Sunday, May 30, 2010

Namesake

Today's fact about The People's Temple, which was the name of Jim Jones' church:

909 People's Temple members died in Jonestown on November 18, 1978.  Although this event is widely thought of as a mass suicide, only approximately half of the people who died there drank the cyanide-laced Kool-Aid willingly.  The rest of those died were elderly or children to whom other members administered the poison.  Jim Jones himself did not drink the Kool-Aid, nor did he even take his own life.  He had a Temple member shoot him in the head.

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