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The Jonestown Event: What Happened and Why the Term "Drank the Kool-Aid" Persists

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The event commonly referenced by the phrase "cult that drank kool aid" was the mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978, led by James Warren Jones and the...

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Kool-Aid and Jonestown: What Happened and Why It Still Matters

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Jonestown refers to the Peoples Temple agricultural settlement in northern Guyana where, in November 1978, 918 people died in a mass suicide-murder event led by Jim Jones. The s...

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Jonestown cyanide: a verified explainer of the event, causes, and legacy

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The Jonestown cyanide event refers to the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978, in which 918 members of the Peoples Temple died in Jonestown, Guyana. This verified explainer...

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Where was Jonestown located?

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Jonestown was an agricultural settlement in the jungle interior of northeastern Guyana, roughly 150 kilometers southwest of the coastal capital Georgetown. It sat in the Demerar...

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