Why Study Or Reflect On Peoples Temple?
…Jim changed over the years – and so much more – is essential for those wanting to understand. Catchy phrases like, “Drink the Kool-Aid,” are reckless and hurtful. I miss…
…Jim changed over the years – and so much more – is essential for those wanting to understand. Catchy phrases like, “Drink the Kool-Aid,” are reckless and hurtful. I miss…
…was able to teach them something. The works appear below: Don’t Drink The Kool-aid, A poem from a child. Separation of Church and State of Shock, A poem from a…
…[Joyce Parks] stated she attended one mass meeting in which Jones personally administered drink of Kool-Aid to all present and then told them it was poison and they were all…
A recent pet peeve of mine is the phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid.” It’s a reference to the Jonestown Massacre, but it’s used without emotion, like it’s about being at a…
…with these tapes is how the Martin Luther King case is the pivot for the eventual murder of Congressman Leo Ryan and the infamous Kool-Aid event of November 18, 1978….
…is not part of any collective Danish memory and not something the media makes reference to. I have never even heard a Kool-Aid joke. I believe this gives me a…
…mass genocide, where over 900 people were forced to drink the literal kool-aid at gunpoint. What circumstances or conditions led to the massive homelessness and psychic, almost psychotic, instability? How…
…Congressman Ryan and troubled parents flew in to see for themselves, they were gunned down by loyalists who exhorted a thousand followers to drink the Kool-Aid which passed as mass…
…done anything to stop it. Questioning and speaking out had been stifled. I am amazed at how many young people don’t know about Peoples Temple. The phrase, “drink the kool-aid”…
…Kool-Aid was used in this practice. Bagby stated she decided to leave Jonestown because she was afraid. Bagby advised Rev. Jones’ statements about suicide before Congressman Ryan arrived caused her…