{"id":28125,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28125"},"modified":"2016-02-28T16:22:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T16:22:14","slug":"315-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28125","title":{"rendered":"Q315 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\u00a0<\/b>Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note:\u00a0<\/b>Labeled in part “9\/20\/78”<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tape contents consistent with label<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/i>
\nJimmy Carter, President of US
\nGerald Ford, former president
\nNelson Rockefeller, former vice president
\nJohn F. Kennedy, assassinated president<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Sen. Edward Brooke (R-Mass.)
\nformer Sen. Robert Kennedy, assassinated senator
\nSen. Robert Byrd (D-WV)
\nRep. Louis Stokes (D-OH)<\/p>\n

David Boren, Democratic candidate for Oklahoma Senate seat
\nEd Edmondson, defeated Democratic candidate for Oklahoma Senate seat
\nEd King, Democratic candidate for Massachusetts governorship
\nMike Dukakis, governor of Massachusetts<\/p>\n

Griffin Bell, U.S. Attorney General
\nJames Schlesinger, U.S. Secretary of Defense
\nCyrus Vance, U.S. Secretary of State
\nRay Marshall, U.S. Secretary of Labor<\/p>\n

Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt
\nMenachim Begin, prime minister of Israel
\nKing Hussein of Jordan<\/p>\n

Steve Biko, South African political prisoner
\nJohannes Vorster, prime minister of Republic of South Africa
\nPretoria’s Chief Magistrate Marthinius Prins (phonetic)<\/p>\n

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

Forbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana
\nCheddi Jagan, leader of People’s Progressive Party, Guyana opposition party
\nJanet Jagan, wife of Cheddi Jagan
\nRobert Corbin, First Vice Chairman of PNC
\nRashleigh Jackson, Guyana Minister of Foreign Affairs<\/p>\n

Martin Luther King, American civil rights activist
\nJames Earl Ray, convicted assassin of King
\nAlexander Eist, London police inspector involved in Ray case
\nCoy Dean Cowden, witness in Ray case
\nThomas Wilson, witness in Ray case<\/p>\n

Frank Rizzo, mayor of Philadelphia
\nPennsylvania Representative Algea Dumas
\nPhiladelphia Councilwoman Ethel Allen
\nGeorgie Woods, radio announcer, anti-Rizzo activist
\nPennsylvania Representative Davey Richardson, anti-Rizzo activist
\nPhiladelphia Councilman Lucien Blackwell, anti-Rizzo activist
\nMilton Street, housing activist, anti-Rizzo activist
\nJohn Bunting, President, First Pennsylvania Corporation<\/p>\n

Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of John Kennedy
\nMark Lane, Temple attorney
\nDonald Freed, author and screenwriter
\nJohn Moore, United Methodist minister
\nCarlton Goodlett, San Francisco physician, newspaper publisher<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/i>
\nMike Prokes
\nEdith Roller
\nLarry Schacht (by reference)
\nCharlie Touchette
\nJoyce Touchette
\nNeal Welcome<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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

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

(Note: <\/strong>This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/i><\/p>\n

Jim Jones reads the news of the day. Among the items he covers:<\/p>\n

\u2022 A commemoration of the anniversary of the death of South African activist Steven Biko; the reported plan of South African prime minister Johannes Vorster to resign;<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Camp David talks, including snags between Egypt and Israel, the U.S. Secretary of State’s trip to the Middle East to promote the accord, and the Soviet reaction to it;<\/p>\n

\u2022 Congressional debates of legislation for tax relief for low income Americans, and the natural gas bill;<\/p>\n

\u2022 Police and firemen on strike in several American cities;<\/p>\n

\u2022 A medical study on the effects of alcohol;<\/p>\n

\u2022 A House committee hearing on the assassination of Martin Luther King;<\/p>\n

\u2022 Protests in Philadelphia against mayor’s attempt for third term and police brutality.<\/p><\/div>\n

He devotes the greatest amount of time to a lengthy article in a Guyana newspaper about a new Arab socialist democracy in Western Sahara, which includes a brief history of the region and of the struggle for liberation. The account includes much editorializing, although it is hard to tell whether that comes from quotes from African sources, from the newspaper, or from Jones himself.<\/p>\n

More apparent are the editorial asides Jones makes about other items, especially when he draws familiar parallels or repeats familiar lessons. In his first reference to strikes by public safety workers, for example, he declares, “This is an encouraging sign when the law enforcement, which are always willing to do the dirty work of the oppressor, are beginning to realize that they’re being used.” He then adds his belief which is as apocalyptic and it is well known: “But it’s too late, because the buttons of the nuclear bombs are in control of the madmen of capitalism.” He follows a later story related to another strike by police officers with a prediction that, “You’ll soon see the army in the streets and the concentration camps set up, and they’ll just as soon put the police in the concentration camps as they will black, Asians and Indians.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Some news items give Jones an opportunity to remind the people of Jonestown why they have the rules and prohibitions that they do. In the course of his tribute to Steven Biko – and his blistering attack both on the Union of South Africa’s apartheid policies and the U.S.’ support of it – he berates people for buying sandwiches or a piece of candy, and for going to the movies. When they do, he says, they “paid taxes that went into . the tax fund that helped to torture this brave-looking young man.” When they don’t work hard to produce in Jonestown, they reduce the community’s ability to assist black liberation struggles around the world. “[B]ut some of you are so lazy and have no black pride at all.. [Y]ou do nothing to try to make conditions better. you set on your duff and do nothing.” There is only one conclusion he can draw: “You are as bad as the\u00a0killers<\/i>\u00a0of Steve Biko.”<\/p>\n

More than any other message Jones has for the taped newscast is how much better life in Jonestown is than life in the States and – by extension – how foolish anyone would be to want to return. After reading the story of police brutality in Philadelphia, he exclaims, “This is horror. We should be so grateful that we’re in a place of peace where our little children can’t grow up to be in gangs and drugs and be beaten by thugs and end up in jail as all black youth do now by seventeen.” Similarly, after the report of ineffective protests against the administration of that city’s mayor, he cries, “That’s<\/i>\u00a0your USA.\u00a0That’s<\/i>\u00a0your USA that you glorify.”<\/p>\n

The tape ends with an exhortation to study the news, to understand what it means, and, most importantly, “to stand up for Peoples Temple and this great new community which can protect you from all harm.”<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 6\/13\/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 June 1, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B93-57. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

Reverend JIM JONES presenting news of world events to the People\u2019s Temple members at Jonestown.<\/p>\n

This tape was reviewed and nothing was contained thereon which was considered to be of evidentiary nature or beneficial to the investigation of the murder of Congressman RYAN.<\/p>\n

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

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

Tape originally posted May 2009<\/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\u00a0Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note:\u00a0Labeled in part “9\/20\/78” Date cues on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28125","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28125","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=28125"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66445,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28125\/revisions\/66445"}],"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=28125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}