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Four decades of fanaticism, terrorism and light-speed media exposure to violence and victimization haven’t dulled the horrors of November 1978, when Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers ...
Jones’s followers are imagined as wide-eyed innocents, swallowing his outrageous teachings along with his cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. Teri Buford O’Shea remembers things quite differently.
Jim Jones led his followers to drink poisoned Kool-Aid in a mass murder-suicide. Over 900 people died in the tragic Jonestown massacre. You are viewing 1 of 3 images Previous Image Next Image ...
The phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid” refers to followership at its worse. It was coined after a delusional, pseudo-guru named Jim Jones led his cult, the Peoples Temple, to mass suicide. Over ...
This led to the phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid," often directed to somebody who holds unquestioned beliefs. Ironically, authorities determined Jones used Flavor-Aid, a similar product, for the poison.
Jeff Lindsay needs a lesson in history, school teachers failed his educational needs. Jeff wrote: “Does anyone remember Jim Jones and sharing the Kool-Aid? I think Trump may be sharing the virus ...
Jim Jones, an evangelist from San Francisco, had founded Jonestown in the South American nation earlier in the 1970s. He chose Guyana as the site for his “utopia” to get out of the reach of U ...
WW: Most people remember Jones as somebody who persuaded a thousand Californians to drink poisoned Kool-Aid in the jungle.What are we forgetting? Jeff Guinn: All that's left of Jones and Jonestown ...