Episode 301: Jonestown Part II - Sidestep and Bullshit
Last Podcast On The Left
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How Jim Jones Prepared Everyone for the Final Moment
In 1969, Jim Jones started taking it further. One guy who left the cult in 1970 so that he'd been present at one of the first poison tests. At a small gathering, Jim Jones served lime Kool-Aid. Not flavor aid. He saved the good stuff for his private group. They all had a drink. Then Jim Jones told him it was poison. Just to see how everybody would react. Even if it's something dumb. And this is just test to see what they would do, how far they would go. It wasn't like that last moment everyone thought, like, oh, this is just another test. No, they knew it was real. Like they looked
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