There had been discussions about a mass suicide. In some circles, there were practice drills,” one survivor recounted to The ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The origin of “Drink the Kool-Aid” lies in the 1978 tragedy at Jonestown, where over 900 members of Peoples Temple took poisoned fruit punch at the behest of their leader, Jim Jones.

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 ...

Today is the 37th anniversary of the mass murders and suicides of 918 people at Jonestown and at a nearby airport in Guyana. Most were followers of People's Temple founder Jim Jones, or their children ...