{"id":28062,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28062"},"modified":"2016-02-21T19:47:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T19:47:29","slug":"181-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28062","title":{"rendered":"Q181 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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note:<\/strong> Labeled in part \u201cNews 10\/31\/78\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Date specified on tape matches label<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nPresident Jimmy Carter
\nFormer President John F. Kennedy
\nZbigniew Brzezinski, Carter\u2019s national security advisor<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Rep. John Burton (D-CA)
\nMervyn Dymally, California Lt. Governor
\nState Sen. John Briggs
\nHarvey Milk, San Francisco supervisor<\/p>\n

Ed Koch, mayor of New York City<\/p>\n

Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba
\nJose Lopez Portillo, president of Mexico<\/p>\n

Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister
\nAdolf Hitler<\/p>\n

Idi Amin, President of Uganda
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader in Zimbabwean Liberation Patriotic Front
\nRobert Mugabe, leader in Zimbabwean Liberation Patriotic Front
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nPatrice Lumumba, prime minister of Congo
\nJulius Nyerere, President of Tanzania
\nHaile Selassie I, emperor of Ethiopia
\nMenachim Begin, Prime Minister of Israel
\nAnwar Sadat, President of Egypt
\nYasser Arafat, leader of Palestinian Liberation Organization
\nMohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran<\/p>\n

Takeo Fukuda, Prime Minister of Japan<\/p>\n

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

Anita Bryant, former Miss America, active in anti-gay movement (by reference)
\nJudith Hart, British overseas development minister
\nVictor Jara<\/a>, Chilean poet and singer, opponent of 1973 coup
\nJohn O\u2019Donnell, Air Line Pilots Association
\nSidney Schwartz, comptroller of New York Emergency Financial Control Board
\nEdgar Spear, chair of US Steel
\nValdik Enger, Soviet UN employee, convicted of spying
\nRudolf Chernayev, Soviet UN employee, convicted of spying<\/p>\n

Don Freed, screenwriter
\nCharles Garry, Temple attorney
\nCarlton Goodlett, newspaper publisher, doctor
\nMark Lane, Temple attorney<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents, full name unknown:<\/em>
\n\u201cyoung Klingman\u201d (three young men in Klingman family)<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cOh, the pain, when one is a internationalist\u2026 we all must be our brother and sister\u2019s keeper\u2026 You are your comrade\u2019s keeper.\u201d (Genesis 4:9, \u201cThen the LORD said to Cain, \u2018Where is Abel your brother?\u2019 He said, \u2018I do not know. Am I my brother\u2019s keeper?\u2019\u201d)<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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

(Note<\/strong>: This tape was transcribed by Freya Kory. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Jim Jones reads the news of 31 October 1978.<\/p>\n

Among the news items:<\/p>\n

\u2022 US Senate approves neutron bomb
\n\u2022 Air crash in San Diego could have been avoided
\n\u2022 Proposal to reopen steel mill under worker control is communism, official says
\n\u2022 Soviet employees of UN convicted of spying
\n\u2022 Arab League considers expulsion of Egypt over Camp David accords
\n\u2022 Paris and Brazil crippled by strikes
\n\u2022 USSR supplies Cuba with MIG aircraft
\n\u2022 Japan and Mexico reach deal on oil<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

As with other newscasts of the period, Jones seems to be relying most heavily upon Soviet and Eastern Bloc agency newswires, although most of the commentary reflects Jones\u2019 worldview rather than one associated with a political or national ideology. An item about relatively simple measures which the airline industry could adopt to avoid collisions notes that the number of air passengers will greatly increase in the near future, to which Jones adds his observation, \u201cunless there\u2019s a nuclear holocaust which many fear will be the case.\u201d Moments later, while discussing the more germane subject of the Senate approval of the neutron bomb, Jones comments, \u201cThat\u2019s how little concern there is for human life and the dangers that menace the world through nuclear war. The increasing tensions that are bound, finally, to bring down, at least those in North America and Europe, widespread death throughout USSR and China.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sometimes, though, a news item leads the Temple leader to offer a message of hope and inspiration. He asks the people of Jonestown to look at martyrs of leftist causes, describing them as \u201cgreat heroic efforts of the human spirit.\u201d Without those who are willing to die for their belief in socialism, he says, \u201chuman beings would be nothing above the animals. There\u2019d be no purpose to life and there could be no meaning to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Jones does in other tapes, he periodically uses a news story to offer a comparison between lives of desperation elsewhere in the world and the benefits of living in Jonestown. Children in Thailand are forced to work under slave conditions, for example, often after being sold to factories by their starving parents, but in Jonestown, people look after each other and have sufficient food and medical care. \u201cSo that\u2019s the kind of care that\u2019s given to you, and we all should take gratitude for it, while two out of three babies go to bed hungry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even as Jones laments the pain of being \u201can internationalist,\u201d he invites the community to think about that type of existence and to be grateful for what they have. He says he is not interested in expressions of thanks to him, but he does ask recognition of what he\u2019s done, and a commitment to work harder so that others may join them. \u201cYou have a debt to pay\u2026,\u201d he says in the tape\u2019s closing minute, \u201cso let us now pass that goodwill on.\u201d<\/p>\n

FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/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 May 30, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B69-7. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

A recorded reading of current world events by JIM JONES. The remaining portions of the tape were blank and appeared to contain no items of an evidentiary nature.<\/p>\n

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

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

Tape originally posted April 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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201cNews 10\/31\/78\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28062","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28062","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=28062"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66393,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28062\/revisions\/66393"}],"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=28062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}