{"id":28128,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28128"},"modified":"2024-07-17T14:25:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T21:25:14","slug":"322-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28128","title":{"rendered":"Q322 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: <\/strong>Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201c11\/3\/78 News\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 November 3, 1978 (note on tape box verified by tape contents)<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nAdolf Hitler<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania
\nKenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front
\nIdi Amin, dictator of Uganda
\nSamora Machel, President of Mozambique [by reference]
\nAnwar Sadat, President of Egypt
\nMenachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel
\nReza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran<\/p>\n

Marais Viljoen, acting president of South Africa [by reference]
\nPieter Willem Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa [by reference]
\nJohannes Vorster, former Prime Minister of South Africa
\nSteven Biko, activist in South Africa<\/p>\n

Margaret Ackman, leader in Guyana\u2019s People\u2019s National Congress
\nForbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana<\/p>\n

U.S. President Jimmy Carter
\nSecretary of State Cyrus Vance
\nJohn McGraw, American publisher
\nJohn Van De Camp, Los Angeles District Attorney [by reference]<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:<\/em>
\nSuzanne Jones [by reference]<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\n“Moms” Mabley [likely Bertha Cook]
\nStephen Jones
\nJim McElvane
\nKay Nelson
\nLarry Schacht
\nFlorida Smith
\nHarriet Sarah Tropp<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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

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

Jim Jones reads the news of 3 November 1978 to the Jonestown community. The stories include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Strikes and protests to the rule of the Shah in Iran;
\n\u2022 Fallout in the Arab world following the Camp David peace agreement;
\n\u2022 Tensions between African nations, including battles between Uganda and Tanzania, and between Zambia and Rhodesia;
\n\u2022 A border dispute between China and Vietnam, and a friendship pact between the USSR and Vietnam;
\n\u2022 Leaders of the Zimbabwe Patriotic Front visiting Eastern Europe;
\n\u2022 Devaluation of the American dollar;
\n\u2022 An attempted assassination of a Lebanese official;
\n\u2022 The return of Soviet cosmonauts to earth; and
\n\u2022 Corruption in South Africa, a UN resolution condemning South Africa, and the attempted purchase of an American newspaper by South African interests.<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

In addition to the international aspects of the news and the issues which are covered \u2013 especially since much of the news relates to Soviet interests around the world \u2013 the rhetoric in the newscast demonstrates that Jones is using a Soviet wire service. In coverage of the dispute between China and Vietnam, for example, Jones reads that, \u201cVietnam held its own against the aggression of the Chinese mainland.\u201d In reporting on the cosmonauts return to earth after the longest space mission in history, Jones describes it as \u201ca development in space that has not been able to be achieved by any other country.\u201d A later addition to the second story \u2013 that the mission \u201ccracked into areas of space venture that the world has been trying to do, but only the Soviet avant garde was able to achieve\u201d \u2013 may be Jones\u2019 language. The numerous references to \u201cfascist,\u201d \u201ccapitalist,\u201d \u201cimperialist,\u201d and \u201cZionist\u201d western policies could be either.<\/p>\n

The Temple leader does make other editorial comments of his own, however. Following his reading of one news item which came from \u201cthe Western press,\u201d Jones pauses and then adds, \u201cif you can believe anything it says. The capitalist press.\u201d Other observations have been repeated enough that they are familiar to the Jonestown population. When he first mentions the \u201cfascist regime\u201d of South Africa, he notes that it is \u201cupheld by our tax dollars which should weigh us down with guilt.\u201d He expands upon that point later in the broadcast. \u201c[W]e all should feel guilty for supplying [South Africa] tax dollars to put our black brothers and sisters [in concentration camps]. Imagine your son, your daughter, your husband, your wife, in a concentration camp. Barefoot, unable to get enough to eat, imagine them crowded into great barbed wire sections, and I imagine then you\u2019d have a little bit of feeling against the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

His criticism of the U.S. government has more pointed relevance for the people of Jonestown. After criticizing another oppressive government \u2013 that of Iran under the Shah \u2013 he notes that the U.S. supports it as well. \u201cThat\u2019s the kind of government that some of you long to look for, and would want to go back to. For me, I would rather die by any death than to go back into a mess like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Jones finishes reading the news, he urges that people approach strangers and guests in Jonestown with caution. We know the CIA has been here before, he says, and the people who are coming soon intend \u201cto spy out your liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two weeks before the arrival of Rep. Leo Ryan, though, it is apparently unclear to Jones who those strangers and guests may be. He demands that people write letters of opposition to NBC (the broadcast network which did send representatives down to Guyana) and to the Los Angeles D.A. (which didn\u2019t). He talks about the \u201cformer radicals\u201d who may be coming, a description which fits only a handful of Concerned Relatives.<\/p>\n

As with other newscasts from the last months of Jonestown, Jones seems to have trouble reading the words before him. Early in the tape, he repeats two news items he has just read,\u00a0both times with the comment, \u201cas I said,\u201d as though they were worth repeating. Later, after a pause of unknown duration, he returns to the microphone with more disorientation than before, and in the course of only a few minutes, his voice noticeably slurs and slows. He repeats his warning to Jonestown residents about how to deal with strangers, and says that even though the people who are coming are part of \u201cone classic hell of conspiracy,\u201d they won\u2019t succeed. As his voice fades, he makes a final plea: \u201cWe\u2019re urging you to be very cautious and don\u2019t engage in conversation. Say hello. You know, hello. Understand?\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 6\/18\/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 2, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B93-63. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

Reverend JIM JONES giving the review of the dally news and world events to the PT members at Jonestown.<\/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. To listen to MP3, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue: Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201c11\/3\/78 News\u201d Date […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28128","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28128","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=28128"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127869,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28128\/revisions\/127869"}],"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=28128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}