{"id":28090,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28090"},"modified":"2016-02-25T23:46:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T23:46:35","slug":"227-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28090","title":{"rendered":"Q227 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 \u201c9-21-78 News\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Contents of tape consistent with tape identification note<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nPart 1<\/strong>
\nDon Freed, screenwriter
\nCarlton Goodlett, San Francisco newspaper publisher
\nMark Lane, Temple attorney
\nJoe Mazor, private detective (by reference)<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Part 3<\/strong>
\nPresident Jimmy Carter
\nFormer President John F. Kennedy
\nCyrus Vance, Secretary of State
\nHenry Kissinger, former Secretary of StateKurt Waldheim, Secretary General of the UN
\nAldo Moro, Prime Minister of Italy<\/p>\n

Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (by reference)
\nMenachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel
\nAnwar Sadat, President of Egypt
\nKing Hussein of Jordan
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front
\nJohannes Vorster, South African Prime Minister<\/p>\n

Salvador Allende, former President of Chile
\nOrlando Letelier, former Chilean Ambassador to US
\nAlvin Ross D\u00edaz, accused assassin of Orlando Letelier (by reference)
\nGuillermo Novo Sampoll, accused assassin of Orlando Letelier (by reference)
\nIgnacio Novo Sampoll, accused assassin of Orlando Letelier (by reference)
\nAnastasio Somoza, President of Nicaragua
\nForbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana<\/p>\n

Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower
\nMartin Luther King
\nJames Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther king
\nFrank Rizzo, Mayor of Philadelphia (by reference)
\nDr. Abraham Weinberg, New York psychiatrist
\nDr. Marvin Zaporin, Chicago psychiatrist
\nDr. Peter Martin, professor of psychiatry, University of Michigan<\/p>\n

Charles Gain, San Francisco police chief
\nHoward Jarvis, co-author of Proposition 13
\nPaul Gann, co-author of Proposition 13<\/p>\n

Angela Davis, university professor
\nCarlton Goodlett, San Francisco newspaper publisher
\nDon Freed, screenwriter
\nMark Lane, Temple attorney<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nPart 1<\/strong>
\nPat Grunnett
\nLula Ruben<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Part 2<\/strong>
\nTeresa KingPart 3<\/strong>
\nMaria Katsaris<\/p>\n<\/div>\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 three distinct sections separated by edits, but it is conceivable, even likely, that the entire tape was recorded in a single day, 21 September 1978.<\/p>\n

In Part 1, Jim Jones gives instructions to the Jonestown community about what to do \u2013 and what not to do \u2013 when some unnamed guests arrive. He is unable to receive the visitors himself, he says on several occasions, because he has a high temperature, although his voice is stronger here than it is on many occasions during Jonestown\u2019s final months.<\/p>\n

He suggests that the people leading the tour of Jonestown show off the clinic and tell the guests about the number of people they\u2019ve treated, to talk about the good food they eat, to take them to the educational facilities, and especially to highlight their successes in agriculture, even in the soil that \u201cthe United Nations said \u2026 would grow nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones also tells people what not to say. He says that seniors often do agricultural work, but that they don\u2019t have to, even if everyone else does, and \u2013 as a postscript \u2013 says, \u201cthat\u2019s going to be the case, you can believe when I get things in control\u2026 Don\u2019t be talking about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones stage-manages a bit of choreography here. When the visitors are in the school, he wants the teacher to have the children \u201cspontaneously\u201d rehearse language lessons. Elsewhere, he proposes visible interaction between children and seniors: \u201chave some children walking with seniors, have some seniors doing things with children, teaching them and have children reading to seniors.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also coaches them on what to say about their politics. \u201cSo say we love Guyana and then talk about racism a bit. How bad it is [in the US], what it\u2019s meant to live there\u2026 But we\u2019re not here to fight America, we\u2019re here to build in peace.\u201d Finally, he offers instructions on what to say about the conspiracy against them.<\/p>\n

The second part of the tape is a warning to people who gossip about the Jonestown relationship committee, but there is a more fundamental message that Jones has repeated elsewhere: romance and love get in the way of people\u2019s devotion to socialism and to the causes and success of Jonestown. Relationships mean that people lean on each other to fulfill their needs, and by definition, \u201cany time you have to lean on someone, obviously you are not as strong as one who doesn\u2019t lean.\u201d Communism requires them to love each other equally. \u201cI never would allow myself to get in love with anybody, because it would interfere with the love of everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

The third and longest part of the tape is devoted to news and commentary of the day. Among the subjects Jones spends some time with:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dollar plunges to a postwar low
\n\u2022 US Supreme Court allows searches of student newspaper offices
\n\u2022 California cuts SSI payments
\n\u2022 Longshoremen in US block shipment of bomb parts to Chile
\n\u2022 Members of Chilean secret police to be extradited to US
\n\u2022 Arab reaction to Camp David
\n\u2022 West Bank settlements
\n\u2022 Somoza\u2019s police murder of civilians in Nicaragua
\n\u2022 Rhodesian soldiers enter Mozambique in pursuit of Zimbabwean liberation forces<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

As with most of the newscasts, Jones sprinkles his opinions and commentary throughout the stories. Many are one- or two-word descriptions \u2013 the Chilean government is a \u201cfascist junta,\u201d the Camp David accord is a \u201csellout,\u201d Ian Smith\u2019s government in Rhodesia is a \u201cwhite racist regime\u201d \u2013 but others are more substantive.<\/p>\n

His discussion of the declining dollar, for example, leads to a brief deconstruction of capitalist theory and his conclusion about the \u201ccontradiction of capitalism that finally brings down the system.\u201d When he reports that President Carter has promised Arab nations of the Middle East that there will be no more Israeli settlements, he predicts the \u201cUS will break this promise as they \u2026 did all the treaties that they\u2019ve made with the American native, the American Indian.\u201d He also follows thoughts in a stream-of-consciousness manner several times, on one occasion taking a prediction of nuclear holocaust to US production of neutron bombs, to the lifting of the ban on weapons shipments to Rhodesia, to arms sales to South Africa.<\/p>\n

His critique of capitalism returns throughout the tape. The world\u2019s troubles in Africa and South America can be laid at the feet of capitalist greed. The state of Israel is a capitalist \u201cscheme\u201d to divide Jews. The United States consumes so much of the world\u2019s resources because its economic system is capitalist. \u201cIt is not right,\u201d he concludes. \u201cCapitalism is immoral, it is criminal, it is sinful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, he draws direct lessons from different news stories to the people of Jonestown. In talking about the cut in SSI payments, and the underlying cause for California voter approval of Proposition 13 the previous summer, for example, he reminds his followers, \u201cso you who have come to live here have lost nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones spends the most time talking about the popularity of science fiction. It\u2019s easy to see why, he says. Science fiction gives facile answers to difficult questions, it presents good and bad in simple terms, it offers an alternative to what he believes is the inevitability of nuclear war, and it fulfills the role that religion used to by emphasizing moral themes. As Karl Marx remarked about religion, though, science fiction is an \u201copiate.\u201d But true socialists do not look to space for their answers, whether in the form of God or intelligent civilizations. \u201cSocialists [are] realist. Realists do not dream. We work with our hands and believe in our minds and believe in only the evolution of socialism.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 6\/27\/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 29, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B70-13. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

News and commentary concerning the current events of the world to the people of Jonestown People\u2019s Temple.<\/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 \u201c9-21-78 News\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":95,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28090","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28090","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=28090"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66417,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28090\/revisions\/66417"}],"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=28090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}