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They uncovered a staged healing, the abusive treatment of a woman in the church, and evidence that Jones raped a male member of his congregation. Jeff Guinn said, "It is impossible to know whether Jones gradually came to think he was God's earthly vessel, or whether he came to that convenient conclusion to enhance his authority over his followers. William Branham and the Latter Rain movement promoted the belief that individuals could become manifestations of God with supernatural gifts and superhuman abilities. In February 2012, "Drinking the Kool-Aid" won first place in an online poll by Forbes magazine as "the single most annoying example of business jargon.

Film footage shot inside the compound prior to the events of November shows Jones opening a large chest in which boxes of Flavor Aid are visible. In contrast to his peers, Jones was known to dress in his Sunday church clothes every day of the week. Residents of the commune later committed suicide by drinking a grape flavored beverage laced with potassium cyanide; some were forced to drink it, some (such as small children) drank it unknowingly. At times, he would put other children into life-threatening situations and tell them he was guided by the Angel of Death. Surviving the attack were future Congresswoman Jackie Speier, a Ryan staff member; Richard Dwyer, Deputy Chief of Mission from the U.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. Jones began to closely associate with the Independent Assemblies of God (IAoG), an international group of churches which embraced the Latter Rain movement. Flavor Aid currently comes in cherry, raspberry, grape, berry punch, tropical punch, orange, pineapple- orange, lemonade, pink lemonade, lemon- lime, strawberry, mango, and kiwi- watermelon flavors. and giving the Nazi salute to German prisoners of war who were travelling through their town on their way to a detention facility. In January 1962 he read an Esquire magazine article that purported South America to be the safest place to reside to escape any impending nuclear war.

The five killed at the airstrip were Ryan, Harris, Brown, San Francisco Examiner photographer Greg Robinson, and Temple member Patricia Parks. Lessons on Soviet affiliations, Jones' crises, and the alleged "mercenaries" dispatched by Tim Stoen, who had defected from the Temple and turned against the group, were the topic of adult midnight lectures and classroom discussions of Jones' discourses about revolution and adversaries. In an article entitled "On Satan and Jonestown", Billy Graham argued that it would be a mistake to identify Jones and his cult as Christian.

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 told Temple members that the Soviet Union would not give them passage after the airstrip shooting. Law at the Bar: Lawyer for striking air traffic controllers won back 60 jobs but suffered personal loss".Jones adopted one of the Latter Rain's key doctrines which he continued to promote for the rest of his life: the Manifested Sons of God. It is sold throughout the United States as an unsweetened, powdered concentrate drink mix, similar to Kool-Aid brand drink mix. The first known use of the phrase was in a passage from the 1968 non-fiction book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, where it was used to describe an incident where Wolfe unsuccessfully tried to stop someone with a poor mental health record from drinking Kool-Aid laced with LSD, who then subsequently had a bad psychedelic experience. It is also a primary component of the essential apple flavor, along with ethyl acetate and ethyl butyrate.

By 1970, the Temple opened branches in several cities including San Fernando, San Francisco, and Los Angeles as Jones began shifting his focus to major cities across California because of limited expansion opportunities in Ukiah.In 1951, the 20-year-old Jones began attending gatherings of the Communist Party USA in Indianapolis. The issue only escalated however, and Lester Kinsolving ran a series of articles targeting Jones and Peoples Temple in the San Francisco Examiner in September 1972. By 1978, reports surfaced of human rights abuses and accusations that people were being held in Jonestown against their will.