{"id":103195,"date":"2020-10-22T13:13:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T20:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103195"},"modified":"2022-07-18T08:58:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T15:58:05","slug":"feb-5-1979-%e2%80%a2-1303-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-state-%e2%80%a2-0549","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103195","title":{"rendered":"Feb 5, 1979 \u2022 1303 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 0549"},"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=103195\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=83916\">Serial 1854<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release.]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>0 051303Z FEB 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8094<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0549<\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CARR (BEIKMAN, CHARLES), (JONES, STEPHAN), (PEOPLE\u2019S TEMPLE)<br \/>\nSUBJ: W\/W ARRESTS: CHARLES BEIKMAN, STEPHAN JONES<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 0496<\/p>\n<p>1. FOUR WITNESSES TESTIFIED FOR THE PROSECUTION DURING THE FEB. 1 SESSION OF THE PRELIMINARY INQUIRY INTO THE DEATHS OF LINDA SHARON AMOS (A.K.A. SHARON AMOS) ET AL. DR. CYRIL LESLIE MOOTOO, WHO PERFORMED AUTOPSIES ON THE DECEASED, GAVE THE FINDINGS OF THE EXTERNAL EXAMINATIONS. CROSS-EXAMINATION WAS DEFERRED BY THE DEFENSE UNTIL FEB. 2. A POLICE CONSTABLE WHO ACCOMPANIED STEPHANIE JONES TO THE HOSPITAL ON NOV. 19 TESTIFIED. STEPHANIE JONES GAVE UNSWORN TESTIMONY CONCERNING HER EXPERIENCE ON THE NIGHT OF THE MURDERS. BECAUSE HER TESTIMONY IN THE EXAMINATION CONFLICTED WITH SIGNED STATEMENTS SHE MADE TO THE POLICE ON NOV. 18 AND 19, MAGISTRATE [PREM] PERSAUD ALLOWED STATE CONS COUNSEL [CARLTON] WEITHERS TO CROSS EXAMINE HER REGARDING THE INCONSISTENCIES. SHE WAS THEN CROSS-EXAMINED BY SENIOR COUNSEL REX MCKAY. MAGISTRATE DESMON [DESMOND] CHRISTIAN, WHO PRESIDED OVER THE FIRST PRELIMINARY INQUIRY INTO THE DEATHS OF HARRIS, ET AL., TESTIFIED CONCERNING THE CONFESSION MADE BY STEPHEN JONES IN COURT ON DEC. 18. HE WAS CROSS-EXAMINED BY MCKAY.<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 00549 051420Z<\/p>\n<p>2. PROSECUTION PLANS TO CONCLUDE ITS CASE AT THE NEXT SESSION, FEB. 2. MAGISTRATE PERSAUD HAS NOT YET RULED ON THE ADMISSIBILITY OF BEIKMAN\u2019S SECOND STATEMENT.<\/p>\n<p>BURKE [John Burke, American ambassador to Guyana]<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<\/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 1854 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release.] 0 051303Z FEB 79 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8094 UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0549 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":119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103195","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103195","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=103195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116839,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103195\/revisions\/116839"}],"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=103195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}