{"id":118740,"date":"2022-11-28T16:08:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T00:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=118740"},"modified":"2023-06-21T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T22:24:08","slug":"q585-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=118740","title":{"rendered":"Q585 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 Unidentified Individuals Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>One Tracs 60\/Marie Jackson<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Early spring 1977 [reference to Marshall Kilduff doing article, Tim Stoen\u2019s June travel plans]<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nCall #2<\/strong>
\nW. E. B. DuBois
\nAlbert Kahn (speaks<\/strong>)
\nHarriet Kahn (wife of Albert)
\nRocco Kend (phonetic)
\nPablo Picasso, Spanish painter
\nPaul Robeson, American black actor, musician, activist
\nWilliam Shakespeare, English playwright<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Call #3<\/strong>
\nJoanne Brown, worker in public defender\u2019s office (speaks<\/strong>)<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Call #4<\/strong>
\nDonetter Lane, president of the San Francisco Council of Churches (speaks<\/strong>)
\nMartin Luther King, slain civil rights leader
\nGeorge Moscone, San Francisco mayor
\nMarvin Chandler, Executive Minister, San Francisco Council of Churches<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Call #7<\/strong>
\nMarshall Kilduff, writer for New West<\/em>
\nLester Kinsolving, reporter for San Francisco Examiner<\/em><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives<\/em>:
\nCall #5<\/strong>
\nTim Stoen [by reference]<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Call #7<\/strong>
\nHarry Williams<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Temple members, full name unknown<\/em>:
\nCall #2<\/strong>
\nDick (likely Richard Tropp)
\nErma
\nMichael (likely Prokes)
\nMiss Stahl<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Call #3<\/strong>
\nHector<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Temple members<\/em>:
\nCall #2, 7<\/strong>
\nMarceline Jones (speaks<\/strong>)<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Call #3, 4, 5, 6<\/strong>
\nMichael Prokes (speaks<\/strong>)<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Call #7<\/strong>
\nLeona Collier
\nCleveland Jackson
\nMarie Jackson (speaks<\/strong>)
\nJim Jones, Jr.<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Bible verses cited: <\/strong> 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

This tape consists of several telephone calls, two of them with Marceline Jones at the recording end, and four with Mike Prokes. None mention a specific date, but there are several clues to indicate the tape was made in spring 1977: Mike Prokes talks to a woman about someone\u2019s travel plans to London for June 4, the date and place where Tim Stoen went when he left the Temple for the last time; a Temple member speaks to Marceline about a reporter named Marshall Kilduff who gathering information for what would turn out to be the New West<\/em> article of August 1; and there is a report that Jim Jones will resign from the San Francisco Authority, which he does in August.<\/p>\n

A couple of the calls show how the Temple worked to assist its members: Prokes speaks to a woman in the public defender\u2019s office about getting a man released to Temple custody, whereupon the Temple would send him to Guyana (there was no one named Hector who died in Jonestown, so either he was not released, or other arrangements were made for him); and an unnamed woman speaks to Prokes about getting her son out of jail because she doesn\u2019t have $200 to pay for bail.<\/p>\n

The longest conversation is between Marceline and a writer named Albert E. Kahn<\/a>, whose relationship with the Communist Party and with such well-known people as Paul Robeson and Pablo Picasso is compelling to Jim Jones, who seeks to create a sense of his own gravitas on the left. The call is light and cheerful, even as Kahn urges Marceline to convince her husband to get some much-needed rest.<\/p>\n

Prokes\u2019 longest call is with Donetter Lane, the president of the San Francisco Council of Churches and a woman who was active in the causes championed by the Temple. Lane would have a deeper connection with the Temple after the deaths, when she became the driving force behind the Guyana Emergency Relief Committee, which \u2013 in conjunction with the Receiver \u2013 organized and oversaw the transfer of the Jonestown bodies to their final place of rest.<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 3\/7\/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 6, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B47-26. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

Side B<\/p>\n

Last half of tape is inaudible. The rest of the tape is incoming phone calls to the People\u2019s Church in San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n

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

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

Tape originally posted\u00a0December 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,\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 Unidentified Individuals Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: One Tracs 60\/Marie Jackson Date cues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118740","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118740","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=118740"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123312,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118740\/revisions\/123312"}],"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=118740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}