{"id":28029,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28029"},"modified":"2019-02-22T16:55:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T00:55:09","slug":"1056-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28029","title":{"rendered":"Q1056-4 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 Tape Transcript, click here<\/a>.
\nTo return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1<\/a>, Pt. 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note:<\/b><\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None<\/p>\n

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

People in attendance at Peoples Temple service<\/i>
\nPart 2<\/b>
\nSister Nelson [could be Kay Nelson]
\nSister Slayton
\nSister Sneed [several in Peoples Temple]
\nSister Grisby\u00a0(speaks)<\/b><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ernestine Blair
\nAnnie Mae Harris\u00a0(speaks)<\/b>
\nEdith Roller<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/i>
\nPart 1<\/b>
\nRev. J.B. Aldridge [phonetic]
\nBishop Crane, President of the Baptist Churches of Texas [by reference]<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Part 2<\/b>
\nJulian Bond, civil rights activist
\nWalter Cronkite, CBS News anchor
\nRichard Hatcher, Mayor of Gary, Indiana
\nGeorge Jackson, imprisoned Black Panther
\nJessie Watson, death row prisoner
\nVernon Brown, death row prisoner
\nBobby Hines, death row prisoner<\/p>\n

Forbes Burnham, prime minister of Guyana<\/p>\n

Harold Dowler, minister at Baptist church in Oakland (by reference)
\nCarlton Goodlett, San Francisco physician, newspaper publisher<\/p>\n

Elizabeth, mother of Annie Mae Harris
\nAlice Finney, mother of Woman 3
\nDoctor Jacobs, doctor of Woman 3
\nRoy, brother of Woman 3
\nKay, niece of Woman 3
\nDavid, son of Sister Grisby
\nSam, son of Sister Grisby
\nSam, father of Sister Grisby
\nAbby, mother of Sister Grisby<\/p><\/div>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/b><\/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

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

    \u201cI have come treading the winepresses alone and of the people, there were none to help.\u201d (Isaiah 63:3, \u201cI have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me.\u201d)<\/p>\n

    \u201cIf I\u00a0have put that spirit in you, if indeed my statutes are written on your inward parts and my law is in your heart.\u201d (Jeremiah 31:33, \u201cBut this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.\u201d\u00a0Also, Hebrews\u00a0 8:10, 10:16.)<\/p>\n

    \u201cIf you\u2019re weary and well doing, the gaps of the hedge will drop, the wall of fire will drop.\u201d (Ezekiel 22:29-31)<\/p>\n

    \u201cI can take a cross any time.\u201d [Later in service] \u201cWhen you do wake up, at least say, I served him all the way. I walked with him every day. I bore his cross by taking up my own cross.\u201d (Matthew 16:24, \u201cThen said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.\u201d See also, Mark 8:34, Mark 10:21, Luke 9:23)<\/p>\n

    \u201cHe walked on the water.\u201d (Matthew 14:24-27)<\/p>\n

    \u201cIt was so lonely for Judas. Judas took the thirty pieces of silver, and he run with them and threw them back. Threw them at the \u2026 feet of the scribes. And they wouldn\u2019t have them. Said no, take your pieces of silver, we don\u2019t want your blood money. Judas says, oh, I didn\u2019t know what I did. Please, I didn\u2019t know what I did. I did not know what I was doing. I did not realize when I kissed him and gave him the kiss of death. I didn\u2019t know what my conscience was going to feel like.\u201d (Matthew 26:14-16, 47-50, 27:3-5)<\/p>\n

    \u201cI welcome Gethsemanes.\u201d (Garden of Gethsemane in Matthew (26:36-46), and Mark (14:32-50).)<\/p>\n

    \u201cThe only talk you must consider is what you will feel if you feel like Pilate when you have to wash your hands. The only thing if you take concern if they come and do something with your pastor. It\u2019s a miserable thing to be like Pilate and have to wash your hands and the blood won\u2019t come off. It\u2019s a miserable thing to look at your hands and said, \u201c\u2019Oh, Jim, what have I done to you? What have I done to you? What have I done to you?\u2019\u201d (Matthews 27:24, \u201cWhen Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.\u201d)<\/p>\n

    \u201c[You] Say, there\u2019s a rest that is provided for the children of God, and some must needs be enter therein.\u201d (Mark 10:15,\u00a0 \u201cVerily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.\u201d See also, Luke 18:17).<\/p>\n

    \u201cIf you put me in a jail cell, I will cause creation to be shaken. If you put me in a cross or put me in an electric chair, I will cause creation to be shaken.\u201d (Mark 13:24-26)<\/p>\n

    \u201c[I]f you are weak, if you are a vacillating Peter, if you are afraid to be identified with me, if you say I never knew the man, if\u00a0you\u2019re afraid to stand up and be counted, then they\u2019ll take me and do with me what they will.\u201d [Later in service] \u201cPlease don\u2019t have that conscience upon you. Because Peter, to say I never knew him, three times.\u201d\u00a0(Mark 14:29-31, 68-72; Luke 22:33-34, 60-62;\u00a0John 13:37-38, 18:26-27)<\/p>\n

    \u201cYou must pray for those that despitefully use you.\u201d (Luke 6:28, \u201cBless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.\u201d See also Matthew 5:44).<\/p>\n

    \u201cYou just tell them that there\u2019s somebody\u2026 over on Alvarado that\u2019s causing cancers to come out, that\u2019s causing the people to walk, that\u2019s causing the blind to see, causing the dead to rise.\u201d (Luke 7:22, \u201cThen Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.\u201d)<\/p>\n

    \u201c[H]e\u2019s turned the water into wine.\u201d (John 2:1-11)<\/p>\n

    \u201cI have come with none other\u00a0purpose than to do the will of him that sent me.\u201d (John 6:38, \u201cFor I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.\u201d)<\/p>\n

    \u201cSome of you are\u00a0not standing because you yet not know.\u201d (John 8:54-55, \u201cJesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.\u201d)<\/p>\n

    \u201c[T]he comforter has come into your life, that spirit that I represent, the Holy Comforter, which means the spirit of bravery.\u201d (John 14:26 and 15:26)<\/p>\n

    \u201cGamaliel said in the Acts of the apostles, he said, don\u2019t you fight these people. Said, don\u2019t touch them, the great man of the San Hedron [phonetic], he said lest happily you find yourself fighting God. He said if it is not of God, it won\u2019t stand, and if it is of God, then you\u2019ll be in trouble, because you\u2019ll find yourself fighting God.\u201d (Acts 5:34-39, esp. 38-39, \u201cAnd now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.\u201d)<\/p>\n

    \u201cBut I want to tell you , as for me as a\u00a0person<\/i>, whatever comes, I\u2019m just expendable. I\u2019m a sacrificial lamb. I\u2019m ready to be sacrificed. Either alive or dead, or imprisoned. In tumults, in riotings, whatever. Whatever man wants to do with me, I\u2019m here to glorify the name of Jesus!\u201d (2 Corinthians 6:3-10)<\/p>\n

    \u201cSo you that are silent, and you that\u2019re indifferent here and you that\u2019ve come to spy on our liberty, what will you do with Jesus?\u201d (Galatians 2:4, \u201cAnd that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:\u201d)<\/p>\n

    \u201cI have come, dying daily, I have come\u00a0crucified in the flesh, nevertheless I live, yes that I, Jim Jones, but Christ sent me to be me.\u00a0The life I live, I live not by the flesh of Jim Jones, but by the will of the son of God.\u201d Later in service: \u201cThey think they\u2019re gonna hurt me but they can\u2019t hurt me anymore. Can\u2019t hurt me anymore because I died. I have died, but Christ has resurrected.\u201d (Galatians 2:20, \u201cI am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.\u201d)<\/p>\n

    \u201cWhere\u00a0they rest from their works as the creator did on the sixth day. I have rested.\u00a0Where they rest from their works as the creator did on the sixth day. I have rested. There\u2019s no more ego, so when you don\u2019t have any ego, you\u2019re at home in jail, you\u2019re at home in the ghetto, you\u2019re at home on the back of the bus, you\u2019re at home without sleep when you don\u2019t have any ego, and you\u2019ve entered into the rest that Hebrew\u2019s four talks about. The fourth chapter of Hebrews talks about that rest. I\u2019ve entered into it.\u201d (Hebrews 4)<\/p>\n

    \u201cHe\u2019s\u00a0stopped the rain, and he caused the rain to come when they needed rain.\u201d (James 5:17-18, \u201cElias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.\u201d)<\/p>\n

    Part 2:<\/b><\/p>\n

    \u201cI\u2019m that hollow of the hand that has to protect you. You have to rest in this hand, because when you\u2019re praying to God out there, I\u2019m answering if you get an answer.\u201d (Proverbs 30:4 and Isaiah 40:12)<\/p>\n

    \u201cWe may have more persecutions,\u00a0prosecutions, troubles than anybody, because they that live godly will, but we also have more miracles than you ever heard tell of in your life.\u201d (2 Timothy 3:12, \u201cYea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.\u201d)<\/p>\n

    \u201cHebrews, the fourth chapter in the 12th verse, said the word\u00a0discerns the thoughts, and I did it on that sister a moment ago, but knows the intents of your hearts.\u00a0It may separate bones and marrow.\u201d (Hebrews 4:12, \u201cFor the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.\u201d)<\/ol>\n

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

    (Editor’s note:<\/strong> This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/i><\/p>\n

    This tape consists of segments of two different sermons.<\/p>\n

    The first, and probably latter of the two, is much more overtly religious, even as he makes a claim for his own divinity.<\/p>\n

    It begins \u2013 as do many of these tapes \u2013 in mid-sentence, with no indication of how long the address has lasted to this point. He speaks with some apparent pride about the ministers in the community who do not know how to deal with Jim Jones. Their churches are losing members to Peoples Temple because of its message and mission, but what really bothers the clergy is that they aren\u2019t like him, a man with no car or adornments, a man who wears used clothing and shoes, a man who does not put himself above his people. It\u2019s a familiar theme in Jones\u2019 addresses, appearing also \u2013 for example \u2013 on the second sermon on this tape.<\/p>\n

    One difference between the two, though, is that the first segment includes Jones\u2019 use of scripture to show who is in his church. This church is where God is, Jones says, and because of that, he can do things for his people that other ministers can only envy. \u201cYou\u2019ve never met a man like this man before. A man who doth not have any future. A man who doth not have any past. A man who has nothing but the actual presence, the ever present, the actual personal present tense of God in a body.\u201d<\/p>\n

    He will be with them always, he says, invoking the words of Jesus from the Gospels. The question is, are they prepared to make the same commitment to him as he does for them \u2013\u00a0 \u201cSome of you say, I can\u2019t pay the price of giving up my house or my home or my job. I can\u2019t take the chance of losing what I have. What you can\u2019t take the chance on is waking up, realizing, were you there when they crucified?\u201d \u2013 or will they fail him, as Peter did in the garden of Gethsemane. Or worse, will they betray him, as Judas did that same night?<\/p>\n

    \u201cI have crucified the one that was to come\u2026\u201d Jones says near the end of the segment. \u201cI have crucified my savior. I have given the kiss of death.<\/p>\n

    \u201cYou say you can\u2019t afford to support this ministry?\u201d he concludes. \u201cYou can\u2019t afford\u00a0not<\/i>\u00a0to support this ministry. Because one day, one day you\u2019ll wake up and you\u2019ll know who was in your midst.\u201d<\/p>\n

    The second sermon \u2013 likely recorded at an earlier date, and the tape reused for the sermon that appears at the beginning \u2013 is different in both tone and content. It includes several healings, several opportunities for people to give money to the Temple, and some commentary on a story in the news that allows Jones to reiterate his beliefs that racism governs America.<\/p>\n

    The healings are much like those found on other tapes: Jones calls several women from the congregation and provides each of them with personal information to allow them to build their own faith in his abilities to cure their illnesses and conditions. \u201cI\u2019ve never been in your home and you\u2019ve not told me anything,\u201d he says after he describes some of its contents. He then details the medical problems, then pauses to meditate \u2013 often speaking in tongues \u2013 before he performs the healing.<\/p>\n

    One woman he heals \u2013 possibly on her first visit to the Temple, certainly during an early visit \u2013 is Annie Mae Harris, a black woman who would die a few years later at age 74 in Jonestown.<\/p>\n

    Unique to this healing service \u2013 at least of those among surviving tapes \u2013 is Jones\u2019 references to witchcraft as a source of affliction to two of his parishioners, including during one healing, when he says he has reversed a spell of \u201cwitchcraft [that\u2019s] been practiced upon you\u2026 It\u2019s caused you to be crippled. You had a tumor. You had a growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

    The healings he has performed extends to those distant believers who have received Temple materials \u2013 photos of Jim Jones, candles, and oils \u2013 through the mail. He touches every one of these items before it\u2019s mailed away, he says, and if his \u201cenergy reverberation\u201d is off, he doesn\u2019t allow the material to be distributed. He urges everyone to get this protection, since, as he says, \u201cmy pictures alone have saved over sixty thousand lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Jones weaves in a couple of news stories as texts for a political message, although one is in the context of donations. Before he asks for money, though, he tells the congregation about a special type of weapon called \u201cbiologicals\u201d currently in development which will kill blacks, Indians and Mexicans, but not whites.<\/p>\n

    The call for donations arises several times during this service, and Jones approaches the subject in several different ways. Early in the segment, for example, he reminds the congregation that the inflation which is ravishing the country is also stripping their savings of any value, and that they would be better off investing it in land. But, he adds in a note of caution, he\u2019s not talking about the land they own right now, since it\u2019s \u201c[w]orth nothing because you are black. They\u2019ll take it away from you just like they took it away from the Japanese in 1941.\u201d But the Temple land in Guyana is protected by the government itself. \u201cThat\u2019s something to think about.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Later, he tells businessmen in the audience to divest their properties and turn over the assets \u2013 both financial and professional \u2013 to the Temple, so they won\u2019t have to beat themselves up with worry and insecurity. \u201cGet rid of those businesses,\u201d he suggests. \u201cSet down and work in a cooperative, where everybody\u2019ll have to take care of the business. Well, that would be a whole lot better for you, wouldn\u2019t it now?\u201d<\/p>\n

    As occurs in other recordings during which Jim Jones solicits donations during the course of the service, the tape is somewhat choppy with edits: it shuts off as he asks for donations of a specific amount, then switches back on in mid-sentence some undetermined time later.<\/p>\n

    Towards the end of the service, he takes up a special collection for three black men on death row who face execution for raping a white woman. According to noted civil rights activist Julian Bond \u2013 whose words during a personal conversation Jones relates to the congregation \u2013 the men are innocent of any crime beyond the foolishness of taking advantage of a woman who offered herself to them and then regretted her decision. Jones doesn\u2019t quite get the reaction he thought he would to one call to action \u2013 \u201cNow that was a fine response,\u201d he says sarcastically \u2013 so he says it a second time with more fire. \u201cMy God,\u201d says elsewhere, \u201c[these] three black brothers are a part of you, because what happens to them, it\u2019ll be you next, if they get by with this dastardly deed, if they get by with this terrible act, they\u2019ll come for you next time.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Jones insists that people donate what they can and reminds them, \u201cjust as I know your thoughts \u2026 Why don\u2019t you think that I know your money? I know what you\u2019re holding back, I know what you\u2019re blessed with.\u201d<\/p>\n

    After asking and cautioning and reminding the people of his powers, Jones end the tape with a veiled threat: \u201cif sixteen don\u2019t give generously, sixteen of you will have your own loved ones standing before an assistant public defender.\u201d<\/p>\n

    FBI Summary:<\/b><\/p>\n

    Date of transcription: 6\/21\/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 16, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B108-25. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

    Reverend JIM JONES holding a People\u2019s Temple service where he criticizes the efforts of other pastors to downgrade him. Healings and revelations are recounted.<\/p>\n

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

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

    Tape originally posted June 2010<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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