Jonestown

[ johnz-toun ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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.

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

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

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

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

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

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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