{"id":28080,"date":"2013-07-25T04:54:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T04:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28080"},"modified":"2026-02-24T16:25:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:25:53","slug":"209-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28080","title":{"rendered":"Q209 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 \u201cAug 30 News\u201d<\/p>\n

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

People named:<\/strong>
\nPublic figures\/National and international names:<\/em><\/p>\n

President Jimmy Carter
\nFormer President Richard Nixon
\nFormer President Gerald Ford
\nFormer President Dwight Eisenhower
\nFormer President John KennedyJody Powell, press secretary to Jimmy Carter
\nHenry Kissinger, former Secretary of State<\/p>\n

Vice President Walter Mondale
\nSen. Edward Brooke (R-MA)
\nSen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)
\nSen. Jesse Helms (R-NC)
\nSen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
\nSen. George McGovern (D-SD)
\nSen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH)
\nRep. Larry McDonald (R-GA)
\nRep. David Obey (D-WI)<\/p>\n

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall<\/p>\n

Jerry Brown, governor of California
\nSen. John Briggs, Calif. State senator<\/p>\n

David Owen, Foreign Minister of Great Britain
\nAlfredo Nobre da Costa, Prime Minister of Portugal
\nAnt\u00f3nio de Oliveira Salazar, former Prime Minister of Portugal
\nGiulio Andreotti, Prime Minister of Italy (by reference)
\nMarshall Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia
\nAdolf Hitler
\nPope John Paul II<\/p>\n

Menachem Begin, Israeli prime minister
\nAnwar Sadat, Egyptian president
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nJoshua Nkomo, Zimbabwe Patriotic Front
\nRobert Mugabe, Zimbabwe Patriotic Front
\nShah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
\nFelix Malloum, President of Chad
\nHiss\u00e8ne Habr\u00e9, Prime Minister of Chad
\nHussein Audrey (phonetic), deputy prime minister of Chad
\nMoammar Gaddafi, leader of Libya
\nJomo Kenyatta, president of Kenya<\/p>\n

Hua Kuo-fenj, chairman of Chinese Communist Party
\nPark Chung Hee, President of South Korea
\nChiang Kai-Shek, leader of Taiwan<\/p>\n

Nicaragua President Anastasio Somoza Garcia (by reference)
\nNicaragua President Luis Somoza Debayle (by reference)
\nNicaragua President Anastasio Somoza Debayle<\/p>\n

Forbes Burnham, Guyana Prime Minister
\nViola Burnham, wife of Forbes Burnham
\nArthur Chung, president of Guyana (by reference)
\nCheddi Jagan, leader of Guyana opposition party
\nHerbie Harper, brother of Viola Burnham
\nLeonard Duvant, Guyanese regional minister
\nSteve Naraine, Guyana newspaper reporter<\/p>\n

David Frost, British TV talk show host
\nPearl Henry, BBC commentator
\nTongsun Park, Korean businessman involved in scandal
\nAlfred Nobel, father of Nobel Peace Prize (by reference)<\/p>\n

Lizzie Borden, alleged axe murderess
\nTom Braden, political commentator
\nPat Buchanan, political commentator
\nHenry Fleming, Korean War POW
\nGeorge Gibson, Memphis man injured in tornado
\nJohn Joseph Cardinal Krol, Archbishop of Philadelphia (by reference)
\nMary Jo Kopechne, young woman who died at Chappaquiddick (by reference)
\nFloyd McKissick, leader of CORE (Congress on Racial Equality)
\nRalph Nader, consumer activist
\nElvis Presley, American entertainer<\/p>\n

Muhammad Ali, prizefighter
\nJoe Frazier, prizefighter
\nGeorge Foreman, prizefighter
\nLeon Spinks, prizefighter<\/p>\n

Dr. Carlton Goodlett, physician, newspaper publisher, Temple supporter
\nHarvey Milk
\nJack Lira, Harvey Milk\u2019s companion (by reference)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jonestown residents, full name unknown:<\/em>
\nComrade Jackson (many Jacksons in Jonestown)Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nJamal Baisy
\nEthel Belle
\nEugene Chaikin
\nLovie de Pina
\nJames Edwards
\nJames Ford, aka James Wade
\nTom Grubbs
\nJohnny Jones, aka Johnny Moss Brown
\nThomas David Kice 2nd
\nDaisy Lee (speaks)<\/strong>
\nDiane Lundquist (by reference)
\nJamal Lundquist, aka Antonio Jamal Patterson
\nRichard Tropp
\nBonnie Simon
\nJohn Victor Stoen
\nCharlie Touchette (speaks)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/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 Sarabeth Trujilllo. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Jim Jones reads the news of 30 August 1978. Among the news items he spends a little time with:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fighting in Lebanon
\n\u2022 A tour of the Chinese Prime Minister to the Near East and Europe
\n\u2022 The US foreign trade gap, deficit spending, and other economic woes
\n\u2022 Political unrest in Portugal
\n\u2022 Nicaraguan military bombing of towns in its own country
\n\u2022 The Briggs referendum on homosexuality in California
\n\u2022 Access of the alternative press to newsmakers
\n\u2022 Alleged bribery of US congressmen by Korean business and intelligence interests
\n\u2022\u00a0Tornado in Memphis<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

While Jones quotes periodically from the BBC, the Voice of Netherlands and even the Voice of America, the wire service he uses the most is Tass, the Soviet news agency. Some of the perspectives have an even greater pro-Soviet tilt than other newscasts of the period, especially as they relate to coverage of Chinese attempts to become a world power, and the tilt seems to derive from both the wire service reports and Jones\u2019 editorial interpretations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe say we\u2019re not pro-Soviet or pro-Chinese,\u201d Jones tells his followers early in the broadcast. \u201cWe say that the Soviets are fearful of Chinese expansionist aims in Europe. You understand? Chinese expansionist aims in Europe.\u201d After detailing some of the \u201cexpansionist\u201d plans \u2013\u00a0which includes China\u2019s separate treaties with Eastern Bloc nations \u2013 Jones quotes a news source as saying, \u201cChina is a threat to word peace. She is cleverly and cunningly dividing the Soviet alliance, she has cleverly divided the US alliances in NATO, and is distinctly<\/em> on the ascendancy as the major world power. And she holds no<\/em> fear, the fear of nuclear war has no meaning to China whatsoever, said the Voice of Holland. It will mean that the Cold War will get the chilliest ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of the other commentary is undoubtedly Jones\u2019, though, most of it spontaneous. After pointing out that the tornado in Memphis \u201cconfined itself only to the fast food services, the quick service restaurants,\u201d for example, Jones adds, \u201cI think that there\u2019s a dimension of mind \u2013 we\u2019ve talked so much about McDonald\u2019s \u2013 I wonder, by God, if maybe McDonald\u2019s didn\u2019t catch a little heat.\u201d Returning the subject later, he points out that much of the tornado\u2019s damage occurred along Elvis Presley Boulevard, and reminds the people of Jonestown that \u201cthe late Elvis Presley \u2026 was both a CIA and an FBI agent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, after describing the effects of the proposed Briggs proposition on the California ballot to ban homosexuals from teaching in public schools \u2013 and reading how Briggs himself interprets the potential impact of the measure \u2013 Jones offers his own reaction: \u201cThat\u2019s a nice climate, isn\u2019t it? Lovely climate in USA.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read less as a news item and more of an announcement, Jones tells of the death of Jack Lira, Harvey Milk\u2019s longtime companion. Jones speaks about the support that Milk has given to Peoples Temple, and assigns one of the community leaders to organize an effort to send sympathy notes and cards. \u201cWe want to send a lot of letters,\u201d Jones says.<\/p>\n

Much of the first half of the tape is not devoted to news, though, but rather to a means to hammer into Jonestown residents some basic information about their political patrons in Guyana\u2019s government. While the details of the incident leading to this demand are unclear, it is apparent that Jones and his staff have somehow been embarrassed by the general population\u2019s lack of knowledge, and that the incident is fresh in their minds. Who is the leader of Guyana (and Jonestown\u2019s patron)? What is his \u2013 and hence, Jonestown\u2019s \u2013 political party? What is the opposition party? Why don\u2019t we like it? What is the Doctrine of Three Worlds<\/a>? The questions and answers are repeated several times, followed by a notice that everyone \u2013 including children \u2013\u00a0will be asked these questions in the food line that night, and that people who don\u2019t know the right answers will be sent to the back of the line to try again. \u201cThat is it,\u201d one unidentified Jonestown leader says. \u201cYou\u2019re going to have to know one and possible all of these questions to order to get your dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 6\/11\/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 1B69-33. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

News and commentary by JIM JONES. News items included topics such as:<\/p>\n

1. West Germany
\n2. Hydrogen vehicles
\n3. Chinese Prime Minister HUA
\n4. U.S. trade deficit
\n5. Rhodesia<\/p>\n

The news was interrupted and JONES stated that people would have to pass a quiz before being allowed in the food line. The news then continued which included topics such as:<\/p>\n

6. Spinks \u2011 Ali fight
\n7. CARTER
\n8.\u00a0 Senator KENNEDY
\n9. Korea<\/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 \u201cAug 30 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":77,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28080","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28080","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=28080"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134029,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28080\/revisions\/134029"}],"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=28080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}