Annotated Sermons of Jim Jones
The following transcripts of Jim Jones’ sermons highlight the passages which he quotes or refers to from the King James version of the Bible. His quotes and references are followed by the location of the passages and citations in the Bible. Both Jones’ language and the biblical references are marked in red. A scriptural index […]
Q016 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Transcriber’s note: This tape consists of ham radio traffic between Jonestown and Peoples Temple members […]
Q039 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Patty Houston: — Hello, Grandpa [Robert (Sammy) Houston], I was really glad to hear from […]
Q048 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the French translation of this tape, click here. (Note: This tape was one […]
Q049a Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Biologist: — uh, uh, oh, it started uh, all the problems that uh, come up, uh, come up […]
Q049-1 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Seriina Covarrubias. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: (Unintelligible word) tasty uh, cobbler that’s […]
Q050 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) […]
Q051 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. Jones: (Sternly) Now get your ass up here, or you will regret it. (Pause) […]
Q054 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) Female […]
Q127 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. A half dozen songs of popular soul music at beginning of side one. Blank for balance of tape. Tape originally posted […]
Q128 Transcript
This tape consists of music by numerous soul and funk artists listed in FBI summary.
Q129 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. An unknown male with a professional radio voice records a series of commercial announcements for a variety of consumer products, including dishwashing detergent, shaving cream, milk, beer, bacon, […]
Q133 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Jones: No, we don’t– We’re non-violent, you know. Don’t– Tape turns off for undetermined time. Jones: […]
Q134 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: An edited transcript of the tape appears as part of an extended autobiographical statement […]
Q135 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. General hubbub. Takes place on a boat, with sounds of water periodically, and motor. Jones: […]
Q148 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Side 1: A recording of a commercial production of Winnie the Pooh. Side 2: Blank Tape originally posted June 2006
Q149 Transcript
This tape consists of a pre-recorded Disney story of Snow White.
Q150 Transcript
This tape consists of about seven minutes of R&B/funk music, including a song by the Jackson 5.
Q151 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Jones: Maria. Maria McClain. Your sister in a wheelchair? Sister, to build your faith. You […]
Q152 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: The Russian on this tape was initially reviewed by Paul VanDeCarr. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Commercial Russian language education tape. Various lessons include vocabulary […]
Q153 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. (Woman in background feeds lines several times during recording) Jones:There’s times– The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, all noted, willing servants of […]
Q154 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Katherine Hill. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: (unintelligible beginning) –absolute anarchy. And we […]
Q155 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: [Kenneth David Kaunda] Zambian president is meeting with the presidents of Angola [Agostinho Neto] [and] Tanzania [Julius Nyerere] – and you […]
Q155a Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Dubbed album tracks by Aretha Franklin, Smoky Robinson and the Miracles, etc. recorded over other music – mostly classical – on second track. Tape originally posted March 2009
Q156 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. [Editor’s note: This tape begins with Jones’ reading of the article “Qaddafi Rebuilds Libya According […]
Q157 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Jones: Give people incentives and motivation for change. If you have had no offenses that […]
Q158 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: Attention, attention. Morning news. News […]
Q159 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Woman: Okay. (Tape edit) Jones: Attention, attention, attention. News of the day. The Iranian government still […]
Q160 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: Attention. The news of the day. News that was given last night is all […]
Q160a Transcript
This tape consists of a single recorded song – poorly-recorded – followed by blank tape.
Q161 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Part 1: Jonestown meeting Crowd: Applause Marilyn Pursley: Thank you very much. Uh— It’s […]
Q162 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 […]
Q163 Transcript
This tape consists of poorly-recorded popular music. There is much distortion and music played at the wrong speed.
Q164 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Adrian Whicker. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Music by the Jonestown Express Song 1: “Betcha By Golly Wow” by the Stylistics Shirley Baisy: (sings) There’s a spark of magic in your […]
Q165 Transcript
This 30-minute tape consists of an album of funk and soul music, including several instrumentals. Tape originally posted June 2016
Q166 Transcript
This tape consists of music recorded from a classical music radio station. Tape originally posted June 2016
Q167 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Shannon Howard. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Tape rewinds. Jones: (Speaks slowly and deliberately […]
Q169 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Music interference) Jones: –in Baghdad had decided to– (tape edit) November 6 news. The […]
Q170 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Katherine Hill. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Unidentified man: But he’s fine now, […]
Q171 Transcript
This tape consists of music recorded from a San Francisco classical music radio station. Tape originally posted June 2016
Q172 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Music by Jonestown band Song 1: Instrumental Male: Yes, we’re taking a special ride with the Jonestown Express. (Tape edit) Song 2: […]
Q173 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. (Note: The Russian on this tape was initially reviewed by Paul VanDeCarr. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Unidentified woman on radio: Oh, well, then forget about […]
Q174 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. End of song 1: Message in our music Music Message in our music Music […]
Q175 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Seriina Covarrubias. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) (Tape recorded at different speed for few […]
Q176 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Jones: Tomorrow’s Friday, isn’t it? All right. Thank you. Ready? Male: Yeah. Jones: Friday news. Shah Mohammed Reza […]
Q176a Transcript
There is an extremely faint voice on this tape – so faint that it is barely perceptible at maximum volume – so this must be considered as a blank tape. Tape originally posted June 2016
Q177 Transcript
This tape consists of music recorded from a classical music radio station. Tape originally posted June 2016
Q178 Transcript
This tape consists of a recording of the album “End of a Rainbow” by Patti Austin.
Q179 Transcript
This tape consists of a dub of the album “Light of Worlds” by Kool & The Gang, followed by a number of songs by various soul artists.
Q180 Transcript
This tape consists of music recorded from KKHI, a classical music radio station in San Francisco.
Q181 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Freya Kory. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: (unintelligible) Tuesday, October 31 news– […]
Q182 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. Part 1: Radio broadcast – two tapes overlap, only more intelligible one transcribed Jones: […]
Q183 Transcript
This tape consists of music recorded from KDFC, a classical music radio station in San Francisco.
Q184 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: Transcript prepared by Seriina Covarrubias. The editors gratefully acknowledge her assistance.) Jones: –it goes on, the voice of monopoly capitalism. If […]
Q185 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Adrian Whicker. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: Attention. [tape edit] [Part 1: Speaking before crowd] Jones: –five man in his fifties, with a salt and pepper hair, […]
Q186 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side A, Pt. 1; Side A, Pt. 2; Side B, Pt. 1; Side B, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The […]
Q187 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: The recent decision of Wallace […]
Q188 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Attention. Attention. News of the day. Five hundred thousand blacks, one half million, […]
Q189 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Part 1: Jones: –cooperate in the most extensive way possible, in maintaining […]
Q190 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: –Communist Party has re-affirmed that […]
Q191 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3, Pt. 4). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) (Note: This […]
Q192 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. Music of Jonestown radio station J-SOUL reviewed by Adrian Whicker. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side A, Pt. 1; Side A, Pt. 2; Side B, Pt. 1; Side B, Pt. 2) To return to the […]
Q193 Transcript
This tape consists of about 22 minutes of both instrumental and vocal music, with one unfamiliar song seemingly entitled, “Be glad to have some freedom in your life,” along with the more well-known “Abraham, Martin and John,” a song written by Dion and often played by the Jonestown Express. With R&B themes, instrumentation based around […]
Q194 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Okay. (tape edit) Woman: Okay. Jones: Attention. Attention. Mid-afternoon news. The horror of […]
Q196 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: (Short phrase of greeting in […]
Q197 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) (Audio segment from previous recording) Jones: […]
Q197A Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. This is an undated recording of Lenny Bruce concert. It is most likely a concert album. Tape originally posted May 2004
Q198 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Attention. Good morning, to those I love more than life. Oh yes indeed, more than […]
Q199 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Attention. I shall begin Sunday news again. United States to its– due to […]
Q200 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Attention, attention. News of the day. Five Latin American leaders meet with [President […]
Q201 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: –listen to the news, and also take note of this. After inspection, this is […]
Q202A Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Jason Dikes. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. [Editorial note: Parts of this tape are repeated, […]
Q203 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: Good morning. (unintelligible word) news of the day. Be sure that you do your […]
Q204 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Prokes: This is Mike Prokes, and I’m here in Jonestown. With me is Arthur Hernandez, who is a farmer. Ermel [phonetic] Jones and her baby, his […]
Q205 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: On Friday, we must know the commentary on the horrid TV racist view of youth crime […]
Q207 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: –to our family. I’m up all nights anyway. Every night. (More deliberate) Every […]
Q208 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: The Russian on this tape was initially reviewed by Paul VanDeCarr. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Commercial Russian language education tape. Lessons in everyday phrases, […]
Q209 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Sarabeth Trujilllo. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jim Jones: Attention, attention. Remember to […]
Q210 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: –poisonous pesticide– (tape edit) (Numerous […]
Q211 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: (unintelligible) –opens up like a nasty […]
Q212 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: Work hard, all the basketball […]
Q213 Transcript
This tape consists of a recording of a Beethoven concerto.
Q214 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1; Pt. 2; Pt. 3). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: Attention. It’s seven o’clock, and the morning news for this Saturday. Remember the […]
Q215 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) (Classical music plays on separate track throughout […]
Q216 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: In (unintelligible word) People’s Chronicle, the largest newspaper in un– in Guyana, our […]
Q217 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Sarabeth Trujillo. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: –tion, attention, attention. Sorry to inform […]
Q218 Transcript
To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. (Editor’s notes: This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance. (The first two-thirds of this sermon also appear as Part 2 of Q […]
Q219 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. Song 1: (Woman 1 sings “That’s the Way of the World,” by Earth Wind […]
Q220 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Sarabeth Trujillo. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: I shall continue with the […]
Q221 Transcript
This tape consists of 33 minutes of popular orchestral music, including covers of such standards as “Girl from Ipanema,” followed by 47 minutes of solo mellow acoustic guitar music.
Q222 Transcript
This tape consists of several dubbed songs from the album Gratitude from Earth, Wind and Fire; it includes numerous skips.
Q223 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Nicole Bissett. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: Attention. News live. News live. Prime Minister [Forbes] Burnham says that liming should be outlawed in Guyana. Absentee landowners (tape […]
Q224 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Jones: –(unintelligible beginning, speaking to someone off mike) (Speaks quickly throughout) Yes, yes, you young who don’t think you […]
Q225 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: Attention, attention. Monday news. Pope Paul [VI], who holds the See of Rome in Catholic vernacular, the seat or chair of Peter, […]
Q226 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2) (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Guyanese herpetologist: –through all its structure. […]
Q227 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: All of you going to […]
Q228 Transcript
This tape consists of prerecorded R&B funk music, including selections from the Stylistics and the O’Jays.
Q229 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: Attention, attention. Good morning news, direct from your friendly radio room, after being up all night again, trying to defend our […]
Q231 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Attention. Good morning news. (Pause) More interest will have to be shown in […]
Q233 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. (Note: Transcript prepared by Don Beck. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Jones: Thank […]
Q234 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Jones: (low audio) at Jonestown (unintelligible word) (Audio comes up) Tomorrow, we have visitors that […]
Q235 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: — The test must take two hours after the socialist class tonight, as […]
Q235a Transcript
This tape is blank.
Q237 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: Attention. Attention. Attention. News of the day. Those who pass the news of tomorrow night […]
Q238 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Part 1 Jones: –there’ll be steering committee. We will also have television […]
Q239 Transcript
This tape consists of R&B funk music, mostly recorded from a radio station. The entirety of it is double-tracked, with the second track recorded backwards.
Q240 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: Transcript prepared by Don Beck. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Wanda Swinney: (very faint) –meet with farm equipment. […]
Q241 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Attention. News of the day. Remember testing, bonus evaluation be Friday […]
Q242 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3, Pt. 4). Jones: (tape comes on in mid-sentence)— any light in here, folks. […]
Q243 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Jones: If you will listen to Father’s teachings, you won’t have to worry about anything, […]
Q244 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: News of the day. Perhaps the most startling thing brought to news is revelations by [Victor Marchetti] a CIA agent that […]
Q245 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) (Note: This tape was transcribed by Michael Bellefountaine. […]
Q248 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: (unintelligible) Good morning to those […]
Q249 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: –Radio Moscow. Seven hundred and fifty more citizens have been arrested in Nicaragua. […]
Q250 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: Attention. We have been delayed this morning in giving you the news because of […]
Q251 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Jones: (unintelligible fragment) for Tuesday. This is the big day for us. It’ll be in […]
Q253 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Man: Test, test, test, test, test. Woman: (unintelligible under man) What does that mean? That means that the […]
Q254 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. [30 seconds of false start on day’s news, somewhat muffled, followed by 30 seconds of silence] Jones: Good day news. We will […]
Q255 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Attention, attention. On request of others, I’ll give the news now. There could […]
Q256 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Don Beck. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Jones: As the insurrection in Nicaragua […]
Q257 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: Attention, attention, attention. Good morning, everyone. Much love. We have guests coming today. The Soviets will not be coming today, likely. […]
Q259 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Those who did not pass the last test have only one […]
Q260 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: Attention. Some of the group going […]
Q261 Transcript
This tape consists of 33 minutes of soul and R&B music, principally selections from Stevie Wonder’s album Songs in the Key of Life.
Q262 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Nicole Bissett. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: Now when it comes to […]
Q263 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: It is our duty to learn as much about the world as loyal citizens of Guyana. Remember, the evaluation of each […]
Q265 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: (speaks with difficulty) –very candidly. […]
Q266 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1 (right track), Pt. 1 (left track), Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) […]
Q267 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: -covered five years and failed. […]
Q268 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Jones: –and that they have– and more willing to do violence to destroy us. I want to be […]
Q269 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from disclosure.) Jones: […]
Q271 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: -signed by Israel and Egypt tod- […]
Q272 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: The Russian on this tape was initially reviewed by Paul VanDeCarr. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Commercial Russian language education tape. Various lessons include pronunciation […]
Q273 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: And every time somebody fixes something special for me, everybody takes the right […]
Q274 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jose Simon: [speaks in Native tongue] (tape edit) I was just telling the people about the white people– how white people treated us, how bad […]
Q275 Transcript
This tape consists of four minutes of music recorded in Jonestown. It has double-tracking for part of it, and there is no real intelligible conversation, and much of it is broken up with interrupted. At the beginning, a man sings “Proud Mary,” by Credence Clearwater Revival on one track, while Jim Jones sings an unknown […]
Q278A Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: -and direct it for your healing, as well as I have not been afraid on occasion to […]
Q279 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: It will be pointed out. […]
Q281 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Part 1; Part 2; Part 3). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Part 1 Jones: –all been lies in the newspaper that the defector had given. She answered them without being unnerved […]
Q282 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: –they have bravely held out, the people, against the dictatorship, Somoza that was put in 44 years ago by an invasion […]
Q283 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Part 1, Side 1; Part 1, Side 2; Part 2). Jones: Attention. News (unintelligible word) early day. We’re […]
Q284 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jim Jones: Test one two. Testing one. Morning news. Begun by commentary. [Monotone of […]
Q285 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Michael Bellefountaine. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) (Note: This tape was originally withheld […]
Q287 Transcript
This tape consists of classical music recorded from a San Francisco radio station.
Q289 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Sarabeth Trujillo. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jim Jones: –Good Thursday news. Remember […]
Q290 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) (Tape begins with slow speed speech; unintelligible) Jones: […]
Q291 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (This tape was transcribed and summarized by Katherine Hill. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Mike Prokes: Greetings from Jonestown and […]
Q292 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Moscow’s Politsburo [Politburo] leading Secretary General of the Communist Party, Comrade Suslov (phonetic), […]
Q293 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Announcer: Greetings to everyone from the Peoples […]
Q294 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: The death penalty law. State after state […]
Q296 Transcript
This tape consists of classical music recorded from a San Francisco radio station.
Q298 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. (This tape was transcribed by Katherine Hill. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Part 1: Jones: (speaks in monotone) Attention, […]
Q301 Transcript
To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2) To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: (unintelligible word fragment) for Friday. Chinese have been indicted by the Soviet Union and all of its major periodicals in being an active partner in– of imperialism in Africa on the African continent and […]
Q302 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Part I Jones: Soviet support for […]
Q304 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Michael Prokes: –who operates the ration store in Port Kaituma. Henry came in today for medical treatment and he went on a tour of Jonestown. This is the […]
Q305 Transcript
To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: Who discovered Cuba, so-called? I mean, he came to exploit a beautiful people like the Jamaicans in the Caribbean, populated by the Arawak Indians, and they were totally annihilated by the Christian– white Christians […]
Q308 Transcript
This tape contains 35 minutes of soul and funk music by the Spinners and other unknown groups. Much of the tape is double-tracked.
Q309 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: Good Saturday news. Attention everyone. […]
Q311 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. (Editor’s note: Throughout much of this tape, Jim Jones misidentifies the prime minister of Jamaica as Norman Manley. Norman Manley did, in […]
Q313 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) (Note: This tape was transcribed by Michael Bellefountaine. […]
Q314 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: This tape was one of 53 tapes initially withheld from disclosure.) Jones: Greetings. November […]
Q315 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Woman’s voice: Testing two, test, test, […]
Q317 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: (unintelligible word) the day. You know we have a individual [Joe Mazor] who […]
Q318 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. (This tape was transcribed by Katherine Hill. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: – James Earl Ray (tape edit) […]
Q320 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) Jones: […]
Q321 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Adrian Whicker. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: (starts mid-sentence)–ber 27, [19]78. Andrei Gromyko, Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, is on an official visit to France. Yes– yesterday he had […]
Q322 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Jones: –just arrived in Bucharest, Hungary yesterday with a delegation from the Zimbabwe pet– Patriotic […]
Q323 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) […]
Q324 Transcript
To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Several moments of faint audio from previous recording Jones: Attention, attention, attention. News of the day. Uh– State of emergency continues in uh, Lebanon over Syria and Israel. Syria was appointed by the United […]
Q326 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Part I: Jones: -(Unintelligible word) refer […]
Q329 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Nicole Bissett. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: Attention, attention, attention. News of […]
Q330 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: The Russian on this tape was initially reviewed by Paul VanDeCarr. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Commercial Russian language education recording. Various lessons on everyday […]
Q331 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. This tape consists of a reading of the Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, adopted at a […]
Q332 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. An unidentified woman hosts a program on KPFA, Radio Free Berkeley, focusing on the liberation of Vietnam and the repression in […]
Q337 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. (Editor’s note:This tape duplicates the second half of Tape Q 291. The other tape gives a more complete interview with Donald Freed.) Prokes: Greetings from Jonestown […]
Q338 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. This tape is an undated live performance of the Jonestown band. An unidentified woman sings numerous songs, including […]
Q341 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: You are insane. You don’t understand the dire danger of the jungle. You’d be better lost in a proverbial hell than in […]
Q342 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: –of media objectivity. The myth of objectivity that surrounds the leading news media […]
Q345 Transcript
To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Visitor: –here until Thursday, and we’re working diligently to find all of the areas in which this uh, young man, this opportunistic human being, a person who is part and parcel with the frailties of […]
Q347 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Attention, attention, attention. I want some to go back and review news in […]
Q348 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: The Russian on this tape was initially reviewed by Paul VanDeCarr. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Commercial Russian language education tape. Various lessons on everyday […]
Q349 Transcript
This tape contains recorded soul and funk music. Part of the tape is double-track, with one track backwards.
Q351 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Editor’s notes: This tape was transcribed by Connor Ashley Clayton, who also contributed to the summary. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable […]
Q352 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) […]
Q353 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Jones: Important that we get the news. Also […]
Q354 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: –to fire Agricultural Minister Luis Sisa (phonetic) conservatives pulled out of the government […]
Q355 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Male: Test, one two? Test, one t– two. Zero (unintelligible word) three three zero zero. Stop. Record bias, record mode on off, […]
Q356 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) (Note: This tape was […]
Q357 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable […]
Q358 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: Transcript prepared by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: My name, which is socialist principle through and […]
Q359 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Woman: Test, test, one two, testing, […]
Q360 Transcript
This tape contains 20 minutes of soul and funk music, recorded backwards.
Q361 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Nicole Bissett. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: Okay. (Clears throat) Attention, attention. […]
Q362 Transcript
This tape contains the dub of a Marvin Gaye album.
Q363 Transcript
This tape is a dub of the album Pieces of a Man by Gil Scott-Heron.
Q364 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: Thursday news. Again we will concentrate on the backlog of news that you have already received. We will not give a […]
Q367 Transcript
This tape contains a dub of Gratitude, a live album by Earth, Wind and Fire.
Q365 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Male: –and then– Test, one two three. Test, one two three four. Test, test, test, […]
Q369 Transcript
This tape is a recording of classical music.
Q368 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. This is a concert album of a Richard Pryor comedy performance. Tape originally posted May 2006
Q370 Transcript
This tape is a recording of music by the R&B group, the Temptations.
Q371 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: –in clear defiance to USA demands that the trial of Alex Ginzburg, who the USA calls a mere dissident and the Soviet Union have charged […]
Q373 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: –so that we understand a bit of the general character of the society in which we live. We need to know […]
Q377 Transcript
This tape is a recording of funk and soul music. Much of it is double-tracked, with the second track playing backwards.
Q378 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: –coming in to discuss projects with us. This place must be very, […]
Q379 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Who is winning? Who in this USA imperialist were to make the maximum miraculous […]
Q380 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: What’s going on in here? […]
Q381 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Katherine Hill. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: Sunday news. Political rivalbry– rivalry […]
Q382 Transcript
(Note: This tape was transcribed by Kathy Barbour. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.) To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Mark Lane: I’d like to talk with you a […]
Q383 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: –really severely, was that I would have to die before we were vindicated. […]
Q385 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Part 1 Jones: Guyana. (Pause) There are some indications that certain top administrators […]
Q388a Transcript
This tape is blank.
Q384 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. Part 1: Message to Jonestown community, mid-October 1978 Jones: —Because our rain is coming. […]
Q389 Transcript
This is a poorly-recorded tape of a single song, lasting less than five minutes.
Q390 Transcript
To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Male: Testing, one two. Jones: Attention. News of the day. In Washington, Supreme Court USA has now reversed position of the sixties, and requires applicants for US government jobs and jobs in the civilian […]
Q391 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. (Woman sings; lines of singing in parentheses is by backing singers) To the rich or […]
Q393 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. Jones: Tuesday news. Remember, we’re having observers now watching work that will come up in the Peoples Forum this evening, Peoples […]
Q394 Transcript
This tape consists of music sung in Spanish. There are several protest songs, including “¡El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido!”, the anthem of the supporters of Chilean socialist president Salvador Allende and of the resistance that was created after his overthrow.
Q396 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Several moments of tape played at varying unintelligible speeds) Part 1: Jones: They want […]
Q397 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Jones: Attention, attention. Jonas Savimbi, leader of the Angolan counter revolutionary organization, UNITA, was arrested earlier this week […]
Q398 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Attention, attention. Remember that we are having test evaluations tonight in Peoples Rally. […]
Q399 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Attention, attention, attention. News of the day. Testing this evening. Preparations should be […]
Q400 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Tuesday news. Chat the news and listen. Discuss and re-discuss. (tape edit) –the […]
Q401 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3-A, Pt. 3-B). To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Katherine Hill. She also prepared the summary. The editors gratefully acknowledge […]
Q402 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Jones: (tape starts in mid-sentence) the sad departure from the principles of Marxist-Leninism to (unintelligible […]
Q403 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Yesterday we gave you some Guyanese news, which is our beloved country. Now […]
Q404 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. (Note: The Russian on this tape was initially reviewed by Paul VanDeCarr. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Commercial Russian language education tape. Various lessons on everyday […]
Q405 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. (Note: The Russian on this tape was initially reviewed by Paul VanDeCarr. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Commercial Russian language education tape. Various lessons on pronunciation, […]
Q406 Transcript
This tape contains an album of soul and funk music by an unknown group.
Q407 Transcript
This tape features Spanish popular instrumental music. There is also instrumental music, feature flute and fife. The tape is somewhat distorted, and portions were recorded backwards.
Q408 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Song 1: Unidentified male sings “The Greatest Love”: I believe that children are our future […]
Q409 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was reviewed by Adrian Whicker. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2) To return to the Tape Index, click here. Song 1: “I’ll Take You There” by the Staples Singers Crowd: Cheers (Shortwave) Tape Edit Song 2: “Love Hangover” […]
Q410 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Tape starts with series of technical problems, recording at wrong speed. The music begins […]
Q414 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Jennifer Gibbons. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Side A (short garbled segment from […]
Q415 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Jennifer Gibbons. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) (Harp music, followed by organ music. […]
Q416 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Harriet Tropp: The following is a reading from the book, Cities Without Crisis, by Mike Davidow. Mr. Davidow […]
Q417 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3). [Editorial note: Much of this transcript consists of the reading of an article published in New Times, a biweekly magazine. Jim […]
Q421 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was reviewed by Adrian Whicker. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Song 1 “Port Kaituma/Jonestown Funk” Instrumental jam Song 2: “Jungle Jam” Instrumental jam (Tape edit) Song 3: “That’s the Way of the […]
Q427 Transcript
Aside from a short segment of a man testing the audio of the recorder, this tape is blank.
Q422 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Male: The following is a discussion […]
Q425 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Prokes: Okay, this is Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, Jonestown, near Port Kaituma, in Northwest District of Guyana. Greetings. This is Mike Prokes, […]
Q426 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Heather Shannon. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: (Starts in mid-sentence) –prepared for […]
Q431 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: –on two fronts. (tape edit) We have been informed by high level sources […]
Q430 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: The news. (Pause) A raging war fever sweeps the United States. News, television, […]
Q432 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) (First few minutes of tape include […]
Q433 Transcript
Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: For the life of me, I cannot understand why they would conclude that this […]
Q435 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was reviewed by Kristian Klippenstein. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: [Speaking at a measured pace throughout] Attention. Attention. News of the day. Remember, those who wish to get […]
Q436 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. (This tape was transcribed by Katherine Hill. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Part 1 Jones: (recording begins mid-sentence) –suicide. […]
Q437 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Kristian Klippenstein. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Jones: (Speaking slowly throughout) Attention. Attention. […]
Q438 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (This tape was transcribed by Tom Graddon and Adrian Whicker. Graddon also identified the instrumental track “Georgetown Jam,” the first performance on […]
Q440 Transcript
(Note: This tape was transcribed by Heather Shannon. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2) To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: Yesterday’s commentary, for there most definitely will be an examination different than ever before, which no cheating will be possible. […]
Q441 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Attention, attention, attention. News on this Sunday afternoon. A moderate to severe earthquake […]
Q442 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Song 1: “Be Glad You’ve Got Communism In Your Life,” which is repeated over and again as its […]
Q446 Transcript
This tape consists of pre-recorded popular orchestral music. Tape originally posted June 2016
Q447 Transcript
This tape consists of nine minutes of pre-recorded soul and R&B music, including songs from the album A Song for You by the Temptations
Q449 Transcript
This tape consists of a 22-minute recording of music by Paul Robeson, a bass singer whose open support of the Soviet Union and of the Civil Rights Movement made him a hero to Jim Jones. The tape is distorted by poor recording techniques. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q451 Transcript
To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. [Editor’s note: The first 9:40 minutes of this tape is unintelligible, due both to an electronic hum and an error either in the reproduction or – more likely – the initial recording.] Music of the […]
Q452 Transcript
This tape consists of the album “Breezin” by R&B guitarist George Benson. Tape originally posted June 2016
Q453 Transcript
This tape consists of popular orchestral music with an Italian theme. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q454 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) (Music plays in background throughout much […]
Q455 Transcript
This tape consists of music by black R&B singer Smokey Robinson. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q457 Transcript
This tape consists of 24 minutes of soul and R&B music by such artists as the O’Jays, Stevie Wonder, and Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q458 Transcript
This tape consists of pre-recorded soul and R&B music, including the entirety of the album Natalie by Natalie Cole, and an album of instrumental music. There are some overlapping and/or backward-playing tracks.
Q459 Transcript
This tape consists of pre-recorded popular music, mainly soul, funk and R&B. There are also some overlapping tracks at times.
Q460 Transcript
This tape consists of about 36 minutes of instrumental jazz music. A moment after the music, an unknown male comes on to test the recording device. The feedback tells him that it is working. The balance of the tape is blank.
Q461 Transcript
This tape consists of approximately 21 minutes of orchestral Christmas music, periodically overlaid by a second music track.
Q462 Transcript
This tape consists of mellow jazz versions of soul and rock hits. It is periodically overlaid by a second track of music.
Q464 Transcript
This tape of soul music includes songs from the album Diana and Marvin by Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye.
Q463 Transcript
This tape consists of recorded opera music.
Q463a Transcript
This tape consists of 13 minutes of opera.
Q465 Transcript
This tape consists of the dub of an album by Diana Ross.
Q466 Transcript
This short tape of instrumental funk music – which is both undated and without context – seems to be a live practice session of funk musicians. Its lack of polish and the musical selections suggest that it was likely made by a Jonestown/Peoples Temple band. If so, the recording was likely made in Jonestown where […]
Q467 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. This is a concert album of a Richard Pryor comedy performance. Tape originally posted May 2006
Q468 Transcript
This tape consists of two hours of recorded music, ranging from classical and church choir music, to traditional and popular. Several of the songs beginning at about 1:18 appear to be from the Temple’s album, He’s Able.
Q470 Transcript
This tape was found to contain the following: stereo symphony music.
Q473 Transcript
This tape consisted of the dub of a greatest hits album by Diana Ross and the Supremes.
Q473a Transcript
This tape consists of funk and soul music.
Q474a Transcript
This tape consists of 36 minutes of instrumental funk and soul music.
Q475 Transcript
This 15-minute tape consists of overlapping tracks of choral and orchestral music. Some of it is also recorded backwards.
Q474 Transcript
This tape consisted of jazz music, including mellow covers of hits of soul music, as well as electric piano/organ jazz by an unknown artist.
Q476 Transcript
This tape consisted of two tracks of recorded music overlapping each other.
Q479 Transcript
This tape consists of music by Nat King Cole.
Q480 Transcript
The first half of this tape is a recording of a live show by comedian Dick Gregory. Much of the performance tape has a second track of popular music overlying the first. The second half consists of taped recordings of blues and soul music by such artists as Johnnie Taylor, James Brown and Cannonball Adderley. […]
Q481 Transcript
This tape consists of popular music by several soul artists including Aretha Franklin. Most of the tape has two tracks that overlap each other.
Q483 Transcript
Despite the label on the tape that suggests it could be a Peoples Temple gathering in Los Angeles, this tape is a dub of the 1976 album End of A Rainbow by Patti Austin.
Q482 Transcript
This tape consists of classical music recorded from a radio station, beginning about 13 minutes into the tape.
Q484 Transcript
This tape consisted of 30 minutes of operatic music recorded from a classical music radio station.
Q485 Transcript
This tape consists of popular soul and funk music recorded from radio station KSOL in San Francisco, including songs by the Blue Notes, Lou Rawls, Rufus Thomas, and the Commodores.
Q486 Transcript
This tape consisted of two tracks of recorded music overlapping each other.
Q487 Transcript
This tape consisted of the dub of an album by the Temptations. It is duplicated at Tape Q 488.
Q488 Transcript
This tape consisted of the dub of an album by the Temptations. It is duplicated at Tape Q 487.
Q489 Transcript
This tape consists of the dub of an album by 70s funk/soul artist Roy Ayers and his band Ubiquity.
Q494 Transcript
This tape consists of R&B music, including albums by Etta James and by the Dells.
Q491 Transcript
This tape consists of the dub of an album of popular orchestral music, including “Moon River,” “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” and “Some Enchanted Evening”.
Q493 Transcript
This tape consists of an hour of poorly-recorded dubs of classical music. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q495 Transcript
This tape consists of an album of mellow instrumental R&B music, including covers such as “I Heard It on the Grapevine.” Tape originally posted June 2016
Q496 Transcript
This tape consists of instrumental R&B music, although there are times when two tracks overplayed each other, and others times when tracks seem to have been recorded with a drag. Tape originally posted June 2016
Q497 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read Tape Summary, click here. To read Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2) (This tape was transcribed by Connor Ashley Clayton. The editors […]
Q498 Transcript
This tape consists of popular orchestral music, likely by the Percy Faith Orchestra. There is a second track of classical music which periodically overlaps the first. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q499 Transcript
This tape consists of an hour of classical music recorded from a San Francisco radio station. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q500 Transcript
This tape consists of the greatest hits by R&B artist Sam Cooke, including “Little Red Rooster,” “You Send Me,” “Cupid,” and “Cousin of Mine.” Tape originally posted June 2016
Q501 Transcript
This tape consists of 70 minutes of classical music recorded from a San Francisco radio station, much of which has been recorded in reverse. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q503 Transcript
This tape consists of selections of classical music, recorded from a radio station. Much of the tape has more than one track and/or include reverse tracking. Tape originally posted June 2016
Q505 Transcript
This tape consists of a live performance by soul and blues singer Marvin Gaye.
Q504 Transcript
This tape consists of a dub of the album Fire by the Ohio Players, a funk and R&B band. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q507 Transcript
This tape consists of music recorded from a classical music radio station.
Q509 Transcript
This tape consists of an hour of mostly instrumental jazz music recorded from a San Francisco radio station. Much of the tape is double-tracked with one track played backwards.
Q508 Transcript
This tape consists of a compilation of R&B and soul music, including selections by the O’Jays, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, and Marvin Gaye. Much of the tape is marred by the recording of a second track. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q508a Transcript
This tape consists of a compilation of R&B and soul music. It is likely a continuation of tape Q 508. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q511 Transcript
This tape consists of classical guitar music.
Q510 Transcript
This tape consists of popular instrumental music, much of it with a Caribbean or calypso rhythm. A good portion of the tape has been recorded with two tracks and/or backwards.
Q512 Transcript
The first 11 minutes of this tape is blank, and much of the remaining hour of classical music is recorded backwards.
Q513 Transcript
This tape consists of music by the Crusaders, a jazz fusion group.
Q514 Transcript
This tape is a recording of classical music.
Q515 Transcript
This tape consists of recording of the album “This Is Niecy” by R&B singer Deniece Williams.
Q516 Transcript
This tape consists of classical music recorded from San Francisco radio station KKHI. Much of it is recorded backwards.
Q517 Transcript
This tape consists of a live album by Marvin Gaye.
Q518 Transcript
This tape consists of instrumental jazz and R&B music.
Q519 Transcript
This tape consists of 20 minutes of R&B and soul music.
Q520 Transcript
This tape consists of music recorded from a classical music station. Most of the tape was recorded backwards.
Q521 Transcript
This tape consists of music recorded from a classical music station. Almost all of the tape was recorded backwards.
Q522 Transcript
This tape consists primarily of instrumental R&B and funk music. There are also selections by the Spinners, and by Gladys Knight and the Pips. Some of the music is recorded at double speed.
Q523 Transcript
This tape includes music recorded at double speed.
Q524 Transcript
This tape consists of the album “Message in Our Music” by the O’Jays, an R&B and soul group. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q528 Transcript
This tape consists of the album “You Are My Starship” from jazz/fusion artist Norman Connors, followed by an album of instrumental jazz/fusion music.
Q526 Transcript
This tape consists of classical music recorded from radio station KKHI in San Francisco. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q527 Transcript
This tape consists of the R&B and soul music recorded from the soundtrack album of a 1968 television special “TCB,” featuring performances by the Supremes and the Temptations. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q531 Transcript
This tape consists of classical music recorded from a radio station. Much of the tape is recorded backwards.
Q529 Transcript
This tape consists of 17 minutes of guitar instrumentals. The tape was recorded backwards.. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q532 Transcript
This tape consists of the album “All Things in Time” by R&B artist Lou Rawls.
Q530 Transcript
This tape consists of classical music.
Q533 Transcript
This tape consists of a recording of an album of classical music.
Q535 Transcript
This tape consists of a dub of the album “Surrender/I’m Still Waiting” by Diana Ross, followed by the album “Euphrates River” by the Main Ingredient.
Q534 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. This is a commercially-produced recording from a series of lessons in morse code. The first lesson on this recording gives the codes for numbers. A practice unit follows. […]
Q537 Transcript
This tape consists of a dub of two albums by Stevie Wonder, the 1972 album Talking Book and the 1974 album Innervisions.
Q538 Transcript
This tape consists of classical music recorded from a radio station in San Francisco.
Q539 Transcript
This tape consists of a compilation of R&B and soul music which was recorded backwards. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q540 Transcript
This tape consists of popular music selections performed by the Ray Coniff Singers. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q540a Transcript
This tape consists of 15 minutes of Middle of the Road (MOR) orchestral and vocal music.
Q541 Transcript
This tape consists of several album-length recordings of R&B/soul music.
Q542 Transcript
This tape consists of the double album Black Moses by R&B artist Isaac Hayes.
Q543 Transcript
This tape consists of an album of music by a Spanish artist, both vocal and instrumental.
Q558 Transcript
This tape consists of classical music recorded from San Francisco radio station KKHI.
Q550 Transcript
This tape consists of classical music recorded from a San Francisco radio station.
Q553 Transcript
This tape consists of a recording of choral music.
Q551 Transcript
This tape consists of R&B music, including the album “I Miss You,” by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. Some of the music has been recorded backwards on a second track. Tape originally posted June 2016
Q554 Transcript
This tape consists of music recorded from a classical music radio station. Parts of the tape are recorded backwards.
Q552 Transcript
This tape consists of popular orchestral music. There is considerable tape drag on part of the recording. Tape originally posted June 2016
Q555 Transcript
This tape consists of classical music recorded from a San Francisco radio station.
Q556 Transcript
This tape consists of a double-tracked tape, one tracks with radio comedy monologues by Jonathan Winters, Joan Rivers and others; the second tracks is a classical music recorded from a San Francisco radio station.
Q559 Transcript
This tape consists of classical music recorded from a San Francisco radio station. Almost the entirety of the taper has been recorded backwards.
Q561 Transcript
This tape consists of classical music recorded from a San Francisco radio station.
Q562 Transcript
This tape consists of vocal stylizations and orchestration of popular music, including covers for such songs as “The Great Pretender,” “Unchained Melody,” and “Bye Bye, Love.” There is faint double tracking throughout.
Q563 Transcript
This tape consists of vocal stylizations and orchestration of popular music, including covers for such songs as “Song Sung Blue,” “Never My Love,” and “Unforgettable.”
Q564 Transcript
This tape consists of music recorded from a classical music radio station. Much of the tape is recorded backwards.
Q565 Transcript
This tape consisted of music from two jazz instrumental LP’s on overlapping tracks.
Q566 Transcript
This tape consists of smooth jazz covers of popular music. The second half of the tape has a separate recording on a second track. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q567 Transcript
This tape consists of classical music. Much of the tape has a separate track recorded backwards. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q568 Transcript
(Editor’s note: The tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.) To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: –and it’s oh– Goddamn it– I’m just– […]
Q569 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) […]
Q570 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Part 1 Male 1: (cuts into conversation) —working with Mike [Touchette] on the road, […]
Q573 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). [Editorial note: Both sides of this tape have too many unidentified male voices to keep track of. Each change of voice is […]
Q575 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. [Editor’s note: The Temple’s transcript of this tape appears here.] Jones: My children have been […]
Q577 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Part 1: Woman: This is July 29, 1976, and uh, I have the privilege of […]
Q578 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Tape opens with unintelligible conversation lasting about one minute that takes place inside a truck. Balance of side 1 is blank. Side 2 is music. Tape originally posted […]
Q579 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Several moments of silence) Part 1: Jones: (Conversational) I have some information about Peoples […]
Q580 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Uh, we have been chagrined to see baseless, absolutely baseless charges being made by a limited few, even uh, one minister […]
Q583 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (This tape was transcribed by Nicole Bissett. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Mike Prokes: They uh– They said we now have […]
Q584 Transcript
This tape is blank.
Q585 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was reviewed by Nicole Bissett. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Call #1: Man: Jones? Jones? I just don’t– Yeah, I just don’t know. But do you know where he […]
Q587 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Side 1: Blank Side 2: (Several moments of silence) Jones: (Sounds exhausted, many words slurred) […]
Q588 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: (Concerned) —all of the kind of probing that must be done, have a […]
Q589 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). Jones: — talking about— Man: — communicating with her on that level. Jones: She […]
Q590 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Crowd: (Hubbub) Jones: And Patty [Cartmell]- And Patty running through a crowd with those […]
Q591 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Note: This tape was transcribed by Michael Bellefountaine. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance. Side 1 Voice: five, three hundred […]
Q592 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: (unintelligible beginning) We kept hounding Senator Stennis [John Stennis, (D-Mississippi)] and fought him […]
Q594 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Jones: – (Laughs; in a jovial mood) but we’re not sure about that, shooting the […]
Q595 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Tapes cuts into ongoing meeting) Woman: – moderate success – Jones: Okay, (unintelligible) that’s good, […]
Q596 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). Elderly black woman: Daddy have brought us a long ways, and he done brought […]
Q596a Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). (Note: Transcript prepared by Jeff Brailey. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Jones: –still without water. Georgetown is under siege. […]
Q597 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) […]
Q598 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). Jones: — in ignorance, but I’ve never seen ignorance and sensitivity go together. So […]
Q599 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). Woman: —get signed on, and Lela Murphy just got out the same day that […]
Q600 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) […]
Q601 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: (Speaks deliberately, slowly, dispassionately) —didn’t you have some other matters, there was something […]
Q602 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Side 1: Blank Side 2: 15 minutes of silence Jones: He hasn’t seen you like that. He doesn’t […]
Q603 Transcript
To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Tish Leroy: This is the second go-around on the chart of Jim Jones. Uh– I should qualify by saying that the first reading I felt was most unsatisfactory, and so I re-did the reading […]
Q604 Transcript
To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. [Editor’s note: This is a continuation of the first half of this reading on Q 603.] Tish Leroy: Tape number two on the chart of Jim Jones, starting into the progressions, regressions and uh, […]
Q605 Transcript
This tape is a compilation of soul and R&B music. Tape originally posted June 2016
Q606 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: – child. I am (unintelligible under microphone movement) neurologist. Take him out of the […]
Q607 Transcript
Side one of this tape is a dub of the album Blue Magic by the 1970’s R&B/ soul group of the same name. Side two is blank.
Q608 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Conversation starts 15 minutes into tape Garry Lambrev: It’s like, the sky is– is caving in. The bottom, […]
Q609 Transcript
Tape transcribed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Short newscast unrelated to Peoples Temple) Hare: Welcome to Reactions. Maybe I shouldn’t have used […]
Q610 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. This tape is blank. Tape originally posted February 2005
Q611 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Theme music Announcer: This is KLIL (fade out) Western California’s great music station. Tom Holmes: […]
Q611a Transcript
This tape is blank.
Q612 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Unidentified male voice: Testing one two three, testing one two three, […]
Q612a Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Jones: (Ministerial voice) …hundreds of people that lifted their hands in […]
Q613 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Part 1: Phone call from Jim Jones and Eugene Chaikin to police (Phone dialed, […]
Q614 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee, III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from disclosure.) Mike Prokes: This is […]
Q615 Transcript
This tape consists of tracks by various soul, funk, R&B and blues artists, including Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Teddy Pendergrass, George Benson and Marvin Gaye. Portions of the tape are likely recorded from a radio station.
Q616 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Editor’s note: Because of the many verbal fillers and false starts in this original […]
Q616 Transcript (Edited)
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Editor’s note: The original of this transcript – complete with verbal fillers and false […]
Q618 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Michael Bellefountaine. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Dial tone. Rotary phone dials. Voice: We’re […]
Q619 Transcript
This tape consists of 30 minutes of a George Benson album that doesn’t start until the 17th minute of the second side of the tape.
Q620 Transcript
Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) […]
Q622 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) Part 1: Telephone conversation between Jim Jones […]
Q623 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Part 1: Phone call Dan: And uh- I heard that Linda uh- Linda- Linda’s […]
Q624 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). Electronic hum. Phone rings twice Male: Hello? Woman: Uh, David Dupont, please. Male: What? […]
Q625 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Side 1: Blank Side 2: Male: This is a test. Test, test. This is a test. (Pause) This is a test of the Columbia Broadcasting System. This is […]
Q626 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Side A: Blank Side B: First several moments, silence Chaikin: (unintelligible first word) Testing one […]
Q627 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). [Editor’s note: The Temple’s transcript of this tape appears here.] Part 1: Julia Hare: […]
Q629 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Part 1: One side of a phone call I don’t know if you know me, I’m calling for […]
Q630 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). Part 1 (Ed. note: The following paragraph was recorded three times, with slight variations […]
Q631 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. Julia Hare hosts a discussion on her KSFO talk show “Reaction” on senior Citizens and the rights and problems of the […]
Q632 Transcript
This album consists of a dub of music by Bootsy’s Rubber Band, a soul and R&B group.
Q633 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). Station jingle Newscaster: It’s 5:02, 53 degrees in Ukiah, time for a complete summary […]
Q635 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: — will not come. We will come for— What is it called, retractor, […]
Q636 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). Jones: I’m saying, that I’ve never had the privilege of doing what I wanted […]
Q637 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Woman: — from the beginning, and for you to give me this chance for […]
Q638 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: —it was over with, I’d get it out now, and order some more […]
Q639 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: (Conversational tone) This is my true nature at work. I like you, and […]
Q640 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee, III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) […]
Q641 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. Jones: So they won’t say “Roger,” so they won’t say “Roger.” (Pause) So she […]
Q642 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Note: This tape continues from Q 641. Jones: Well, I uh– Male: –about going […]
Q643 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Note: This tape continues from Q 642. Girl 1: (unintelligible word) we just come […]
Q644 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Note: This tape continues from Q 643. Jones: She’s a woman and– and a coordinator. […]
Q645 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Cecil Williams: –who are not only doing things, but people who are really bringing about […]
Q648 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. (Note: Transcript prepared by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) […]
Q650 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). Side 1: (Music in background) Jack Beam: I remember one time he would uh– […]
Q651 Transcript
Aside from one or two false starts – an unidentified male says “Leah?” near the beginning of side 2 – this tape is blank.
Q653 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Mike Prokes: Testing– (tape edit) Prokes: Don, you’ve just returned from, I guess, three days in Jonestown, and […]
Q656 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (This tape was transcribed by Nicole Bissett. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jeanette Kerns: Good evening. Carol Kerns: Hi, Jeanette? […]
Q657 Transcript
This tape consists of recorded music by soul groups such as the Miracles, Gladys Knight and the Pips, the Sylvers, and the Hues Corporation.
Q659 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Unidentified woman: It’s on. (Tape edit) 2nd Woman: Testing one two three four five six. […]
Q662 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. (This tape was transcribed by Katherine Hill. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: (speaking at a slow pace) –all […]
Q663 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Man 1: Test. General hubbub Jones: Shh! (Pause) Shh! Man 2: Okay. E– Everyone should be talking in a […]
Q664 Transcript
This tape is blank.
Q665 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Side 1: Unintelligible. Sounds like a meeting of some sort, but background noise is overwhelming, […]
Q667 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Jones: What is the date? The morning of the fifth… Unidentified Female: Fifth. (Long pause; […]
Q668 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) […]
Q670 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Reporter: –(unintelligible word) judge in Fort Bragg at last week’s top choice as the city councilman for the […]
Q671 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Jones: (reading, cuts in mid-sentence) ” – University of Manitoba, and Department of Psychiatry at […]
Q673 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. Garry Lambrev: (dramatic tone) –death, you continue to live in chains, tied by the […]
Q674 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Ijames: Oh yes, hi, it’s Norman Ijames, how are you? Contractor: All right, (unintelligible word) did you get […]
Q675 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Side 1: Commercial children’s recording of “My first alphabet record” and counting exercises Side 2: Continuation of commercial children’s recording of counting exercises at end of tape Tape […]
Q676 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Part 1 (Voices in background on public address system) Woman 1: Keep singing. You can […]
Q677 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Jim Dunlap: (unintelligible beginning) Reverend Jim Jones (unintelligible word) where we are. So in answer to this mail, […]
Q678 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) Part […]
Q679 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee, III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) Part […]
Q682 Transcript
This tape is blank.
Q680 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) (Note: This tape is the first […]
Q681 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. This tape is the second in a series of Channel 2 news reports from August […]
Q683 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. [Editor’s note: The Temple’s transcript of Part 3 of this tape appears here.] Part 1: […]
Q684 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Live singing recorded at wrong speed Sung to the tune of “Goody, goody” Duet: —(unintelligible […]
Q685 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Several minutes of silence) Jones: (unintelligible intro) Illinois, and Bonnie thought it had, […]
Q686 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) Part […]
Q687 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). Two broadcast ads cut off. Newscast cut off. Jones: – gave two thousand dollars to the [William] Farr case, and uh, […]
Q690 Transcript
This tape consists of an album side of funk and soul music by an unknown artist.
Q688 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Segment 1: Woman: Uh, I don’t know what month or year it happened, but uh, […]
Q689 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. McCoy: (Sounds nervous) Uh, yeah, is Mr. uh, Joe Mazor in? (Pause) Uh, Carol McCoy. […]
Q691 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Busy signal) Clara Johnson: Testing. One two three. Testing. One two three. (Dial tone) […]
Q697 Transcript
This tape opens with an electronic hum for three minutes, and periodically has sounds of being opened and closed, but is essentially blank.
Q693 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) [Editor’s note: This was the second […]
Q696 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Part 1 Young woman: Well, what all have uh, people been asking you about Jim? […]
Q698 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Interviewer: Testing one two, testing one two, testing one two, testing one two, testing. (Edit) […]
Q699 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Side 1 Eight songs of popular music. People talk in background as music plays, incidental conversation, unintelligible. Side 2 Five songs […]
Q704 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. (Phone rings) Brother: Hello. Bob: Hey, (unintelligible name) Brother: Yeah. Bob: Hey, is Mom there? Brother: Hi, Bob. […]
Q705 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Kathryn Barbour. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable […]
Q706 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Side A: Blank Side B: Cleve Davis: Who’s this? Eddie? (Pause) (Sounds of people walking near telephone) CJ […]
Q708 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Dial tone Phone being dialed Electronic buzz Dial tone Phone rings Recording: The time is 3:54 exactly– June […]
Q709 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Part I: (Newscast, first items unrelated to Peoples Temple) (Commercial) Newscaster: The leader of the Peoples Temple has […]
Q710 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee, III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) Part […]
Q711 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Woman: –seeing the mother got physical custody yesterday in a hearing. The hearing was held I think three […]
Q712 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) Sound […]
Q713 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Linda Mertle: (unintelligible beginning) Jim Jones: Speaking. Mertle: This is Linda Mertle. I would appreciate it if you […]
Q714 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Unidentified woman 1: —1 A Street, Apartment 2, San Francisco, California. I would do anything— […]
Q718 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). This is a radio broadcast recorded off the air of a program about a trip that California Congressman Ron Dellums and […]
Q719 Transcript
Tape reviewed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Andrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, appears on the ABC news interview program “Issues & Answers” on this undated […]
Q721 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Marvin Swinney: –where no fallout would get to us or anything like this. Ronn Owens: Hmm. Swinney: Uh– […]
Q722 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Side 1 Blank Side 2: Male: Yes. Sharon: This is Sharon Amos calling. Male: Hello? […]
Q725 Transcript
This tape consists of about three minutes of a selection of funk music at the end of side 2.
Q723 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Male: Testing one two three. Testing one two three. Do you catch me? Do you […]
Q724 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Jennifer Gibbons. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Tape recorder movement for several moments. Jonestown […]
Q727 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Side A Blank Side B Silence for several moments. Jones: –we’d have to go. I […]
Q728 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Tape opens with noodling on an electric piano for two minutes: (tape edit) Jones: […]
Q729 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Side A Blank Side B Several moments of silence Schacht: Okay. Okay, what I want […]
Q732 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Richmond Arquette. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Jim Jones: (reads slowly without affect; […]
Q733 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Side 2) Jones: Good morning. Good midday news. Compromise is now the name of the game in the Korean […]
Q734 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Editor’s note: Transcript prepared by Richmond Arquette. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) (Transcriber’s notes: The sides of this tape […]
Q735 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Gay Marie Cabral. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: Transcript prepared by Gay Marie Cabral. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Side […]
Q736 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Male: Test, test. (More background noise) Woman: Quiet out there. Harriet Sarah Tropp: (Shouts) Quiet! […]
Q737 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: –Sophia Loren. Little does the world know that she has been in a family that was a strong supporter […]
Q738 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Isaac Zukin. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Jones: (starts mid-sentence) –that is directly allied with the Soviet Union, they’ve been doing a great deal […]
Q740 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Scattered conversation at transmitting end. Sly: This is Mark Sly. Woman (likely Maria Katsaris or […]
Q741 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. Jones: (matter of fact tone) — put in the warehouse, by name and by […]
Q742 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Jones: (snide belittling tone throughout first item) (unintelligible beginning) to be meaningful. But Imam Mohammed also pointed out that the name Africa is […]
Q743 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. Jones: (Tape starts in middle of sentence) (Shouts) – now what’s with all those […]
Q744 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: You must take note not to uh, to talk […]
Q745 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Opens with 10:50 minutes of funk and R&B music) Jones: –and refuse to answer any further questions. Stand by. […]
Q746 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Jones: –and the USA. (unintelligible) will concede that the Common Market has (unintelligible) […]
Q747 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). Jones: –fantastic. (tape edit) Part 1: Marceline: –Right now, uh, we’ve had a […]
Q749 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Jones: –he’s in this country, attempting to intrude into the adjacent countries. That was uh, even supported yesterday […]
Q750 Transcript
Tape reviewed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. This is a professionally-produced tape of an interview with a doctor on new antibiotics used in fighting infections. It is part […]
Q753 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Several moments of silence Part I: Jones: –bitterly, that [Paul] Jacobs had […]
Q755 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Audio track for 1974 made-for-TV movie “Where have all the people gone?” Tape originally posted January 2013
Q756 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: –Government is big business, and the Carter family has proven it this year. The Carter clan has made more than an estimated million dollars from […]
Q757 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Jones: Speaks with precision, confidence) — with this elitist thing, that you can drift here […]
Q758 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Carol Park: Mr. Jones uh, the Peoples Temples I understand is involved in […]
Q759 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Jones: [Guyana] Prime Minister [Forbes] Burnham arrived in Leningrad to a grand reception of the […]
Q760 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Jones: [Guyana] Prime Minister [Forbes] Burnham arrived in Leningrad to a grand reception of the Soviet people. Leningrad – look on your map […]
Q763 Transcript
This is a mix tape of recorded soul and funk music by artists such as Natalie Cole.
Q764 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Jones: (unintelligible word fragment) of massive arrest, tortures and massacres, according to a report received by uh– the Seven Days [Magazine] from the young Muslim […]
Q766 Transcript
(Note: This tape was transcribed by Kristian Klippenstein. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Side 1 Jones: [Speaking at a slow, measured pace throughout] Attention. Attention. News of the day. Mid-news, mid-day news. […]
Q767 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Good day. Morning news. (Pause) Major Abdul Salaam Kalude [phonetic], member of the general secretariat of the General […]
Q769 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Man: (unintelligible beginning) people fill out. It says that I, Martha Wade, certify […]
Q770 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). TV announcement: (Call letters unintelligible) presents Black Renaissance, an informal discussion of topics […]
Q773 Transcript
This tape is blank.
Q774 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Shannon Howard. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Side A: Part 1: Jones: We all like […]
Q777 Transcript (Original)
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. (Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Seriina Covarrubias. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance. (This is the unedited version of this tape, as […]
Q775 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). (Note: Transcript prepared by Seriina Covarrubias. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) (Tape runs briefly, unintelligible) (Tape edit) Woman 1: […]
Q777 Transcript (Edited)
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. (Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Seriina Covarrubias. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance. (The original verbatim of this transcript is here. This […]
Q780 Transcript
To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: Two hundred and fifty dollars, the largest single donation. As you know, Bobby– we have back with us, Bobby Stroud, and Joan [Pursley]. That was approximately a thousand dollars a week, which is vital, […]
Q779 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Part I Man 1: So, uh, (clears throat) what’s Bob Davis, just getting sloppy or– Man […]
Q780a Transcript
This tape consists of a dub of the Santana album “Moonflower.”
Q782 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2) To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: The most negative aspects of the news: As I gave you earlier in the day, […]
Q781 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Michael Bellefountaine. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance. Thanks also to Adrian Whicker for […]
Q784 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Michael Bellefountaine. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) [Editor’s note: The Temple’s transcript of this […]
Q785 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was reviewed by Adrian Whicker. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. This tape is a dub of He’s Able, the album recorded by Peoples Temple in 1973. Because it was recorded with a […]
Q786 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. (Editor’s notes: This tape was transcribed by both Seriina Covarrubias and Kristian Klippenstein, and we are grateful to both for persevering on such a difficult […]
Q787 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Freya Kory. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: (starts mid-sentence) – they got that […]
Q792 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Meteorologist Sando Persaud [phonetic] has reported to his Guyanese (unintelligible word) weather report. Last month particularly was rather […]
Q794 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Heather Shannon. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Male: Yes, testing one two. Motherfucker. Male 2: Testing one two three four five. 0:15-2:17 Incidental conversation in preparation […]
Q793 Transcript
This tape is blank.
Q795 Transcript
This tape is blank.
Q796 Transcript
An unidentified male, almost certainly Dr. Laurence Schacht, reads notes on four Jonestown residents to be typed up for Jonestown’s medical records.
Q797 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. (tape begins with inaudible newscast) (tape continues with several news stories unrelated […]
Q799 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Tape cuts in. Jones: (cuts in)– District Attorney here, he was highly impressed with your […]
Q800 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Seriina Covarrubias. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Typewriter in background for much of tape […]
Q801 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. This is a professionally-produced tape of a medical symposium during which four clinicians discuss using anti-microbial agents for gastro-intestinal surgical procedures. It was “presented as a service to […]
Q802 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. This is a professionally-produced tape of a conversation between a number of doctors and their medical staff who discuss congestive heart failure. It is part of a commercial […]
Q803 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. This tape presents the July 1972 edition of Audio Abstracts of Internal Medicine, summaries of recent medical findings summarized from various professional journals. Tape originally posted May 2006
Q804 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. This is a professionally-produced tape of a medical symposium during which four clinicians specializing in anti-microbial therapy discuss how toxicity of amino glycosides can be minimized by properly […]
Q805 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) Male: […]
Q805a Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: (unintelligible opening) -well, we gotta round them up for their safety and so forth, […]
Q806 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Segment 1: Maria Katsaris on radio from Guyana Static. SF Operator: Uh, go ahead. Katsaris: […]
Q816 Transcript
This tape consists of a primary track of orchestral jazz, most likely Billy Vaughn. There is a second track of similar music – part of which seems to have been recorded backwards – under much of the stronger track.
Q807 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. Jim Jones Jr.: (unintelligible) Music Jones: — are not carrying. (Pause) There are some voices […]
Q816a Transcript
This tape consists of 17 minutes of orchestral MOR music. It is likely a continuation of Q 816, including the second track, much of which seems to have been recorded backwards.
Q812 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Note: This tape was transcribed by Michael Bellefountaine. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance. Ralph Rath: Then, would they contact the […]
Q817 Transcript
This tape consists of music by Nat King Cole.
Q814A Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Rebecca Virgen. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Judges said yesterday the trial of […]
Q818 Transcript
This tape consists of recorded music by the group Earth, Wind & Fire.
Q820 Transcript
This tape consists of classical music recorded from radio station KKHI in San Francisco. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q821 Transcript
This tape consists of Middle of the Road (MOR) popular orchestral and vocal music, including covers of “Moon River,” “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” and the theme music from the TV show Bonanza.
Q821a Transcript
This tape consists of 10 minutes of Middle of the Road (MOR) popular orchestral and vocal music, part of which was recorded backwards. (Editor’s note: this may be the second side of Q 821, but there was no separate tape released by the FBI with an “a” designation.)
Q833 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Michael Bellefountaine. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) (Note: This tape was originally withheld […]
Q837 Transcript
This tape consists of the album Unpredictable, a 1977 release by Natalie Cole; a second album of funk and R&B by a male group; and the 1971 album Friend by R&B singer Freddie North.
Q842 Transcript
This tape consists of a backward recording of music dubbed from a classical music station.
Q838 Transcript
This tape consists of an album of music by jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist Grover Washington, followed by an album of soul-funk music by Roy Ayers.
Q840 Transcript
The first half of this tape consists of several tracks of music recorded backwards. The second includes popular instrumentals performed by the group The Shadows. Tape originally posted July 2016
Q841 Transcript
This tape consists of 20 minutes of recorded choral music.
Q843 Transcript
This tape consists of a greatest hits tape of soul singer Marvin Gaye.
Q844 Transcript
This tape consists of popular soul and funk music recorded from a radio station., including songs by Cornelius Brother and Sister Rose, the Spinners and the Stylistics. Much of the tape has overlapping tracks.
Q845 Transcript
This tape consists of excerpts of several soul/funk albums, including Got to Be There, the first solo album by Michael Jackson, and the eponymous album Blue Magic.
Q846 Transcript
This tape consists of music by the soul and R&B vocal group The Spinners.
Q847 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). This is a concert album of a Richard Pryor comedy performance. The quality of the recording is poor, and the sound […]
Q848 Transcript
This tape is a compilation of music by the R&B group, The Miracles. Tape originally posted June 2016
Q849 Transcript
This tape consists of approximately 11 minutes of soul music, likely recorded from a radio station.
Q851 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Adrian Whicker. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. (This tape includes several speakers who are recorded from a distance, and some of the transcripts are best approximations […]
Q850 Transcript
This tape consists of music by R&B vocal group The Brothers Johnson, including the album Right on Time.
Q852 Transcript
This tape consists of an album of R&B and funk music.
Q853 Transcript
This tape consists of pre-recorded soul and R&B music, including the entirety of two albums by the O’Jays, Survival and Family Reunion, and Side 1 of the album Wake Up Everybody by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes.
Q854 Transcript
This tape is a mix tape of R&B/funk music, including tracks from the Stevie Wonder LP “Fulfillingness’ First Finale.”
Q855 Transcript
This tape consists of music recorded from a classical music station. Almost all of the tape was recorded backwards.
Q856 Transcript
This tape consists of classical music, much of which was recorded backwards.
Q857 Transcript
This tape consists of classical music recorded from a San Francisco radio station.
Q871 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Side One Several seconds of low conversation by young woman, followed by tape edit. “Lisa Layton”: Nobody, nothing care could I be– […]
Q868 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) Side 1 is blank Side 2: (Movement of microphone for several […]
Q872 Transcript
This tape is blank.
Q879 Transcript
This tape is blank.
Q875 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To return to the Index on the November 19th tape, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. A supplemental transcript […]
Q877 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Nicole Bissett. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Busy signal, followed by dial tone. Call […]
Q878 Transcript
This tape consists of dubs of several funk and R&B music tracks.
Q881 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Nicole Bissett. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) (Phone rings twice) Girl 1: Hello? (Baby […]
Q883 Transcript
This tape is blank. Tape originally posted June 2016
Q884 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Charles Garry: –press conference, and uh, the purpose of this press conference is to- for […]
Q885 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. [Editor’s note: This tape has innumerable pauses and edits, as the speaker pauses every few seconds. In most cases, the transitional words are clear. Only […]
Q886 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) (Note: This tape was transcribed by Michael Bellefountaine. […]
Q887 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Nicole Bissett. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: – all the people (unintelligible) […]
Q891 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Announcer: –Guyana, in South America. They say they’ve been cut off from their children, and that the leader, the Reverend Jim Jones of Peoples Temple, […]
Q894 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). [Better copy requested and received 2018] MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. [Editor’s notes: This tape of HAM radio transmissions between Jonestown and San […]
Q890 Transcript
Aside from the sounds of a moving microphone and a half dozen words – which sounded as though they were from a movie – at the beginning of side 1 this tape is blank.
Q895 Transcript
This tape was reviewed by Nicole Bissett. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Debbie Layton, who would later join Peoples Temple and become a financial secretary in the Jonestown leadership, spent part of her […]
Q892 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) (Side A) (Begins with poorly-recorded Russian […]
Q897 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Michael Bellefountaine. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) (Note: This tape was one of the […]
Q898 Transcript
This tape consists of music by 60’s folk artist Donovan.
Q903 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Adrian Whicker and Heather Shannon. The editors gratefully acknowledge their invaluable assistance. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Larry Schacht: Okay, the things that you’re expected to know for the uh, examination of the patient are: general description of […]
Q900 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Tom Adams: Hi, Sue. Suzanne Jones Cartmell: Yeah. Tom: Yeah, [this is] Tom. I tried to reach you yesterday, but I guess you moved your […]
Q907 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. (Editor’s note: This transcript does not include all the verbal acknowledgements during the phone conversation when […]
Q908 Transcript
This tape is blank.
Q915 Transcript
This tape is a bad recording of a compilation of R&B music. Tape originally posted June 2016
Q917 Transcript
This tape consists of a set of sentences repeated in sequence, three or four times each time. The whole set is repeated four or five times. The sentences are: “You decide to investigate and you’ll never return.” “For each time you step outside your house, they attack.” “I want to tell you.” Tape originally posted June […]
Q919 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Michael Bellefountaine. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) (Note: This tape […]
Q920 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: Ethel […]
Q923 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Taylor. Taylor. Taylor on Muscat Street. Quickly, quickly respond where– Announcer: The microphone is being […]
Q921 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Starts with Jones singing. Organ plays throughout service Jones: Harry. Near Lexington. Harry, (unintelligible question). […]
Q925 Transcript
Other than a couple of bursts of sound of activity – perhaps of children playing – plus a couple of short radio calls, asking if the receiver hears the transmitter, at the head of the tape, this tape is blank.
Q926 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Seriina Covarrubias. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: In the […]
Q927 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. (Singing) Jones: (Hums) S– Say. Say. (Hums) Mmmm. (Speaks) Yes? […]
Q928 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Choir singing. Jones: Say. (Hums) Mmmm. (Speaks) Yes? Yes? But to please […]
Q929 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Man: I’d like – I’d like to know, what is causing the greatest uh – […]
Q930 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Man: It’s my pleasure this morning to introduce to you one of the truly great men, not only of this city but of America. There’s […]
Q932 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Jones: I’ve sincerely and conscientiously (Pause) not only to attempted to […]
Q937 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Heather Shannon. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: [begins in mid-sentence] –what was absolutely essential. Production here has fallen too. We’ve got to increase our production, and get […]
Q933 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) Male […]
Q938 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Adrian Whicker. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Young boy 1: I’d like to thank Dad, ‘cause [unintelligible word] Dad that he is, and I […]
Q935 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Song 1: Vocalist is likely Marceline Jones They come from the north, south, the east and the west […]
Q939 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (This tape was transcribed by the late Michael Bellefountaine. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable contributions to the site, including this […]
Q940 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Jones: –against uh– Woman in crowd: (too soft) Jones: Who is it? (Pause) What’s this (unintelligible word)? Who […]
Q942 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: –the government, they were very, very impressed. Our stateside problems continue to go […]
Q943 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Isaac Zukin and Ethan Snyder. The editors gratefully acknowledge their invaluable assistance. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Jones: So what he [former […]
Q945 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Kristian Klippenstein. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Side I Jones: (begins in mid-sentence) –and that’s what we’ve got. But you see, […]
Q947-1 Transcript
This tape was transcribed by Connor Ashley Clayton. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Why– Why, man, are we going […]
Q944 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Part I: (Buzz) Jones: You follow what I’m saying? We don’t want you to […]
Q948 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Connor Ashley Clayton. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: (starts in mid-sentence) –that they must take pride in their performances, but must be careful […]
Q947-2 Transcript
Tape reviewed by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. This is an undated recording of Lenny Bruce concert. It is most likely a concert album. Tape originally posted June 2006
Q949 Transcript
To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Male 1: (clears throat) You have to be inside the auditorium by 7. (pause) The meetings are not at 7:30, they’re at 7 pm. Tuesday night meetings. (Long pause) Okay. (hushed tones) Go ahead, […]
Q950 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Jones: God is love, is principle. The Greeks said it’s principle. God is principle. […]
Q951 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: […]
Q952 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Jones: — give the love that you feel, or should feel, […]
Q953 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. (Tapes cuts on and off throughout service, but it […]
Q955 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. (Note: This 90-minute tape is a segment of Q1021, and is contained in its entirety there. It begins about one hour into that three-hour tape, and ends with about 30 minutes remaining. The discussion below covers […]
Q956 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Bishop Crane: (Unintelligible lead-in) mobile home I’d ever been in […]
Q957 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Part 1, Part 2). Jones: –black people in America. And I realized that the conspiracy was in […]
Q958 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: The president of the United States has as much power now as […]
Q960 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3). (This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable […]
Q962 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Now I will not review the thirteenth chapter of Mark, ‘cause it […]
Q963 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Male: I’m lying. That’s why I got in […]
Q964 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Congregation: Sings: “Oh, how I love Jesus” Male 1: (Sings […]
Q965 Transcript
(Editor’s note: Transcript prepared by Seriina Covarrubias. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Jones: (Starts mid-sentence) (Calls out) –you have the spirit of the consciousness of our revolutionary God, […]
Q966 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: –anywhere. (clears throat) All over. Congregation: Applause Jones: You’da been healed of […]
Q968 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: He said they’ve even got people in the press, they’ve got people […]
Q969 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: (tape starts in mid-sentence) –by people who […]
Q973 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: […]
Q971 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Harmonica plays. Tape edit. (Pause) Jones: –an enormous painful and […]
Q972 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Organ playing Jones: How sweet. You may be seated. (Pause) The herculean undertaking lay […]
Q976 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: –every week, so be prepared. Know the concepts, know bourgeoisie, petit bourgeoisie, the class struggle in particular. Teresa [King] has put […]
Q974 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Man: (sings) I’m so glad that I found Jim Jones in […]
Q977 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Crowd: Applause. Jones: Well, I could go on […]
Q978 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Jones: (unintelligible) Crowd: (unintelligible milling, several children’s voices) Jones: (unintelligible intro) (tape edit) saying you […]
Q982 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. (This tape was transcribed by Nightrissa Crosby. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: (Slow deliberate tone, likely reading from a […]
Q979 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Jones: (voice fades in) in every large city in the United States, they’re now down to a bare […]
Q985 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3, Pt. 4) To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: (unintelligible word) that the USA nearly used the atomic bomb. [Richard] Nixon almost […]
Q981 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (MP3-Pt. 1, MP3-Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: –wanted to discuss ways in […]
Q988 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2) To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: –and she (short laugh)– She put pressure on the Health and Education, Welfare, and they […]
Q986 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: -to do with socialism and […]
Q987 Transcript
(Note: This tape was transcribed by the late Michael Bellefountaine.) To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) Beal: [My name is] Geneva […]
Q991 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Male: –after leaving the meeting, please sign the attendance sheet again, because this is the only one that’s gonna be used. Is that what you […]
Q989 Transcript
(This tape was transcribed by Kathryn Barbour. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Woman: Okay. Jones: Attention. Attention. Midday news. Primary (tape edit) congressman. The Congress Subcommittee on African Affairs, his attorney, according […]
Q990 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Jones: –be it one form or another, picked up a fucking telephone, you (cries out) pay taxes. Every […]
Q994 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: I will not be taken by surprise again. Never. I’m so completely aware. Not minding […]
Q992 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Tape opens with segment of distorted tape, a two-second snippet from first conversation which follows. Mike Prokes: Greetings […]
Q995 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Singing of several young people for 3:30, song about going on a socialist holiday. Applause (Tape […]
Q993 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Jones: –that was (unintelligible word) they never had to fight. They didn’t fight the revolution. They inherited it. […]
Q996 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: The article’s basic perspective is that the world capitalist economics are in deep and long-term […]
Q997 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. Jones: Chinese residents of Vietnam are fleeing, seeking refuge in mainland China and in other parts […]
Q998 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: Transcript prepared by Catherine Abbott. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jim Jones: (tape comes on mid-sentence) –and uh, […]
Q1009 Transcript
This tape contains a recording of classical music.
Q1010 Transcript
This tape is a mix of funk and soul music, including selections by Willie Tee, Tower of Power, and the Presidents.
Q1011 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was reviewed by Vicki Perry.) This tape contains recorded soul and R&B music. Tape originally posted December 2009
Q1012 Transcript
This tape consists of about 23 minutes of classical music. There is some double tracking, and portions of the tape were recorded backwards.
Q1013 Transcript
This tape is a collection of poorly-recorded tracks of funk and soul music, with periodic second tracks of classical music and other portions of miscellaneous music recorded backwards.
Q1014 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. Theeditors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: (unintelligible beginning) we come tripping in here, not once a […]
Q1015 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: Because he was the fulfillment, that all the law […]
Q1015a Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. (off mike voices) Lydia: Yes. Jones: You will be in company of driving also– There’s […]
Q1016 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Jones: (End of song) You see what I’m doing? Hmm? See, […]
Q1020 Transcript
(Note: This tape was transcribed by Kristian Klippenstein. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) To read Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2) To return to the Tape Index, click here. Part 1 Jones: Last week a child was brought to us – two children […]
Q1018 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Nicole Bissett. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: (conversational […]
Q1019 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Nicole Bissett. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: (Tape […]
Q1020a Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. (Tape starts slow speed) Jones: I said it’s your what? You’re […]
Q1021 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Lee Ingram: —who is continuing to (pause)— No one should be […]
Q1021-A Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. [Editor’s note: This address almost certainly follows Q 1021.] Steven Katsaris: – uh, Noah, […]
Q1022 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Don Beck. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Side 1 (High shriek. […]
Q1023 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Seriina Covarrubias. The editors thank her for her invaluable assistance.) (Music of […]
Q1026 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3. (This tape was transcribed by Kristian Klippenstein. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Jones: (begins in mid-sentence) to […]
Q1024 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3). To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. (Note: Transcript prepared by Freya Kory. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Edith Roller: (Tape […]
Q1025 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to the MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her […]
Q1027 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her […]
Q1029 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read Tape Summary, click here. To read Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2) (Editor’s notes: This tape was transcribed by Connor Ashley Clayton, who also contributed to the summary. The […]
Q1028 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee, III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. Tape Number : Q 322 To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Jones Speaking Jones: –just arrived in Bucharest, Hungary yesterday with a delegation from the Zimbabwe pet– […]
Q1028A Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. (Note: Transcript prepared by Seriina Covarrubias. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Part 1 Organ music fades […]
Q1030 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2) Several muffled sentences at head of tape. Jones: I can’t speak with a thorough understanding. […]
Q1031-A Transcript
To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. (Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Jones: (with ministerial fervor) –[Hebrews] 6:1 said, Let us leave the principles of the doctrines […]
Q1032 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Jones: —is upon them. Hmm? Anyone? (Pause) Oh, I’m just telling […]
Q1035 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Jones: — nothing that you used to serve. Congregation: […]
Q1053-1 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Jones: (Hoarse voice, but ministerial fervor) —may say, […]
Q1053-3 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. (This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) Female: […]
Q1053-4 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Jones: (Conversational)—carried it on further, but we would have antagonized him. […]
Q1054-2 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Part I Jones: What we want to get done is the youth to go there […]
Q1053-6 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld […]
Q1054-4 Transcript
(Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Georgiana Mamlakah. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Jones: –assimilate the Spirit of God. It’s not possible. It’s got to be a sincere […]
Q1054-3 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: Transcript prepared by Norman Scott. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Jones: (unintelligible word) in […]
Q1055-1 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Freya Kory. The editors gratefully acknowledge her […]
Q1055-2 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her […]
Q1056-3 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Part 1, Part 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her […]
Q1056-4 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her […]
Q1057-2 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. (Note: This tape was transcribed by Michael Bellefountaine. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) Side A Long […]
Q1057-3 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. Note: This tape was transcribed by Michael Bellefountaine. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance. (Tape cuts in […]
Q1057-4 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). This tape was transcribed by Kristian Klippenstein. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable […]
Q1057-5 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Part 1 Organ playing throughout Jones: when he heard, it was […]
Q1058-4 Transcript
(This tape was transcribed by Kristian Klippenstein. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. SIDE A Jones: [Begins mid-sentence] I said they’re accused of being drunk. Are […]
Q1058-2 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Part 1: Sermon Jones: (comes on in last of sentence, unintelligible) —always […]
Q1058-3 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Jones: (Conversational tone) I would like to make you aware of […]
Q1059-1 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Organ playing throughout. Crowd cheers at pauses Jones: (Ministerial cadence) For […]
Q1059-2 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Jones: That Bible holds on like a disease. It holds on […]
Q1059-3 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Jones: –assistant district attorney is a member of our church here. […]
Q1059-4 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Jones: Well– (Short laugh) It’s wonderful. (Unintelligible words), remark for him, […]
Q1059-5 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Jones: (Voice rises to ministerial cadence) Twenty years ago in China, under […]
Q1059-6 Transcript
Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To listen to MP3, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read the Annotated Transcript, click here. Jones: (begins in mid sentence) – how stupid this sounds, and […]
Q1289 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. (This tape was obtained from the U.S. State Department under the Freedom of Information Act by Josef Dieckman, who also transcribed it. The editors of […]
Q1290 Transcript
If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. (This tape was obtained from the U.S. State Department under the Freedom of Information Act by Josef Dieckman, who also transcribed it. The editors of […]
Originally posted on August 10th, 2013.
Last modified on December 27th, 2013.