Jeff Guinn doesn’t like the expression “drinking the Kool-Aid.”
First, he says, it’s inaccurate: Most of the 918 people who died in the 1977 Jonestown massacre in a remote commune in Guyana, in South America, actually killed themselves by drinking a cyanide solution laced with Flavor Aid, an inexpensive knock-off.
More troubling to Guinn is the glib judgment implied in that expression — and how it has too simply come to represent the willingness of fools to follow deranged leaders.
As Guinn found out while researching and writing The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, released in bookstores on Tuesday,...
First, he says, it’s inaccurate: Most of the 918 people who died in the 1977 Jonestown massacre in a remote commune in Guyana, in South America, actually killed themselves by drinking a cyanide solution laced with Flavor Aid, an inexpensive knock-off.
More troubling to Guinn is the glib judgment implied in that expression — and how it has too simply come to represent the willingness of fools to follow deranged leaders.
As Guinn found out while researching and writing The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, released in bookstores on Tuesday,...
- 4/11/2017
- by Greg Hanlon
- PEOPLE.com
Authorities issued evacuation orders for at least 188,000 people near northern California’s Lake Oroville Sunday after erosion at the emergency spillway threatened extreme flooding, CNN reports.
According to the outlet, a hole developed in the auxiliary spillway of the 770-foot-tall Oroville Dam, the tallest in the United States. Although the dam is still standing, the erosion could undermine the spillway’s structure, allowing rushes of water to wash downhill into nearby towns.
“I’m not going to lift the evacuation order until I have a better idea of what that means and what risk that poses,” Butte County Sheriff Kory...
According to the outlet, a hole developed in the auxiliary spillway of the 770-foot-tall Oroville Dam, the tallest in the United States. Although the dam is still standing, the erosion could undermine the spillway’s structure, allowing rushes of water to wash downhill into nearby towns.
“I’m not going to lift the evacuation order until I have a better idea of what that means and what risk that poses,” Butte County Sheriff Kory...
- 2/13/2017
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
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