{"id":28101,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28101"},"modified":"2021-10-22T11:06:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T18:06:20","slug":"248-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28101","title":{"rendered":"Q248 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 \u201c10\/1\/78 News\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Part 1 consistent with tape identification note; Part 2 specifies date as 16 September 78<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nPart 1<\/strong>
\nPresident Jimmy Carter
\nZbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor
\nJody Powell, White House Press Secretary
\nCyrus Vance, Secretary of State<\/div>\n
\n

U.S. Senator Gary Hart (D-CO)<\/p>\n

Adolf Hitler
\nJoseph Goebbels, propaganda minister of Nazi Third Reich<\/p>\n

Kurt Waldheim, UN Secretary General
\nPope John Paul I
\nLeonid Brezhnev, President of Communist Party of Soviet Union
\nAndrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister<\/p>\n

Robert Mugabe,\u00a0 leader of Zimbabwe Patriotic Front
\nJoshua Nkomo,\u00a0 leader of Zimbabwe Patriotic Front
\nMobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire
\nAgostinho Neto, Angolan President
\nMao Tse Tung, leader of People\u2019s Republic of China<\/p>\n

Anastasio Somoza, President of Nicaragua
\nGeneral Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile
\nDr. Salvador Allende, deposed President of Chile<\/p>\n

Syndicated columnist Rowland Evans
\nSyndicated columnist Robert Novak
\nMarvin Stone, editor of US News & World Report<\/em><\/p>\n

Part 2<\/strong>
\nPresident Jimmy Carter
\nVice President Walter Mondale
\nFormer President Richard Nixon<\/p>\n

U.S. Senator George McGovern (D-SD)
\nU.S. Senator John Stennis (D-MS)
\nUnita May Blackwell Wright, mayor of Mayersville, Mississippi<\/p>\n

Ant\u00f3nio de Oliveira Salazar, former prime minister of Portugal<\/p>\n

Chiang Kai-shek, President of Republic of China
\nMao Tse Tung, leader of People\u2019s Republic of China<\/p>\n

Robert Mugabe,\u00a0 leader of Zimbabwe Patriotic Front
\nJoshua Nkomo,\u00a0 leader of Zimbabwe Patriotic Front
\nIan Smith, Rhodesian Prime Minister<\/p>\n

Anastasio Somoza, President of Nicaragua<\/p>\n

Mervyn Dymally, Lieutenant Governor of California<\/p>\n

Thomas Dawsey, Kessler Air Force Base engineer (by reference)
\nLeon Joly, March Air Force Base engineer (by reference)
\nRedd Foxx, American entertainer
\nEmily Harris, member of Symbionese Liberation Army
\nJohn Harris, member of Symbionese Liberation Army
\nPatricia Hearst, newspaper heiress kidnapped by SLA
\nRobert Shaw, actor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Peoples Temple members<\/em>
\nPart 2<\/strong>
\nFlorida Johnson<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nPart 2<\/strong>
\nTeri Buford
\nJim McElvane<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIt is not yet said whether the [Zimbabwean] Patriotic Front will take [Ian] Smith\u2019s offer. Approached him like Nicodemous did by night.\u201d (John 3:1-21; also John 7:50-53, John 19-39)<\/div>\n

 <\/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

Jim Jones reads the news from two dates in Fall 1978. The first half of the tape is likely from 1 October 1978 (the initial tape identification note lists that date, and the news items are consistent), and when that newscast ends, another tape picks up during which Jones reads a news story with the specific dating \u201c[a]s of ten p.m. on September sixteenth.\u201d The two newscasts on the same tape \u2013 and the fact that the more recent newscast overlaps the older one \u2013 show that tapes were re-used over and again.<\/p>\n

Part 1 of the tape begins with Jim Jones reading a lengthy article from a Soviet \u2013 or pro-Soviet \u2013 publication on the dangers of warm relations and d\u00e9tente between the United States and China. While most of Jones\u2019 newscasts seem to be from several sources, such as Reuters and the BBC, beyond those from the Eastern Bloc, this commentary and much of the October reading has the single perspective. \u201cNo one in history has ever profited from taking the road of anti-Sovietism,\u201d Jones reads towards the end of the lengthy piece. \u201cToday, this is truer than ever. The Soviet Union is not<\/em> without means of defense.\u201d A moment later, Jones adds his own coda: \u201cThus ends the commentary on the dangers \u2013 the immense dangers \u2013 and short-sided gain of the present US and mainland China foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the news items Jones reads:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Arab reaction to Camp David summit
\n\u2022 UN resolution on the Namibian election
\n\u2022 Meeting of Organization of African Unity on Rhodesia and South Africa
\n\u2022 Friendship treaty between Zambia and Angola
\n\u2022 Attack of Nicaraguan military and police upon civilian populations
\n\u2022 Chilean junta supplied with arms from China
\n\u2022 Soviet cosmonauts set world endurance record for time in space<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Towards the end of Part 1, Jones describes the negotiations between Jonestown and high-ranking officials at the Soviet embassy in Georgetown as going \u201cvery, very well\u201d and speaks of their joint friendship and understanding. \u201cWe have made no mistake in making the Soviet Union our spiritual motherland,\u201d Jones says as the section concludes, but whether that \u201cspiritual\u201d connection is translating into concrete plans for the much-touted plans to emigrate is not revealed.<\/p>\n

Part 2 is the conclusion of a newscast from two weeks earlier. Among the items Jones discusses:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Police dogs used on blacks during riots in St. Louis
\n\u2022 Post office workers\u2019 threatened strike thwarted by federal court
\n\u2022 Earthquake in Taiwan
\n\u2022 President Carter opposes aircraft carriers advocated by Sen. John Stennis
\n\u2022 Entertainer Redd Foxx arrested
\n\u2022 Symbionese Liberation Army defendants sentenced
\n\u2022 Sen. George McGovern proposes wheat cartel
\n\u2022 Rhodesian government enters into serious negotiations with liberation forces
\n\u2022 General Dynamics to receive additional payments for submarines<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

As he does in other newscasts, Jones makes the lessons of the news applicable to what is going on in Jonestown. After reading the item about additional payments to General Dynamics \u2013 which he describes as a \u201cwelfare handout\u201d for a Fortune 500 company; \u201cWho are the real welfare cheats?\u201d he asks rhetorically \u2013 he points out how tax dollars are being used \u201cto kill our brothers and sisters across the world\u201d and says the news should instill them with \u201ca desire to work and help liberate our people and bring them here quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The newscast ends with a plea for Jonestown residents to supply names of family members and friends living in Southern California to the radio room so that they might help in a letter-writing campaign, because \u201c[t]here\u2019s new evidence that they\u2019ll be making moves in Los Angeles against some of our people.\u201d The plea includes another appeal to redouble their own personal efforts. \u201cLet us work in the fields and step up our production immensely so we can get them out of there. That\u2019s what we need to do, find ways of making money and get them out of there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both newscasts close with Jones\u2019 declaration of love for his people.<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 5\/29\/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 1B70-34. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

News of the day and commentary by JAMES JONES.<\/p>\n

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

Other than the fact that the news and commentaries come from two different days, 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 \u201c10\/1\/78 News\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28101","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28101","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=28101"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111868,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28101\/revisions\/111868"}],"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=28101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}