The Backstory: Drinking the Kool-Aid – the Jonestown massacre
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
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🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Ever heard the term “drinking the Kool-Aid”? It all started with Jim Jones and his people’s temple cult in the 1970s. After outspoken support from people like Jane Fonda and First Lady Roselyn Carter, he led his followers to the jungles of Guyana in South America in 1978. In the end, over 900 people drank his cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Can you imagine needing emotional, intellectual, or spiritual comfort so much that you'd be willing to sign your life away to a powerful mind-controlling individual? |
| 0:11.1 | Some call it a fad, others a cult. And what happens when you drink the Kool-Aid and give up your life for the cause? |
| 0:18.7 | I'm Patty Steele. The Jonestown Massacre was the actual origin of the term drinking the Kool-Aid, |
| 0:24.3 | and it left over 900 dead. |
| 0:26.9 | That's next on the backstory. |
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