Jonestown. Don't drink the kool-aid

  Jim Jones was born May 13, 1931, in Crete, Indiana. Jones was a notorious cult leader and a self-proclaimed messiah of the Peoples Temple religion. He promised his followers if they followed him, he would take them to a utopia. On November 18,1978 which would then be known as the Jonestown Massacre. Jones manipulated over 900 men, woman, and children to their deaths in a mass suicide with Cyanide-laced punch. Inspiring the slang term “Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid”. With the very youngest not being able to take the concoction themselves, they were forced by either their parents or a soldier in Jones army. There was only 87 Peoples Temple members to have survived the traumatic ordeal. The Peoples Temple was a very devout religious organization. It’s even been called a cult, a cult is defined as misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing.