Summaries of recorded tapes
[Editor’s note: The location of the tapes summarized below is not known.]
x-3-i-1a – 1b
Nathanial Mohammad and JJ, 9/30/76
Nathanial tells JJ [2 illegible words] Jubilee is still on and that he is sorry about the Newspaper ads. Nathanial said that he has gotten bad press before in the Kansas City Star.
[Handwritten notes: “side one”; “very complementary”]
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x-3-i-2a – 2b
– He’s an incredible guy. I’m really impressed with him.
– Side 2
– delighted by our newspaper
– J blows her mind – his boundless energy
– J so modest, wouldn’t take credit – very consistent – very impressive – it’s a fine thing that’s going on
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x-3-i-3
Walter Heady/Jean Brown phone conversation 4/5/76
- Jean gives message re conspiracy, warning that an attack on PT could surface at any time.
- Walt defends PT/JJ – “He doesn’t know the total facts, but once I told JJ about Dennis Banks, got the facts to him, as far as I know that ended the relationship.” Says he defends JJ to local people.
- “I certainly think the world of Jim and of you people, and the work that you are doing.”
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x-3-i-4
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: counseling/left PT; arrangements for traitor
Tape-taker: CL [likely either Christine Lucientes or Carolyn Layton]
Date: 8/20/76
Participants: JJ and Bill Purifoy
Relevant Statements Made: Bill mentions loving JJ and says positive things about JJ and PT and wonders how the bridge between them started. JJ makes arrangements for Bill to get trailor [traitor]. Mentions Protection in PL [Promised Land] and what CIA saying about US. Bill says he hasn’t been speaking negative about the church
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x-3-i-5a – 5b
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: Comp[romise] – traitor
Tape-taker: [blank]
Date: [blank]
Participants: Sandy Parks – TOS [Tim Stoen]
Relevant Statements Made: TOS tells her call UPD [Ukiah Police Department] that we aren’t harassing S. Parks. Sandy Parks said – we know who it is – is from there. Sandy – says trip was fantastic – one call since back from trip
(2) TOS to thank Jondahl – [2 lines illegible] said. Regarding calls to S. Parks – TOS asks about gun permits
(3) TOS to Heady
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x-3-i-6a – 6b
Greg Frost
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: Counsel session
Tape-taker: Jean [Brown]
Date: 9/14/75
Participants: Tim S. [Stoen], Sharon A. [Amos], Chris L. [likely Lucientes], Sharon C. [could be Cobb], Norman I. [Ijames], Jean B. – Christine Cobb
Relevant Statements Made: Emotional – she doesn’t care about JC, she thinks he’s sick – doesn’t believe what he tells her, dismissed him when he came by. She has gone through so much with this. Why should we put her through more?
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x-3-i-7
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Dr. Edwin Johnson; Impt [Important]
Type: JJ to Dr. E. Johnson
Tape-taker: MK [likely Maria Katsaris]
Date: 8-31-76
Participants: JJ, Dr. E. Johnson, Hazel Armstrong
Relevant Statements Made: Discuss healing, Hazel Armstrong. Reach reconciliation – Calls JJ a prophet. JJ – he solicits clients from JJ – illegal
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x-3-i-8
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: info
Tape-taker: M. Prokes
Date: 1/7/77
Participants: [Charles] Gain (Police Chief) comes in on luncheon meeting w/ [Diane] Feinstein & JJ
Relevant Statements Made: Talk centers on [illegible word] Gain’s aloof image. Gain later conversation talks about why he removed Rodney Williams, because he wasn’t doing a good job
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x-3-i-9a – 9b
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: info
Tape-taker: M. Prokes
Date: Jan 1977 1/7/77
Participants: JJ – [Diane] Feinstein & JJ at PT (tape broke & and scotch taped together)
Relevant Statements Made: Feinstein talks about NWLF [New World Liberation Front] & bombing attempt on her home & also talks about John Maher as if he is a two-faced hypocrite – posturing one way publicly & another way privately in a personal letter to her which is complimentary & offers her security
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x-3-i-10a – 10b
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: Sammie [Jones] – Freitas; Important PR with Freitas [San Francisco District Attorney Joseph Freitas]
Tape-taker: CL [likely either Christine Lucientes or Carolyn Layton]
Date: [blank]
Participants: JJ & Sammie; JJ & Joe Freitas
Relevant Statements Made: JJ asks info from Sammie from her source inside Chron. Also mentioned strange warning letter we got. She will get back to JJ after calling her friend tonite.
Side 2 – JJ to Joe Freitas – he asks us to show and support the Mayor’s budget plan, show spontaneous support.
Freitas asks JJ for lunch – discuss reform prostitutes
– Freitas grateful for support on problem of prostitutes
3 – some sort of strategy call I did not understand????
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x-3-i-11a – 11b
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: Public Contact
Tape-taker: [blank]
Date: 4-12-76
Participants: Gloria Davis – Sharon Amos
Relevant Statements Made: agrees PT has a good program “doing the kind of thing city agencies ought to be doing & somehow don’t manage to do & federal agencies should do also
– says of J “It’s not often you have church people like himself who gets so involved in the community action programs that make such a difference to people’s individual lives & that’s what impresses me so much –
– this whole congregation seems so totally supportive – that’s commendable (should be encouraged, nurtured, kept alive)
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x-3-i-12
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: compromise
Tape-taker: Prokes
Date: 7/3/75
Participants: Vivian Pennywell – welfare
Relevant Statements Made: Took folder out of welfare file & copied the information then returned the file. She did some other stuff too with looking at people’s papers.
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x-3-i-13
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: Questioning Jane – forging a check
Tape-taker: JJ
Date: 7/3/75
Participants: Jane Mutchmann
Relevant Statements Made: forging Maria’s name to a $400.00 check.
Did because Maria had left for school & she needed to get the needs for the commune.
Jane cries, very apologetic to Father
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x-3-i-14
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: Compromise – praise
Tape-taker: M. Prokes
Date: 2/16/76
Participants: JJ – talks with John Muhammad just before his leaving for Chicago to work as “aide” to Wallace D. Muhammad
Relevant Statements Made: John Muhammad calls JJ a “beautiful man” & offers assistance in return. Side 1 only.
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x-3-i-15a – 15b
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: PR – important tape to save
Tape-taker: TB [Terri Buford]
Date: 6/8/76
Participants: 1. JJ and Chuck Warren; 2. JJ and Traumbaum; 3. TB and Cohen; 4. JJ and Dorothy Daniels; 5. JJ and Chris Lewis
Relevant Statements Made: 1. JJ promises to get people over to help [Fred] Furth – JJ had called Church [Chuck] Warren because he heard that they were making fun of us over there however the sign on the blackboard was a camping [campaign] joke about another Jim and not Jim Jones// 2. JJ and Traumbaum – Traumbaum tells us how to get jobs in the city – JJ said to save this for sure;
4 [3]. TB and Cohen – TB threatened to take Cohen to court with her over this slander situation.
5 [4]. JJ and Dorothy Daniels: JJ talks about Chris and Melvin to her – warns that they may be getting ready to pull out
6 [5]. JJ talks to Chris Lewis about what he is into/Chris says that he wants to kill a nigger etc. Chris is drunk.
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x-3-i-15a – 15b
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: Re: Arnold, Ukiah case – PR
Tape-taker: JJ
Date: [blank]
Participants: JJ, Dennis Denny, Duncan James
Relevant Statements Made: Denny says that Duncan’s value systems are not his. Said the strength in civil matters is Tim Stoen & not Duncan James. Dennis says there was no way for Arnold to get out of the 4 categories (compromising). 4 categories are absolutely confidential. JJ tells stories that PT is said to use vote pressure.
Adam said that Denny wants blood. Adams said, “Welfare” told him that we used votes. Dennis calls JJ “a very natural leader.” Many inconsistencies in Duncan’s way of handling things in court – says D. Denny “our relationship is still strong as far as I am concerned,” Denny said.
Re: Concerning previous phone call
Duncan James & JJ
tells of Dennis Denny calling JJ & telling how Denny was talking about Duncan.
JJ phoning Duncan to explain in case Denny comes out to tell lies
JJ says Arnold needs psych help, Duncan agrees
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x-3-i-16a – 16b
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: PR Arnold case Ukiah
Tape-taker: JJ
Date: [blank]
Participants: JJ, Dennis Denny, Duncan James
Relevant Statements Made: Part one – Side one (continued)
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x-3-i-17
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: comprom[ise]
Tape-taker: M. Prokes/Joan Pursley
Date: 1. 7/21/76; 2. Aug 1976
Participants: 1. M. Prokes to Doris Thomas – Phil Burton’s field rep. Side 2. Jan [Jann] Gurvich in PC
Relevant Statements Made: 1. Doris Thomas praises JJ.
- Jan Gurvich – info on corresponding card (she was recorded on 2 separate tapes)
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x-3-i-18
10/29/76 Side 1
J talks to Moscone re: poll of his performance in office. Moscone suggest ways for us to obtain papers with polling forms in them & offers “wherewithal” to get them.
Mike Prokes
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x-3-i-19
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: Info
Tape-taker: M. Prokes
Date: 2/4/77
Participants: 1 M. Prokes returns call up to Hannibal Williams
Relevant Statements Made: Williams attacks JJ in many ways & says that he called FBI, DA & Chief of Police. Says he will not look to JJ as his leader. Terri Buford has synopses of critical points typed out
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x-3-i-20
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: compromise
Tape-taker: ?
Date: Early 1976
Participants: JJ returns call to Mayor Moscone
Relevant Statements Made: Moscone offers JJ a post on Human Rights Commission.
Site 2: Muslim conversations indicating they are in debt.
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x-3-i-21a – 21b
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: comprom[ise]
Tape-taker: M. Prokes/Joan Pursley
Date: 1. 8/5/76; Side 2: Aug 76
Participants: Side 1: Moscone, aide Teitelbaum, aide Hartzell, Enos Cain (Housing Dir), Bob Won (SEATA), JJ, M. Prokes; Side 2: Jan [Jann] Gurvich in PC meeting
Relevant Statements Made: 1. Meeting set up by Mayor to work out commitments he made to JJ for 6 jobs for PT members – comes through. Side 2: Jan Gurvich in PC meeting. Issue: trip to New Orleans to see parents; Jan’s Connections with radicals in community. Confronted with possibility of her dad & uncle trying to [illegible word] investigation into Kennedy assassination, CIA connection. Told to write letter to defendant in San Quentin & breaking up any relationship – agreed to it
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x-3-i-22
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: Moscone
Tape-taker: M. Prokes
Date: 12/16/75
Participants: M. Prokes, Janet Shular, Johnny Brown, Chris Lewis, Moscone
Relevant Statements Made: Moscone acknowledges in essence that we won him the election. Promises J an appointment. Attached Rev. Bedford/1st part of his conversation with Dorothy Cox, Moscone field rep. Says he cleaned pockets of 2 candidates in primary. [illegible word] says: “He’s a coward, too.” Referring to Bedford
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x-3-i-23
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: Community Relations
Tape-taker: Prokes
Date: Murphy
Participants: JJ & Sup. Murphy – Important tapes
Relevant Statements Made: [blank]
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x-3-i-24a – 24b
Side B
- JJ and Jandahl’s wife – nothing
- JJ & salsbury// he is not in
- Lynn Hodges Sec. – JJ tells her that Hodges should submit article to Peoples Forum
- Cecil [Williams] – JJ tell Cecil that we have contacted the IRS and everything is okay.
They talk some about the testimonial/ talk about Rev. Brocheurs
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x-3-i-25
* Imp tape
JJ’s call to school Supt. Murphy RE Teachers problem with Temple children. During course of conversation, Murphy says (twice) that he and others in school did have philosophy similar to JJ’s. Murphy very cooperative
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x-3-i-26
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: PR
Tape-taker: Lee [Ingram]
Date: 3-23-76
Participants: Jim, Cecil [Williams], Carolyn L. [Layton], Debbie B. [Blakey], Prokes, Gene C., [Chaikin], Janet [Shular], Lee
Relevant Statements Made: little about harassment up north & recent negative reporter – find out who Cecil’s supporting politically
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x-3-i-27
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: informational
Tape-taker: Lee [Ingram]
Date: 3-23-76
Participants: [Gene] Chaikin, Lee, Teddy [McMurry]
Relevant Statements Made: Wants guardianship papers drawn up for Dana [Truss]; [illegible word] looking for him – yields to suggested travel (Trinidad)
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x-3-i-28
Harold Hill, 1-20-75
– talks about “reds” he took
– says he robbed the police, wants to kill the power structure & the establishment
– Melvin Johnson make strong testimony of what J has done for him – could be used if necessary
– (a lot of yelling & swearing on this tape)
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x-3-i-29a – 29b
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: alliance
Tape-taker: M. Prokes
Date: 11/9/76
Participants: [Carlton] Goodlett & JJ/Steve Gavin (Chronicle editor) & JJ
Relevant Statements Made: Side 2: Gavin tells JJ we are only church that is doing anything & expresses concern about Jim getting enough rest. Said he is always glad talk to Jim.
Side 1 – first part of Side 2: Goodlett proposing business deal [illegible word] media purchases. This is of informational value only.
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x-3-i-30
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: Comp[romise] – counseling
Tape-taker: CL [likely either Christine Lucientes or Carolyn Layton]
Date: 2/12/76
Participants: [illegible notation], Jack, Prokes, Maria [Katsaris], Terri [Buford], Peter W. [Wotherspoon], Gina S. [Severn], Searcy [Datnes], Ronnie James
Relevant Statements Made: Confront & beaten PW at his request – it talks about how he requested this as therapy to get over his sexual [illegible word] – Molesting child, admits to the child he molested.
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x-3-i-31a – 32
[Summary taken on Temple form]
Type: Comp[romise] – Angela Davis
Tape-taker: [blank]
Date: 4/9/76
Participants: Angela Davis, Sammie [Jones], Paul? [Flowers ?] and our people (JJ, Mac [Jim McElvane], Lee [Ingram], CL [likely Carolyn Layton], Mike C. [Cartmell], TOS [Tim Stoen], Prokes, TB [Terri Buford], Ava, Sue, etc.
Relevant Statements Made: Paul mentioned how they had documents which proved the Nixon cronies set up this minister in S. Carolina Ben Chavis. Paul showed one of the memos. They all talk of a wide range of support in the “alliance” and the need of labor to organize in S. Carolina.
Angela praises JJ and how great the services were.
– Angela’s mother was present. Think she’s from Alabama
– JJ mentioned the need to know about people to know if they can be trusted.
– JJ mentioned Guyana
– Angela mentions hearing a radical speech of [Forbes] Burnham and of trips to Moscow and Cuba.
– Briefly at the end mentions her confinement in Palo Alto facility
– her basic purpose for visit is to rally our support for their South Carolina demonstration on Labor Day.
– They want letters and many people to go