{"id":28087,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28087"},"modified":"2024-07-16T16:51:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T23:51:01","slug":"219-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28087","title":{"rendered":"Q219 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: <\/strong>Miscellaneous<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201c10\/31\/78 Entertainment\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 October 31, 1978 (note on tape box verified by tape contents)<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nLyndon Johnson, former U.S. president
\nRobert McNamara, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
\nDean Rusk, former U.S. Secretary of State
\nMaxwell Taylor, U.S. Army general and ambassador to S. Vietnam
\nGen. William Westmoreland, U.S. Army general in Vietnam<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

George Jackson, imprisoned Black Panther
\nAmiri Raraka, poet
\nVictor Jara<\/a>, Chilean poet, composer of song sung in Spanish<\/p>\n

Walter & Charlotte Baldwin, Marceline Jones\u2019 parents
\nTemple attorney Charles Garry
\nPeter Elsass, Danish filmmaker visiting Jonestown (speaks)<\/strong><\/div>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\n\u201cJonestown\u2019s Moms Mabley,” likely Bertha Cook (speaks)<\/strong>
\nMarthea Hicks (sings)<\/strong>
\nMarceline Jones (speaks)<\/strong>
\nDiana Wilkinson<\/div>\n

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

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

[Editor’s note: The editors of this site are grateful to Luis \u00c1ngel Gonz\u00e1lez Rocha for identifying and documenting the song “El Derecho de Vivir En Paz,”<\/a> which was composed<\/a> by\u00a0Chilean poet Victor Jara, and performed on this night in Jonestown.]<\/em><\/p>\n

This evening of entertainment in Jonestown consists principally of music, with some comedy, poetry, and dramatic readings added to it. Most of the songs performed by the Jonestown Express are covers of songs by, among others, Sam Cooke, the Jackson 5, Natalie Cole and Joe Cocker \u2013 sometimes with slight alterations to give them a more political message or to include references to Guyana, Jonestown, and Jim Jones \u2013 although there are one or two songs which may be original to the group. The dramatic readings are unabashedly political: a miner speaks of miserable working conditions, a political prisoner speaks of the inability of the \u201cpigs\u201d to shackle his mind, and a computer technician resists the effort to alter statistics from the Vietnam War to justify the slaughter and show a path to victory.<\/p>\n

There are several guests in attendance, including Marceline Jones\u2019 parents and a Danish documentary producer. The latter speaks briefly at the end of the tape about the experience of the people of Jonestown, who work in a socialist community rather than just talk about it.<\/p>\n

In introducing the producer, Marceline mentions that her husband would like to be with them that night, but he has been sick and suffered a heart attack a few days before, \u201cbut we know that he\u2019s going to be all right.\u201d She continues that Jonestown would not have been possible if it hadn\u2019t been for Jim Jones\u2019 vision, sacrifice and tenacity to see it through. \u201cI am indeed so grateful to say that I have lived to see Jonestown,\u201d she tells the crowd, which responds with warm applause.<\/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 1B70-5. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

A recording of an entertainment session in the People\u2019s Temple at Guyana.<\/p>\n

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

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

Tape originally posted March 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: Miscellaneous FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201c10\/31\/78 Entertainment\u201d Date […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":87,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28087","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28087","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=28087"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127850,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28087\/revisions\/127850"}],"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=28087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}