What Happened After Jonestown?

…Jonestown. Their personal tragedy became a morbid joke: “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid.” “It’s kind of the embarrassing question, ‘Do you have any brothers or sisters?’ and I have to go…

Serial 1097

…her that one had been conducted in the past where the members were made to line up and drink the kool-aid. [Louie] advised that two days prior to Congressman Ryan’s…

Peoples Temple: A Typical Cult?

the multitude of 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;…

Fictional Cults Lack Verisimilitude

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…

The Rest of the Chorus

…can never forget that tragic whole night. Keith G. Marks: We still have a lot of Jim Jones around, but not the shooting or giving you Kool-Aid, just the taking…

Diary of Mark Lane (Text)

…members of the family said, “Three months? I will not wait three months.” Dale Parks and his father both looked at me and said, “What can we do, what should…

Thirty Years Later

Kool-Aid,” it will continue to be used. In fact, I found it used recently as a simile for exterminating insects. Anger has been replaced by acceptance, blame and shame have…