On November 18, 1978, more than 900 people died in a remote settlement in Guyana in what has often been reduced to a single, misleading phrase: “they drank the Kool-Aid.”
This episode tells the full story of Jonestown — not as a sudden act of mass suicide, but as the final collapse of a community held together by fear, isolation, and decades of coercive control.
Content note: This episode includes discussion of mass death, coercion, and abuse. Archival audio from the Jonestown Death Tape is used sparingly and with context.
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