{"id":28138,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28138"},"modified":"2019-02-22T15:35:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T23:35:28","slug":"357-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28138","title":{"rendered":"Q357 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 read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here<\/a>.
\nListen to MP3 (Pt. 1<\/a>, Pt. 2<\/a>).\u00a0To 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 \u201c6\/24\/73\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong> Tape contents consistent with note on box<\/p>\n

People named:<\/strong>
\nPeople in attendance at Peoples Temple service<\/em><\/p>\n

    \nPearl Cole (speaks)<\/strong>
    \nMillie Cunningham (speaks)<\/strong>
    \nEver Rejoicing
    \nElder C.C. Hill (speaks)<\/strong>
    \nArchie Ijames (speaks)<\/strong>
    \nRosie Ijames(speaks)<\/strong>
    \nJessie Mae Long (speaks)<\/strong>
    \nCarol Timmins
    \nCaroline Washington (speaks)<\/strong>
    \nEstella Wilson (speaks)<\/strong>
    \nViola Palmer, daughter of Estella Wilson
    \nMarvin Wiseman (speaks)<\/strong>
    \nSister Bennett
    \nBrother Crane (speaks)<\/strong>
    \nMrs. Crane
    \nSister Evans
    \nJackie, Temple nurse
    \nPaula<\/ol>\n

    Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em><\/p>\n

      Tylarene Sharp [phonetic], music composer<\/ol>\n

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

      (Editor’s note<\/strong>: The verses below appear in order of biblical reference, not as they appear in Jim Jones\u2019 address. For a complete scriptural index to the sermons of Jim Jones, click here<\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n

        \u201cBut be you holy, even as I\u2019m holy, be you separate, even as I am separate, be ye clean, even as I am clean.\u201d (Leviticus 20:24-26)<\/ol>\n
          \u201c[P]eople find healing through these pictures by the untold tens of thousands because they have seen. Their eye hath seen, their ear hath heard, their heart has been stirred.\u201d (Matthew 13:15, \u201c\u2026they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.\u201d See also, Acts 28:27<\/ol>\n
            \u201c[W]hen we say come, you drop whatever you\u2019re doing. Don\u2019t you look back in the house. Don\u2019t you go back and look on the roof. Don\u2019t you go back and give suck. Did you hear what I said? Don\u2019t you even go back to give suck to any ol\u2019 idea or opinion. Any old infant that you\u2019ve been trying to cradle along. Don\u2019t you give suck to any old child. Now, I\u2019m not talking about natural because it\u2019s a parable. Don\u2019t you be sucking anything then. You just leave all that old system.\u201d (Matthew 24:1-24, esp. 17, 19: \u201cLet him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: \u2026 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!\u201d<\/ol>\n
              “[Jesus] said they\u2019re going in the prisons, in to the highways, and going to the stranger in the season. Clothe the naked. That was the law of the prophets through Jesus. That was a demarcation line that he set. In the day of judgment, he said \u2018I was hungry\u2019 \u2013 and he wasn\u2019t personally hungry \u2013 but he said, any black or Indian, or poor white was hungry, he said \u2018I there go\u2013 there go I hungry.\u2019 He said in that one is naked, then you must clothe them. In that one is hungry, you must feed them. In that one is in prison, you must go to them.\u201d (Matthew 25:34-46<\/ol>\n
                \u201cYou won\u2019t be following a pied piper, you\u2019ll be following the voice of one crying in the wilderness.\u201d (Mark 1:3, \u201cThe voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.\u201d)<\/ol>\n
                  \u201cTo whom much is given, much is required.\u201d (Luke 12:48, \u201cFor unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.\u201d<\/ol>\n
                    \u201cThat\u2019s why you better have a living, real righteous and holy Jesus that teaches equality, that will cause you\u2026 to go down into the ghettos, down where they\u2019re in the gap, in the hedge, in the highways, in the hedges where there\u2019s no one to help them but will take in all colors of the rainbow, and serve all people.\u201d (Luke 14:23, \u201cAnd the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.\u201d<\/ol>\n
                      \u201cThey have seen the emanation of the hundredfold God, manifesting through this Temple. And it triggers a faith in them, and it quickens their spirit and it causes their mortal bodies to put on immortality.\u201d (Romans 8:11, \u201cBut if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.\u201d<\/ol>\n
                        \u201cBe ye not again entangled with the yoke of bondage. Stand fast in the liberty where with this Christ has made you free and be not a slave again!\u201d (Galatians 5:1, \u201cStand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.\u201d<\/ol>\n
                          \u201cFaith without works is dead.\u201d (James 2, esp. James 2:26, \u201cFor as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.\u201d<\/ol>\n

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

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

                          This Peoples Temple service from 1973 in Los Angeles consists of two parts. In the first half of the tape, numerous members of the Temple come forward to testify about the miracles performed by Jim Jones. The Temple leader himself does not appear until the second half of the taper, during which he talks about the gifts he provides to the faithful, including healings. He demonstrates that by curing an elderly woman both of her lameness and of a cancer on her bladder. The theme that unites the two halves of the tape is a call for additional funds for the Temple to do its work.<\/p>\n

                          Numerous people testify to the powers of Jim Jones during the first half of the tape, and while most involve faith healings \u2013 including raising people from the dead \u2013 not all are. One woman recounts how her son was in a prison camp in Korea, and that when she told Jim Jones, \u201che asked me not to worry about it. And I didn\u2019t, \u2018cause I believe him.\u201d Two months later, the word came that her son had been freed, and soon after that \u2013 despite official pronouncements of much longer delays \u2013 he returned to the US and was reunited with his family.<\/p>\n

                          There are indications that Jones has replaced God as the deity for many of his followers. The unidentified man who acts as the emcee during the first half of the tape attributes a family\u2019s escape from a fire to \u201cFather\u2019s voice\u201d that had awakened the mother, and quotes her as saying, \u201cNone of my children were even singed<\/em> by the fire or harmed by the smoke\u2026 Father is the one and only God there is, and no one can take that away from me.\u201d One woman concludes her testimony by singing the hymn, \u201cOur God Is Real,\u201d although she has altered the lyrics to \u201cJim Jones Is Real.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll change the words to that,\u201d she explains before she sings.<\/p>\n

                          The devotion is complete for several speakers. Brother Crane, a man who appears on several other tapes besides this one, concludes his testimony about several miracles at the hands of Jim Jones by saying, \u201cI have decided, that live or die, sink or swim, I\u2019m gonna follow him. Wherever he leads, that\u2019s the way I\u2019m going.\u201d While Brother Crane did not go to Guyana, his sentiments capture what many Temple parishioners felt.<\/p>\n

                          Jones pursues similar themes when he appears in the pulpit. Even while reminding his followers of the diseases and conditions he\u2019s cured and the lives he\u2019s saved, he devotes the most time talking about the miracle of a woman who had committed a number of crimes and whom Temple leaders \u2013 including Jones \u2013 had urged to turn herself in. The police were so amazed that the woman did so \u2013 \u201cshe said, they\u2019ve taught me what\u2019s right, and I\u2019m going\u201d \u2013 that they released her within hours. \u201cThey arrested her at three o\u2019clock this morning, and they turned her loose and said go back to the church at four\u2026 they praised the church and praised this action and let her go.\u201d<\/p>\n

                          The only healing he performs on tape is of a woman whose conditions are both physical and medical. He prepares her for the healing, as he does on almost every occasion, by revealing details of her life that only someone with paranormal powers would know, although he does reprove her gently when she begins to agree too readily with what he tells her. \u201cListen to me now,\u201d he says halfway through his revelation. \u201cYou\u2019re all carried away.\u201d A few minutes later, when she responds to his call for her faith in him with a mantra of \u201cThank you, Jesus,\u201d he reprimands her with some irritability. \u201cThank whoever you wish,\u201d he says sharply. \u201cIf you wish to thank Jesus, as long as you don\u2019t have a segregationist Jesus\u2026 you have to know what kind of Jesus you\u2019re following. Because there\u2019re many Jesuses.\u201d The exchange is still on his mind as the healing for her lameness takes effect. \u201cNow, in the name of God, socialism, stand up!\u201d he cries, \u201c\u2026[I]n the name of the greatest name on earth \u2013 socialism \u2013 \u2026in the name of that which I am. In my name, God, socialism, on your feet!\u201d<\/p>\n

                          The emcee in the first half has already made a pitch for additional financial support. \u201cEveryone wants blessings and protections like that, and miracles like you\u2019ve witnessed here time and time again, every day,\u201d he says as the tape opens. \u201cBut not everyone is willing to do all they can to further God\u2019s work. Giving in tithes and offering is like priming a pump, so that blessings can flow from God to you.\u201d Jones picks up where his disciple left off, but in addition to reminding his people of the benefits of giving, he warns them of the consequences of withholding their share. Three people had left the Temple the night before without making a donation, he says. One was shot soon afterwards, one was stabbed, and the third was saved from a stabbing only because he returned to the Temple and made a gift.<\/p>\n

                          But his requirement for a commitment goes deeper than financial. He commands his people to renounce their old ways. Recalling the words of Brother Crane, he tells his flock to heed the call when it comes and follow him wherever he goes, because \u201cif you don\u2019t come, you\u2019ll perish.\u201d He acknowledges that this means they\u2019ll have to separate themselves from their old churches and their \u201cjackleg preachers\u201d who are more interested in Cadillacs and anniversary parties and \u201cpastors\u2019 wives\u2019 teas.\u201d People who return to those churches after they have experienced the wonders of Peoples Temple cannot hope to survive, he cries.<\/p>\n

                          Peoples are healed in this church, he says with mounting stridency, but they need to recognize, the reason they are sick in the first place comes from the outside. \u201cThe other night, a woman fell dead back here, with a stroke. \u2026 Then her lifeless condition, heart stopped. Unloving attitudes caused it. Ungenerous, uncharitable attitudes caused it.\u201d As the tape ends, he warns that those whose lack of charity cause the illnesses, are themselves \u201cin some serious trouble.\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 3, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B93-91. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

                          Testimony to the powers of Reverend JIM JONES and requests for donations and tithings. Individuals give their personal praise and thanks to JIM JONES, their father.<\/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 2011<\/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 read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2).\u00a0To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28138","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28138","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=28138"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86051,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28138\/revisions\/86051"}],"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=28138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}