{"id":27497,"date":"2013-06-16T00:20:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=27497"},"modified":"2014-05-23T22:16:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T22:16:26","slug":"q620","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=27497","title":{"rendered":"Q620 Transcript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <i><strong>Summary 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 \/>   To read the Tape Summary,    <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28203\">click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/nas\/streaming\/dept\/scuastaf\/collections\/peoplestemple\/MP3\/Q620-sideA.mp3\">Pt. 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/nas\/streaming\/dept\/scuastaf\/collections\/peoplestemple\/MP3\/Q620-sideB.mp3\">Pt. 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>   <i> <\/p>\n<p><em>(<strong>Note:<\/strong> This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.)<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p> <\/i>  <b>  <\/p>\n<p>Part 1<\/p>\n<p> <\/b>  <\/p>\n<p><b>Other end:<\/b> (stammers) I might talk to Jean about that, too, because    uh&#151; she uh, she had said something or other, I go&#151;&nbsp;I couldn&#146;t    follow up on that&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple end:<\/b> Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p><b>Other end:<\/b> (unintelligible under interruption) would you have any sort    of a mailing list, like, I&#146;d be interested.<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple end:<\/b> All right.<\/p>\n<p><b>Other end:<\/b> Okay.<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple end:<\/b> Okay, I&#146;m sure that we could work something out, that&#151;    that would certainly be uh, in order, I would feel, you know.<\/p>\n<p><b>Other end:<\/b> You know, I, I&#151; I don&#146;t mean, as I say, anything    that will&#151;&nbsp;will put anyone to any bother, but just once in a while,    I&#146;d like to&#151; (unintelligible under interruption)<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple end:<\/b> Well, that&#146;s&#151; that&#146;s good of you to be interested.    Uh-huh. That&#146;s good of you to be interested.<\/p>\n<p><b>Other end:<\/b> Okay. <\/p>\n<p><b>Temple end:<\/b> All right, sir. All right.<\/p>\n<p><b>Other end:<\/b> Thanks a lot.<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple end:<\/b> I can&#146;t tell you how much I appreciate uh, your thoughts,    you know, and your uh, (Pause) uh, the call that you made. <\/p>\n<p><b>Other end:<\/b> Oh, well, (unintelligible phrase), the thing has been on    my mind, uh, the whole&#151; the whole <i>experience<\/i>, it, it, uh, it&#151;    it&#146;s been very important to me. So I&#151; I really uh, (Laughs) I&#146;m    the one&#151; I&#146;m the one that wants to thank you. (Laughs)<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple end:<\/b> Well, (unintelligible word)<\/p>\n<p><b>Other end:<\/b> So, anyway, what&#151; I appreciate all your help very much.<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple end:<\/b> It&#146;s a mutual feeling, Mr. (unintelligible name)<\/p>\n<p><b>Other end:<\/b> Right. Take care.<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple end:<\/b> Thanks a lot.<\/p>\n<p><b>Other end:<\/b> Bye-bye.<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple end:<\/b> Bye-bye.<\/p>\n<p>(Balance of side one blank)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <b>  <\/p>\n<p>Side 2<\/p>\n<p>Part 2<\/p>\n<p> <\/b>  <\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> (unintelligible intro) uh, you&#146;d be deserving of    more than a lot of doctors I&#146;ve seen. (Laughs) <\/p>\n<p><b>Albert Kahn: <\/b>Well, I&#146;d&#151; I&#151; I only got a Master&#146;s    degree, I didn&#146;t&#151;&nbsp;I didn&#146;t get (unintelligible word) go    to get a doctor&#146;s degree. <\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Well, I think uh&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>But, I&#146;m sorry, you were going to ask a question.<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Yeah. In your experience&#151; is that you seem to be    uh, uh, have made a stand, you know, in the past, um, (Pause) for, you know,    things that uh, have probably brought <i>you<\/i> some form of persecution. <\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Well, they, uh, uh, I, I uh, I do have a file among my resource    materials, a file of death threats (laughs) that I keep. Uh, the government    <i>did<\/i> uh, at one point take away my passport for ten years. It was at the    time they went after Dr. [W.E.B.] Dubois and Paul Robeson and myself, and they    <i>did<\/i> give me a prison sentence, uh, uh, for some things that I uh, was    publishing, although they couldn&#146;t make it <i>stick<\/i>, uh, I&#151; I    had gotten one of McCarthy&#146;s assistants to confess, and uh, (stammers over    words), and when I was about to publish his confession, they tried to put me    in jail. It was during the [Joseph] McCarthy period. But uh&#151; yeah, I&#146;ve    had my, my share of it, but uh&#151; (Pause) uh, it&#151; it uh&#151; (Pause)    Well, it&#151; I&#151; and&#151;&nbsp;and of course, when I was working as&#151;    an orig&#151;&nbsp;when I was much younger, when I was investigating uh, uh,    Nazi espionage and so on in&#151; in America, in writing about that, uh, they    were&#151;&nbsp;they had their own&#151; they had a special uh&#151;&nbsp;a    special group uh, of&#151; of&#151;&nbsp;of&#151; of individuals here who were&#151;&nbsp;who    were German agents, Nazi agents who just specia&#151;&nbsp;they&#146;re specialized    in uh, terrorism and sabotage, espionage and&#151; and <i>killing<\/i>, uh, <i>actually<\/i>    uh, I mean uh, uh, they&#151; they <i>studied<\/i> it. They&#151; they had a    <i>school<\/i> in Berlin, (short laugh) where they studied techniques and uh,    uh, I did expose a number of them, they were arrested ultimately during the    war, uh, and&#151; and they periodically threaten me and uh, uh, various things    of that sort, but (Pause) uh, as&#151;&nbsp;as a <i>writer<\/i>, a wri&#151;&nbsp;sometimes    in some ways, a writer has some advantages uh&#151; the&#151; I have been in    situations where uh, what I knew of the one thing that kept them from <i>doing<\/i>    anything was that it would have made a uh, uh, (Pause) well, it&#146;s&#151;&nbsp;it&#146;s    bad&#151; (Laughs) it&#146;s bad business sometimes to&#151; (Laughs) to kill    a journalist or writer, because the press gets so much aroused, you see, uh,    e&#151;&nbsp;even if they don&#146;t <i>agree<\/i> with you, they&#151; they    think it&#146;s a bad thing sort of, if a writer gets killed.<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Yes, um-hmm.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>So uh, I&#151; sometimes with gangsters and others of a&#151;    of a high&#151;&nbsp;on a higher level, that&#151; that&#151;&nbsp;that I was&#151;    that I&#146;d got to know over the uh&#151; who&#151;&nbsp;who was involved&#151;    Well, with&#151; with Henry Ford, uh. Henry Ford had&#151;&nbsp;was working    very closely with uh, Mafia uh, individual, uh, <i>like<\/i>, they&#151;&nbsp;they&#151;    they weren&#146;t Mafia people, actually. But uh&#151; and&#151; and I&#146;m&#151;    But uh, he <i>used<\/i> the gangsters to&#151; to carry it to&#151; when they    were trying&#151;&nbsp;when the workers were trying to organize the Ford plant,    he would have various of the&#151;&nbsp;of the <i>leaders<\/i> of the trade unions    <i>killed<\/i>, literally, assassinated by these uh, these uh, professional killers.    And I got to <i>know<\/i> some of them personally. Uh&#151; They never threatened    me or anything, although they did kill uh, (stumbles over words) in one case    that was certain and in another case that was probable, uh, two individuals    who were working with me. Uh&#151; But I um&#151; (Pause) Uh&#151; I&#151; I    don&#146;t&#151;&nbsp;I&#151; I&#151;&nbsp;In recent years, this hasn&#146;t&#151;&nbsp;I    haven&#146;t (unintelligible word) much, so I didn&#146;t&#151;&nbsp;you know,    it didn&#146;t&#151; I didn&#146;t think much about it then, uh&#151; I uh&#151;&nbsp;I    did not feel of course a&#151;&nbsp;a terrible responsibility about what happened    to those two <i>individuals<\/i>&#151; The&#151;&nbsp;They&#151;&nbsp;They&#151;&nbsp;One    the&#151; It was a matter of <i>carelessness<\/i>, it wasn&#146;t anything that    I was responsible for, uh, one who would&#151;&nbsp;who was giving me various    materials, is a very fine fellow <i>in<\/i> Detroit, uh, on the Ford situation,    just did some very foolish things (unintelligible word) uh, that I didn&#146;t    know anything about, very careless things, and&#151;&nbsp;and&#151;&nbsp;and&#151;    and they simply eliminated him. Uh, but I&#146;ve been always very conscious    of uh&#151; None of this in connection with myself, but uh&#151;&nbsp;(stumbles    over words) the way in which individuals who achieve the prominence and have    a mass following, uh, like Jim Jones has, the way in which they are potential    targets for uh, for very ruthless <i>forces<\/i>, and&#151; And this is the nut    of my&#151;&nbsp;I&#151; I&#151; I&#146;ve <i>written<\/i> about it, and worked    on the thing for so long, you know, that it&#151; it&#146;s not&#151; it&#146;s    a matter of&#151; that I just come to take for <i>granted<\/i>. It&#151; It&#146;s    uh, uh&#151; it&#146;s part of&#151; of the uh, of the ugliness of&#151; (laughs)    of the world in which we&#146;re <i>living<\/i>. Uh, but it&#146;s part of <i>reality<\/i>,    and&#151; and during recent years, of course, uh, we&#146;ve seen so many instances    of it, uh, right here now at home, aside from what we know the CIA has been    doing throughout the <i>world<\/i> in eliminating individuals who they thought    had <i>leadership<\/i>, and the Nazis uh, made a, a very systematic practice    of this before the war. They simply uh, tracked down and eliminated as many    uh, leaders of anti-fascist movements, for example, as they could. The CIA has    done the same thing in the <i>postwar<\/i> period, uh, like Lumumba [assassinated    Premier of the Republic of Congo, Patrice Lumumba] and others. So it&#151;&nbsp;it&#146;s    something that I&#146;ve written about and thought about a good deal uh&#151;    and&#151;&nbsp;and uh, you know, when I see a man like that, I think well, he&#151;    it&#146;s just&#151; it&#146;s very important that&#151; because very frequently,    individuals like Jim Jones are careless of themselves. Uh, they think so much    about other people, they&#151;&nbsp;they don&#146;t think&#151; it&#146;s like    you say, isn&#146;t it, I&#151;&nbsp;you speak about the <i>eating<\/i>, uh,    I&#146;m quite sure that it also would pertain probably to a man&#146;s health,    uh&#151; I uh&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Oh yes.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>&#151;got to know [United Farm Workers leader] Cesar Chavez, uh,    quite well in recent years, uh, I always noticed he&#151; he uh, he never took    care of himself in the way he should have. Uh&#151; be&#151; I&#151;&nbsp;I    don&#146;t&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> We have to constantly uh, remind him to take, you know,    things that he needs and uh, it&#146;s just that he doesn&#146;t&#151;&nbsp;he    doesn&#146;t want to take the time, you know, to think about himself, is all&#151;    it&#146;s&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Yeah. Yeah. Well, anyway, I&#151; I&#151;&nbsp;I&#151; I don&#146;t&#151;    I mean, you know&#151;&nbsp;you know how valuable he is, so I&#151; I don&#146;t&#151;    I certainly don&#146;t need to stress that. <\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Well, I appreciate your&#151; your saying, in your own    words, though, you know, because uh, uh, we have learned to uh, you know&#151;&nbsp;we    don&#146;t&#151;&nbsp;we don&#146;t show our appreciation enough, surely I&#146;m    sure, but uh, to&#151; to know that we&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Well, I think that you do. I think you feel it very strongly.    Everything I saw, uh, indicated to <i>me<\/i>, uh, the expression of the <i>love<\/i>    that uh&#151; that people had for him, and everything I <i>heard<\/i>, uh&#151;&nbsp;and    I&#151;&nbsp;I think it&#146;s&#151;&nbsp;I&#151; I really think you feel it    all very deeply, uh&#151; The&#151;&nbsp;Sometimes&#151; The one thing that    sometimes happens is that we who believe in the <i>goodness<\/i> of men, of mankind    in general, sometimes underestimate the evil in other men&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Mmm. Umm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Uh&#151; uh&#151; who are willing to go to any ends, you know,    to&#151; to maintain their power and (stumbles over words) and who are <i>so<\/i>    corrupt, they&#151; it&#151;&nbsp;and it&#146;s&#151;&nbsp;it&#151;&nbsp;and    if they&#146;re willing, as we saw the Nazis were, uh, and as we know the Ku    Kluxers and similar elements are in this country, if they&#146;re <i>willing<\/i>    to&#151;&nbsp;to do what the Nazis did, you know, to massacre millions of people,    they have&#151;&nbsp;you see, they have no respect for human life, and uh&#151;    and they&#151;&nbsp;and&#151; and they&#146;re&#151; they&#146;re not <i>stupid<\/i>,    uh, that is, the ones who&#151;&nbsp;the most powerful ones, they&#151;&nbsp;they    are cunning, uh, you know, they have a (unintelligible word, could be &quot;bestial&quot;)    sort of cunning, and uh, and&#151; and they ha&#151;&nbsp;we have&#151;&nbsp;we    have to be <i>conscious<\/i>, I feel, all the time of uh, of how <i>ruthless<\/i>    they are. That&#146;s all. And&#151;&nbsp;and&#151; and&#151; and it is part    of <i>our<\/i> work, uh&#151; part of <i>your<\/i> work, uh, I don&#146;t&#151;&nbsp;I&#151;&nbsp;I    don&#146;t speak now of Jim Jones, but part of uh, of your work as an individual    and the members of your movement, I feel, you know, to&#151;&nbsp;to understand    how dangerous they are uh, how ruthless they are. And where he may be careless    with <i>himself<\/i>, to make <i>absolutely<\/i> sure that this man is uh&#151;    is properly protected, uh, at all times that&#151; I uh, (Pause) I&#151; You    know, I&#151;&nbsp;I just feel&#151;&nbsp;felt this very, very strongly uh,    after seeing what I saw, uh, I felt that this was something that was very important    for everyone who&#146;s&#151; who works with him, uh, who&#151; who you know,    is&#151; who&#151;&nbsp;who has come to understand what he stands for, and who    follows what he believes, I feel that everyone should be very, very conscious    of the need to&#151; to&#151;&nbsp;to guard this man. <\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Uh-huh.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>And I&#151; I&#151;&nbsp;And I&#151; And I knew you wouldn&#146;t    think (laughs) that I was uh, presumptuous in&#151; in uh, expressing this viewpoint&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Oh, certainly not. Most certainly not&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>&#151;be&#151; because I&#151; I&#146;m sure that&#151; I mean&#151;&nbsp;I,    I mean&#151; after all, you&#146;re&#151;&nbsp;you are thoughtful people and    uh&#151;&nbsp;and you are aware of&#151; of what has happened, and&#151;&nbsp;and    uh&#151; and&#151; and&#151; and so you must&#151; you know, I&#151; I know    you realize (stumbles over words) similarly that uh, that there are people who    uh, who would consider him to be an enemy, and&#151; (stumbles over words) and    some of them are people who, you know, don&#146;t hesitate to use any means&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Oh, we&#146;ve had certain hate&#151; hatemongers in    the past try things, you know, and uh&#151; I mean, what you&#146;re&#151; what    you&#146;re speaking about, you&#146;re speaking about something that&#146;s    even a greater magnitude uh, uh, more professional, you mean, something like    that, that would be&#151; Do you see an&#151; an element, in other words, that    uh, is very capable, and&#151; and are ready to do that at any time?<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Yep.<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Umm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Yeah, ye&#151; and they <i>breed<\/i> them, you see, I&#151;&nbsp;I    mean, they&#146;re&#151;&nbsp;there are such&#151; they have spread such corruption    in this society, uh, that uh, they have created all sorts of&#151; of people    who are sick and distorted, who are <i>demented<\/i>, who&#151; who don&#146;t&#151;    (stumbles over words) I mean, they don&#146;t go around doing&#151; wha&#151;&nbsp;When    we moved in here, (stumbles over words) as I mentioned, over in the Valley of    the Moon, whe&#151; when we moved&#151;&nbsp;came up from the East about 18,    19 years ago, and no&#151; and no one knew uh&#151; You know, people in this    country do not read a great deal. In Europe, or in the Soviet Union, and places    like that&#151; for example, in the Soviet Union, some of my books are&#151;    are used as textbooks in the schools from one end of the Soviet Union to the    other (Laughs), uh, but in this country, even when I write a best<i>seller<\/i>,    uh, the number of people who&#151;&nbsp;who&#146;ve read it, (stumbles over    words) it&#151;&nbsp;it&#146;s remarkable how few people uh, uh, read uh, <i>books<\/i>    in America, uh&#151; I&#151;&nbsp;When I&#151; I&#151; It&#146;s very rare that    I meet <i>anyone<\/i> in Russia or Poland or any of those countries who&#151;&nbsp;And    it doesn&#146;t matter. It can be a man who is carrying, you know, bags into    the hotel or a boy&#151; a young man who is cleaning shoes or a taxicab driver,    a woman who cleans the room, uh, a waitress, uh&#151; I&#151;&nbsp;I very rarely    meet anyone there who hasn&#146;t <i>read<\/i> something of mine. Well, uh, when    I first <i>came<\/i> here and settled here, the people in the community uh, heard    I was a writer. That doesn&#146;t mean anything to them. They thought&#151;    (stumbles over words) They&#146;d know&#151; They didn&#146;t know what I had    written, exactly, and&#151; and I&#151; perhaps some of them knew my books had    been bestsellers during the anti-fascist period, and uh, and so on and uh, during    the war and&#151; and some of them still <i>are<\/i>, but they didn&#146;t <i>know<\/i>    what I stood for or what I believed. Uh, then I was called down before one of    the&#151; I made a number of appearances before the various Senate committees,    they were always trying to get me for one thing or another, and I got called    down after I&#146;d been here maybe six months or a year, and uh, my boys were    very young then &#151;&nbsp;I&#146;ve got three sons &#151; and my wife is not    a woman who (unintelligible phrase under laugh) she&#146;s gone to&#151; through    too many things, so she&#146;s not a woman who gets nervous about anything anyway,    but I was in uh&#151;&nbsp;After I had go&#151; gone before this committee,    I went to New York to have a&#151;&nbsp;a discussion about a new book with my    publisher, and the <i>news<\/i> of my appearance before the committee, and the    accusations &#151; which were lies &#151; that were made against me, had gotten    <i>back<\/i> into the newspapers <i>here<\/i>, and one night, my wife called me    up and it turned out there was a gang here and they were coming to burn&#151;    to rock out the house, they call &#145;em, and actually to burn it down, but    she never would&#146;ve&#151; she&#146;s not the sort of person that would call    me because of nervousness, uh, she was very cool, calm about it, but she said,    I think you better cancel your conferences with the publisher and fly home.    And I got home&#151;&nbsp;I got home in time uh, to get things under control,    and to set up in the commune&#151; and it was a very interesting experience    in the end, uh, but uh, the&#151; they uh&#151; you know, it&#146;s&#151; it&#146;s    ignorant. The people who were <i>doing<\/i> it &#151; and I got to know, and&#151;    and became <i>friends<\/i> with some of the people who were in that vigilante    <i>gang<\/i> later on, I mean I&#146;d go fishing with them, I&#151; I could&#151;&nbsp;My&#151;    My boys were very little then, they had&#151;&nbsp;they were, you know, six,    seven, eight years old, they couldn&#146;t have done anything to&#151;&nbsp;to    protect my wife, uh&#151; A couple of very, very, uh, good conservative uh,    church-going citizens who&#146;d heard this thing was underway had come to the    house. One of them was staying here all night to&#151; in case anything had    happened that night, that particular night. And&#151; But when I got back, I&#151;    I&#146;d found out that among many of these people, it was a matter of pure    ignorance, and I got to know some of them, uh, but I did find out also the&#151;    the ones who had instigated the thing&#151; and they were well-to-do, uh, there    were two or three of them, uh, well-to-do former Army men uh, who live in the    hills here, have big estates, are retired, and who maintain contact with the    intelligence operations in uh, in Washington. One of them has been an adviser    to the Secret Service of [Republic of China President] Chiang Kai-shek. And    they had <i>organized<\/i>, they had&#151; uh, without getting their own&#151;    they&#151;&nbsp;they like to keep their own hands quote <i>clean<\/i>. So they    just passed the word down to these people who were ignorant and so on and so    forth, that I was a dangerous uh, uh, uh, a foreign spy or something, you know,    (Laughs) a communist agent of the Kremlin or something, and&#151; and these    people who were&#151;&nbsp;it was like&#151;&nbsp;I don&#146;t think actually    they&#151; it was not, really, in that&#151;&nbsp;they were not an <i>organized<\/i>    hate group, but there were enough of them who were ignorant who could be mobilized    by one guy who <i>was<\/i> a member of the Birch Soci&#151;&nbsp;well, he&#146;s    a leader of the [John] Birch Society (unintelligible word), uh, and he was in    the National Guard and so on, and&#151;&nbsp;and he got this group together.    It&#151;&nbsp;it&#151; in the end, as I say, I managed to squash the thing,    but they&#151; the&#151; they have plenty of people around who are so uh, uninformed    and so ready to hate because&#151;&nbsp;you know, sometimes because they themselves    are poor and suffering (unintelligible word under interruption)&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Hmm. Surprising, isn&#146;t it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>You know?<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Umm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>They want to blame&#151; They feel they have to blame someone,    they don&#146;t know <i>who<\/i> to blame. So it&#146;s easy to direct their    hatred&#151; You take in the South, uh, where I spend quite a bit of time now,    I meet <i>very<\/i> poor white people who are living as no one should have to    live, uh, and who&#151; who just <i>hate<\/i> the poor <i>black<\/i> people in    a way that&#146;s unbelievable, and they&#146;re <i>taught<\/i> to do this, because    that keeps them <i>divided<\/i>. If they ever became united, and understood they    have the same problems, and the same enemy&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Yes&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>&#151;uh, then&#151; (laughs) then they&#146;d represent a menace,    so they&#146;re deliberately kept divided, and these hate groups are deliberately    cultivated. So these hate groups are something that would be directed against    a movement uh, such as yours, uh&#151; But anyway, uh, I uh&#151;&nbsp;As I    say, the thing is that I felt&#151; I felt the value of this man so much that    I did want to speak with someone like&#151; (Stumbles over words) not only wanted    to thank you for&#151; for your&#151; for your help but uh, but also speak to    you about that angle. I&#151;&nbsp;I had a feeling if I said anything (laughs)    to Jim Jones, he&#146;d probably be just as careless about himself as he ever    was before. <\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> (Laughs)<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>But uh&#151; uh&#151; (stumbles over words) I will be writing    him about a couple of other things, &#145;cause I want to thank him very much    for the experience, and uh&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Well, that would be very sweet of you. I&#146;m sure    that he&#146;d be&#151;&nbsp;really be glad to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Well, I&#146;ll&#151; I&#146;ll&#151; I&#146;ll&#151; I&#146;ll    be getting off a letter to him in a day or so.<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Well, that&#146;d be <i>so<\/i> good. I&#151; I&#151;&nbsp;I    don&#146;t know, I uh&#151; I think all of us were touched by your uh, humbleness    and your uh, depth of feeling that you have, and uh, not&#151; you&#146;re not    alone. Your knowledge and experience, you know, the things you&#146;ve been    through and um, feeling for people, and so is our pastor. Very&#151;&nbsp;Very    touched, as you saw him, very touched. So&#151; <\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Well, you know, it&#146;s a mutual uh&#151; I&#151; I&#146;m very&#151;    I&#146;m very gratified to hear that. I&#151;&nbsp;I must say that, for me,    it&#146;s&#151; To&#151; to have this sort of experience is uh, is something    that is immensely rewarding because uh, uh, he spoke about <i>loneliness<\/i>,    and uh, I don&#146;t feel lonely in a way, because I&#146;d&#151; I&#151; when    I write, I fe&#151; I am writing to many people across the world who speak with&#151;&nbsp;On    the other hand, a writer&#146;s life is lonely. You sit in a room, and when    you&#146;re working on a book&#151; it&#146;s very difficult for me to write    and&#151;&nbsp;and uh, I may work two or three years on a book, and&#151;&nbsp;when    I&#146;m going out and getting the material, I&#146;m meeting many people and    so on and so forth, and I do some&#151;&nbsp;and I am a member of the World    Peace Council, so I&#146;m traveling and organized&#151;&nbsp;organizing in    that way, but when you&#146;re actually writing the book, you are alone, and    for hours and hours and hours, days and days, and&#151;&nbsp;and months and    months, and uh, the opportunity of coming in contact with people like yourselves    is uh, tremendously uh, helpful and inspiring to me, it&#146;s a source of <i>sustenance<\/i>,    of <i>food<\/i>, I&#151;&nbsp;Literally, I&#151; I mean&#151;&nbsp;And&#151;    and&#151; and when I go under the uh&#151;&nbsp;this&#151;&nbsp;when I go down    South and meet a man uh, such as the one I spoke about, uh, in that prison,    uh, and I meet many like that who are so noble, wonderful persons, I uh&#151;    and to&#151; to <i>know<\/i> about them and to be <i>with<\/i> them, you see,    is&#151;&nbsp;Without that contact, uh, I uh&#151; my work would be uh, impos&#151;    impossible for me to write uh, because they give me&#151; Whatever strength    I have uh, comes from them, and I&#151; I <i>learn<\/i>&#151; I mean, I&#151;    I&#146;ve learned a great deal from, from being with, with your people and uh,    so uh, you know, and I&#151; I (stumbles over words) I was very sorry my sons    were not there. I&#146;m going to arrange for&#151; for them to uh, come to    some of your other meetings.<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Oh, that&#146;s kind of you.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>I have two of them in the uh&#151; Well, it would be very, very    good for them, I&#146;m thinking of their welfare, uh, uh, there are two of    them who live in&#151; in&#151;&nbsp;in the West here. They&#146;re in their    late twenties, early thirties now, uh&#151; <\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> I think we&#146;d be pleased to meet them, I&#146;m su&#151;    sure&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Yeah, oh, they&#146;re fine guys. And it&#151;&nbsp;one of them&#151;&nbsp;One    of them, by the way, is&#151; has been in prison a number of times, he was uh,    uh, all&#151;&nbsp;but all of his sentences were for uh, participating in demonstrations    against discrimination.<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Hmm.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Uh, they were all&#151;&nbsp;Dur&#151; During the per&#151;&nbsp;when    he was trying&#151;&nbsp;they were trying to get equal employment for blacks    and uh, and&#151; and&#151; and other minority groups, uh, uh, and he was in    peace demonstrations and so on and then&#151; and&#151;&nbsp;and I&#151;&nbsp;and    he was re&#151; you know, a number of times, uh, put in jail for this sort of    thing. Uh, he&#146;s a fine fellow. And uh, the uh&#151; but uh&#151; they&#151;    it would be very, very good for them to see uh, your people and to be among    them, so I&#151; I&#146;m&#151;&nbsp;I&#146;ve already told uh, told &#145;em    about what a wonderful experience&#151; Ria, my wife, has too. But I&#146;ve    taken up about half of your morning, now, so&#151; (Laughs)<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Well, it&#146;s a plea&#151; it&#146;s a pleasure talking    to you, Mr. Kahn, I&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Well, I&#151; I really want&#151; I really want to uh, uh, thank    you again for&#151; for your thoughtfulness uh&#151; uh&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Well, again, I must say, that it was uh, my pastor, it    was Jim Jones that uh, thought and asked me to go down quickly to see that you    had uh, pillows to rest on, to be comfortable and as I&#151; anything that you    needed uh, he said, be sure that it&#146;s taken care of immediately. So&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Well, it&#151; he&#151; he&#146;s an extraordinary man. Wonderfully,    wonderfully thoughtful. (Word unintelligible under interruption)<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> He&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>I mean, you&#151; you&#146;re very fortunate to be involved in&#151;&nbsp;in    such work and&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Yes&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>And I feel from our brief acquaintanceship, he&#146;s&#151; he&#146;s    fortunate to have you with him.<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Well, I don&#146;t know, I&#151; I&#151; I know that    uh, (laughs) it would be a very, very dismal life without him. I know that.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Well, you see, you find&#151; what has&#151;&nbsp;what has happened,    really, is, if I could sum it up&#151; (unintelligible phrase) when I was talking    to students here uh, at uh, Sonoma State just a month ago, and&#151; and&#151;    and what I said was you have&#151; a man has to find a purpose in his life,    uh, and you&#146;ve <i>found<\/i> it. But&#151; and if you don&#146;t find a    purpose in your life, then it&#146;s gone. I&#151;&nbsp;I&#151;&nbsp;You know,    and life is a very, very precious thing, (stumbles over words) and what you    have is the richest possession that anyone could have. And&#151; and that&#146;s    the purpose that you have. <\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Yes, indeed.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>(unintelligible word under interruption) And&#151;&nbsp;and&#151;&nbsp;and    as you say, he&#146;s the one who is&#151; who has helped you find it. <\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Yes, that&#146;s true. And so many others, you know&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Right. Right, right. Well&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> And it seems like he <i>never<\/i> runs out of time to    uh, to talk with people, you know, he&#151; he <i>never<\/i> turns anyone away,    and uh, he&#146;s <i>never<\/i> to busy to meet a human need, you know, how&#151;    how very minute it might seem. He&#146;s very much interested in feeling&#151;&nbsp;has    a <i>depth<\/i> of feeling for people, you know, and <i>their<\/i> feelings.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> All the time.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Well, it&#151; he&#146;s a&#151;&nbsp;he&#151; he&#146;s a&#151;&nbsp;he    is a really most unique. <\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> I sure&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Anyway, I&#151; I uh&#151; It was&#151; It was good to hear your    voice again, and&#151; and we&#146;ll be in touch, because uh, I&#151; I uh&#151;    having&#151; having now found uh, your movement and what it is, I&#151; I shall    not wonder who&#146;s the contact for them. <\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Well, I can&#146;t say, you know, how much I appreciate    you calling and your concern for our pastor&#146;s welfare. It was very well    received. I&#151; I&#146;ll pass it on, and I appre&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Very good. Ah, very good&#151;<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> &#151;precitate your calling, and do keep in touch.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>(unintelligible under Temple member) You take care of yourself,    too.<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> I will, sir.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Okay?<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> You do the same, will you?<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Right. You bet. <\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Thank you so much.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kahn: <\/b>Bye-bye. Right. Bye-bye.<\/p>\n<p><b>Temple member:<\/b> Bye-bye. <\/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>Summary 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 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.) 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