{"id":28009,"date":"2013-06-16T00:17:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28009"},"modified":"2019-02-22T16:16:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T00:16:50","slug":"1018-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28009","title":{"rendered":"Q1018 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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>.\u00a0To read the Annotated\u00a0Transcript,\u00a0click here<\/a>.
\nTo return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.\u00a0Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1<\/a>, Pt. 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jones speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part “3\/23\/75”<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Probably mid-1970s (Reference to Edith Roller, who joined in 73-74)<\/p>\n

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

People in attendance at Peoples Temple service, full name unknown:<\/em>
\nHannah
\nJane
\nJoyce [probably Touchette]
\nMalone
\nSister Shakeschneider<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

People in attendance at Peoples Temple service<\/em>
\nLouis Jordan
\nEdith Roller<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Editor’s note<\/strong>: The verses below appear in order of biblical reference, not as they appear in Jim Jones\u2019 address. For a complete scriptural index to the sermons of Jim Jones, click here<\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n

    \u201cThat\u2019s thirtyfold, sixtyfold, sixty percent, thirty percent, one hundred percent? One hundred percent love, one hundred percent sensitivity? Yeah, that\u2019s me.\u201d (Matthew 13:8, \u201cBut other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.\u201d See also, Matthew 13:23; Matthew 19:29; Mark 4:8; Mark 4:20; Mark 10:30; and Luke 8:8)<\/p>\n

    \u201cJesus said, by this shall all men know that you\u2019re my disciples, \u2018cause you have love one for another, so you\u2019ve got no problem.\u201d (John 13:35, \u201cBy this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.\u201d)<\/ol>\n

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

    (This tape was transcribed by Nicole Bissett. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/em><\/p>\n

    This sermon, recorded in Redwood Valley in March 1975, contains many elements of Jim Jones\u2019 addresses. He claims to be the most loving person on earth \u2013 with all the burdens that go along with that responsibility \u2013 the most caring and the most socialistic. He doesn\u2019t know of anyone who feels the way he does, or who is able to recognize the needs of his followers the way he does, much less meet those needs. He speaks in an offhand manner of his ability to raise the dead, even as he adds afterwards, \u201cthat doesn\u2019t make me higher than you.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Less often \u2013 although not unique to this address \u2013 is Jones\u2019 claim to be from another planet, which is how the tape opens. Moreover, he was the only one who could get to earth from that planet. He is trying to impart the sensitivity he brought from there. \u201cThey can\u2019t do it. They can\u2019t make a contact or communicate to get into your body, to help you, and they have no way\u2026 They can not intrude here. Only I.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Even though he is unique in his presence from that unknown origin, he does claim there are \u201cfifty million inhabited planets that\u2019s got people on them of some sort or another.\u201d Some of the others who have traveled to earth from outer space have appeared in the Bible, bringing with them, for example, the Ark of the Covenant. More recently, the people who are sitting in the pews before him are not of this earth, and he is on a rescue mission to save them. \u201c[Y]ou shouldn\u2019t have come to this damn place, I told you not to come anyway. But you did. And you got my ass in it because I love you.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Most of the rest of the address touches on more familiar themes. He criticizes God the creator as being selfish, and offers the mere fact of the creation that Jones himself is more loving and more intelligent than God, who should have known the mess that people were going to make. He extends that criticism to parents as well, including those in Peoples Temple. The mistakes that children make are really the responsibility of the parents, since it was the parents who brought them here. \u201cYou say, well, I didn\u2019t cause my children to do what they did, but you brought them here. So in that way, you\u2019re a little bit like God.\u201d<\/p>\n

    But, of course, he adds, the reason they\u2019re bringing babies into the world is not for the babies but for the sex.<\/p>\n

    Jones returns to the subject of sex later in the relatively short address, when he says he himself cannot be distracted by physical pleasures like food, drink, or sex, because he\u2019s too busy working to save his people. He doesn\u2019t deny his desire for sex, but says he has conquered it. \u201cYou don\u2019t let [the needs] guide you, you don\u2019t let them direct you. They don\u2019t lead you, you never get led around by your ass when you\u2019re a hundredfold.\u201d<\/p>\n

    That resistance has also saved him a lot of trouble, he says. His ability to overcome sexual temptations, for example, means he doesn\u2019t have to worry about treating anyone special. \u201cI want to be turned on to all of you equally\u2026 I\u2019d like the light to be on for everyone or for none. That\u2019s the feeling that I have. I want to love everybody the same. Now you can\u2019t respect everybody the same, but you can love everybody the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

    The last minutes of the service are marred by numerous tape edits, and the context is unclear, but Jones does seem to be trying to get a sense from his congregation as to how he should continue his ministry. Several times, he calls for votes on such issues as whether \u201cI should withhold the truth that I know about politics in these public healing meetings,\u201d whether \u201cI should not preach about the errors of the Bible in these public meetings,\u201d and \u2013 a question he says he asks again in all seriousness \u2013 \u201chow many want me to not speak so bravely and forwardly about the Bible and God, and me being the only God there is.\u201d Due to the edits, there is no indication how the congregation votes.<\/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 14, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B107-28. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

    A recording of a peoples rally led by JIM JONES.<\/p>\n

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

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

    Tape originally posted December 2009<\/b><\/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.\u00a0To read the Annotated\u00a0Transcript,\u00a0click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here.\u00a0Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28009","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28009","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=28009"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86095,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28009\/revisions\/86095"}],"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=28009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}