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479: 461: 256: 80: 53: 22: 180: 781:"" The reference - claims that, "Criminal investigators testifying at the Jonestown inquest spoke of finding packets of "Kool aid" (sic), and eyewitnesses to the incident are also recorded as speaking of "kool aid" or "Cool Aid." 1. The PDF listed & linked electronically searchable by terms 2. I found no text "Kool aid", not even "Kool", in the text of the inquiry document: 90: 603:(excellent documentary) and several people who were actually there called it "Kool-Aid". And, as I recall, there were "rehearsals" of the suicide (but explained by Jones at the time as "loyalty tests") before they moved to Guyana. Perhaps Flavor Aid was just easier to obtain in Guyana than Kool-Aid?-- 661:
The following statement has no basis and should be modified: "Erroneous references to the mass suicide, in combination with existing references to The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test of the Merry Pranksters, gave rise to the saying "to drink the Kool-Aid" as a reference to those who blindly follow an
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You can see into the box containing both Jelsert Flavor-Aid AND Kool-Aid in the History Channel website link on the Jim Jones page. The box also contains Royal (also a JelSert product) which is some sort of desert, maybe gelatin.
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A large vat of purple Flav-R-Aid, a British version of Kool-Aid, mixed with potassium cyanide and a variety of sedatives and tranquilizers (including Valium, Penegram, and chloral hydrate) was brought out.
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It is surprising that this article has only one reference considering is so well known because of the Jones Town Massacre. I will look into it as time permits.
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and a segment was shown of Jones opening a container with various supplies. The boxes were clearly Kool-aid. I am not sure if this was before Guyana, tho'...
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How can it be said that people spoke of "cool aid", or "Cool Aid" or even "Kool Aid", when all these expressions are spoken in exactly the same way?
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I am tempted to change cherry to grape, but majority doesn't make right. Anybody else who knows for sure? Do we even know which it was?
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The phrase "drinking " only entered the language as a result of Jonestown, and has nothing to do with the Merry Pranksters.
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I saw the same documentary and I can assure you that at least some of the boxes shown clearly contained Flavor Aid.
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claims it was cherry flavored Flavor Aid, but this article claims that it was grape. The article about
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All I have been able to find reliable academic cites for is that the drink was purple:
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makes no mention of flavor at all from what I could tell.
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Bogus reference to Merry Pranksters / Electric Acidtest
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