…
…decompose under harsh tropical conditions—stated that the bodies he examined had been murdered. Did an entire community in fact “drink the Kool-Aid”? Before one continues to accept that scenario, certain…
…did not want children. Up until then, he had said we should wait until we were stable. He now said his nerves were too bad to handle raising a child….
…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,…
…Aid concoction (not Kool Aid, as the phrase has come down to us in popular parlance). Protagonist Taryn, who embodies the role of skeptic and seer, laments: We’re the only…
…them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had…