{"id":28069,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28069"},"modified":"2016-02-21T19:53:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T19:53:41","slug":"190-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28069","title":{"rendered":"Q190 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 preliminary tape identification note:<\/strong> Labeled in part \u201c10\/15\/78\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tape contents consistent with label<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nPresident Jimmy Carter
\nZbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor
\nRep. Ike Andrews (D-North Carolina)<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire
\nAgostinho Neto, President of Angola
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader in Zimbabwean Liberation Patriotic Front
\nRobert Mugabe, leader in Zimbabwean Liberation Patriotic Front
\nSamuel Nujoma, leader of SWAPO
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nAnwar Sadat, President of Egypt<\/p>\n

Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines
\nImelda Marcos, wife of Ferdinand Marcos (by reference)<\/p>\n

Sister Caridal, Filipino Catholic nun, leader of Marcos opposition
\nTheresa Rodriguez, leader of the Union of Democratic Filipinos
\nLloyd Wake, minister, community activist, in opposition to Marcos<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents, full name unknown:<\/em>
\nJackson (many people named Jackson)
\nKaren (likely Karen Layton)<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nJames Baisy
\nVernetta Christian
\nLoretta Cordell
\nClark Grubbs
\nPat Grunnett
\nMarthea Hicks
\nBernell Maurice Hines
\nNorman Ijames
\nRicky Johnson
\nMaria Katsaris
\nHelen Love
\nEarnestine March
\nLarry Schacht (speaks)<\/strong>
\nTeri Smart
\nDiane Wilkinson
\nPeter Wotherspoon<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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

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

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

This tape consists of two parts, although they may have been recorded on the same day. In Part 1, Jim Jones reads the news of 15 October 1978. In Part 2, Jones reads requests for assistance and notes of praise from individual members of the Jonestown community.<\/p>\n

Part 1 features Jones reading the news of the day. The principal \u2013 perhaps only \u2013 news service upon which he relies is Tass or another Soviet news agency. The tape begins in the midst of a statement of the Soviet Union\u2019s Communist Party as it celebrates an anniversary of the October 1917 revolution. A few minutes later, Jones reads a news item with language usually reserved to describe Western powers, but the words \u201cprovocation,\u201d \u201cintrusions,\u201d and \u201cprovocateurs\u201d are also used to characterize Chinese \u201cdisturbances against Vietnam territorial integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other news items include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Camp David \u201csell-out\u201d
\n\u2022 Demonstrations in New York against Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith\u2019s visit to the US
\n\u2022 Scheduled elections in Namibia
\n\u2022 The US military budget
\n\u2022 Protests against the regime of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Jim Jones includes some of his own editorial comments as he reads. After describing US military aid support for Marcos, even after the \u201cdictator\u2019s\u201d invocation of martial law, Jones adds, \u201cThat\u2019s where your [tax] money goes.\u201d And the adjectives used for Ian Smith \u2013 racist, fascist, sellout, butcher \u2013 are likely Jones\u2019.<\/p>\n

But he spends some time decrying the apathy of the left in the US and reminisces how much of an impact Peoples Temple had while it was in the States. Early in the tape, he remarks how \u201cshameful\u201d it was that there were not more protestors \u201cright at this moment\u201d protesting Ian Smith\u2019s presence in the country. A few minutes later, he describes the 30 marchers in Washington against the Marcos regime as \u201cnot even worth mentioning, but that\u2019s where US is with its apathy.\u201d As for the 35 marching in San Francisco \u2013 \u201csee? thirty-five people\u201d \u2013 he says that if the Temple was still in the Bay Area, \u201cit\u2019d been a thousand<\/em> thirty-five, at least.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe actually are the life, the pulse<\/em> of resistance in USA,\u201d he says. \u201cWe were the crowd<\/em>. We were the assemblies<\/em> at every speaking engagement at every left or progressive activity. It was Peoples Temple that had to produce the numbers.\u201d It was no wonder, he concludes, that they were \u201cthe brunt of so much harassment.\u201d<\/p>\n

In another longer aside, he extrapolates upon the US support of brutal regimes overseas such as Rhodesia and the Philippines, and considers\u00a0 \u201chow much more will they do to protect their own<\/em> home base when it becomes threatened as it now is with high inflation, cost of living, untold increase in unemployment and all sorts of racial antagonisms and ecological disturbances.\u201d He summarizes his thoughts later: \u201cSo again, as I say, we train for the Philippines, obviously they\u2019ll train for California and Kansas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe threat of genocide will then become much<\/em> more meaningful,\u201d he predicts. \u201cBecause somebody\u2019s got to go. Can\u2019t have unnecessary people on the streets, can\u2019t have people out of work\u2026 There\u2019ll be extermination and we\u2019ve certainly seen it begun.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Jones does in other tapes from this period, he tries to dissuade people from thinking about suicide. In the context of a young man who drank gasoline \u2013 the same context as elsewhere \u2013 Jones declares that the suicide of even one person in their community would give aid and comfort to the racists in America. He also reminds them that their mind would continue to live, even if the body dies, and the stigma of self-death would set the soul back \u201cfive hundred generations.\u201d These words are as familiar to the Jonestown community as the opposite message \u2013 pledges to die as a community \u2013 voiced during community meetings.<\/p>\n

Jones speaks of the miracles which Jonestown has witnessed in recent days \u2013 things that cannot happen \u201cunless there\u2019s one that has power above natural law as we now know it\u201d \u2013 and after he signs off from the reading of the news, Jonestown doctor Larry Schacht comes on to offer details of the medical miracles which everyone in the clinic has seen. These events are commonplace by now, Schacht says. \u201cThere\u2019s not a day goes by when [Jones\u2019] power doesn\u2019t save someone\u2019s life.\u201d To acknowledge that power, he concludes, each person in Jonestown \u201cshould turn to your neighbor now, turn to your neighbor and say three things which you are grateful for.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Part 2 of the tape, Jones reads several messages to him which seek advice. The section opens in mid-sentence, and whether the anger he expresses about a person who is defying the council \u2013 and thereby \u201cdefying me\u201d \u2013 is in response to a criticism someone has written about another community member or something he himself observed, is unknown. He urges people not to protest when they are brought up on the floor. \u201cYour worst enemy will give you your best criticism, and everybody has faults. So \u2026 you ought to be thankful that someone will step forward and tell you, something is wrong with you.\u201d Resistance to criticism is evidence of the worst crime in Jonestown: egotism or narcissism.<\/p>\n

At this point, he adds that he knows there are people who hate him, someone who \u201clooked like they were getting ready to stab<\/em> me the other day,\u201d but whether he had perceived some of the ill feelings among his followers and believed his own words or merely used them for theatrics to drive home a point, is also unknown.<\/p>\n

The section includes as many praises for people who take on hard or additional work as it contains issues of difficulty which Jones needed to address, and in that regard is typical of many of the catharsis sessions often held during nighttime community meetings.<\/p>\n

The tape closes with several snatches of non-contextual conversation, which demonstrate nothing more than the radio room\u2019s tendency to reuse tape.<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 6\/8\/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 28, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B69-16. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

JIM JONES reading radio Moscow and Havanna [Havana] radio news and an unknown male announcing two \u201cmiracle\u201d cures performed by JIM JONES. This is followed by JONES reading notes and announcements.<\/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 preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201c10\/15\/78\u201d Date cues on tape:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tape […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":59,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28069","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28069","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=28069"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66398,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28069\/revisions\/66398"}],"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=28069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}