Jonestown

[ johnz-toun ]

noun

1. 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.

Example Sentences

Right after Jonestown, I legally purchased the gun and learned how to shoot it.

From Outside Online

One survivor who had escaped through the jungle in the final hours of Jonestown came to the theater looking for his friends in the Temple.

From Time

Also a myth is that Jim Jones remains the only representation of Peoples Temple and Jonestown whose story is worth telling.

From Time

The events that unfolded were graphic and horrible, but we would find an artful way to handle the deaths in Jonestown.

From Time

Time after time, we see the people of Jonestown described as “blind followers” and Jim Jones as the “cult leader” who ordered them to die.

From Time

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

Do you go with former Jonestown cult leader and Butler alum Jim Jones or Johnny Carson's ex-saxophone player Tommy Newsom?

From The Daily Beast

He was frustrated that the State Department had stonewalled his attempts to find out what was going on in Jonestown.

From The Daily Beast