{"id":28063,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28063"},"modified":"2020-04-21T11:25:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T18:25:29","slug":"182-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28063","title":{"rendered":"Q182 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<\/b> Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part “10\/8\/78, 10\/9\/78”<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/b> October 9, 1978 (notation on tape box, specifically confirmed in context)<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nVladimir Lenin, leader of the Russian revolution
\nMao Tse Tung, Chinese communist leader
\nSalvador Allende, assassinated president of Chile
\nAugusto Pinochet, Chilean general who deposed Allende
\nPatrice Lumumba, assassinated premier of Republic of the Congo
\nElias Sarkis, President of Lebanon (by reference)
\nHafez al-Assad, President of Syria (by reference)
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nMoishe Dayan, Israeli Foreign Minister
\nMenachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister
\nAnastasio Somoza, Nicaraguan President
\nForbes Burnham, Guyanese Prime Minister<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

U.S. President Jimmy Carter
\nU.S. Vice President Walter Mondale
\nU.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Paul Robeson, American actor
\nJulius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed on charges of espionage
\nMoisei Markov, Soviet nuclear scientist
\nDr. Nikolai, Soviet doctor who visited Jonestown
\nSan Francisco Mayor George Moscone
\nVictor Jara, singer<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jonestown residents, full name unknown:<\/em>
\nHenry (several in Jonestown, probably Mercer)
\nMom Jackson (numerous elderly women in Jonestown named Jackson)<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nSteve Addison
\nThomas Charles Beikman
\nLena Benton
\nMillie Cunningham
\nIsaac Edwards
\nKim Fry
\nDavid Goodwin
\nCamella Griffith
\nGloria Griffith
\nJann Gurvich
\nAlice Inghram
\nAva Ingram
\nBea Jackson
\nRobert Johnson
\nSamuel Johnson
\nTeresa King
\nKaren Layton
\nEarl McKnight
\nOliver Morgan
\nFairy Norwood
\nRose Peterson
\nLaurence Schacht (speaks)<\/b>
\nLouise Shavers
\nBertha Smith
\nRobert Stroud
\nCleave Swinney
\nVirginia Taylor
\nScott Thomas
\nCharles Touchette
\nHarriet Sarah Tropp
\nTeena [Bogue] Turner
\nWalter Williams<\/div>\n

 
\nBible verses cited:<\/b> None<\/p>\n

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

This tape consists of a series of announcements and reading of the news by Jim Jones, followed by an impassioned plea about everything Jones has done for the people of Jonestown \u2014 including the miracles that has saved the lives of many of them \u2014 spoken by the community\u2019s doctor, Larry Schacht. Only one section of the tape mentions a specific date \u2014 October 9, 1978, or about six weeks before the deaths in Jonestown \u2014 but the news items and the general tone of frustration and desperation throughout the whole tape suggests that all the segments may have been recorded on the same day, and that the breaks represent nothing more than lengthy edits.<\/p>\n

The tape begins with Jim Jones issuing instructions to the community. He reminds supervisors that they are responsible for how the people in their departments act towards guests to Jonestown. He tells everyone that, just because one person doesn\u2019t act like a socialist, that doesn\u2019t give anyone an excuse to shirk his or her own duties. “If there was only one<\/i> socialist here, that ought to be you. It\u2019s your responsibility.” He also repeats his admonition that it is the socialist way to accept criticisms, because your worst enemy will give you the best criticism on how you can improve, no matter how imperfect your enemy might be. “You take what they got to say, because always<\/i> they\u2019ll have something to offer you\u2026 Quit looking for the lowest around here to judge yourself by. Look to the highest.”<\/p>\n

The section following the instructions is a reading of the news, reported and read through a socialist perspective. News items include:<\/p>\n

    \u2022 The neutron bomb (including opposition to it) and disarmament issues;<\/ol>\n

    \u2022 U.N. consideration of strategic offensive weapons;<\/p>\n

    \u2022 The Camp David peace accords, and other news from the Middle East;<\/p>\n

    \u2022 Rhodesia and South Africa;<\/p>\n

    \u2022 The conflict between Cambodia and Vietnam;<\/p>\n

    \u2022 Flooding in South Asia;<\/p>\n

    \u2022 Tension in Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua, followed by a Guyanese perspective on its neighboring countries;<\/p>\n

    \u2022 Chinese copper sales to Chile (which Jones refers to as “another blunder of China\u2019s foreign policy, supporting fascist regimes”);<\/p>\n

    \u2022 A Soviet spy trial;<\/p>\n

    \u2022 Saving the whales;<\/p>\n

    \u2022 Brutality of the Memphis police.<\/p>\n

    Jones adds his own editorial comments throughout the reading, and he often finds a way to turn an item of international news into an object lesson for the people of Jonestown. In speaking of how the U.S. reneged on its commitment to black majority rule in Rhodesia, he adds, “but the words of the USA means nothing. I don\u2019t understand how any of you could consider to want to go back to that vomit.” Expanding upon that, he declares that they all would be murderers if they went back, by virtue of the fact that they assist U.S. murderers when they buy anything and pay American taxes. “You should feel ashamed of yourself, if you feel no guilt this morning,” he concludes the item. “That\u2019s my opinion.”<\/p>\n

    He ends the news reading with an exhortation for everyone to work harder, and to try to increase productivity by 20% in a ten-hour shift. “You can do it,” he says. “If you do that, then that will reduce your hours per day.”<\/p>\n

    The next section follows a visit from a Soviet delegation, which included a lawyer, a doctor, and an engineer. Jones lauds the Soviet medical technology as being superior to that in the U.S., especially since the Soviets have found a way to revive the dead. That\u2019s good news for everyone, including Jim Jones. If he finds he can\u2019t revive someone, it will be okay, he says, because the doctor will be able to do it. He uses the occasion of the Soviets\u2019 visit to remind everyone to be friendly to each other and to smile.<\/p>\n

    The second half of the tape, and the entirety of the last section, consists of Larry Schacht, the Jonestown doctor, “remind[ing] you of some of the miracles that have occurred here in Jonestown, some of the miracles that Dad\u2019s performed.” He then lists 30 people by name who have been healed through Jones\u2019 interventions, and how Schacht has been astounded by the healings. But, he adds, the healings come with a cost. Jones takes the pain into his own body, Schacht says, and it drains his resources. He needs rest, but he cannot get any. For that reason, Schacht says, people need to leave him alone, and spare him the petty grievances and minor complaints.<\/p>\n

    Schacht describes a variety of miracles, ranging from healing an injury to curing a disease, to making a diagnostic of a condition that required medical treatment. The doctor refers to several occasions on which Jones described what was wrong with someone, and then sent the patient to Georgetown for surgery or other medical procedures. Sometimes the medical emergency was severe enough that Jones ordered the evacuation of the patient via airplane to Georgetown, which of course comes as a great financial cost to the community.<\/p>\n

    Some of the miracles are quieter, Schacht continues. Jones heals people without telling anyone he\u2019s doing it. He just does it, without calling people out.<\/p>\n

    As a result of these miracles, Schacht says, everyone should “be careful about thinking about anything else than Dad\u2019s power and the protection he\u2019s given us by being here.”<\/p>\n

    Not everyone has been saved by “Dad\u2019s” healing powers, and there have been a few deaths in Jonestown. These were people who called out on Jesus to save them, rather than calling out to Jim Jones. Others who have been “lying deathly ill” have wanted to go back to the Babylon of the USA, even though they have to know “they would be thrown in prison, the concentration camps<\/a>, and tortured.”<\/p>\n

    Finally, on a more traditional note, Schacht reminds people of the preventive medical care and maintenance they receive in Jonestown. People get regular check-ups to monitor their blood pressure, for example, so if something starts to go wrong, they\u2019ll catch it early enough for remedy and correction. And, Schacht adds, Jones provides the medications \u2014 at great expense \u2014 to take care of these chronic conditions.<\/p>\n

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

    Date of transcription: 6\/7\/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 25, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B69-8. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

    Talk covering numerous miscellaneous topics by JIM JONES such as cloud seeding, instructions to Socialism and Monday News broadcast re news topics such as the Neutron bomb, world peace, sale of copper to China from Chile, and U.S. spy trial of two Soviet United Nations employees.<\/p>\n

    Broadcast by unidentified male individual re miracles performed by JIM JONES.<\/p>\n

    Readings of letters to DAD from individuals by JIM JONES.<\/p>\n

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

    The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes, with one difference: The last entry to the FBI\u2019s description of this tapes \u2014 reading of letters from “Dad” \u2014 does not appear anywhere on the tape.<\/p>\n

    Tape originally posted February 2003<\/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 “10\/8\/78, 10\/9\/78” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":51,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28063","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28063","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=28063"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97458,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28063\/revisions\/97458"}],"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=28063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}