{"id":28104,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28104"},"modified":"2020-05-01T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T22:53:14","slug":"260-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28104","title":{"rendered":"Q260 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>. To listen to MP3, click here<\/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 \u201cNews Oct 10\u201d<\/p>\n

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

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nPresident Jimmy Carter
\nRep. Charles Diggs, Jr. (D-MI)
\nRep. Charles Diggs, Sr. (D-MI) (by reference)
\nHenry Kissinger, former Secretary of State<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

James Callaghan, Prime Minister of Great Britain
\nDavid Owen, Foreign Minister of Great Britain
\nMargaret Thatcher, leader of Conservative Party in Great BritainEnrico Berlinguer, leader of Italian Communist Party
\nLeonid Brezhnev, leader of Soviet Union
\nMarshall Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia
\nLouis de Guiringaud, Foreign Minister of France (by reference)<\/p>\n

Moshe Dayan, Israeli foreign minister
\nJulius Nyerere, President of Tanzania
\nAnwar Sadat, Egyptian president
\nElias Sarkis, President of Lebanon (by reference)
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nJohannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (by reference)<\/p>\n

Huang Hua, Foreign Minister of China (by reference)<\/p>\n

Forbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana
\nSalvador Allende, former President of Chile
\nAnastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaragua President<\/p>\n

Byron Barber, New York Times reporter (phonetic)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:<\/em>
\nTim Stoen<\/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 Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/i><\/p>\n

This tape consists of two parts: Part 1 is a short undated announcement from Jim Jones that some residents of the Jonestown community are going into Georgetown to file affidavits against Tim Stoen in support of their defamation suits against him. The detractors thought Jonestown would fall apart, Jones says, but it hasn\u2019t and it won\u2019t. The message ends with an exhortation to step up production and continue to prove the detractors wrong.<\/p>\n

In Part 2, Jones reads the news of 10 October 1978, and offers periodic commentary. Among the news items he spends a little time with:<\/p>\n

\u2022 US and Rhodesia seek all-parties conference
\n\u2022 Arab reaction to Camp David
\n\u2022 British military aid to Zambia
\n\u2022 South African government rules out black majority rule
\n\u2022 Shaky ceasefire in Lebanon
\n\u2022 Resignation of US arms negotiator
\n\u2022 Chinese envoy meets with Italian and British leaders
\n\u2022 Charles Diggs, convicted of kickbacks, surrenders congressional duties
\n\u2022 Top censored news stories of the year
\n\u2022 Somoza\u2019s refusal to resign leadership of Nicaragua<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

The newscasts are serious business for Jonestown residents, as Jones himself notes at one point early in the tape. While it is unclear what he has just seen, he interrupts himself to call out, \u201cBetter stop and listen to the news. Don\u2019t turn me off. It\u2019ll hurt you. It\u2019s you that has to take five extra days of classes if you fail.\u201d<\/p>\n

As is the case with many of the newscasts from this period, Jones relies upon Soviet wire services for most of his information, although he also quotes BBC on occasion. Most of the editorial comments are his own, though, and most of the comments have become familiar to the people of Jonestown. He refers to both Rhodesia\u2019s prime minister and Nicaragua\u2019s president as \u201cdictators\u201d and their governments as \u201cfascist\u201d, he calls the Camp David accord between Egypt and Israel a \u201csell-out,\u201d he attaches the word \u201cimperialist\u201d to almost every mention of the US or a Western European power, and he praises the Soviet Union as the \u201cavant garde\u201d of world liberation.<\/p>\n

Other comments seem to be more spontaneous. After reading an item noting the US need to support the South African apartheid government, he adds, \u201cThat\u2019s true. That\u2019s why US will do anything. They\u2019ll murder half of black Africa, if they could, to be able to save it so they could exploit its minerals.\u201d<\/p>\n

He interjects a couple of comments about Rep. Diggs\u2019 surrender of his congressional duties. While his conviction was a \u201csad thing,\u201d it is also illustrative of the racism in the US, because \u201cevery white Senator does the same thing and does it even more atrociously.\u201d A moment later, he blames the conviction upon the climate of the times. \u201cHis father [Rep. Charles Diggs, Sr.] before him was a congressman and was treated in the same way but there was more black solidarity in those days and his father beat off the charges\u2026 Where is the solidarity of our people?\u201d<\/p>\n

He also raises the specter of nuclear holocaust as punctuation marks to two unrelated stories, expanding upon it more on an item of growing Chinese influence in the world. \u201cChina is basing her entire doctrine [Doctrine of Three Worlds<\/a>], you know, on the absolute fact that nuclear war will come, and she knows that US has no underground shelters. So USA will disappear from the face of the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even as he closes the newscast, he offers one more indication of why the people of Jonestown should never want to return home. After describing the Nicaraguan government\u2019s dependence on the US for survival, he concludes, \u201cBut that\u2019s USA imperialism. There\u2019s no longer any guessing about it. You can just see it acting right out in the open. US fascism is no longer subtle. It\u2019s as open as the air that we breathe.\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 30, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B93-6. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

A recorded message to the workers at Jonestown to step up productions and the news of the day by JIM JONES.<\/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. To listen to MP3, click here. 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 \u201cNews Oct 10\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28104","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28104","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=28104"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97674,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28104\/revisions\/97674"}],"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=28104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}