Yes, the recipe is you take some flavor aide, some Valium, cyanide, and mix with water. You think they were going for taste? Hundreds of people had injection marks or gunshots to the back of their heads. Taste was not at the top of the priority list that day
I've watched some very heart breaking documentaries about Jonestown. In some of the documentaries they were playing Jim Jones words over the loud speakers as it was happening. As people were drinking the kool aid and encouraging them to do so- to squirt it into the mouths of the babies. Some were suicide, homicide & the most heart breaking is they forced these children and babies to drink it. If you view the many photos available on google- its just bodies all over. Youtube has a lot of documentaries with sad information about this. " 918 people and nearly 1/3rd were children. Over 700 were under 17."
" On November 18, 1978, Peoples Temple leader
Jim Jones instructed all members living in the Jonestown, Guyana compound to commit an act of "revolutionary suicide," by drinking poisoned punch. In all, 918 people died that day, nearly a third of whom were children. "
Heres a brief information on what led up to the suicide:
In November 1978, U.S. Congressman
Leo Ryan traveled to Guyana to inspect the Peoples Temple's activities and the Jonestown compound. He was investigating rumours that some members of the cult were being held against their will and that some were being subjected to physical and psychological abuse. After traveling to Guyana's capital,
Georgetown, on November 14, he arrived at Jonestown on November 17. The following day, when Ryan was set to return home, several Temple members who wanted to leave the compound boarded his delegation's truck in order to accompany him back to the
United States. Other members attacked Ryan shortly before the vehicle left the compound, but he escaped unhurt, and the truck continued on with Ryan aboard. Temple members then launched an attack at the airstrip from which Ryan and his company were to depart. Five people, including Ryan and three members of the press, were shot and killed, and 11 others were wounded.
In the wake of the shooting, Jones released radio orders for Temple members outside the compound to commit
suicide. Shortly thereafter Jones enacted his "revolutionary suicide" plan at the compound, which members had "practiced" in the past, in which a fruit drink was laced with
cyanide,
tranquilizers, and sedatives. It was first squirted into the mouths of babies and children via syringe and then imbibed by adult members.
