{"id":27519,"date":"2013-06-16T00:20:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=27519"},"modified":"2021-02-08T13:29:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T21:29:55","slug":"q650","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=27519","title":{"rendered":"Q650 Transcript"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

Side 1:<\/b><\/p>\n

(Music in background)<\/p>\n

Jack Beam:<\/b> I remember one time he would uh\u2013 we was going somewhere, and I was in a car, and he was in a car, we both had carloads of people, and he pulled up alongside me and uh, I notice uh, he just take off, just like that (unintelligible under radio interference), hell, he wanted to be first to wait at the stoplight. Come up to the next stoplight. Well, I just pushed a little bit\u2013<\/p>\n

Woman 1:<\/b> Dorothy?<\/p>\n

Beam:<\/b> \u2013and let him go ahead<\/i>, but he\u2013 he was determined to be first, you know, he\u2013\u00a0he\u2013 he had a very, very competitive spirit about him now and then.<\/p>\n

Woman 2:<\/b> (unintelligible question)<\/p>\n

Beam:<\/b> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Woman 2:<\/b> (unintelligible beginning) in those days?<\/p>\n

Beam:<\/b> So much that uh, it was very uh, uh\u2013 that\u2013<\/p>\n

Woman 2:<\/b> (unintelligible question)<\/p>\n

Beam:<\/b> He has\u2013 he has a little difficulty today, I would say, you know, with that, uh\u2013<\/p>\n

Woman 2:<\/b> (unintelligible beginning) church a long time.<\/p>\n

Beam:<\/b> Yeah, he was in a Seventh Day Adventist church, and he really thought that that was the (unintelligible word) to worship God, you know. Well, he\u2019s changed since he don\u2019t believe in God at all<\/i> now, uh, you know, he\u2019s all right.<\/p>\n

Woman 2:<\/b> (unintelligible beginning) people change.<\/p>\n

Beam:<\/b> Yes, yes. (unintelligible word) But he was a\u2013 he was a royal ass, very hard to work with. Very hard to work with.<\/p>\n

Woman 2:<\/b> What was the (unintelligible word) involved with his children, (unintelligible word)?<\/p>\n

Beam:<\/b> Uh, he told me uh, how he got involved, he said uh (Pause) Jim had been ridiculed over the\u2013\u00a0over the radio (Pause) and\u2013 and he made a play one night, Jim did, and Archie [Ijames] was with him, he said uh, I\u2019d be the first to confess to you, the radio audience, that I don\u2019t have all the answers. But if you do<\/i>\u2013\u00a0but if you have any answers, come<\/i> and let us reason together. I\u2019ll try to\u2013 I\u2019ll try to live a more perfect life, or do a\u2013 be a more perfect person, if you\u2019ll help\u2013 and he said he had never\u2013 Archie said, when he heard that program, he had never heard anybody<\/i> speak with such honesty in his life. And he come and he never left. He has some rocky times. He thought<\/i> he was going to leave (unintelligible word)\u2013<\/p>\n

End of side 1<\/b><\/p>\n

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Side 2<\/b><\/p>\n

Recorded music of Blood Sweat & Tears<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Tape originally posted June 2006<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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). Side 1: (Music in background) Jack Beam: I remember one time he would uh\u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27291,"menu_order":430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27519","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27519","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59071,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27519\/revisions\/59071"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}