Wasn’t it that he persuaded them to drink the suicidal beverage, promising that they would go to some paradise as a result? That’s a LITTLE different than to cut the head off of a struggling victim.
“Wasn’t it that he persuaded them to drink the suicidal beverage, promising that they would go to some paradise as a result? That’s a LITTLE different than to cut the head off of a struggling victim.”
Survivors describe the Kool-Aid being forced on them at gunpoint; several were wounded running away. They used medicine droppers to put it into the children. One survivor described an older woman begging not to take it; she was coerced to do it anyway.
Jonestown was basically a plantation complete with mostly black slaves, and the mulatto children Jones allegedly sired with some of them.