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drink or not to drink the Kool-Aid. There was one other time in Jonestown when she participated in a suicide drill, but she could not recall what specifically triggered this…

Jonestown Art as Therapy for Emotional Abuse

…for all these uncovered emotions. The notion of drinking the Flavor Aid – most visitors to this site know it wasn’t Kool-Aid in Jonestown – played over and over in…

Escaping American Individualism: Peoples Temple

…and receiving very little government aid (Marx, 2011). Up until 1972, those who did not qualify for Social Security were unable to receive financial aid from the state (Moffitt, 2015)….

Final Witness: The Legacy of Marceline Jones

…ignored. Otherwise, it was all said to just be about Kool-aid and cults and bizarre murder/suicide rituals. Well, of course I have also maintained that these people did not commit…

Jonestown Victims Died of Murder

…was searching through the 4,000+ documents which the FBI sent me. Have you ever heard the term, “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid?” or “You have drunk the Kool-Aid.”? The saying refers…

Arts and popular culture notes (2010)

“The idea of the team came from the incident that occurred in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978. The clever logo is a Kool-Aid spokesman, The Kool-Aid Man, with deadly ‘X’s as…

Jim Jones and the History of Peoples Temple

…able to dive deep into what was really behind the face of what many refer to as the “Kool-Aid Cult.” I gathered information from several different internet articles as well…

Leo Ryan’s Heroism at Jonestown

…any stripe: “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid.” The Jonestown massacre has come to be seen as a cautionary tale about the perils of blind obedience to a leader. Today, some progressives…