Tapes prepared by The Jonestown Institute

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A full listing of the audiotapes recovered by the FBI, including notations of approximately 250 MP3s which have not yet been transcribed, is available at the FBI Summaries. This page provides a list of tapes transcribed and summarized by the Jonestown Institute and is categorized by topic. Clicking on the highlighted tape transcription or summary date will take you to the respective tape transcription or summary. The categories include:

• Sermons by Jim Jones (91);
• Other Jim Jones (32);
• Tapes made in Jonestown (194);
• News analysis and news of the project (114);
• Miscellaneous (59);
• Other (233).

For an index of people named on transcribed tapes and summaries, click here.

The dagger symbol (†) denotes the 53 tapes which were initially withheld from public disclosure. All are now in the public domain.

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The managers of this website gratefully acknowledge the invaluable assistance of numerous transcribers for this project. We appreciate the ongoing work done by Nicole Bissett, Connor Ashley Clayton, Kristian Klippenstein, Heather Shannon, and Adrian Whicker.

We also thank everyone who has contributed transcripts over the years, including Catherine Abbott, Richmond Arquette, Kathy Barbour, the late Don Beck, the late Jeff Brailey, Gay Marie Cabral, Seriina Covarrubias, Joey Dieckman, Jason Dikes, Jennifer Gibbons, Katherine Hill, Shannon Howard, Freya Kory, Georgiana Mamlakah, Vicki Perry, Ethan Snyder, Sarabeth Trujillo, Paul VanDeCarr, Rebecca Virgen, and Isaac Zukin. We also wish to acknowledge the countless hours of work by the late Michael Bellefountaine.