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Congressman Leo Ryan, who was murdered while investigating Jonestown in 1978, had a record of directly looking into his constituents' concerns. As an assemblyman, he investigated the conditions of California prisons in 1970 by using a pseudonym to enter Folsom Prison as an inmate.

The Jonestown mass suicide in 1978 was responsible for the largest loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act prior to September 11, 2001

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1. Before cult leader Jim Jones ordered the mass suicide of his People's Temple followers in Jonestown, Guyana in November 1978, Davis gave a speech on the group's behalf.

2. In 1981 Shannon Ryan used part of her dead father Congressman Leo Ryan's life insurance money after he was killed by the Jonestown cult in 1978, to join a religious sex guru and his followers at Rajneeshpuram, Oregon in what was later dubbed as a cult

3. The idiom "drinking the Kool-Aid" comes from the 1978 Jonestown mass suicide, where over 900 people (almost 300 of which were children) deliberately or forcibly drank a powdered soft drink flavoring agent (Flavor Aid) mixed with cyanide.

4. The day before the November 18, 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, Congressman Leo Ryan and several members of an NBC news crew were shot dead. The NBC producer was shocked that he and his crew survived Vietnam not "a rinky-dink country’s backwoods."

5. On November 18, 1978, in what became known as the “Jonestown Massacre,” more than 900 members of an American cult called the Peoples Temple died in a mass suicide from drinking grape Kool-Aid laced with cyanide and potassium chloride under the direction of their leader Jim Jones.

6. About the Jonestown Massacre, which on November 18th 1978,was the site of the the largest recorded mass suicide, and the point of the origin for the phrase "drinking the kool-aid". Over 900 people died from the settlement of Jonestown, willingly dying by cyanide poisoning.

7. Followers of Jim Jones were interviewed in Jonestown before the 1978 mass murder/suicide in which 909 people, 304 of them children died after "drinking the Kool-Aid".

8. The phrase "don't drink the Kool-Aid" was based off of The Jonestown Massacre: a horrific massacre from 1978 where over 900 people died from apparent suicide

9. The November 18, 1978 Jonestown Massacre resulted in the largest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until September 11, 2001.

10. There is an audio tape that recorded the entire 1978 mass suicide of Jonestown, where 900+ cult followers ended their lives by drinking cyanide. I now regret listening to it :(

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