{"id":27482,"date":"2013-06-16T00:20:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=27482"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:35:02","slug":"q597","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=27482","title":{"rendered":"Q597 Transcript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><strong>Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p>To return to the Tape Index, <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28703\">click here<\/a>.<br \/>\nTo read the Tape Summary, <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28188\">click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/nas\/streaming\/dept\/scuastaf\/collections\/peoplestemple\/MP3\/Q597 Side A.mp3\">Side 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/nas\/streaming\/dept\/scuastaf\/collections\/peoplestemple\/MP3\/Q597 Side B.mp3\">Side 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>(<strong>Note:<\/strong> This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (unintelligible word), Doctor [Larry] Schacht, hold in there.<\/p>\n<p><b>Crowd:<\/b> Stirs.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> I\u2014 I\u2014 Only thing I promise\u2014 I promise, I promised Stanley [Clayton], he will <i>not<\/i> poison you under <i>my<\/i> jurisdiction. <i>Thank<\/i> you, Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>(tape edit) (Silence for several seconds)<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> And Jack [Barron] tells me, he\u2019s got a big dick.<\/p>\n<p><b>Crowd:<\/b> Laughs and calls out<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs)<\/p>\n<p><b>Man: <\/b>How do I know that?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) (tape edit)<\/p>\n<p><b>Man: <\/b>You\u2019re wondering how I know his dick is <i>big<\/i>? That is a secret.<\/p>\n<p><b>Crowd:<\/b> Murmurs<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> I just believe in giving everybody their own edge. (Pause) (Calls out ) <i>Right<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p><b>Crowd:<\/b> Right.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Equal time. (Pause) You played with Helen [probably Helen Buckley]? And she wanted to play with hi\u2014 the doctor or anybody else, she got one comin\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Isn\u2019t that right?<\/p>\n<p>Music and audience stirring. Voice too soft.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Hold it in there, Stanley, hold in there.<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Male 2: <\/b>Say, boy must not be feeling so good.<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>He shook up.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> I\u2019m gone pass everybody the good news from now on, you\u2019ll be\u2014 You\u2014 We don\u2019t have to take no shit, you know. Nor\u2014 no\u2014 Nor does anybody else. (Pause) There\u2019s all kind of fish in the pool.<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub, light applause<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (sighs) (reads) Lori Fields. (unintelligible word) with wood. Good worker and good\u2014 Okay, Lori Fields\u2019 off. (Clears throat) Not only fourth time\u2014 Edward Ford, you\u2019d be off, but not on there, long enough, too many times on. So you have to stay awhile. James Ford, the same. Stay a little while longer. David Goodwin? (Pause) Uh-huh, David, how you doing? Where\u2019s he at? He\u2019s\u2014 he\u2019s resting, is he? Yeah. Umm-hmm. Been out of the box eight days, he was there. (Pause) Joe Jones? (Pause) First time, two days, good worker, good attitude, both days. (Pause) Smile, Joe.<\/p>\n<p><b>Crowd:<\/b> Scattered laughter.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Can you put on me\u2014 Can you show how the Lord\u2014\u00a0how it feels to praise the Lord?<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Male:<\/b> You want to get off\u2014 You want to get off\u2014<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Come on, Joe, get the blessing.<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>Hit it, Joe.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Run down that\u2014 Run down that aisle and shout. Run down the aisle and shout that we\u2014<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) You\u2019re off, Joe. You\u2019re off. Thank you, Jesus. (Pause)<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>They all oughta act\u2014<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Tommy Kice. Tommy Kice, [it] says uh, not\u2014 he\u2019s a good <i>worker<\/i>, but he\u2019s been on there\u2014 that\u2019s his third time, so he has to go on. [Martha] Ellen Klingman? (Pause) Ellen Klingman, I want you to get to <i>victory<\/i>. Run down the aisle and praise the Lord, and thank you Jesus, and really put on an old fashioned Holy Ghost fit.<\/p>\n<p><b>Klingman:<\/b> (voice distorted)<\/p>\n<p>(Laughs)<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>(unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Calls out) You went the wrong way. You went the wrong way. (Pause) I got a block\u2014 I gotta block of folk over here that kinda upset about making fun of Jesus. Will you come over here, make fun of Jesus? (Pause) (Fake ministerial voice) Get back there, make fun of Jesus. (Pause) Oooh, ay, ay! (Pause) (Laughs) Don\u2019t hesitate to make fun of Jesus. He kept us in ignorance <i>so<\/i> long. So long Jesus kept us in ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) Willie Malone? Fifth time. Six days, too long. Wayne McCall? (Pause) Fourth time. Okay. Works good, attitude good, last three days. (Pause) Okay, Wayne. Where are you, Wayne? (Pause) <i>Wayne<\/i>!<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub and laughter<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Wayne, you\u2019re going to have to shout and get the Lord\u2019s s\u2014 <i>spirit<\/i> in you tonight. (Calls out) Wayne. Waayyynne! Wayne Wayne Wayne.<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> You gotta get <i>blessed<\/i>. You gotta bless, you gotta get\u2014\u00a0speak in tongues, you gotta go\u2014 Shout\u2014 (Laughs) You gotta shout up and down the aisle. You want to get off of Learning Crew? (Pause) You do? Well, you see them getting shout\u2014 Did you see them shoutin\u2019 a while ago?<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>Get in the spirit, Wayne.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Get in the spirit. (Draws out word) Shout, you know. Woo!<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>You know (unintelligible word), get the spirit, Wayne. Show us how it works.<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Wayne, it\u2019s worth getting off the Learning Crew. (Pause)<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>All you gotta do is praise him.<\/p>\n<p><b>Woman: <\/b>Go on, Wayne.<\/p>\n<p>Voices call out, then laughter<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> What\u2019d he say?<\/p>\n<p>Voices compete, unintelligible<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs)<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice 1: <\/b>Go crazy, Wayne\u2014<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice 2:<\/b> Go crazy for Jesus.<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice 1: <\/b>(unintelligible) do it legally now.<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Wayne, as Reverend Ed\u2014 Edw\u2014 [James] Edwards said, have a fit like you did that got you <i>on<\/i>, and that\u2019s what you do. Thank you, <i>Jesus<\/i>. Thank you, <i>Jesus<\/i>. Thank you, <i>Jesus<\/i>. Thank you, <i>Jesus<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>You want off\u2014<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> <i>Thank<\/i> you, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Woo!<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> That\u2019s it, sister, that sister, show him, show him. Thank you, Jesus. (Cries out in faked ecstasy) (Laughs) Hey, thank you, Jesus. Go, (unintelligible word)<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Make fun of this shit. I want to get this shit out of here, because religion was back there. It was at the dinner table tonight. Some of you\u2014 All of you, get up. Come on. Make fun of it. (fake minister voice) Jesus, Jesus. Woo!<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs)<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Glory to God! (unintelligible) (Laughs) Look at Professor [Edith] Roller. Look\u2014 (Laughs) Professor Roller back there\u2019s got the spirit. <i>A-hey<\/i>! Look\u2014 Look at Roller, look at Roller. (Laughs) <i>Hold<\/i> in there, hold in there.<\/p>\n<p>Organ plays. General hubbub. Voices unintelligible<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> <i>Hey<\/i>! (Pause) What\u2014 Wayne, you ain\u2019t gone get off of <i>Learning<\/i>, if you don\u2019t out there and <i>shout<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub. Voices unintelligible<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Hey! (Laughs)<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>Wayne!<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Show \u2018em how to do it, Mother\u2014 Mother [Burger Lee] <i>Dean<\/i>, show \u2018em how to do it. Show \u2018em how to do it, Mother Dean.<\/p>\n<p>Tambourine and organ<\/p>\n<p><b>Mother Dean:<\/b> Hallelujah!<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) Ninety-one. That\u2019s all right, Momma. That\u2019s all right, Momma. Momma did it well. Momma did it well. You guys\u2014 come on, you can do it.<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Child:<\/b> Do it!<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Come on!<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub. Tambourine and organ<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>Fall out, Wayne. Fall out. Fall out, Wayne.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Sings out) Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub, as people call out to Wayne<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) He\u2019s half asleep. (Pause) (Laughs)<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub. Tambourine and organ. Tempo rises, more energetic movement<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) That\u2019s all right, sir. (Sings out) (Unintelligible word), ooh, right now. Look at that. Look at that. (Laughs) That\u2014 That\u2014 (Sings out) Oooh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, now. Look at that movement. Look at that movement. All right\u2014 Bup, bup\u2014 (Sings) Look at him doing it. Got the <i>spirit<\/i>. He got the <i>spirit<\/i>. Look at that boy. Look at that boy. (Laughs) These kids are too much. (Laughs)<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>And the socialist only goes down.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) You\u2019re all right, Wayne. You\u2019re sweet. From that\u2014 You\u2019re sweet!<\/p>\n<p>Applause as music dies<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> You\u2019re all right, kid. That was a <i>performance<\/i>. You ought to give the dancin\u2019. (Reads) Don Fitch, Mary Griffith, Pat Grunnett, Eyvonne Hayden, Gladys Jackson, Clara Johnson, Earl Johnson, Magnolia Harris, Judy Ijames, Paulette Jackson, will you please\u2014 (Pause) to the tent to sign the papers.<\/p>\n<p>Voice too soft, mentions Jerry Hart (phonetic)<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Hmm?<\/p>\n<p>Voice too soft.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> What is it you said? Who do you want to dance?<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>I\u2019d like to see Jerry dance. He\u2019s\u2014 New job on the piggery, and he doesn\u2019t seem to be joining in back there, I see, and I\u2019d like to see him <i>dance<\/i> tonight. He used to be a Pentecostal <i>preacher<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Music. General hubbub. Rhythmic clapping. Tempo increase.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) (Calls out) It\u2019s all right. Say, it\u2019s all right.<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Sings) Thank you, Jesus. (Normal tone) Lawanda Mitchell, first time, two days, cleans bathroom really well, good worker, good attitude, both days. How you doin\u2019? Where you at, Lawanda? (Sings out) We want a little dancin\u2019. Where you at? Come on, Lawanda. Come on, Lawanda. (Pause) Come on, child. Come on, child.<\/p>\n<p>Music. General hubbub. Rhythmic clapping. Tempo increase.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Get in there, girl. That\u2019s good. Come on. (Laughs) All right, all right, all right. She just danced her way off the Learning Crew. (Pause) C\u2014 Chris Newell. You\u2014 Hold it. And you gotta do\u2014\u00a0you gotta dance heavy. You gotta dance heavy. \u2018Cause I\u2019m giving you a break. You gotta dance heavy. (Calls out) All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. (Laughs)<\/p>\n<p>Music. General hubbub. Rhythmic clapping.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Calls out) Oh, yeah! (Laughs) (Sings out) Shift your hands, clap your hands. Shift, shift, shift. Yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Music. General hubbub. Rhythmic clapping.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Now, Richardell [Perkins]. Richardell, you gotta put on quite a scene. Come on out, Richardell. Come on!<\/p>\n<p>Music. General hubbub. Rhythmic clapping.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) (Sings out) Don\u2019t you feel it? Don\u2019t you feel the Lord moving? Catch the heat from feeling it now. (Pause) Now, Gloria Rosa. Got\u2014\u00a0Got to be a good performance, got to be a good performance. Ah, glory, come on. All right now. (Laughs)<\/p>\n<p>Music. General hubbub. Rhythmic clapping.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) (Sings out) Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Music. General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Enthusiastic tone) Very good. Very good, darling. You got a good dance. That\u2019s all right. Let\u2019s give a good hand there.<\/p>\n<p>Applause. General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Kay Rosas!<\/p>\n<p>Shouts from audience. Music. General hubbub.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) (Calls out) Come on, shout, Kay, shout. Run up and down those aisles and shout.<\/p>\n<p>Music. General hubbub. Rhythmic clapping.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) All right, honey. (Pause) Keep it cool, Kay, keep it cool. (Pause) Now we got the\u2014 (sings sleepily, unintelligible word).<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Rochelle Kemp.<\/p>\n<p>Shouts from audience<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Come on, Rochelle. Let\u2019s go. Let\u2019s go. Come on, Socko (Phonetic), let\u2019s go. Come on, Socko. (Laughs)<\/p>\n<p>Shouts from audience. Music. General hubbub.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) It\u2019s okay. It\u2019s okay. (Pause) All right, Rochelle, that\u2019s all right. That\u2019s the way they do it. (Pause) Now, Derek Walker, you\u2019ll get a chance, if you\u2014 you gotta\u2014\u00a0you gotta do it good. Gotta go it good.<\/p>\n<p>Music. General hubbub. Rhythmic clapping.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) (Calls out) Oh, yeah. (Laughs) (Music stops) (Normal tone) It\u2019s all right, son. This is wonderful, you\u2014 I\u2014 I heard about you, that you had such a good attitude [during] your days on, that you would even work with a painful boil under your arm, you were also very kind to the chickens when they killed them. That\u2019s sweet. When he had to butcher them for us to have chicken tomorrow. Appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p>Applause<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Ricardo Arterberry, you\u2019re going to have to shout good.<\/p>\n<p>Music. General hubbub. Rhythmic clapping.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) All right, son, all right. (Pause) Gleniel Johnson, you\u2019ll have to really dance and shout and talk in tongues and\u2014 Where he at? Where he at? (Pause) Where\u2019s Gleniel? Let\u2019s go.<\/p>\n<p>Music. General hubbub. Rhythmic clapping.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Where\u2019s Gleniel?<\/p>\n<p><b>Woman<\/b> <b>Voice: <\/b>He\u2019s trying to get down.<\/p>\n<p>Music. General hubbub.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> How long does it take him to sign these people up, for Christ\u2019s sake? He\u2014<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Is Irvin Perkin\u2014 Is Irvin Perkins up? Where\u2019s Irvin? You gotta do some dancin\u2019 and some shoutin\u2019, Irvin.<\/p>\n<p>Music. General hubbub.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Oh, Irvin. (Laughs) All right, Irvin. (Pause) Well. (Pause) (Music stops) (Reads) Second time, (unintelligible word), good worker, good attitude, worked good. Very good today. Mark Rhodes [Marquess Rhodes], we give a little mercy, this is a Mercy Night. Let\u2019s see how you do, Mark. Let\u2019s see how you can do it, Mark. (Calls out) Go, Mark.<\/p>\n<p>Music. General hubbub. Rhythmic clapping.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) (Sings out) All right. (Laughs) These kids are just\u2014 (Pause) You\u2019re all right, sweet. You\u2019re all right, sweet. You\u2019re all right.<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Tell him, tell him. Talk to him a little bit.<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>Come on, Gleniel.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Come on, Gleniel. That\u2019s the way you get off of Learning Crew tonight. Everything happens around here.<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Shift, please. Shift.<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Warnings, uh, Comrade D\u2014 Darnes, Najuandrienne Darnes, Robert Franklin, Darell Keller, is it?<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Darell Keller. The second warning? Join the Learning\u2014 (Pause) If you do a good job of working, you can dance <i>your<\/i> way a little bit later. (Pause) Darell Keller, Learning, please. Eugene Smith. If you don\u2019t understand these warnings, then you can ask. (Pause) Vennie Thompson? Attitude poor, quite a mouth, and hostile at times. Pearl Land? Attitude poor at times.<\/p>\n<p><b>Woman<\/b> <b>Voice: <\/b>Second warning.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Both of them?<\/p>\n<p><b>Woman: <\/b>Yes, Dad.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Um, dear Jesus, I hate to send uh, my seniors to Learning, but will you jo\u2014 go join in Learning, my dears, for the night? (Pause) (Reads) Mike Simon? This morning, Mike was told by Ernestine Blair to check with (unintelligible name; could be Tarik Baker) about two compost cans that needed spraying for maggots. Marie Rankin and Brian Bouquet observed that Mike started spraying without asking questions. He sprayed the pig feed cans that had <i>food<\/i> in them. (Pause) He knows where the different cans are located. In Marie\u2019s estimation, he just did not <i>care<\/i>, and was disturbed with Ernestine that morning, because she confronted him for being late to work. He would\u2019ve had another crisis at the piggery if the poisoned food had been delivered to the pigs. (Pause) Please, my children. (clears throat) That\u2019s Learning? Is that right? You said second warning?<\/p>\n<p><b>Woman: <\/b>Yes, Dad, (unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><b>Male<\/b> <b>Voice: <\/b>He gets off of Learning (unintelligible phrase) spraying altogether. He\u2019s too careless.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Say it louder, please.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>When he gets off of Learning, if he\u2019s\u2014 if he\u2019s going to Learning, I\u2019d suggest he be <i>removed<\/i> from spraying because he\u2019s entirely too careless.<\/p>\n<p><b>Another<\/b> <b>Voice: <\/b>And uncaring.<\/p>\n<p>General calls of assent.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Pause) (Reads) James Arthur is to be praised for taking Learning about the soils and plants around here. He comes every day after he gets out of school, and studies and asks questions. Thank you, James Author\u2014 James Arthur, that\u2019s beautiful. Vincent Lopez has shown (clears throat) interest\u2014 He\u2019s using his mind to pick up what is being taught in class. When I orally quizzed his class on things that have been taught, he is the <i>first<\/i> one to answer correctly. <i>Thank<\/i> you. Some extra things tomorrow for you.<\/p>\n<p>Light applause<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> These people are to stay around that I named. If I named your names\u2014 How many remember your names being called tonight? They can have a movie\u2014 a late movie, and you\u2019ll have to wait until they can sign things over. I\u2019ll give you the list, as you\u2019re to be the next group that\u2019ll call for it, List Four, what is it? List Four is Shanda James, Robert Johnson, Laura Johnston, Annette Jones, Ralph Jackson, Kathy [Kathryn] Jackson, Eartis Jeffrey, Che Jones, Irra Johnson, Wanda King. (Pause) List Five, after the List Four is finished, will be [Forrest] Ray Jones, Agnes Jones, Edie [Edith] Kutulas, Karen Lendo, L. [Levatus] V. McKinnis, Earl McKnight, Earnestine March, Andrea Martin. But they ought to take Earl now. It\u2019s a miracle Earl\u2019s living and coming\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Low voices. Tape edit for several seconds.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>Michael Simon. First warning, but uh, this spraying of the food, God, that\u2019s bad. (Pause) List number Six, after that\u2019s finished, (unintelligible word) Jane Mutschmann\u2014 How many have seen <i>The Children of the Damned<\/i>? You ought to study that. That\u2019ll be the first movie tonight. There\u2019s a good animal picture about Africa, but if it\u2019s full of propaganda\u2014 You\u2019ll have to see these movies in the next few days. (Pause) Jane Mutschmann, Herbert Newell, Maud Perkins, Edith Roller, Glenda Polite, Lois Ponts, Ron Sines, Darlene Ramey. Take Brother McKnight now, take him over there, as I said. He shouldn\u2019t have to wait. List Seven will be Abraham Staten, Annie Rozynko, Santiego\u2014 Santiago Rosa, Shirley Smith, Willie Sneed, Adeleine Strider, Bobby [Robert] Stroud, Armella Tardy, Bernice Thomas, Ernest Thomas\u2014 Ought to take Ernest over there too now. Harriet [Sarah] Tropp, List Eight, Alleane Tucker, Richmond Stahl, Inez Wagger, Cheryl\u2014 Wagner, rather, Cheryl Well\u2014 Wilhite, Mary Wotherspoon, Peter Wotherspoon, Bea Orsot, Danny Moton, Cynthia Davis. List Number Nine, Preston Wade, Mary Ann Casanova, Tom Partak, Mary Castillo, William Castillo, Rochelle Halkman, Sylvia Grubbs. List number 10 will be Mark Boutte, Corliss Boutte, Roosevelt Turner, Christine Miller, Ernestine Blair, Dorothy Brewer, Rosie Burgines, Pauline Groot. They can call on them. Will you tell Loretta [Loretta Mae Cordell, aka Loretta Coomer] to call on them in that order? (Pause) Uh, somebody here. Yeah, this\u2014 Is he ready to d\u2014 Is he ready to dance?<\/p>\n<p><b>Woman: <\/b>Yes, he is (fade out)<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Okay, dance, my son. Dance, my son.<\/p>\n<p>Music starts. Smaller hubbub. Music stops.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Lew Jones would\u2014 Junior would like to w\u2014 work with Cleave [Swinney], learning how to fix tractors, and how to make things. Would you take that down, see if that can be done? (Pause) Little but\u2014 Little guy, yeah, but\u2014 Put it in Learning\u2014 I put it in the Steering. (Pause) What\u2019s that? Son, how would we know you wouldn\u2019t go to battleline, that we\u2014 if we asked you to fight, if we asked you to fight, um, racist\u2014 the racist that want to kill, and the capitalist. Would you go out there tonight? Hmm? Would you do that? (Pause) Well, swing your hand like you\u2019re going out with a cutlass. (Growls) Gleniel? Swing, swing, swing your hand, like you\u2019re going out with a <i>cutlass<\/i> to get \u2018em. Go down, go down, go down the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>Music.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Come on. Son? How would I know you will go if I called on you to go fight? <i>Show<\/i> me you\u2019ll go fight. There\u2019s the enemy down there. Go fight him. <i>Go<\/i>. Take your hand and <i>go<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Music starts. General hubbub.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> We can\u2019t let <i>pride<\/i>, son, stand in your way. We can\u2019t let pride. Son, you\u2019re being embarrassed. Would you be embarrassed if we asked you to defend you\u2014 to defend us tonight? Would you be bothered? You wouldn\u2019t, would you?<\/p>\n<p>Voice too low.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Would you? Would you be embarrassed, or would you go out and fight, if we had to fight tonight? Huh?<\/p>\n<p>Voices too low, calling on him to answer.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Gleniel, I\u2019ve got to keep the <i>rule<\/i> for everybody. I\u2019ve got to keep the <i>rule<\/i>. I made a rule tonight. I don\u2019t\u2014 Uh, you, you can surely dance. That\u2019s no problem. Go down and shout. We don\u2019t all dance the same.<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>Come on, dance down the aisle. Come on.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Can\u2019t you dance?<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>Come on, dance.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Come on. Won\u2019t you dance? Hmm?<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>Turn around in circles.<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub as music starts.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Come on, son.<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>Come on.<\/p>\n<p>Music. Hubbub.<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>Clap and shout.<\/p>\n<p>Music, hubbub. Low voices.<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>Come on, Gleniel.<\/p>\n<p>Several voices unintelligible.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> You take it. You take it. It\u2019s okay. You\u2019re all right. (Pause) He\u2019s all right.<\/p>\n<p>Voices too low.<\/p>\n<p><b>Child\u2019s<\/b> <b>Voice: <\/b>I am.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Okay, Vincent [Lopez]. [I] Hear good reports. (Calls out) Can you dance your way off?<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>Come on, Vincent.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> It\u2019s gotta be a good dance. It\u2019s gotta be a good dance.<\/p>\n<p>Music. Hubbub. Excited voices.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Sings out) Ahh. Son, now you know\u2014 I been working my ass off, baby, and I got out there and made a fool of myself. Now, c\u2019mon.<\/p>\n<p>Hubbub.<\/p>\n<p><b>Another<\/b> <b>Voice: <\/b>Do you want off? You want off?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (unintelligible phrase), well, still show us how you can dance. C\u2019mon. Come on. Come on, come on.<\/p>\n<p>Music.<\/p>\n<p><b>Voices:<\/b> Come on, Vincent.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Come on. Don\u2019t be\u2014 don\u2019t let pride stand in the way of a socialist. Go right on. Go on.<\/p>\n<p><b>Second<\/b> <b>Voice: <\/b>The girls still like you, Vincent.<\/p>\n<p>Voices call out.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> He was trying to get you <i>off<\/i>, son. (Pause)<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>Yeah, I know you are.<\/p>\n<p><b>Voices: <\/b>Come on, Vincent.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Still don\u2019t let pride stand in your <i>way<\/i>. Don\u2019t let pride stand in your way. You people got\u2014 Don\u2019t let s\u2014 pride stand in your way.<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>And you\u2019ll jog for me, right, Vincent? Right? Can\u2019t dance with the (unintelligible)\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Numerous voices.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Come on. Come on. Come on, son.<\/p>\n<p>Music<\/p>\n<p><b>Another<\/b> <b>Voice: <\/b>Take him\u2014 Reb [James Edwards], Reb, take him down the aisle.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Don\u2019t be embar\u2014 <i>Listen<\/i>. I\u2019m <i>worried<\/i> about you people. I\u2019m worried about you people that let <i>embarrassment<\/i> stand in your way. I\u2019m <i>worried<\/i> about it. Huh? Come on, now, get on out there. I did it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Second<\/b> <b>Voice: <\/b>He told you to do it, punk, now you run up the fucking aisle.<\/p>\n<p>Voices<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> <i>I <\/i>did it. I did it to make that child feel at ease. Do I need to do it again? I haven\u2019t had much <i>sleep<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Voices of dissent.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> He was just doing it to\u2014 He was doing it to be <i>kind<\/i>, though. But now you\u2019re up there, son. You\u2019re up there. He was doing it to be kind. Now show you care.<\/p>\n<p><b>Second<\/b> <b>Voice: <\/b>If Dad can do it, (unintelligible word) at least you can do it.<\/p>\n<p>Voices<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Let\u2019s don\u2019t have no violence tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Music starts, then stops. Low murmurs.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Hmm? (Pause) (Calls out) I don\u2019t trust you. If you will not dance out there, and make a fool of yourself. Anybody that is embarrassed, I don\u2019t trust it. (Pause) Now you show me that you can overcome that embarrassment.<\/p>\n<p>Voices of encouragement, demands and derision<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> I have a sprained ankle, son. Son, I have a sprained ankle, and I got out there. I damn near\u2014 couldn\u2019t (unintelligible word) the ankle to get back up here. Now what\u2014 what\u2014\u00a0what is this? I sprained it running, \u2018cause these things are not supportive. There was\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Voice too low<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Well, if it\u2019ll <i>help<\/i> him.<\/p>\n<p><b>Voices:<\/b> (Call out) Start the music.<\/p>\n<p>Music starts. Voices of encouragement and derision. Music stops.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> You\u2019re too intelligent\u2014 Uh, you\u2019re too intelligent to not understand, Vince, what I\u2019m talking about. Anybody that is <i>embarrassed<\/i> that much uh, over this little silly-ass thing?<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>I thought I was doing you a favor, Vincent.<\/p>\n<p>Voices of dissent.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Why do you want to kill a whole night for us, son? Why do you want to be the <i>only<\/i> difficult one here tonight?<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice: <\/b>(unintelligible) \u2014fuck is wrong, you gotta dance. (unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Ah, shit.<\/p>\n<p><b>Voices: <\/b>Come on, Vincent.<\/p>\n<p><b>Other voices:<\/b> Start the music.<\/p>\n<p>Music starts. Voices. Music stops.<\/p>\n<p><b>Voices: <\/b>Look at Jack Barron.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Yeah, that\u2019s good. Look at Brother Bar\u2014 Look at Brother Barron. How do you feel, Vincent? Vincent?<\/p>\n<p>Laughter<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) All right, Jack, that\u2019s good. He\u2019s a chemist. He never was in Pentecostal, he don\u2019t know any of that bullshit, and he did it. (Pause) And it\u2014 How\u2014 Will you dance\u2014 Will you dance with Lew, who just came out? Will you just dance\u2014 Will you dance over Isaac Edwards\u2019 been released, and no trouble, and no brain damage, in spite of two fractures? Will that cause you to dance.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers. Music. Hubbub. Rhythmic clapping.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Shouts) You\u2019re a goddamn masochist. And you\u2019re not going to get me to change my disposition tonight. Somebody else\u2019ll do it. If you want to be arrogant, you can be arrogant, prick. You <i>be<\/i> arrogant. I don\u2019t trust you.<\/p>\n<p>Low voices.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Tight voice) Get him out\u2014\u00a0Get him out of my sight. Get out of my sight.<\/p>\n<p>Agitated voices.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Yeah, I can see. She says he\u2019s got it easy on Learning, well, it better be picked up. It better be picked up, because I\u2019m\u2014 I\u2019m\u2014 I\u2019m (stumbles over words) People just want to be killjoy in a\u2014 what\u2019s been a grand affair. I think it\u2019s wonderful, what happened to Isaac, and he had <i>two<\/i> major\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> He had two major\u2014 I\u2019m talking about\u2014 I\u2019m talking about (unintelligible word), now, I\u2019m talking about (same word).<\/p>\n<p>Cheers. Music.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Calls out) Yeah. (Shouts, voice distorted on mike, unintelligible introduction) right, right right right. That\u2019s all right, children. Clap your hands.<\/p>\n<p>Music. Rhythmic clapping. Low voices amid hubbub.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Off mike) I don\u2019t know what her report is. Go over there and see what it is. I don\u2019t know anything about it. (On mike) Ah, that\u2019s beautiful. Look at Paula [could be Paulette] out there. (Sings out) We got somethin\u2019 to shout about.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (Calls out) You know who I\u2019m talkin\u2019 about. You know who I\u2019m talkin\u2019 about. A little boy. A little boy. They said he\u2019d be blind, and you heard me say when they took him out, you heard me say when they took him out\u2014 shh! Hush hush hush hush hush hush. (Normal tone) That\u2019s the little boy that was struck with a missile of the ball bat. Blinded and fucked\u2014 the whole fracture, cracked with the skull, not just a concussion with\u2014 Right over the main blood. <i>Blinded<\/i>. Didn\u2019t expect him to come out, and he was in hallucinations. I haven\u2019t bothered you with it. Umm-umm [No]. When they took him out blind, <i>I<\/i> didn\u2019t bother you with it. I said he\u2019d <i>see<\/i>, didn\u2019t I?<\/p>\n<p><b>Crowd: <\/b>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> I said\u2014 I said he\u2019d be all <i>right<\/i>, didn\u2019t I?<\/p>\n<p><b>Crowd: <\/b>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>Well, he\u2019d been in hallucinations\u2014 For three days, he was in hallucinations, going in and out of his mind, that damaged, but I said he\u2019d be all right. Now if you don\u2019t think you got a reason to shout, there\u2019s something (sings word) wrong with you.<\/p>\n<p>Calls of assent. Music. Hubbub and rhythmic clapping.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>(Calls out) Hey. Oh, yeah! (Pause) (Sings out) Ohhh! (Pause) Hey!<\/p>\n<p>Music<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>How are my daughters? (Pause) Sister Powell out there. Sister Powell out there. She\u2019s got a <i>pacemaker<\/i>. See Sister [Rosa] Peterson out there? See her dancing? They gave her up to die with <i>cancer<\/i>. They gave her up to die with <i>cancer<\/i>. She\u2019s dancing out there now in that <i>pink<\/i> dress. They said she couldn\u2019t live. Said it was too late, but (sings out) ohh, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Cries of affirmation<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>(Calls out) Clap your hands, and <i>dance<\/i>, my children. All right. All right right right right right. (Pause) (Conversational tone) Just take her off.<\/p>\n<p>Dancing continues<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>Come on now, folks. Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey. Hey hey hey. Hold it. You see her in the aisle\u2014 (Music stops) I\u2019m talking about <i>fact<\/i> now. They sent her to Georgetown, she been through all the hospitals in the States. Too late.<\/p>\n<p><b>Voice in crowd:<\/b> Too late.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>(Normal tone) Too late. Cancer was too late. It was too late. Said, there\u2019s nothing we can do. And I said, she\u2019ll be all right. The doctor said, it\u2019s a miracle. I don\u2019t understand it. That\u2019s been months ago. Cancer all through her body. Now, if <i>I<\/i> can dance, and I\u2014 I\u2019ve lost some weight, and my <i>pants<\/i> are about to be lost, and I got a sprained ankle, some of the rest of you can move and act like you\u2014 (Cries out) Hey!<\/p>\n<p><b>Woman\u2019s voice:<\/b> Ah, thank you, Dad.<\/p>\n<p>Music and dancing. Shouts of joy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Woman: <\/b>Oh! Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Music and dancing<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> All right, all right.<\/p>\n<p><b>Woman:<\/b> Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Music and dancing<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>End of side one<\/p>\n<p>Side two<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (unintelligible opening) \u2014chance. (Pause) Look at Mother Ever [Rejoicing, aka Amanda Pointdexter]. Look at Mother Ever. Be careful. Mother Ever. But be careful. Be careful. She\u2019s out there. A hundred and seven\u2014 hundred and eight years of age, dancing, Mother Ever. I\u2019m not talking about make believe shoutin\u2019, I\u2019m talking about real. <i>Real, real<\/i>, real. (Pause) Real. I <i>said<\/i>, real, now. <i>Real<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>All right. If that was your little baby, you\u2019d be shoutin\u2019 tonight. (Hums with music)<\/p>\n<p>Cheers and applause<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>(Sings) Oh, I can\u2019t forget, can you\/ what your father has done for you?\/ Oh, everywhere I go\/ everywhere I be\/ Oh, I can\u2019t forget, can you? Oh, I can\u2019t forget, can you\/ No, no, oh, what my father has done for me\/ Oh, everywhere I go\/ everywhere I be\/ I can\u2019t forget, can you?\/ (Calls out) Let\u2019s clap your hands now, (Sings) Oh, I can\u2019t forget, can you\/ Oh, what my father has done for me\/ Oh, everywhere I go\/ everywhere I be, I can\u2019t forget, can you?\/ I said that I can\u2019t forget, can you\/ No, no, what this (unintelligible word; could be &#8220;cause&#8221;) has done for me\/ Well, everywhere I go\/ and everywhere I be\/ I can\u2019t forget, can you? (Calls out) Let\u2019s clap your hands, clap your hands. (Sings) Oh, I can\u2019t forget, can you\/ oh, what this cause has done for me?\/ Oh, everywhere I go\/ everywhere I be\/ I can\u2019t forget, can you?<\/p>\n<p>Others sing along<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>(Conversational) Peace. I\u2019m not talking about foolishness now. Time for play. There\u2019s time for real. No way that the natural law that we\u2019ve discovered up to date, could do what was happening with that lad. No <i>way<\/i> it could do for Rose [probably Rose Shelton]\u2014 no way that the ordinary laws that we know \u2014 there are higher laws \u2014 we should be sang\u2014 uh, singing now, because that coulda been <i>your<\/i> child.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>Coulda been <i>your<\/i> grandchild. And it was a pitiful situation. Child that could not see and did not know. And I\u2019m talking about <i>three<\/i> days later. Three days later. And now released, <i>safe<\/i> and sound. So you better clap your hands and say: (Sings) Oh, I can\u2019t forget, can you\/ what your father has done for me?\/ Oh, everywhere I go\/ everywhere I be\/ I can\u2019t forget, can you?\/ Oh, I can\u2019t forget, can you\/ what your father has done for me?\/ And everywhere I go\/ everywhere I be\/ I can\u2019t forget, can you? (Calls out) Everybody now! (Sings) Oh, I can\u2019t forget, can you\/ (Calls out) Socialism, my God\/ (Sings) Oh, what your father has done for me?\/ Everywhere I go\/ Hey! Everywhere I be\/ I can\u2019t forget, can you?\/ Oh, I can\u2019t forget, can you\/ what your father has done for me?\/ Oh, everywhere I go\/ everywhere I be\/ I can\u2019t forget, can you?\/ (Calls out) Everybody now! (Sings) Oh, I can\u2019t forget, can you\/ what your friend has done for me?\/ Everywhere I go\/ Everywhere I be\/ I can\u2019t forget, can you?\/ Ohhh!\/ I can\u2019t forget, can you\/ what your father has done for me?\/ Oh, everywhere I go, Socialism\/ everywhere I be, Socialism\/ I can\u2019t forget, can you? (Out of breath, speaks to crowd) Tell your neighbor three miracles. The next group then go over. The next group that was due, go over to sign the forms. The movie will begin in ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p>General hubbub.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n<p>Low voices.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>Well. Depends upon how long they <i>been<\/i> there. How many times\u2014<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>Do you have that list? Those lists? Did he read everything out\u2014<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>It depends upon how <i>many<\/i> times they been on it.<\/p>\n<p>Hubbub.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>Well, he\u2019s ready for that next list.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>Ah, yes.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>Ready for a new list.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>Ah, yes. Movie. The children, uh, children of another plane, another advanced civilization, it\u2019s a movie about children of an advanced civilization living in a wicked, racist, war-mongering world. It\u2019ll begin in just a minute, just a few minutes. Gather your seniors, help them around our blessed people. One family, one people, aren\u2019t we?<\/p>\n<p>Scattered calls of assent<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>Yes, yes. I love you, I love you, I love you.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>Could we have everybody to kind of stick around until we get this tax situation out?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>Shh!<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>It could affect our <i>future<\/i>. We got to take care of that.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>All those groups called, must stay here. (unintelligible word) watch the movie until your name is called. You understand that.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b><i>Please<\/i> don\u2019t make us have to come out in the cottages or in your respective places, and look you up. We have to <i>leave<\/i> here at <i>dawn<\/i> in the morning.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones: <\/b>Peace. That\u2019s indeed true. Seven o\u2019clock will be the getting up time, one o\u2019clock will be the ending of the day. Those getting up at six will get up at seven, those getting up at seven will get up at eight. One o\u2019clock, the ending of the day.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>Brother James Edwards and Jan Wilsey, would you come here and see who?<\/p>\n<p>Low voice.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>See John. See John Jones. Johnny Jones.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> That\u2019s sweet of you, honey.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>James Edwards and Jan Wilsey.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Seven o\u2019clock is the getting up\u2014 If you get up at six, you get up at seven. If you get up at seven, you get up at eight. And you must be out on time to help free our people. <i>Help free our people<\/i>. Help our seniors in. Get the movie started. Movie projectionist, get the movie started.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>Let\u2019s all quiet down while Dad\u2019s talking, please.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> Peace. Movie projectionist, set up. Those that get up at six, must get up at seven and be out there, if you care about the liberation of our people. Those that get up at seven, get up at eight, and we\u2019ll work through to one. Thank you. I love you. Fried chicken tomorrow. Full\u2014 fried chicken, because I couldn\u2019t see how we could have equal justice without giving a quarter of a fried chicken, so you\u2019ll all get the same.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>Earnestine March.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> About forty-five hundred dollars, four thousand, five hundred dollars worth of chicken. Let\u2019s be grateful.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>Go over there. All right. These people, you haven\u2019t showed up on your list, list number 5. Earnestine March, Andrea Martin. Would you please go over to the Rice Tent, number 1. Uh, Anita [Annette] Jones.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> (unintelligible under male) warning. He just gets a warning. He doesn\u2019t go on Learning. (Pause) Get the movie set up here quickly, please.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>Annetta [Annette] Jones. Jay Jones, and Irra Johnson, please go over to the Rice Tent number one <i>now<\/i>, they\u2019re waiting on you.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male 3:<\/b> Beverly Mitchell, come to the back and see uh, Leslie [Leslie Wagner, aka Leslie Monique Fortier Wilson]. (Pause) All the people that\u2019s putting up benches, let\u2019s get the big benches out first. Marthea [Hicks], come see Judy [Ijames] in the front.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>Marthea, please come and see Judy in the front.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male 3:<\/b> There she is.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>Huh? Linda is supposed to go over there. All right. What is this?<\/p>\n<p><b>Male 3: <\/b>Would all the crew, Allen Newell, Jerome Anderson, Billy [Michael Ray] Jones, Chuck Kirkendalf [Kirkendall], Ray McKnight, Michael Heath? Let\u2019s get all the big benches out, and leave the small ones for the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Voices low<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>Could we have two young men to volunteer to take the costumes back out to the cottage, please, with, uh\u2014 (Pause) Ruby.<\/p>\n<p>Voice low<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>We would like two young men to carry Earl McKnight back over to his place of residence. Rheaviana Beam, here\u2019s something\u2014 (Pause) I\u2014 (Pause) Andrea Martin? Go over to the Rice Tent, please.<\/p>\n<p>Low voices, including male, unintelligible.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>We got\u2014 We got these <i>lists<\/i>, I have to (fades out)\u2014 I mean, when we call \u2018em. We\u2019ve got several more lists.<\/p>\n<p>General low conversation.<\/p>\n<p><b>Male: <\/b>Okay. Announce it from over there. (Pause) I am in the business of\u2014 If\u2014 If (unintelligible word)\u2014 Joe, can you wait? I\u2019m in the business of this tax thing.<\/p>\n<p>Voices low. Organ plays softly for several minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Part 2:<\/b> Radio traffic.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jonestown end:<\/b> We don\u2019t know what do with it, over.<\/p>\n<p>Unintelligible voices.<\/p>\n<p><b>Woman:<\/b> Attention\u2014 No, it isn\u2019t on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>End of tape<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Tape originally posted September 2003<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Side 1, Side 2). (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) 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