Jonestown

Jonestown
/johnz"town'/, n.
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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      former site of the People's Temple commune in northwestern Guyana, near the Venezuelan border. A religious cult group, the commune ended in 1978 when the cult's founder and leader, Jim Jones (Jones, Jim) (q.v.), initiated a mass suicide in which 913 people died.

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