{"id":110056,"date":"2021-06-23T17:33:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T00:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=110056"},"modified":"2021-07-24T11:13:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T18:13:33","slug":"q782-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=110056","title":{"rendered":"Q782 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 Miscellaneous<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>One TDK C-120\/ News April 1<\/p>\n

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

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJimmy Carter, U.S. President
\nAbraham Lincoln, former U.S. President
\nRep. Charles Diggs (D-Michigan)<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Charles de Gaulle, former President of France (by reference)
\nKwame Nkrumah, former president of Ghana
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nFidel Castro, leader of Cuba <\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Forbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana
\nMoses Bhagwan, member of Guyana Parliament
\nEleanor da Silva, member of Guyana Parliament
\nPeter D\u2019Aguilar, head of the United Force
\nHamilton Green, Guyana Minister of Health and Labor
\nDesmond Hoyte, Guyana Minister of Development
\nCheddi Jagan, leader of People\u2019s Progressive Party
\nJanet Jagan, wife of Cheddi Jagan
\nRam Karan, member of Guyana Parliament
\nEusi Kwayana, Guyana politician
\nSase Narain, Guyana Minister
\nKit Nascimento, Guyana government official
\nHarry Persaud, PPP parliamentary spokesman
\nJoshua Ramsammi [phonetic], Guyana political leader
\nPtolemy Reid, Deputy Prime Minister of Guyana
\nWalter Rodney, Guyana political leader<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ben Chavis, black leader, member of Wilmington 10
\nAngela Davis, member of Communist Party, black activist
\nDan Mitrione, former Indiana police chief (by reference)
\nHuey Newton, leader of Black Panther Party
\nLarry Flynt, publisher of Hustler
\nHughel Harrison, judge in Flynt obscenity trial (by reference)
\nChuck Ashman, investigative reporter, author and TV anchor<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nChristine Cobb
\nEmmett Griffith, Sr.
\nLynetta Jones
\nMarceline Jones
\nLela Murphy (by reference)
\nLaurence Schacht
\nRose Shelton
\nRobin Tschetter<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

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

Jim Jones presents the news to the Jonestown community on April 1, 1978. There may be two segments to the reading \u2013 there is a shift in recording quality two-thirds the way through \u2013 but the news items are contemporaneous.<\/p>\n

The difference in this tape is that, while most of them are recorded from the radio room while members of the community go about their business \u2013 mostly working \u2013 this one involves some interaction with a large gathering of Jonestown residents at the pavilion. At one point, Jones breaks from his reading to get a sense of who is actually listening, and asks how many people have heard what he just said. By a show of hands, he estimates the number at 500. He then asks how many are willing to be tested on what they have just heard; only 15 hands go up.<\/p>\n

Jones can come to only one conclusion: \u201cThis means that you are still for the most part liars,\u201d he says. \u201cYou should not lie to your leader\u2026 Every time you lie, little children, seniors, middle-aged, you will be sorry, because you cut yourself off from growth, maturity and protection on a paranormal level that is absolutely outstanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even as he offers a couple of examples of the faithful whose lives were saved because they listened to him, he also presents two recent deaths from the Jonestown population as warnings. Referring to Lela Murphy, who died at the end of March, he says: \u201cSo don\u2019t blame me if you get buried, like the woman that just died recently. [She] Said, I don\u2019t like this damn place. Well, she\u2019s parked over there someplace in the woods in a graveyard.\u201d Even Emmett Griffith, whom Jones describes as \u201ca good, good working man,\u201d died several months before, because even though \u201cI gave him prophecies about not smoking, he just couldn\u2019t quite cut off from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is a way for Jones to thread the needle: He acknowledges the inevitable \u2013 \u201cI\u2019m not going to ignore death. Death is a process of life. We\u2019ll mention it, we\u2019ll give honor to those who\u2019ve gone by\u201d \u2013 but he has to navigate that with his longstanding assertion that members of Peoples Temple don\u2019t die: \u201cWhen you lie to your protector, liberator, savior, you are cutting off the line of energy flow to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reading of the news itself is relatively low-key. There are few of Jones\u2019 descriptions of the US and its allies as racist or fascist, and his references to capitalism are as an economic system rather than as a derogatory adjective. Only at one point does Jones seem to go off-script.<\/p>\n

The Temple leader had always considered black activist Angela Davis as an ally, and appreciated her defense of Jonestown during the six day siege. In reporting about a speaking tour she was on in the States, however, Jones describes what he perceives as her weaknesses, such as not showing support for the labor movement, being more of an entertainer than a worker, and not understanding the reason for the struggle. \u201cI remember her saying to me once, I couldn\u2019t be a socialist without knowing that it will succeed. And I love her. But I say, one must be a socialist because it\u2019s right.\u201d Nevertheless, as everyone in Jonestown knows, \u201cAngela Davis has asked that she have a place here, if worse comes to worst,\u201d and they would grant that request.<\/p>\n

In the news itself, Jones reads a long description of the Working Peoples Alliance, a third party in Guyana politics headed by Walter Rodney, which was in conversation with the main opposition party, the PPP, to form a coalition against the ruling PNC. Even though the WPA disagrees with some of PPP\u2019s policies and interpretation of crises facing the nation, it does agree on the need for a national patriotic front government.<\/p>\n

At another point, Jones reports on the disputes between the PPP and the PNC on such issues as infrastructure projects \u2013 railroads, air lines, hydroelectric projects \u2013 as well as taxation, the size of the military, the border dispute with Surinam to the east, and the ruling party\u2019s refusal to hold national elections. Jones rejects most of the PPP objections, though, reflecting his necessity for a continued alliance with Prime Minister Forbes Burnham.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 3300 women are being held as political prisoners in Uruguay, a social democracy overthrown by the CIA;
\n\u2022 Costa Rican elections marred by allegations of voting by dead people;
\n\u2022 Several African nations seek end of military rule; President Carter will prop up those regimes;
\n\u2022 Zimbabwean forces receive military help from other African nations in its campaign against the Rhodesian government;
\n\u2022 Children of people who fled Cuba make a triumphant return and are embraced by Castro;
\n\u2022 The assassination attempt on Hustler publisher Larry Flynt may have been a Mafia hit on behalf of the CIA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Date of transcription: 3\/22\/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 March 20, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B62 #100. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

An oral summary of the news made by an unidentified male.<\/p>\n

This tape was reviewed, and nothing was contained thereon which was considered to be of evidentiary nature or beneficial to the investigation of Congressman RYAN.
\n
\nDifferences 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 Miscellaneous FBI preliminary tape identification note: One TDK C-120\/ News April 1 Date cues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-110056","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110056","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=110056"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110651,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110056\/revisions\/110651"}],"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=110056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}