How very much I've tried my best to give you the good life.

But in spite of all of that tried, a handful of our people with their lives have made our life impossible.

My opinion is that we be kind to children and be kind to seniors and take the portion like they used to take in ancient Greece and step over quietly because we are not committing suicide. It's a revolutionary act. We can go back, they won't leave us alone.

They're now going back to tell more lies, which means more congressmen, and there's no no way no way we can survive.

It's November 18th 1978 in Guyana.

Jim Jones gathered his followers, members of the People's Temple, what he called

his socialistic communist cult in the Jonesown Community Pavilion.

Jones was agitated, distraught, and ready to take deadly action.

Everything was falling apart at Jonestown. Several outsiders had been murdered including

visiting California Congressman Lee Orion, members of the media, and a Jonestown

defector. This was not a drill. After the murders, surely the outside world would be coming to get them, torture them, destroy their utopia.

Jones told his followers that this was it. This is what they had

been preparing for. Revolutionary suicide. It was the only way. Jones instructed his followers to drink the Kool-Aid, actually flavor-aid, laced with cyanide and a little bit of Valium.

He told them to use needless syringes and

squirt the mixture into babies and children's mouths. They're not crying from

pain, he told worried parents. they're crying because it's bitter.

Believing Jones, the people of Jonestown passed the drink around, held their children

and loved ones as they died and then drank the poison themselves.

But as those waiting to die saw the dying people begin to convulse and choke from the blood and saliva that came up in their throats,

they had second thoughts.

Though it cannot be said for certain how the events unfolded, it's believed that some who refuse to drink the poison were forcibly

injected with cyanide.

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