Before we get to the Kool-Aid part, let's recap some horrible American history. Jim Jones was a complex man. Long story short, he was a communist and occasional Methodist minister who founded his ...

The ninth episode of American Horror Story: Cult, “Drink The Kool-Aid,” opens, appropriately enough, with Kai regaling his dude militia with stories of notorious cults and cult leaders: Heaven ...

Jones then ordered his followers to commit “revolutionary suicide.” When the dust had settled, the jungle floor was littered with more than 900 corpses, many of them children.

913 people drank cyanide-laced grape juice at Reverend Jim Jones's order. Photo / Getty Images. After she escaped the cult, Deborah Layton wanted to get as far from her past as possible, terrified ...

A new three-part docuseries from Hulu, ‘Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown,’ helps to debunk the biggest myths about what was once considered a “mass suicide.” ...

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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.