18 November 1978. Jim Jones made people commit a mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. The barrel was filled with poisonous water (containing cyanide) where the people filled their cup with, then drank. 909 deaths, only 167 survivors. {327×500}
Sadly, they didn’t all choose to drink – dozens were found with needle marks on them, indicating that they had been injected with poison.
Fun_Delight
I just finished watching the Netflix documentary on this this afternoon "Paradise Lost." I didn’t know of all the details, because I was 12 at the time when it happened, but never researched it until now. So may emotions. Shock, sadness, horror, disbelief…
Cecca105
I just don’t understand how he convinced so many people to flock to the middle of the jungle for religious purposes
agent-orange-julius
The barrel was filled w grape kool-aid. Hence the term "dont drink the cool aid", or inversely "they drank the look-aid" meaning they have been brain washed
petiteaustralienne
Sadly, they didn’t all choose to drink – dozens were found with needle marks on them, indicating that they had been injected with poison.
Fun_Delight
I just finished watching the Netflix documentary on this this afternoon "Paradise Lost." I didn’t know of all the details, because I was 12 at the time when it happened, but never researched it until now. So may emotions. Shock, sadness, horror, disbelief…
Cecca105
I just don’t understand how he convinced so many people to flock to the middle of the jungle for religious purposes
agent-orange-julius
The barrel was filled w grape kool-aid. Hence the term "dont drink the cool aid", or inversely "they drank the look-aid" meaning they have been brain washed