{"id":103191,"date":"2020-10-22T13:11:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T20:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103191"},"modified":"2022-07-17T16:28:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T23:28:53","slug":"feb-1-1979-%e2%80%a2-1255-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-state-%e2%80%a2-0496","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103191","title":{"rendered":"Feb 1, 1979 \u2022 1255 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 0496"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[<b>Editor\u2019s note<\/b>: This document was released both as a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103191\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101269\">Serial 1835<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release.]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>R 011255Z FEB 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8884<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0496<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CARR (BEIKMAN, CHARLES), (JONES, STEPHAN), (PEOPLE\u2019S TEMPLE)<br \/>\nSUBJ: W\/W ARRESTS: STEPHAN JONES AND CHARLES BEIKMAN<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 0497<\/p>\n<p>1. DURING PRELIMINARY INQUIRY ON JANUARY 30 INTO DEATHS OF LINDA SHARON HARRIS (A.K.A. SHARON AMOS) ET AL, MAGISTRATE PERSAUD RULED THAT UNDER RELEVANT CASE LAW AND GUYANESE STATUTORY LAW NINE-YEAR-OLD STEPHANIE JONES WAS NOT COMPETENT TO GIVE SWORN TESTIMONY, EITHER UNDER OATH OR AFFIRMATION. PERSAUD SAID SHE COULD NOT BE INSTRUCTED IN GOD PRIOR TO TAKING AN OATH BECAUSE SHE DOES NOT BELIEVE IN GOD. PERSAUD CONCLUDED THAT STEPHANIE COULD GIVE EVIDENCE IN COURT, BUT THAT HER TESTIMONY WOULD HAVE TO BE UNSWORN.<\/p>\n<p>2. TWO PERSONS GAVE TESTIMONY AT THE JANUARY 30 SESSION. A POLICE CORPORAL TESTIFIED THAT HE SEARCHED JIM JONES&#8217; JONESTOWN RESIDENCE ON DECEMBER 5, 1978 AND FOUND A NOTE SIGNED BY BEIKMAN PLEDGING LOYALTY TO THE PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE LEADER. DETECTIVE ASSISTNT SUPT. LAM WAS RECALLED BY THE PROSECUTION TO GIVE ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY. LAM WAS CROSS-EXAMINED BY SENIOR COUNSEL REX MCKAY.<\/p>\n<p>3. INQUIRY IS SCHEDULED TO RESUME FEBRUARY 1, ON WHICH DATE MAGISTRATE PERSAUD IS EXPECTED TO GIVE HIS RULING ON THE ADMISSIBILITY OF BEIKMAN\u2019S STATEMENT TO THE POLICE. [PROSECUTING COUNSEL CARLTON] WEITHERS SAID IN COURT THAT HE EXPECTS TO CONCLUDE THE STATE\u2019S CASE ON FEBRUARY 1.<\/p>\n<p>BURKE [John Burke, American ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1835 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release.] R 011255Z FEB 79 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8884 UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0496 E.O. 12065: NA TAGS: CARR (BEIKMAN, CHARLES), (JONES, STEPHAN), (PEOPLE\u2019S TEMPLE) SUBJ: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103191","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116772,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103191\/revisions\/116772"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}