{"id":28057,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28057"},"modified":"2014-03-28T22:59:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T22:59:20","slug":"169-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28057","title":{"rendered":"Q169 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>. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1<\/a>, Pt. 2<\/a>).
\nTo return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue: <\/strong>Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201c11\/6\/78 News\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 November 6, 1978 (specified)<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nAdolf Hitler
\nBruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria<\/div>\n
Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
\nDr. Harlen Sung Jabi [phonetic], leader of Iranian National Front<\/p>\n

Idi Amin, dictator of Uganda
\nAnwar Sadat, President of Egypt
\nBishop Abel Muzorewa, leader of Zimbabwe independence
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nLeopold Senghor, president of Senegal
\nAli Abdullah Saleh, president of North Yemen<\/p>\n

Ferdinand Marcos, president of Philippines
\nImelda Marcos, wife of Ferdinand Marcos [by reference]<\/p>\n

Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India
\nMahatma Gandhi, Indian leader, practitioner of non-violence<\/p>\n

Teng Hsiao-ping, Premier of China
\nKriangsak Chomanan, Thailand Prime Minister [by reference]<\/p>\n

Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nStephan Gandhi Jones\n<\/div>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None<\/p>\n

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

Jim Jones reads the news to the Jonestown community. The stories include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Protests in the Arab world to the Camp David peace agreement;
\n\u2022 The handover of power from the Rhodesian government to black majority rule;
\n\u2022 A border dispute between China and Vietnam;
\n\u2022 The decision to release most martial law detainees in the Philippines;
\n\u2022 An agreement between the Australian government and aborigines on uranium mining;
\n\u2022 The U.S. detention of alleged Soviet spies;
\n\u2022 The potential for a commonwealth of French-speaking nations
\n\u2022 Famine in Zaire;
\n\u2022 Riots and protests to the rule of the Shah in Iran;
\n\u2022 Tensions between the African nations of Uganda and Tanzania;
\n\u2022 Executions in North Yemen;
\n\u2022 A public referendum on nuclear power plants in Austria;
\n\u2022 The return of Indira Gandhi to power in India;
\n\u2022 Trade talks between China and Thailand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition to the international aspects of the news and the issues which are covered, the rhetoric in the newscast demonstrates that Jones is using a Soviet wire service. The item about Red Cross relief programs to alleviate famine in Zaire includes the observation that \u201cThe Red Cross has been more<\/em> supported by the Soviet Union than any nation on earth today.\u201d The longer story about the alleged spying begins with the denunciation \u2013 \u201cSoviet delegates and authorities have described as monstrous<\/em>, the 50 years prison sentence passed on two<\/em> Soviet citizens in the United States, accused of spying without any evidence\u201d \u2013 and ends with the notation that the Soviet Union merely expels those who are accused of being spies for the U.S. The editorial comment that follows \u2013 \u201cShows who has mercy\u201d \u2013\u00a0is likely Jones\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Temple leader makes other editorial comments as well, although most have been repeated enough that they are familiar to the Jonestown population. He refers to several world leaders as dictators, but reserves most of his criticism for Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. \u201cThe lying honky continues. The white oppressor continues to break their promises\u2026 and they continue to lie between their teeth, supported and backed by U.S. Pentagon forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones\u2019 apocalyptic worldview also filters several times into his reading. In reporting a agreement between the Australian government and aborigines on uranium mining which will lead to production by 1982, he adds the caveat, \u201cif we don\u2019t have a nuclear war beforehand.\u201d In discussing America\u2019s increasing estrangement from the Near East and the African continent, he predicts the U.S. will lose access to oil and valuable minerals, and then \u201cAmericans will starve to death, because that\u2019s the way they make their money.\u201d<\/p>\n

As with other newscasts from the last months of Jonestown, Jones seems to have trouble reading the words before him. He has numerous long pauses, he repeats sentences or items he has just read \u2013\u00a0sometimes with the comment, \u201cas I said,\u201d as though it was worth repeating \u2013 and he has difficulty finding his place on the page. At one point he says, \u201cIt\u2019s hard for me to read my notes,\u201d but his struggle seems deeper than that.<\/p>\n

The newscast ends, as most of them do, with a plea to work hard, \u201cto make money, to save our people from slavery.\u201d His final words of the night are also typical: \u201cThank you, and I love you very much.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 5\/30\/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 May 24, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B68-20. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

A talk by JIM JONES concerning the Summit Peace Talks. He (JONES) states that Egypt and Israel sold out other countries. JONES also states that two Russians were arrested illegally by the United States.<\/p>\n

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

Other than the distinction that this is a newscast rather than a \u201ctalk,\u201d the summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.<\/p>\n

Tape originally posted March 2008<\/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. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue: Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201c11\/6\/78 News\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28057","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28057","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=28057"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59322,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28057\/revisions\/59322"}],"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=28057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}