Jonestown

[ johnz-toun ]

/ ˈdʒoʊnzˌtaʊn /

noun

a former settlement in N Guyana, NW of Georgetown: site of agricultural commune of an American religious cult called the People's Temple; mass suicide and murder 1978.

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The return of Stephen Glass, the truth about Anonymous and escaping Jonestown.

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If it were not the case, then there would be a Jonestown after every performance of King Lear.

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The most famous event to take place in this landscape was the Jonestown massacre in 1978.

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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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Jonestown

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