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

Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple was responsible for the largest mass murder-suicide in history at his remote Jonestown commune in 1978. Over 900 commune members died by drinking Flavor Aid, not Kool ...

And it seems only appropriate that Lyons should use the message of his namesake, the original Jim Jones, when he urged his Kool Aid Kult in Guyana to drink deeply of the poisoned chalice: ...

Re: the May 14 letter writer denigrating liberals' take about Trump supporters being "Kool-Aid drinkers," I think he must have forgotten about Jim Jones and the Jonestown massacre of 1978.

Congressman Leo Ryan went to Guyana in 1978 to investigate reports of American cult leader Jim Jones holding hundreds of his followers captive. Ryan didn't make it out of Jonestown alive.

A local government expressed interest in turning the site of the Jonestown massacre, which killed over 900 people, into a tourist destination.

But at the beginning there really was Kool-Aid: Jim Jones shows it to us during “Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown,” not long before he served cyanide-laced beverages to more than 900 ...

The Jonestown massacre is so well known that the phrase “drink the Kool-Aid” has become part of the American vernacular—a fact that still rankles Stephan Jones, son of cult leader Jim Jones ...

Re: the May 14 letter writer denigrating liberals' take about Trump supporters being "Kool-Aid drinkers," I think he must have forgotten about Jim Jones and the Jonestown massacre of 1978.

The popular phrase 'drinking the Kool-Aid' may roll off the tongue, but the origin of the expression has a dark backstory.

Jim Jones, the charismatic preacher who led the People's Temple in San Francisco, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Jonestown. He was 47. Former follower Yulanda Williams is speaking out.