Jonestown: An Introduction

drink grape flavor-aid mixed with cyanide. Hence the colloquial references to “drinking the kool-aid.” There were also syringes strewn about. Some were likely used to squirt it into children’s mouths,…

Outside the Ring: Humanity in Tragedy

…up in the media with such an enduring impact that, in modern culture, the idiom “to drink the Kool-Aid” refers to a person’s willingness to go along with a blatantly…

“It”

the first years after the tragedy occurred? Was it hearing the endless Kool-Aid jokes? Am I angry for not seeing us as victims, but instead believing what the world said,

The Secret Life of Jim Jones:
A Parapolitical Fugue

…One by one, they’d come forward without protest to drink cyanide-laced “Kool-Aid” from a vat.[9] It was as simple as that. Jonestown was proof-positive of the effectiveness of brainwashing, and…

17 Months And Counting

…massacre, has named its latest album for it. “Radar Hate drink the Kool-Aid and record Jonestown” shout out the headlines at Canada’s ChartAttack.com website [Editor’s note: The URL with this…

Missing Pieces: A play in hibernation

…really wasn’t Kool Aid. But until last night, I had never ever seen Flavoraid except in articles protesting the use of “Kool Aid” when referring to that toxic mix. Even…

Survivor: ‘They Started with the Babies’

…said. They were then forced to drink the poisoned Kool-aid and shortly after the mass killing began, Rhodes said, “it just got all out of order. Babies were screaming, children…

Peoples Temple in the News 2018

the Kool-Aid’: Remembering the tragic Jonestown massacre Startsat60.com, August 24, 2018 Jonestown Massacre: How 918 people followed a cult leader to Guyana, ‘drank the Kool-Aid’… and died in a single…

Brandon Farrell

…of its members off as “crazy Kool-Aid drinkers. ” He was very passionate about striving to stop the phrase “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid. ” He also spoke about the media…

Q592 Transcript

…(Applause) Voice: I said, I have last night, Dad. Jones: What’s that? Voice: I said, I have last night. Jones: Yeah, yeah. Well, that’s good. That’s good. I said some…