{"id":114205,"date":"2022-05-14T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T22:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=114205"},"modified":"2023-07-19T11:41:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T18:41:23","slug":"q361-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=114205","title":{"rendered":"Q361 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

To read the Tape Transcript, click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1<\/a>,\u00a0Pt. 2<\/a>).
\nTo return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue:<\/b> Jones speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201cSun News\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/b> Likely Sunday, September 3, 1978 (Pope John Paul recently elected; Charles Boyer death)<\/p>\n

People named: <\/b>
\nPublic figures\/National and international names:<\/i><\/p>\n

Jimmy Carter, U.S. president
\nWalter Mondale, Vice President of US
\nThomas Jefferson, former US president
\nSen. Robert C. Byrd (D-WV)
\nRep. Larry McDonald (D-GA)
\nRep. Parren Mitchell (D-MD)
\nAndrew Young, U.S. ambassador to United Nations<\/p>\n

Pope John Paul
\nPope John XXIII
\nPope Paul VI
\nJoseph Stalin, Soviet leader
\nLord David Owen, Foreign Minister of Britain
\nLeonid Brezhnev, Communist Party Chairman of Soviet Union
\nJosip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia<\/p>\n

Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel
\nReza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
\nJafar Sharif-Emami, Iran prime minister [by reference]<\/p>\n

Hua Kuo-fenj, Prime Minister of China
\nZulfikar Ali Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan
\nOlusegun Obasanjo, president of Nigeria [by reference]<\/p>\n

Lolita Lebron, Puerto Rican nationalist who fired shots in Capitol
\nRafael Cancel Miranda, Puerto Rican nationalist who fired shots in Capitol
\nIrvin Flores Rodriguez, Puerto Rican nationalist who fired shots in Capitol
\nAndres Figueroa Cordero, Puerto Rican nationalist who attempted to assassinate President Truman<\/p>\n

Ronald L. Humphrey, American spy for North Vietnam
\nDavid Truong, American spy for North Vietnam
\nF.J. Crawford, American who went on trial in Moscow as spy
\nAnatoly Natan Sharansky, Soviet dissident
\nAlexandri Ginzburg, Soviet dissident
\nAleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Soviet dissident<\/p>\n

William Raspberry, columnist for The Washington Post
\nReverend Ben Chavis, member of Wilmington Ten
\nAllen Ray Hall, witness for prosecution in Wilmington Ten trial
\nFred Hampton, Black Panther slain in Chicago
\nCharles Boyer, Hollywood actor
\nPat Paterson, Hollywood actress by reference
\nTuesday Weld, Hollywood actress<\/p><\/div>\n

 
\nJonestown residents, full name unknown:<\/em><\/p>\n

Jerome (several in Jonestown)<\/div>\n

 
\nJonestown residents:<\/em><\/p>\n

Jim Bogue, aka Jim Murrel
\nExia Marie Duckett, aka Marie Lawrence
\nRonald Duckett, aka Nicky Lawrence
\nRob Gieg
\nJose Simon
\nJan Wilsey<\/div>\n

 
\nBible verses cited:<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None<\/p>\n

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

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

Jim Jones reads the news for a Sunday early in September 1978, likely September 3.<\/p>\n

About a third a way into the tape, Jones pauses to read a lengthy note submitted to him from Rob Gieg, detailing numerous problems with Jonestown\u2019s livestock, particularly in the chickery. Most of the problems apparently have solutions, if he can get some decisions. Jones prefaces the note by saying that, \u201cWe have total democracy. Everyone participates in a total democracy here.\u201d Nevertheless, he ends the reading without comment and then continues with the news.<\/p>\n

As opposed to many of the broadcasts from this period, Jones does not provide much editorial comment along the way, which means \u2013 as part of that \u2013 he does not use as many politically-charged adjectives. The US is still characterized as racist and imperialist, but to a lesser degree; only once does he describe a US ally as \u201clackeys.\u201d Cuba and the Soviet Union are still represent liberation movements, but not as a paragon; he even reads, without comment, a criticism of his hero, Josef Stalin.<\/p>\n

He does evoke the image of nuclear war on numerous occasions, however. The USSR is preparing for it, China believes it is inevitable, and the ills of American society, especially as reflected in the drug usage of its youth, reflect \u201cthe hopelessness and despair of living every day with racism, and every day, not expecting for sure whether tomorrow will begin because of a nuclear war.\u201d<\/p>\n

The centerpiece of the broadcast is a lengthy commentary by the Voice of Sweden about political prisoners around the world. The context are the remarks by Andrew Young, the US ambassador to the UN, that American jails hold thousands of political prisoners.<\/p>\n

Other items in the news:<\/p>\n

    \n
  • The Roman Catholic Church has a new pope;<\/li>\n
  • Iran has a new prime minister, but the Shah\u2019s days are numbered;<\/li>\n
  • Britain says Rhodesia must work with the Patriotic Front;<\/li>\n
  • Charles Boyer died within days of his wife\u2019s death;<\/li>\n
  • The USSR and German Democratic Republic launch a satellite;<\/li>\n
  • A leak at a missile silo in Kansas kills livestock, threatens human life;<\/li>\n
  • A postal workers\u2019 strike will start in the US;<\/li>\n
  • A US businessman is about to go on trial in the USSR;<\/li>\n
  • Drug use increases in US;<\/li>\n
  • Chemical additives and preservatives cause heart attacks and strokes;<\/li>\n
  • The Soviet Politburo criticizes China\u2019s foreign policy, calls for bolstering the Warsaw Pact;<\/li>\n
  • Talks between Vietnam and China collapse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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

    Date of transcription: 6\/18\/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 3, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B93-95. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

    Reverend JIM JONES gives the news and world events to PT members at Jonestown. Also discusses some of the problems in the Jonestown community.<\/p>\n

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

    The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0=<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Tape originally posted\u00a0May 2022.<\/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, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1,\u00a0Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue: Jones speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201cSun News\u201d Date […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-114205","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114205","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=114205"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123584,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114205\/revisions\/123584"}],"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=114205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}