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In 1978 members of The Peoples Temple at Jonestown committed one of the largest mass suicides in modern times by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. How and where did the cult manage to get their hands on the (relatively) large quantity of cyanide needed to kill the roughly 900 members of the colony?

by /u/Joelainen in /r/AskHistorians

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