{"id":28072,"date":"2013-07-25T04:54:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T04:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28072"},"modified":"2016-05-02T14:13:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T21:13:05","slug":"196-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28072","title":{"rendered":"Q196 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>: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201c25-Sept-78\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 News references consistent with identification<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJimmy Carter, U.S. President
\nRichard Nixon, former President
\nZbigniew Brzezinski, Carter\u2019s national security advisor<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Adolf Hitler
\nIdi Amin, dictator of Uganda
\nVictor Jara, Chilean singer<\/p>\n

Former Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) (by reference)
\nSen. James S. Eastland (D-Mississippi)
\nSen. John Stennis (D-Mississippi)<\/p>\n

Wallace Muhammad, founder of Nation of Islam
\nElijah Muhammad, longtime leader of Nation of Islam
\nLouis Farrakhan, then recently-appointed head of Nation of Islam
\nMuhammad Ali, professional boxer, follower of Nation of Islam<\/p>\n

Hal Becker, behavioral scientist at Tulane University
\nRobert Hodes, professor of neural physiology, fired by Tulane in 1953
\nEthel Rosenberg, executed U.S. spy
\nJulius Rosenberg, executed U.S. spy
\nPaul Robeson, American black actor, musician, activist<\/p>\n

George Orwell, author of 1984
\nHoratio Alger, 19th century author
\nDaniel Ellsberg, Defense Department worker who leaked Pentagon Papers
\nAlexander Pushkin, Russian author<\/p>\n

Adim Adalita Medina [phonetic], Puerto Rican nationalist
\nThomas E. Engel, assistant US attorney, New York
\nImari Obadele, President of the provisional government of the Republic of New Africa<\/p>\n

Edward Hanrahan, Cook County Illinois State Attorney
\nBernard Carey, Cook County Illinois State Attorney
\nDonald Freals [phonetic], Chicago police officer
\nWallace Davis, victim of police shooting
\nJohn Johnson, victim of police shooting
\nFred Hampton, assassinated Black Panther party leader
\nMark Clark, assassinated Black Panther party leader<\/p>\n

Benjamin Chavis, member of Wilmington Ten
\nWayne Moore, member of Wilmington Ten
\nConnie Tindall, member of Wilmington Ten
\nMarvin Patrick, member of Wilmington Ten<\/p>\n

William Kunstler, lawyer associated with radical causes
\nMark Lane, attorney
\nDon Freed, author and screenwriter<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Jonestown radio code:<\/em>
\nMrs. White (likely code for “final White Night”)<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nJohnny Brown
\nLuna Murral Buckley
\nPhyllis Chaikin, aka Phyllis Bloom
\nSharon Cobb
\nDonald James Fields (by reference)
\nTom Grubbs
\nPat Grunnett
\nJudy Ijames
\nNorman Ijames
\nSamuel Johnson
\nEliza Jones
\nStephan Jones
\nTim Jones
\nWanda King
\nCarolyn Moore Layton
\nCarolyn Looman
\nDiane Louie
\nMary Love, aka Mary Black
\nChristine Lucientes
\nAnnie Moore
\nDale Parks
\nOdell Rhodes
\nHarriet Sarah Tropp
\nAl Tschetter<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sodom and Gomorrah (numerous references throughout Bible)<\/p>\n

Babylon (numerous references throughout Bible)<\/p>\n

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

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

The first half of this tape is a news tape, with Jim Jones reading the news of the day, but then he turns to issue a series of instructions and stern warnings to the Jonestown community.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Wallace Muhammad leaving his post as the head of the Nation of Islam
\n\u2022 The arrest of a Puerto Rican independence activist
\n\u2022 The denial of a new trial over trumped-up murder charges for the president of the Republic of New Africa, a black separatist group
\n\u2022 The decision of a Chicago prosecutor not to prosecute a police officer who shot two black men
\n\u2022 The release of two members of the Wilmington 10 on parole and the efforts to pardon all ten<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As with other news tapes, Jones includes many editorial comments, with some coming through the news services which he uses as his sources of information \u2013 principally Soviet bloc in origin \u2013\u00a0 and some being his own. For example, the report that Wallace Muhammad\u2019s resignation followed \u201cserious charges and corroborations\u201d that he had been with the CIA during his years with the Nation of Islam likely came through a news service. The description of Muhammad as being among \u201cthese evil Judases\u201d is likely Jones\u2019.<\/p>\n

The daily briefing also includes a lengthier article about a scientist who is developing ways to plant subliminal messages in shoppers\u2019 brains, and the potential for abuse in using the same technology to call upon whites to kill blacks or socialists. The scientist first rose to prominence during the McCarthy era of the 1950s, when he denounced a colleague at Tulane University who had spoken out against racism and Jim Crow laws. The colleague was fired, Jones said, and after a six-year self-imposed exile, returned to the US a broken man, and died shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of lessons from the article for the people of Jonestown, which undoubtedly comes from Jones. The ability to plant these subliminal messages demonstrates how technology has developed faster than people\u2019s ability to fight it. \u201cUS has too<\/em> much technology,\u201d he says. \u201cTechnology is out of hand. \u2026 But that\u2019s the certainty that we face. That\u2019s why we must get as many people out to freedom as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n

The other is a theme that echoes through the balance of the tape: \u201cPeople talk about going back to the US today, going back to make changes. You must be out of your loving mind.\u201d The Jonestown suggestion box has apparently yielded several\u00a0 requests to consider returning to the States, and Jones chastises the people who submitted the proposals. Rather than writing to their relatives to encourage them to come to Jonestown, they have disobeyed Jones and instead want to go back. \u201cNow you have lost protection for the time being, and you must see the results of that in your own life,\u201d he warns. \u201cI lift my protection from you, so that you might learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are numerous other topics from the suggestion box that Jones addresses, spending several moments on each. He discusses the questions that people have raised about emigrating to the Soviet Union, especially the concerns about how black people would be treated in \u201cwhat is appeared<\/em> to be a white culture,\u201d and even more especially since there are places in Africa where they could go instead. Jones talks about the advantages that the Soviet Union has over Africa, the privileges and freedoms they would have. He then adds that there are 50 nationalities in the USSR, many of which are black. As a result, he says, \u201cracism as a problem has never<\/em> been noted\u2026. There is no anti-black feeling within that socialist community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones also issues a demand to the medical staff, although it is unclear whether this follows on a submitted suggestion or something he himself has noted. As part of his guarantee that all the people in the community have proper health care, he wants \u201cfull physicals done on everybody in this place.\u201d These need to happen quickly, he says, and insists that the medical staff train others to become \u201cbarefoot doctors\u201d \u2013 a concept he says he has discussed in the past and that he eventually raises in two later tapes, Q 359<\/a> and Q 309<\/a> \u2013 whereby, as he says here, \u201ceven lay people can be trained in simple diagnostic work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another issue discussed without context \u2013 he doesn\u2019t describe the circumstances or identify the person \u2013 Jones warns against \u201cever<\/em> [using] my<\/em> name as an excuse<\/em> for not<\/em> working when I haven\u2019t said one damn word to you, not giving you one instruction to do one damn thing to me.\u2026 [Y]ou better not quote my<\/em> name unless, by God, you know what you\u2019re dealing with.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are other instructions as well \u2013 adults should treat children with love, respect and affection; in order to teach Russian to the people of Jonestown more quickly, language tapes should be played over the PA system when Jones himself is not talking; people should not be afraid to review the decisions they have already made \u2013 and Jones issues them with a combination of threats and praise. In an illustration of what some surviving Jonestown residents describe as a mantra of the final months, to continually step up the pace of productivity and output, Jones reports on the praise of the medical clinic that he has heard from outsiders. But as good as it is, he says in the next breath, \u201cit is no<\/em> excuse for us not to be doing the best<\/em> job in the world. Though we do a good job, we need to be doing the best job in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The other recurring theme is Jones\u2019 continuing reports of his own infirmities and illness, and how he rises above them. He has a temperature, he says early in the tape, but \u201cI continue with my work and writings, or getting some preparations for memoirs that\u2019ll be later used for the glorification of this community, and I work, and I\u2019m on this telephone carrying business with the radio on every minute, and go out from time to time to stroll to see how people are doing their work.\u201d Later, in castigating the disorganization and wasted time of others, he says, \u201cBy God, I<\/em> push myself when I\u2019ve got a temperature of 104 and 105, and I want to get the hell out of this damn lethargy and running around in circles and get our ass together.\u201d The subject comes up several more times in the hour long tape.<\/p>\n

FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/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 26, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B69-21. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

News of the day talk by JIM JONES regarding topics such as:<\/p>\n

1. Nation of Islam<\/p>\n

2. Work\/discipline problems in the community<\/p>\n

3. Tulane University in New Orleans and subliminal message experiments by HAL BECKER<\/p>\n

4. Joint FBI\/U.S. Postal Inspector arrest of MEDINA<\/p>\n

5. Republic of New Africa<\/p>\n

6. Conduct of people when guests visit, specifically JONES opined the people take advantage of the visit to do less work<\/p>\n

7. Mosquitos [Mosquitoes]<\/p>\n

8. Physical examinations\/barefoot Doctors<\/p>\n

9. USSR<\/p>\n

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

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

Tape originally posted December 2009<\/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 \u201c25-Sept-78\u201d Date […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":64,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28072","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28072","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=28072"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66401,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28072\/revisions\/66401"}],"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=28072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}