{"id":110051,"date":"2021-06-23T17:24:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T00:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=110051"},"modified":"2021-07-24T10:46:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T17:46:53","slug":"q440-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=110051","title":{"rendered":"Q440 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 Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1<\/a>,\u00a0Pt. 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 \u201cTues July 18\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Contents consistent with tape identification note<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJimmy Carter, President of US
\nCyrus Vance, U.S. Secretary of State (by reference)
\nAndrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to United Nations (by reference)<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Adolf Hitler, German F\u00fchrer
\nWinston Churchill, British prime minister
\nMargaret Thatcher, Britain Conservative Party leader
\nFrancisco Franco, dictator of Spain
\nLuis Carrero Blanco, Spanish prime minister
\nCarlos Arias Navarro, Spanish politician
\nYuri Orlov, Soviet dissident<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Yasser Arafat, chairman of Palestinian Liberation Organization
\nGamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian president
\nAnwar Sadat, president of Egypt
\nBoutros Boutros-Ghali, Foreign Minister of Egypt (by reference)
\nMoise Dayan, Israeli Foreign Minister (by reference)
\nHaile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia (by reference)
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nBishop Abel Muzorewa, leader of Zimbabwe independence
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Cheddi Jagan, leader of Guyana opposition party
\nVibert Mingo, Guyana Minister of Home Affairs<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

F. Scott Fitzgerald, novelist
\nZelda Sayre Fitzgerald, writer, wife of Scott
\nSarah Mayfield, writer
\nSheila Graham, gossip columnist
\nMuhammad Ali, prize fighter
\nRockefeller family, American family of great wealth
\nHarold Piper, Baltimore Sun correspondent in USSR (by reference)
\nCraig R. Whitney, New York Times correspondent in USSR (by reference)<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Muhammad Ahmad Ibn Abdullah, Sudanese religious leader
\nGaafar al-Nimeiry, Sudanese president
\nCharles George \u201cChinese\u201d Gordon, British general
\nHoratio Kitchener, British general
\nKing Ferdinand II of Aragon
\nQueen Isabella I of Aragon
\nKing Leon of Castile
\nCount Henry of Burgundy<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nMarceline Jones (by reference)
\nCleave Swinney<\/div>\n

 
\nBible verses cited<\/strong>: \tNone<\/p>\n

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

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

Jim Jones reads the news for July 18, 1978. As are most of these newscasts, he tends to emphasize the items which disparage or belittle the United States and its allies, and which deride capitalism in comparison to \u201cthe beauty, or sensitivity, cooperativeness, and humane-ness of socialism.\u201d <\/p>\n

The news itself gives them a socialist perspective, although he interjects several editorial comments of his own along the way. The U.S. is an imperialist power, the fascist countries of World War II \u2013 notably Spain and Germany \u2013 remain so, the white minority government of Rhodesia is racist, and the nationalism of Israel has led that country to \u201ccleverly getting the nuclear bomb which endangers the peace of all of her allies and enemies.\u201d Terrorists, he notes, are what capitalists call freedom fighters and liberators. <\/p>\n

He begins the talk by appealing to the residents of Jonestown to treat both himself and Marceline \u2013 \u201cyour mother\u201d \u2013 with the same respect and love as they have for their followers, and more for Marceline\u2019s sake than for his own. At the same time, he asks that they \u201cdon\u2019t handle me and your mother as if we were immortal.\u201d<\/p>\n

He not only requests the community members to increase their production \u2013 an increasingly typical demand \u2013 but also asks that they take an interest in learning new skills that will go towards sustaining their lives in Jonestown and make it a success. <\/p>\n

In addition to reading the news, Jones gives them two geography lessons \u2013 part of a continuing project he\u2019s undertaken during the summer \u2013 on Sudan and Spain. He also makes the comparisons to Guyana when he can, invariably favorable, to show how life is better where they are. Sudan, for example, \u201cis 12 times the size of Guyana, but its population is 20 times, so you still have a better ratio in Guyana to live, and to eat and have a future than in any place in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the other items:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The United States will reduce oil imports, which will result in people freezing to death;
\n\u2022 Western nations will halt commercial flights to those nations which house terrorists;
\n\u2022 Egypt and the US agree that the PLO should be represented in settlement talks for the Mideast;
\n\u2022 Ministers of African nations plan to discuss a pan-African peacekeeping force;
\n\u2022 The US and the USSR hold talks over the fate of dissidents in the Soviet Union;
\n\u2022 Two American journalists are jailed in the Soviet Union for reporting on dissidents;
\n\u2022 The Italian Red Brigade captures eight policemen and holds them for ransom;
\n\u2022 A large prison escape in Portugal has been engineered by the country\u2019s Red Guard;
\n\u2022 China tries to rescue its citizens fleeing from Vietnam;
\n\u2022 Britain will outlaw labor strikes and stop the immigration of minorities;
\n\u2022 The interim Rhodesian government protests trade sanctions against it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Date of transcription: 6\/26\/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 June 6, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B100-43. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

Reverend JIM JONES giving the news and commentary and announces upcoming test and calling a People\u2019s Rally for that night. JONES exhorts the people at Jonestown to work harder.<\/p>\n

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

The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.\t<\/p>\n

Tape originally posted June 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 Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1,\u00a0Pt. 2) To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201cTues July 18\u201d Date […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-110051","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110051","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=110051"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110648,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110051\/revisions\/110648"}],"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=110051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}