{"id":110049,"date":"2021-06-23T17:06:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T00:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=110049"},"modified":"2022-02-02T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T18:19:04","slug":"q192-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=110049","title":{"rendered":"Q192 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary 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.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

To read the Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here<\/a>.
\nListen to MP3 (Side A, Pt. 1<\/a>;\u00a0Side A, Pt. 2<\/a>;\u00a0Side B, Pt. 1<\/a>;\u00a0Side B, Pt. 2<\/a>)
\nTo return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201c15-Aug\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Context puts the date of tape at August 1, 1978<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJimmy Carter, President of US
\nJohn F. Kennedy, assassinated US president
\nSen. Robert Kennedy (D-NY)
\nAndrew Young, US Ambassador to UN
\nMeldrim Thomson Jr., governor of New Hampshire (by reference)
\nJerry Brown, California governor
\nEvelle Younger, California attorney general<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Adolf Hitler, German Fuhrer
\nElizabeth II, Queen of England
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwe Patriotic Front
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwe Patriotic Front
\nIan Smith, Rhodesian Prime Minister
\nJohn Vorster, South Africa prime minister
\nTakeo Fukuda, Japan prime minister<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Forbes Burnham, Guyana prime minister
\nViola Burnham, wife of Forbes (by reference)
\nHamilton Green, Guyana Minister of Health, Housing and Labor
\nGavin Kennard, Guyana Minister of Agriculture
\nIndrani Kennard, wife of Gavin (by reference)<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Paul Erdman, banker, author of The Crash of 1979<\/em> (by reference)
\nMalcolm X, assassinated civil rights leader
\nMartin Luther King, assassinated civil rights leader
\nGeorge Orwell, British writer
\nTerrence Singh, Guyanese shopkeeper<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Carlton Goodlett, San Francisco physician and newspaper publisher
\nPaul Gann, leader of California\u2019s Prop 13 initiative
\nHoward Jarvis, leader of California\u2019s Prop 13 initiative
\nHuey Newton, leader of Black Panthers<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Temple members not in Jonestown:<\/em>
\nNell Smart<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nSharon Amos
\nTinetra Fain (by reference)
\nShanda James
\nMarceline Jones
\nDale Parks
\nJoyce Parks
\nMike Prokes
\nTommie Rochelle
\nMichael Simon
\nAlfred Smart (by reference)
\nScott Smart (by reference)
\nTeri Smart (by reference)
\nVirginia Vera \u201cMom\u201d Taylor
\nDianne Wilkinson
\n 
\nPart II:<\/strong>
\nGregory Watkins [J.J. Tumbles] (speaks<\/strong>)<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

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

Jim Jones reads the news for August 1, 1978.<\/p>\n

This reading is different from most from the period, in that Jones does not single out a major news story or feature article to serve as the text upon which he would base many of his questions at the next Peoples Rally. While some news items are emphasized more than others \u2013 there is, for example, more news about their adopted home of Guyana than most news tapes include \u2013 this tape does not have a central theme.<\/p>\n

What is similar to other tapes is the rhetoric Jones uses. The US is consistently capitalist, imperialist, racist and\/or fascist. The CIA is behind a number of the world\u2019s ills, such as manipulating the weather, which has resulted in excessive rain for them and excessive heat and drought conditions in such places as Texas and Japan; planting agents in newsrooms to influence news coverage and to monitor journalists; plotting against Black Panther leader Huey Newton; torturing children and bombing villages, before in Vietnam and now in Rhodesia; and crippling air travel in the Caribbean by blowing planes out of the sky.<\/p>\n

Jones also leans upon his lifelong anxiety about the inevitability of nuclear war, raising the issue four times, and at one point reporting that the Soviet Union recently said, \u201cWorld War III was already actually in progress because of the imperialists allowing situations in the Near East and in Africa and in Southeast Asia to get totally out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones makes a point of praising Guyana on several occasions, declaring it to have \u201cthe brightest future of all.\u201d One reason is the government\u2019s nationalization of important industries, \u201cso that the people own all of the means of production and the means of distribution.\u201d Another is its small population and its agricultural opportunities: \u201cLess people on more fertile soil than any nation on earth. That\u2019s why I picked it,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

And the country appreciates them, he says, noting that Jonestown had received an invitation to send its entertainers to perform in Georgetown in a few days. They will decline the invitation, because they need to work so they can get more people to freedom.<\/p>\n

In other news items relating to Guyana, Jones reports:<\/p>\n

\u2022 A medical conference in Trinidad seeks to train doctors to be sensitive to the needs of Caribbean populations;
\n\u2022 An educational conference in Georgetown presents courses on Marxist-Leninist principles for teachers and public servants;
\n\u2022 Guyana is starting its own pharmaceutical production center;
\n\u2022 The nation already has free medical care, and is now moving towards free telephone service for all;
\n\u2022 The owner of a Guyana small business is fined a modest amount for cheating his customers, while a richer one is sent to jail for the same crime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other news:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The House Select Committee on Assassinations may attempt to link the murders of John Kennedy and Martin Luther King to socialists;
\n\u2022 Chicanos in LA storm a gathering of the Ku Klux Klan;
\n\u2022 A woman sues NBC after her daughter was raped in the same manner as was depicted in a TV movie;
\n\u2022 Gangs are increasing their hold on American cities, forcing young people into lives of drugs and crime;
\n\u2022 Doctors protest cloning and test-tube babies;
\n\u2022 Astrology diverts people from social issues and concerns over the environment;
\n\u2022 The US lifts its arms ban to Rhodesia, which proceeds to bomb three villages;
\n\u2022 Art thieves steal 22 pieces from a museum in Munich;
\n\u2022 The independence movement in Quebec calls for similar liberation in Africa;
\n\u2022 A man rams his car into Queen Elizabeth\u2019s limousine during her visit to Canada;
\n\u2022 The USSR has completed its postwar construction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The news portion tape ends with a reading of a thank you note from a Jonestown resident to Dad for providing such excellent health care for all of them.<\/p>\n

Following the newscast is a program of R&B\/funk music, with Gregory Watkins in his persona of J.J. Tumbles, acting as the DJ for the impromptu Jonestown radio station, J-SOUL.<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 6\/13\/79<\/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 May 30, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B69-18. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

A JIM JONES monologue on current world events including political statements on international hunger problems and self-ingratiating remarks on Jonestown\u2019s available medical care. He stated that Dr. MARK LANE feels the USA is facing the inevitable state of facism [fascism].<\/p>\n

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

Given the fact that the context of the date for this tape is different than that listed on the preliminary note and that the FBI summary mentions Mark Lane \u2013 who is not named in this transcript \u2013 it could be that this is a mislabeled tape.<\/p>\n

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

Summary 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 Transcript,\u00a0click here. Listen to MP3 (Side A, Pt. 1;\u00a0Side A, Pt. 2;\u00a0Side B, Pt. 1;\u00a0Side B, Pt. 2) To return to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":61,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-110049","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110049","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=110049"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113405,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110049\/revisions\/113405"}],"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=110049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}