JONESTOWN MASSACRE FACTS

JONESTOWN MASSACRE FACTS

Christine Miller was known in the community to frequently have a dissenting opinion, and may have been chosen by Jones as the 'representative' opposition because he knew that people were less likely to ally with her because of that.

Though she did argue, eventually she gave in and died with her commune. Marceline Jones was Jim Jones legal wife, and is not heard on the tape, but it is noted that she had to be restrained while the children were poisoned, and only when all 294 children were doomed to die did she willingly take the poison herself.

 Rondell Carroll, born 6 August 1971, was 7 years old at the time and too young to effectively protest, as were his 3 younger brothers and 2 infant cousins that also perished.

After the events November 18th, the People’s Temple entered the public’s consciousness forever. And while some of the what’s and why’s have fallen by the wayside in the thirty-plus years since Jones ordered his followers to drink from a barrel full of poison, one trifling bit has remained: the phrase drink the Kool-Aid. It’s meant to mean willingly enter into a lie, but like many phrases, it’s based on a fallacy. The poison that the People’s Temple used to kill themselves was actually flavored with an off-brand called Flavor-Aid, spiced up with Valium, chloral hydrate, and cyanide.

 You can only imagine how quickly the people at Kool-Aid tried to right that mistake. But like the People’s Temple itself, there’s really no stopping something when people get a hold of it and believe it to be true.

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