{"id":108394,"date":"2021-02-08T15:55:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T23:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=108394"},"modified":"2021-07-22T17:20:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T00:20:16","slug":"q777-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=108394","title":{"rendered":"Q777 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

To read the Original Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here<\/a>. To read the Edited Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here<\/a>.
\nListen to MP3<\/a>. To return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unidentified Individuals Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>One unlabeled\/ \u201cJack Beam,\u201d \u201cJack\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unknown<\/p>\n

People named:<\/strong><\/p>\n

People Temple members:<\/em>
\nMabel, mother of Loretta Cordell
\nDallas, woman passenger in car<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jack Beam (speaks<\/strong>)
\nRheavianna Beam (speaks<\/strong>)
\nEdith Cordell
\nLoretta Cordell
\nFrank Gibson
\nRalph Jackson
\nMarceline Jones (speaks<\/strong>)
\nStephanie Jones
\nPenny Kerns
\nMarceline LeTourneau
\nGilbert Price
\nEva Pugh<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nCharles Boswell, Indianapolis mayor
\nWillie Davis [phonetic], Indianapolis minister
\nReverend Huntington, Indianapolis minister
\nDavid Ketch [phonetic], minister
\nElmo Miller, minister
\nJohn Price, minister
\nWilliam Thorton, Indianapolis minister
\nGeorge Weathers, Indianapolis minister
\nEddie Wilson, minister
\nO.L. (Orval) Jaggers, Pentecostal preacher
\nKathryn Kuhlman, Pentecostal preacher<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Bible verses cited: <\/strong> None<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

(This tape was transcribed by Seriina Covarrubias. The<\/em> editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Jack Beam, a member of Peoples Temple from its earliest days in Indiana, speaks about his memories of those days in a small meeting with two or three other people. Beam talks about Jim Jones\u2019 ability to raise money \u2013 which made him popular when he went on the traveling circuit \u2013 his faith healing abilities, and, most controversial of all, his insistence that the churches he ministered allow black people, not only to attend services but to sit on the front row. Beam also speaks of some of the attacks against the church, including two sticks of dynamite he found in the church\u2019s boiler room.<\/p>\n

Beam also speaks of Jones\u2019 relationships with some of the faith-healers of the day, as well as his social and political activities during the Temple\u2019s Indiana years. He also recounts some of the familiar stories to Temple members, like the aftermath of the deaths of his daughter and several others in a car crash, the ministers who ridiculed or criticized Jones by day and sought out his counsel by night, and Jones\u2019 efforts to integrate numerous facilities in the city and in general becoming the embodiment of Principle even then.<\/p>\n

Beyond the usual problems of having a single microphone trying to capture numerous voices in the same room \u00ad\u2013 sometimes speaking at the same time \u2013 the tape is compromised by poor audio recording, and parts of unintelligible. There may be as many as four women interviewing Beam at one point or another \u2013 including Marceline Jones, who often chimes in to fill in a gap or confirms what Beam has just said, and Beam\u2019s wife Rheavianna \u2013 and one voice is deep enough that it has been labeled as \u201cMale,\u201d but the others are labeled as generic women\u2019s voices.<\/p>\n

FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date of transcription: April 9, 1979<\/p>\n

In connection with the Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2019s investigation into the assassination of U.S. Congressman LEO J. RYAN at Port Kaituma, Guyana, South America, on November 18, 1978, a tape recording was obtained. This tape recording was located in Jonestown, Guyana, South America, and was turned over to U.S. Officials in Guyana and subsequently transported to the United States.<\/p>\n

On March 19, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B62 Number 94. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

Side one is a discussion among two to three persons about the Pentacostal [Pentecostal] Church in Indiana and JIM JONES\u2019s early involvment [involvement] there as a \u201chealer\u201d.<\/p>\n

Side two is blank.<\/p>\n

Nothing was contained thereon which was considered to be of evidentiary nature or beneficial to the investigation of Congressman RYAN.<\/p>\n

Differences with FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Side 2 has audio. Otherwise, the summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Tape originally posted February 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Original Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here. To read the Edited Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unidentified Individuals Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: One […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-108394","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108394","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=108394"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110628,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108394\/revisions\/110628"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}