Jones's initial popularity arose from his joint campaign appearances with the movements' prominent leaders, William Branham and Joseph Mattsson-Boze, and their endorsement of his ministry. He informed the community that Ryan was dead and it was only a matter of time before military commandos descended on their commune and killed them all. Like other followers of William Branham who moved to South America during the 1960s, Jones may have been influenced by Branham's 1961 prophecy concerning the destruction of the United States in a nuclear war. Transfer the grapes to Ziploc bags (one for each Kool-Aid flavor/color), then add the 6 ounces of Kool-Aid mix. and giving the Nazi salute to German prisoners of war who were travelling through their town on their way to a detention facility.

In a perfumery context the most common Schiff's Base is known as aurantiol, [7] produced by combining methyl anthranilate and hydroxycitronellal. Marceline Jones announced on the public address system that everything was fine and urged locals to go back to their houses after Ryan left Jonestown for Port Kaituma.S. Embassy in Georgetown; Bob Flick, an NBC producer; Steve Sung, an NBC sound engineer; Tim Reiterman, an Examiner reporter; Ron Javers, a Chronicle reporter; Charles Krause, a Washington Post reporter; and several defecting Temple members. Possibly to distract Peoples Temple members from the issues facing their group, he told his Indiana congregation that the world would be engulfed by nuclear war on July 15, 1967, leading to a new socialist Eden on Earth, and that the Temple must move to Northern California for safety. At the convention, Branham issued a prophetic endorsement of Jones and his ministry, saying that God used the convention to send forth a new great ministry. Members who rebelled against Jones's control were punished with reduced food rations, harsher work schedules, public ridicule and humiliations, and sometimes with physical violence. After Timothy Stoen also left Peoples Temple in June 1977, Jones kept the child at his own home in Jonestown.

The phrase or metaphor has also often been used in a political context, usually with a negative implication.a b Drinking the Kool-Aid: The Cultural Transformation of a Tragedy Archived 2018-01-22 at the Wayback Machine, Rebecca Moore, American Academy of Religion/ Western Region, St.

By the early 1970s, Jones began deriding traditional Christianity as "fly away religion", rejecting the Bible as being a tool to oppress women and non-whites. Instead, he consumed more substantial meals that frequently contained meat while "claiming problems with his blood sugar".Jones was disturbed by the treatment of the African Americans who were in attendance at a baseball game he attended in Richmond, Indiana. Although his aunts and uncles lived close by and gave him some supervision, Jones often wandered the streets of the town, sometimes naked.