( NewsNation ) — Two years after the Jonestown massacre , ex-members of the cult — Al, Jeannie and their daughter, Daphene Mills — were murdered at their cottage in Berkeley, California, on February 27, 1980, a case that remains unsolved.
This week marks 46 years since the Jonestown massacre, where over 900 people died.
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On November 18, 1978, more than 900 members of the cult, called “The People’s Temple,” died in a mass murder-suicide. Many of them were forced, at gunpoint, to drink a poison punch.
Prior to 9/11, Jonestown was the largest incident of intentional civilian death in American history, and the phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid” came to describe anyone who follows a leader with cult loyalty .
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