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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>, Pt. 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>[None]<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/b> Christmas Day 1977<\/p>\n

People named: <\/b>
\n<\/i><\/p>\n

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/i><\/p>\n

Part I: <\/strong>
\nRobert F. \u201cBobby\u201d Kennedy
\nAdolf Hitler
\nValerian Trifa, Romanian Orthodox Cleric and former Nazi
\nHerbert Kappler, Nazi war criminal imprisoned in Italy
\nMartin Luther King, slain civil rights leader
\nMalcolm X, slain black leader
\nSteve Biko, South African political prisoner
\nDaniel and Philip Berrigan, American Catholic peace activists
\nDaniel Ellsberg, Defense Department analyst who leaked Pentagon Papers
\nSheehan Brown, San Francisco defense attorney for Ellsberg and Berrigans
\nRockefeller family<\/p>\n

Part II: <\/strong>
\nSteve Biko, South African political prisoner
\nKhaya Biko, brother to Steve (by reference)
\nMohamed Hamaludin, Guyana Chronicle<\/em> reporter<\/p>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:<\/i><\/p>\n

Part I: <\/strong>
\nJohn Biddulph
\nVera Biddulph
\nMichael Cartmell
\nJim Cobb
\nLaura Cornelious
\nLiz Forman
\nJeanette Kerns
\nRuth Kerns
\nGarry Lambrev
\nBirdie Marable
\nDeanna Mertle, aka Jeannie Mills
\nDanny Pietila
\nWayne Pietila
\nGrace Stoen
\nTim Stoen
\nMickey Touchette
\nDavid Conn
\nJoseph Mazor, investigator hired by Concerned Relatives
\n[first name unintelligible] Pettit
\nRichard [could be Cordell]
\nSaul<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents, full name unknown:<\/i><\/p>\n

Part I: <\/strong>
\nOdell (likely Rhodes, could be Blackwell)<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/i><\/p>\n

Part I:<\/strong>
\nDebbie Blakey
\nJames Edwards [identified as \u201cRev\u201d in Jonestown]
\nTom Partak (speaks<\/strong>)
\nJohn Victor Stoen (by reference)
\nHarriet Sarah Tropp<\/p>\n

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

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

(This tape was transcribed by Connor Ashley Clayton. The<\/em> editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.)<\/em><\/p>\n

With the exceptions of the Death Tape (Q 042)<\/a> and the tape recorded the day after the deaths (Q 875)<\/a>, the best known segment of tape recovered by the FBI after November 18 is a two-minute excerpt \u2013 from about 2:40 to 4:44 \u2013 on Q 948<\/a>, when Jim Jones leads the Jonestown community in a cry of defiance and menace. \u201cLet the night roar,\u201d he shouts several times, as the crowd ululates in a war cry behind him.<\/p>\n

The segment was first used in 1981 as part of the NPR radio documentary, Father Cares<\/em>, based upon the book, Our Father, Who Art in Hell<\/em>, by James Reston, Jr., who had discovered the tape in the course of his research. It has been used scores of times, in other radio productions, in music, and in podcasts. The original tape itself \u2013 giving context to the segment \u2013 was re-discovered in August 2022 by this website.<\/p>\n

And there is a broader context. Behind the ferocity of Jones\u2019 diatribe is that it begins with the Temple\u2019s leader request to alter the lyrics to a song, \u201cJust Another Soldier in the Army of Love\u201d released in February 1972 by the Staple Singers. The lyrics read: \u201cNow hate is my enemy \/ I gotta fight it day and night \/ Love is the only weapon with which I have to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know. it doesn\u2019t take much change and make that song sound good. But don\u2019t say, hate is my enemy,\u201d Jones says. \u201cWhat do they say, what\u2019s that word? Hate is my enemy. I\u2019ve got to fight it day and night. And what else do they say, that other line? Love\u2019s the only weapon?\u201d And then he launches with, \u201cShit! Bullshit! Martin Luther King died with love! [Robert F. \u201cBobby\u201d] Kennedy died talking about something he couldn\u2019t even understand, some kind of generalized love and he never even backed it up, he was shot down!\u201d<\/p>\n

The segment is only a portion of the first part of this tape, during which Jones rants against \u201csome bullshit about love,\u201d in which he castigates his enemies \u2013 naming them one by one \u2013 in which he goes into tangents about Nazis who live in safety and protection in the U.S. and about the capitalists who supported Hitler as a way to bring down Soviet communism. He is especially critical of the former Temple members who forced them to move to Guyana, including members of the Concerned Relatives, the Eight Revolutionaries, and the people who were interviewed in the New West article. There is a grudging respect for \u201cthe criminal\u201d Joseph Mazor, though, the private investigator hired by the Concerned Relatives but who later would switch allegiances to the Temple. \u201cI\u2019d like to get that fucker and pick his brain.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he reserves most of his venom for someone he does not know, the person who has sold them out to the conspiracy, the same conspiracy which has ruined other movements, a person who is motivated by money.<\/p>\n

After reminding his followers of how terrible life is in the US and how many murderers and Nazis it protects, he decries anyone who would want to go back.<\/p>\n

His target for the night is Tom Partak, a Jonestown resident who has been so unhappy that he attempted suicide. The community is going to dissect Partak that night, Jones says, not \u201cwith razors,\u201d but to find out \u201cwhat makes you tick<\/em>. Fully. We wanna \u2026 see what the hell is in you.\u201d The community participates in the questioning, and although many of the comments are made far away from the microphone, the tones of hostility and violence come through.<\/p>\n

Jones makes vague predictions about what would happen to Partak if he left \u2013 \u00a0he might be attacked by a monkey on the airplane, he might slip on the ice and fall \u2013 but then narrows the focus to his reception in the US by the FBI. What would he do, Jones asks, a question repeated by several in the crowd. Agents would take him aside, demand, cajole, threaten, and lie, and if he thinks he could stand up to their campaign to get him to turn against the Temple, he is sadly mistaken. After all, so many other people \u2013 including educated former members \u2013 have succumbed to FBI pressure.<\/p>\n

This portion of the tape continues on Q 938<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The tape then cuts into a newscast of an undetermined date from late 1977. After a brief notice about the methods of mosquito abatement \u2013 most of which Jones says the community is already taking \u2013 he reads two feature pieces. One is an article about Australia and its political and social travails of the previous decade. The second is about the world\u2019s response \u2013 and the West\u2019s lack of response \u2013 to the murder of South African activist Steve Biko in September, and how the lack of strong sanctions against that country give it \u2013 and other would-be South Africas \u2013 license to continue to enslave their population.<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 7\/2\/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 21, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B110-7R12. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

A recording of JIM JONES shouting at an individual for wanting to leave PT and a portion of the tape consists of a sermon by JIM JONES. The reverse side contains music.<\/p>\n

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

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

Tape originally posted\u00a0November 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, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue: Jones speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: [None] Date cues on tape: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118335","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118335","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=118335"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123314,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118335\/revisions\/123314"}],"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=118335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}