{"id":28131,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28131"},"modified":"2016-02-28T22:10:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T22:10:26","slug":"329-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28131","title":{"rendered":"Q329 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<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201c7\/4\/78 News\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contents of tape consistent with label<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nRep. Ron Dellums (D-California)<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Leonid Brezhnev, Communist Party General Secretary, Soviet Union
\nGeneral Ariski, KGB official, Soviet Interior Minister [phonetic]
\nVladimir Ilich Lenin, father of Russian Revolution, first leader of Soviet UnionAugusto Pinochet, military ruler of Chile
\nAnwar Sadat, President of Egypt
\nGaafar Muhammad Nimeiry, president of Sudan [by reference]<\/p>\n

Charles Garry, lawyer for Peoples Temple
\nPat Richartz, paralegal for Charles Garry
\nHuey Newton, leader of Black Panther Party
\nAngela Davis, member of Communist Party, black activist<\/p>\n

David Wallechinsky, author of The Haymarket Affair
\nCyrus McCormick, industrialist, target of strike during Haymarket
\nMartin Ambrose Foran, U.S. Rep. from Ohio, supporter of labor unions
\nJohn Bonfield, police captain in Haymarket affair
\nWilliam Ward, police captain in Haymarket affair
\nMichael J. Schaack, police captain in Haymarket affair
\nFrederick Ebersold, Chief of Police in Haymarket affair
\nMathias J. Degan, policeman killed in Haymarket affair
\nJoseph Eaton Gary, judge in Haymarket trial
\nHenry L. Ryce, bailiff in Haymarket trial
\nJulius Grinnell, prosecutor in Haymarket trial
\nRichard James Oglesby, governor of Illinois who oversaw executions
\nCanute R. Matson, sheriff of Cook County
\nJohn A. Roche, mayor of Chicago
\nJohn Peter Altgeld, governor of Illinois who pardoned several Haymarket convicts<\/p>\n

August Spies, labor organizer arrested in Haymarket incident
\nAlbert Parsons, labor organizer arrested in Haymarket incident
\nSamuel Fielden, labor organizer arrested in Haymarket incident
\nMichael Schwab, labor organizer arrested in Haymarket incident
\nAdolph Fischer, labor organizer arrested in Haymarket incident
\nGeorge Engel, labor organizer arrested in Haymarket incident
\nOscar Neebe, labor organizer arrested in Haymarket incident
\nLouis Lingg, labor organizer arrested in Haymarket incident
\nRudolf Schnaubelt, labor organizer arrested in Haymarket incident
\nLucy Gonzalez, wife of Albert Parsons
\nWilliam Holmes, friend of Albert Parsons<\/p>\n

William Morris, socialist who supported Haymarket organizers
\nPeter Kropotkin, anarchist philosopher who supported Haymarket organizers
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw, playwright who supported Haymarket organizers
\nAnnie Besant, theosophist who supported Haymarket organizers
\nSamuel Gompers, president, American Federation of Labor<\/p>\n

Socrates, Greek philosopher
\nGiordano Bruno, executed for heresy in 1600
\nJohn Huss, Christian martyr, executed for heresy in 1451
\nGalileo, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:<\/em>
\nLester Kinsolving<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0None<\/p>\n

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

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

While this tape begins as a news tape, with several items of national and international news \u2013 most of which put US foreign policy and economics in a negative light \u2013 the bulk of the reading is of an account of the Haymarket Affair, a notorious incident in the history of the U.S. labor struggle for an eight-hour workday and other benefits of unionization.<\/p>\n

Jim Jones reads from the work The Haymarket Affair <\/em>by David Wallechinsky, continuing through several segments. As he does in most similar readings, Jones adds periodic editorial commentary, ranging from single words or phrases like \u201cmonopoly capitalist,\u201d to lengthier asides. After noting that the number of union leaders, socialists and anarchists who went on trial for the incident was lower than the number originally arrested because of plea-bargaining and deals for immunity, for example, Jones adds that most of the ones who escaped punishment were dead or arrested on other charges within a few years. \u201cThat is the history of finks, always,\u201d he concludes. \u201cYou may get your immunity for the moment, for lying, then to have to live with a guilty conscience all of your life.\u201d After reading the description of the jury which tried the remaining men \u2013 and which was stacked against the defendants \u2013 Jones says, \u201cThe US\u2019s farce that you have a right to a jury trial by your peers was, as always, denied, and still is today.\u201d<\/p>\n

As he does with other readings, whether they be of individual news items or longer analytical pieces such as this one, Jones points out the object lessons for the people of Jonestown or otherwise tries to make it relevant to them. After being sentenced to death by hanging, the defendants in the Haymarket affair were given the opportunity to speak, and several spoke of the nobility of being martyrs for the cause.\u00a0 \u201c\u2019I say, if death is the penalty for proclaiming the truth, then I will proudly and defiantly pay the costly price,\u2019\u201d he quotes one as saying. \u201c\u2019Call your hangmen. \u2026 [O]thers whose numbers are legion have preceded us on this path. We<\/em> are ready to follow, we are ready to die.\u2019\u201d Jones cries out the defiance of others sentenced that day \u2013 \u201c\u2019Hang me, too! For I think it is more honorable to die suddenly than to be killed by inches.\u2019\u201d \u2013 and includes his own judgment that, \u201cHe\u2019ll be glad to die as a socialist.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are more specific references to the Temple\u2019s own past. After reading about the path to socialism of the some of the Haymarket defendants as an act of defiance, Jones recalls,\u00a0 \u201cthat\u2019s how some came to our movement when [Temple antagonist Lester] Kinsolving was attacking us on the flimsiest reasons, not naming that it was really for the fact that we were socialist and had given several thousands of dollars to free Angela Davis.\u201d<\/p>\n

The news items from the opening minutes of the tape include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Puerto Rico Liberation Front seizes Chilean consular officers and demands release of political prisoners;
\n\u2022 Fighting continues in Lebanon, with the threat of partition of the country on the horizon;
\n\u2022 The Sudan, Libya and Niger seek an end to the civil war in Chad;
\n\u2022 The Corsican Liberation Front demands independence for the island nation;
\n\u2022 Egypt ands \u201cZionist\u201d Israel plan peace talks;
\n\u2022 The USSR suggests that the CIA\u2019s manipulation of the weather has accounted for its diminished crop production;
\n\u2022 A KGB officer is assassinated;
\n\u2022 Guyana and other South American nations seek an agreement to protect forests;
\n\u2022 Memphis firefighters begin to start fires as part of their work grievances.<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

As with the featured reading, Jones adds periodic commentary to individual news stories. Following the item about the Memphis firefighters, for example, Jones says, \u201cIt\u2019s interesting to see that these, who maintain law and order \u2026 [are] so quick to condemn blacks who seek bread when they\u2019re hungry. But here they\u2019ve set 300 fires in the city of Memphis, Tennessee to protest their<\/em> unjust working conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 6\/20\/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 1B93-69. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

A recording of \u201cNews of the Day\u201d 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 January 2013<\/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\u00a0Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201c7\/4\/78 News\u201d Date […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28131","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28131","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=28131"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66453,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28131\/revisions\/66453"}],"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=28131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}