{"id":28010,"date":"2013-06-16T00:17:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28010"},"modified":"2019-02-22T16:17:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T00:17:57","slug":"1019-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28010","title":{"rendered":"Q1019 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>. To read the Annotated Transcript,\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:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Labeled in part “2\/1\/73”<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1973 (reference to Wounded Knee, South Dakota)<\/p>\n

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

People in attendance at Peoples Temple service<\/em>
\nSister Bell
\nBrother Hill
\nBrother Kerry\/Carey
\nMother Grace<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Bonnie Beck
\nJim Jones Jr. [by reference]
\nSuzy McFarland
\nJanet Phillips
\nJanet Shular
\nArturo Skinner<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nRichard Nixon, U.S. president [by reference]
\nAdolf Hitler
\nGeneral George Armstrong Custer, leader of army troops at Little Big Horn<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Billy Graham, evangelist
\nKathryn Kuhlman, evangelist
\nReverend Ike (Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II), evangelistAngela Davis, political activist
\nFlip Wilson, black entertainer
\nJack Paar, host of The Tonight ShowGeorge Bedford, pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church in San Francisco
\nDr. Jones, \u201cracist pastor in our city of Ukiah\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

(Editor’s note<\/strong>: For a complete scriptural index to the sermons of Jim Jones, click here<\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n

    \u201cWhy they get this because of slave curse, that slaves should obey their masters. They\u2019re preaching<\/em> it on the radio\u2026 that the slaves should\u2019ve never broken their chains, because the Bible said, \u2018Slave, obey your master.\u2019\u201d (Colossians 3:22,\u00a0\u201cServants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God.\u201d See also, Ephesians 6:5, Titus 2:9)<\/ol>\n

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

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

    This extended segment from a Jim Jones address to his followers in the Redwood Valley Temple in February 1973 focuses on the evils of religion. Whether Jones is talking about nationally-known evangelists like Billy Graham and Kathryn Kuhlman, or radio ministers on \u201cyour Bible stations,\u201d or local ministers whom many in the Temple congregation know, or the generic \u201cjackleg\u201d preacher who drives a Rolls Royce or Cadillac, or the Bible and its defense of slavery, or the Sky God who cares only about creating humans to keep him company and not about the pain and injustices of the world that went along with that creation, the Temple leader disparages \u2013 and even mocks \u2013 all of them, and contrasts them (always unfavorably) to the benefits the congregation before him has in believing in him. \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Jones says during one of his critiques, \u201cI really don\u2019t know how you can look at religion, and not wish to get free<\/em> of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Jones spends time decrying the fate of black people in America and especially its ghettoes. The poor and black rob and kill each other every day, he says \u2013 not Temple members, he adds \u2013 but no one in authority cares. \u201cAs long as one black is killing another black, they\u2019ll not say a damn thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

    The blame for this state of affairs, he says, rests at the feet of the white man\u2019s religion. The same King James who sent the slave ships to Africa and \u201cbrought our people back in slave chains\u201d is the same man who wrote the Bible that gives the white man the authority to oppress them. \u201cEverything,\u201d he cries as he pats the Bible, \u201call of our trouble comes out of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Their only chance for freedom, he says, is in Peoples Temple. The church has acres of land in cultivation so \u201cnever one of you here will have to starve.\u201d The church has power and prestige in the community, because it has the strength of numbers to stand up to the system. \u201cThey don\u2019t care about us. They just as soon spit on the likes of me. They\u2019d like to cut my throat. They look at us and they seethe<\/em>. But they know there\u2019s a whole lot of us.\u201d And rather than go into providing luxurious comfort for the minister, the financial support the church receives goes right back to its people. That\u2019s part of its strength as well.<\/p>\n

    The Temple could be bigger, he says, but people are turned off by his teachings as well as his insistence of their own commitment to see those teachings through. \u201cI teach freedom. I teach equality. I teach and practice justice. You\u2019d have so many white people in here, if I wouldn\u2019t talk about black people\u2019s rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

    That doesn\u2019t mean the Temple is a black church and that there is no room for whites in it: \u201cWe\u2019re not against white, we\u2019re against honky, that\u2019s what we\u2019re against.\u201d In one of the few tributes to whites preserved on a Temple recording, Jones describes his white followers as \u201cthe bravest of all. You\u2019ve been willing to give up your special privilege and \u2026 really are one with us, you are the most beautiful of all.\u201d<\/p>\n

    At several points in the tape \u2013 including its beginning \u2013 Jones voices a recurring complaint about some of his followers: people are eager to receive the healings that he offers them, but they\u2019re not prepared to do the hard work that comes after the healings. He could do healings every night, he says at one point \u2013 and he does them better than any of the radio evangelists they\u2019ve heard \u2013 and he himself brings up the subject of the miracles he has performed, the cancers he has cured, the lives he has saved or restored, but he nevertheless criticizes those who \u201cwant to sit there and open your beak for me to put a fish worm in, and some of you\u2019ll be sitting here for 50 years if I\u2019d let you, and you\u2019d never use your wings.\u201d<\/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 1B107-31. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

    A PT 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. To read the Annotated Transcript,\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:\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28010","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28010","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=28010"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86096,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28010\/revisions\/86096"}],"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=28010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}