Jonestown

[ johnz-toun ]

/ ˈdʒoʊnzˌtaʊn /

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noun

a former settlement in northern Guyana, northwest of Georgetown: an agricultural commune of an American religious cult called the Peoples Temple, infamous as the site of a mass suicide and murder in 1978.

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How to use Jonestown in a sentence

Also a myth is that Jim Jones remains the only representation of Peoples Temple and Jonestown whose story is worth telling.
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Do you go with former Jonestown cult leader and Butler alum Jim Jones or Johnny Carson's ex-saxophone player Tommy Newsom?
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He was frustrated that the State Department had stonewalled his attempts to find out what was going on in Jonestown.
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