{"id":84238,"date":"2018-11-09T14:09:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T22:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=84238"},"modified":"2023-11-22T16:29:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T00:29:27","slug":"was-it-kool-aid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=84238","title":{"rendered":"Was It Kool-Aid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/flavor-aid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-86187\" src=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/flavor-aid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a>The brand-name product \u201cKool Aid\u201d was not used on November 18, 1978. Nevertheless, it will be forever connected with the Jonestown tragedy and is the source of the now-commonly used expression, \u201cDrink the Kool-Aid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the lethal combination of the poison potassium cyanide and several sedatives \u2013 including Valium and chloral hydrate \u2013 which was used in Jonestown\u2019s mass murder\/suicide was mixed with the fruit drink Flavor Aid. The powder, which is mixed with water to create the drink, has been described as the British version of Kool-Aid.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the Jonestown pantry did include packets of Kool-Aid, which appear in several videos from Jonestown\u2019s early years as Jim Jones promoted \u201cour stores of goods\u201d at the Jonestown project to his followers still in the States. But after the mass influx of residents raised Jonestown\u2019s population to 1000, the fruit-flavored drink that was more available \u2013 and less expensive \u2013 was the British brand, reflecting Guyana\u2019s history as a British colony.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous articles on  this website consider the phrase \u201cDrinking the Kool-Aid\u201d \u2013 both its place in American culture and its effects upon the survivors of Jonestown \u2013 appear <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=67174\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brand-name product \u201cKool Aid\u201d was not used on November 18, 1978. Nevertheless, it will be forever connected with the Jonestown tragedy and is the source of the now-commonly used expression, \u201cDrink the Kool-Aid.\u201d Instead, the lethal combination of the poison potassium cyanide and several sedatives \u2013 including Valium and chloral hydrate \u2013 which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":35361,"menu_order":75,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84238","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84238"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125269,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84238\/revisions\/125269"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}