{"id":103193,"date":"2020-10-22T13:12:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T20:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103193"},"modified":"2024-07-16T14:52:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T21:52:06","slug":"feb-1-1979-%e2%80%a2-1256-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-state-%e2%80%a2-0497","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103193","title":{"rendered":"Feb 1, 1979 \u2022 1256 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 0497"},"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=103193\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101267\">Serial 1834<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release.]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>0 011256Z FEB 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8885<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0497<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CARR (JONES, STEPHAN), (BEIKMAN, CHARLES), (PEOPLE\u2019S TEMPLE)<br \/>\nSUBJ: W\/W ARRESTS: STEPHAN JONES, CHARLES BEIKMAN<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 0450<\/p>\n<p>1. THREE NEW WITNESSES GAVE TESTIMONY AT THE JANUARY 29 SESSION OF THE PRELIMINARY INQUIRY INTO THE DEATHS OF LINDA SHARON AMOS (A.K.A. SHARON AMOS) ET AL. CALVIN DOUGLAS AND CARL [Karl] BARNETT RELATED WHAT THEY SAW ON THE EVENING OF THE MURDERS AT THE PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE GEORGETOWN HEADQUARTERS. BOTH WERE CROSS-EXAMINED BY SENIOR COUNSEL REX MCKAY. A POLICE CORPORAL WHO TOOK A STATEMENT FROM DOUGLAS ON NOVEMBER 18, ALSO TESTIFIED.<\/p>\n<p>2. MAGISTRATE PERSAUD DID NOT GIVE A DECISION ON THE ADMISSIBILITY OF BEIKMAN\u2019S SECOND STATEMENT OR ON THE COMPETENCE OF STEPHANIE JONES TO TESTIFY, NOR DID HE GIVE A NEW DATE FOR HIS RULING.<\/p>\n<p>3. IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION FROM DEFENSE COUNSEL [JAI NARAINE] SINGH, PROSECUTING COUNSEL [CARLTON] WEITHERS SAID IN COURT THAT HE PLANS TO CALL FOUR NEW WITNESSES AND RECALL ONE WITNESS BEFORE THE STATE CONCLUDES ITS CASE.<\/p>\n<p>INQUIRY IS SCHEDULED TO RESUME JANUARY 30.<\/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 1834 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release.] 0 011256Z FEB 79 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8885 UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0497 E.O. 12065: NA TAGS: CARR (JONES, STEPHAN), (BEIKMAN, CHARLES), (PEOPLE\u2019S TEMPLE) SUBJ: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103193","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103193","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=103193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127824,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103193\/revisions\/127824"}],"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=103193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}