History Of The Jonestown Massacre

Created by the People’s Temple and lead by Jim Jones, “Jonestown” was a religious society located in northwestern Guyana. On the date of November 18, 1978, 918 died in Guyana’s capital, Georgetown, in Port Kaituma, a close-by airstrip (Wikipedia). According to Adst, “Jonestown was the scene of one of the most harrowing tragedies in American history.” The People’s Temple was created in Indiana by Jim Jones who formed this so called church because he was aggravated by the persecution of communists by the United States government (Liam). In 1971, he moved the church to San Francisco where it was accused of mistreating the members’ children as well as abusing the members themselves. Jones became paranoid so he moved the Temple again, but this time to Guyana. There the church grew to be a socialist utopia, taking the name of …show more content…
People often refer to Jones’s potent concoction as “Kool-Aid,” although Jones actually used the flavoring named “Flavor Aid.” If someone is to be described by “drinking the Kool-Aid” it means that they are faithful to a group that holds an uncontested opinion or philosophy without critically examining it first. Works Cited
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