{"id":28144,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28144"},"modified":"2016-05-02T15:05:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T22:05:01","slug":"381-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28144","title":{"rendered":"Q381 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 \u201cNews Oct. 23\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contents of tape consistent with label, although likely from October 22 (Jones specifies Sunday)<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJimmy Carter, U.S. president<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

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Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany<\/p>\n

Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nColin Barlow, member of Rhodesian Front Party
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nJulius Nyerere, President of Tanzania
\nOlusegun Obasanjo, head of military government of Nigeria [by reference]
\nGaafar Muhammad Nimeiry, president of Sudan [by reference]
\nMohammed Siad Barre, President of Somalia<\/p>\n

Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica
\nForbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana
\nBasdeo Panday, leader of Trinidad Islandwide Cane Farmers Association
\nJoseph \u201cReds\u201d Perreira, Guyana sports broadcaster<\/p>\n

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader
\nRalph Abernathy, former president of Southern Christian Leadership Conference
\nJoseph Lowery, president of Southern Christian Leadership Conference
\nViola Liuzzo, slain civil rights activist
\nGary Rowe, FBI informant involved in slaying of Viola Liuzzo
\nCollie Wilkins, convicted in the slaying of Viola Liuzzo
\nEugene Thomas, convicted in the slaying of Viola Liuzzo
\nWilliam Orville Eaton, convicted in the slaying of Viola Liuzzo
\nWilliam (Bill) Baxley, attorney general of Alabama (by reference)<\/p>\n

Kendrick Easley, University of Virginia student, plaintiff in a civil suit
\nEdward Wilcox, University of Virginia student, sued by Kendrick Easley
\nBruce Graham, victim of Philadelphia police beating<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nRheaviana Beam
\nPatricia Cartmell
\nPatty Cartmell
\nJames \u201cReb\u201d Edwards
\nKay Nelson
\nRichard Tropp<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

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

(Note<\/strong>: This tape was transcribed, and the summary written, by Katherine Hill. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Speaking slowly and with seeming great effort, Jim Jones reads the news for Sunday, October 22, 1978. He sounds either tired or sedated, and there are numerous occasions where he mispronounces common words as well as proper names. He also complains of not being able to read his own notes.<\/p>\n

Apart from news stories, there\u2019s little else in terms of community announcements. There is Jones\u2019 usual urging for Temple members to work harder, including volunteering to help make toys to fulfill a $33,000 order. This request follows a statement about how Peoples Temple has been persecuted by the press and the government in the U.S. but that Jonestown residents should be grateful for being where they are and for having \u201cbeautiful air and sunshine\u201d and chemical-free foods. Joseph \u201cReds\u201d Perreira, who is \u201cin charge of all sports activities for Guyana,\u201d is expected as a Jonestown guest the next day, and the basketball team is expected to be at their best. Jones also mentions that the schedule for the day will include news and Russian sessions as well as musical entertainment in the evening. This is reinforced at the end of the tape when Jones says that, in order to receive their meals that night, people will have to answer questions, presumably in Russian.<\/p>\n

There are several news stories into which Jones interjects himself. An aside in one story on Caribbean\/US relations about a Cuban airliners blown up in flight by the CIA allows him to remind his listeners, he was intended to be on that plane. A story about violence in Alabama during the Civil Rights movement recalls his own time down there during that period, when the state police put out an alert for him and he barely escaped. There is no corroboration for either of these accounts.<\/p>\n

But the reminiscence which waxes most nostalgically for him is a reference to the Caribbean island of Grenada, which he describes as beautiful and clean, with long expanses of uncrowded beach. In fact, Jim Jones and other Temple leaders had visited the island nation in the early 1970s and entered into negotiations over a parcel of land where they might be able to immigrate (even as they were negotiating with Guyana). Like Guyana, Grenada is English-speaking, had a socialist government, and has an even larger percentage of the population that is black. The parcel of land had another suitor, though \u2013 an American medical college \u2013 which Prime Minister Eric Gairy ultimately selected. Rebuffed, Temple leaders then turned all their efforts to a parcel of land in Guyana\u2019s northwest district.<\/p>\n

At its heart, though, this is a news tape. The story to which he devotes the most time is the indictment of an FBI agent in conjunction with the murder of civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo thirteen years before. Other stories include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The politics and economy of Caribbean islands and coastal South American nations;
\n\u2022 Egypt condemns raids into Zaire and Mozambique by Rhodesia;
\n\u2022 A new multi-racial party forms in Rhodesia;
\n\u2022 Tanzania criticizes Zambia\u2019s decision to opens its borders with Rhodesia;
\n\u2022 Nigerian and Sudanese leaders meet to discuss Ethiopia;
\n\u2022 Cuba has large military and medical assistance programs in Africa;
\n\u2022 Zimbabwean liberation forces dispute Rhodesia\u2019s claims of military success;
\n\u2022 Somalia pardons thousands of prisoners;
\n\u2022 Two communist organizations merge;
\n\u2022 The SCLC announces an investigation of racism in the military;
\n\u2022 Philadelphia police beat a man arrested for drunkenness;
\n\u2022 A Virginia student sues another over a racially-motivated prank.<\/div>\n

Jones ends the recording with his usual expression of love for his people.
\nFBI 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 4, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B93-112. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

Reverend JIM JONES giving the news and world events, interrupted with instructions to various people 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 June 2012<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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