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January 13, 2012 07:20 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/TsvIg6HqvAE/fool-aid-parody-ad-from-mad-ma.html
Fool-Aid parody ad from Mad magazine
In 1978, over 900 people at Jim Jones' Peoples Temple in Guyana committed suicide by drinking Flavor Aid with cyanide added to it. This parody ad from a 1961 issue of Mad magazine is an uncanny harbinger of the tragedy. Note that the letter is addressed to "Jim."Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/TsvIg6HqvAE/fool-aid-parody-ad-from-mad-ma.html
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